In retrospective, though todays OFC/Medrek #OromoProtests rally had ended successfully in bringing awareness to the ongoing fight of the Oromo people against the Addis Ababa Master Genocide Plan, its clear that it was done at the time of the governments choice. All previous requests of OFC/Medrek to hold a rally right after the Ambo Massacre were denied by the government - which played delay tactics as indicated by political analysts. In nonviolent (also called as peaceful) struggle, civil disobedience is a very useful and important tool. People have the right to disobey unjust rules and unjust decrees, such as the ones passed by the government barring OFC/Medrek to hold rallies two or three weeks earlier than today. OFC/Medrek conformed with the unjust decree of the TPLF Ethiopian regime by not holding its rally earlier than today - even against the unjust wishes of the TPLF Ethiopian government. This fighting tool is civil disobedience, and OFC/Medrek failed to use it. At the end, though the OFC/Medrek #OromoProtests rally was successful in bringing awareness about the evil Addis Ababa Master Plan, its clear that TPLF could feel successful also since it made OFC/Medrek SUBMIT to its unjust decree of when to hold the rally. To be frank, there is no fighting involved when and where the people are doing their activities according to the TPLF unjust rules and unjust decrees. Fighting is to do nonviolent activities against the unjust rules and unjust decrees of TPLF. Quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Gandhi on Civil disobedience: - One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - “An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.” - Gandhi
Posted on: Sun, 25 May 2014 02:51:09 +0000
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