However, the regime's tenure is full of blood and genocide on an unprecedented scale in the history of our country. As the regime gets desperate and insecure, its form of repression has defied all international norms and standards of behaviors with atrocities being conducted against all sections of Ethiopians.

The latest victims in the serious of tragedies in this respect are the Annuaks and the Oromos through what appears to be state engineered mass killings that continue unabated. We assume that the regime would intensify what it calls 'ethnic conflicts' and disappearances of opponents in the run up to the 'national election in 2005.

The UEDF Support Committee in UK condemns state-sponsored massacres of the Annuaks and Oromos that the TPLF/EPRDF is conducting at the present. As a civic group, we would like to appeal to the International community, particularly western Governments, to use all their leverages with the government of Mr. Meles Zenawi to hualt criminal assaults against civilians that include the elderly and children.

We urge the international community to take a principled stand to pressure the TPLF/EPRDF government to adhere to international norms of good governance and to bring to justice members of the government's officials and security services that are implicated in the genocide.

We urge all our compatriots around the world to stand shoulder to shoulder to expose the TPLF/EFRDF regime's crimes against all Ethiopians and to lobby governments to use their influences for a democratic accountability and freeing up the system to stem the flow of refugees due to political instability.

The UEDF support committee in UK will endeavor to work with all concerned in the struggle to end state-sponsored genocide against our people and in pursuit of the establishment of an all-inclusive government of all Ethiopians.

Unity is our strength!

UEDF support committee in UK
9 January 2004