Attempting to suppress the right of the Muslim community using the same old tactic of intrigues and intimidation is a sign of political bankruptcy

OLF Statement 

February 27, 2013. 
The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) regime has chosen to ridicule and intimidate the peaceful demand of the Muslim community for their legitimate right for over a year now. The recent documentary dramaon ETV titled "Jihadawi Harakat" concocted by the regime is part of this tactic of intimidation and suppression by the regime. Concocting such vilifying video propaganda against the Muslim community by this regime is not the first of its kind. Ever since their advent to power the TPLF has tried instigating conflict between the Muslims in Anwar , Harar, Jimma and other mosques in major cities to silence them. The current one is unique in that all this drama is staged just to suppress the legitimate question of the Muslim community to elect their own leaders by themselves without interference from the regime. 

It has been a whole mark of this regime to concoct such false drama to suppress any popular demand. The case of OLF, where the regime has been doing all it can to mislead the peoples in Ethiopia and the international community to label this organization as a terrorist one, is a case in point. It has systematically massacred, incarcerated, burned down their properties, imprisoned thousands of Oromo nationalists or forced them to flee the country. However, none of these machinations succeeded in extinguishing the struggle but deepened it further instead. Neither will the current ad nauseam false drama against the Muslim community bring this regime the intended goal but its further isolation and exposure.