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Madam President, Ethiopia, a country with a population of 75 million, is one of Africa’s poorest states and almost two-thirds of its citizens are illiterate. It has had a traumatic history, passing from colonialism to royal oligarchy to Marxist dictatorship and, recently, to a type of apparent parliamentary democracy, but with serious democratic deficits.
We do not expect Ethiopian democratic norms to be of a European standard. That would be unrealistic on our part, bearing in mind the country’s huge problems, but we expect the Ethiopian Government to show respect for at least basic human rights.
We are currently very concerned about the psychologically paranoid mentality of the regime in Addis Ababa, which is behind a large-scale crackdown on Opposition leaders, journalists and human rights activists. We are particularly worried about the government-controlled corrupt judicial and police systems which operate in the country, and call on the Ethiopian authorities to proceed immediately to drastic changes and corrective measures in order to remedy the currently abysmal situation and to show the outside world that they genuinely care about justice and democracy, instead of simply claiming to do so."@en1
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