May 17, 2005

The Carter Center
Public Information Office
One Copenhill
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Atlanta, GA 30307

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Email: carterweb@emory.edu

Dear Mr. Carter,

We will not insult your intelligence by discussing the details of the cases but any honest person must be ashamed for you after hearing your stand in the current Ethiopian election process. It is simply replete with so many biases and tilted so much against the Ethiopian people that it is impossible to leave without comment.

Your very biased statement has begun when you hail the election process as “fair and free” at the moment you enter the Addis Ababa Airport. A statement that undermines the views of the democratic forces, the Human right groups, the European delegates and of the Ethiopian people at large, which confirmed so many abuses ahead of the polls.

Your statements did not even take in to account of the regime’s credibility questions raised by former secretary of states Madeleine Albright, who chairs the National Democratic Institute, one of two US democracy advocacy groups. She said last week that the expulsion of their staffs from Ethiopia last month raises questions about the credibility of the country's upcoming elections.

We, the Ethiopian nation, also feel pain and disappointment by your blatant statements you do by comparing the degree of “democratization” in Ethiopian with that of Somalia, a nation that doesn’t yet exists as a state. But the fact remains that you have brought shame on yourself.

Despite the concern by State Department spokesperson Richard Boucher of Meles’s ban of post-election demonstrations, you have blindly backed and defended the demo-ban. Americans want democracy to prevail on Ethiopia. For democracy to prevail on the country however, a one-man decision against 70 million people should have not been blindly backed.

The fact is that the credibility of the Ethiopia’s 2005 Parliamentary election has been thoroughly undermined by rampant election fraud, including vote-stealing, ballot box stuffing, and manipulation of vote total attempts.

Sincerely,

Kinfu Assefa,
A European based Ethiopian Journalist

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