Protection Of Minority Rights In Harari Region Case Study Of Local Governments

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Ethiopia is one of the ancient countries in the world which was a decentralized state untilrnit changed to a process of centralization that took place in a period extending over a century.rnPresent day Ethiopia was created by highlander rulers through twin processes of political andrneconomic conquest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Emperor Menelik IIrn(1889-1913) embarked on a campaign of expanding his rule from the central highland regions tornthe South, West and East of the country. After the demise of the power of Emperor Menlik II andrnhis eventual death, in 1913 the centralization drive continued by Ras Tafari Mekonnen leter hernbecame crowned Emperor Haile Selassie in November 1930. He continued by his highlyrncentralized system of governance without considering the existing diversity of ethno nationalrncommunities and in the name of the nation-building. The system recognized only OrthodoxrnChristianity as a state religion, Amharic as an official /national language, and other politicalrnopportunities without considering diverse societies of the country. because of his centralized rulernand lack of proper and adequate reform different struggles raised in different ways, This popularrnmovement caused the break down of Haile Selassie‘s regime in 1974. At that time because ofrnlack of organized political groups to lead the country a military officers called Derg controle tornthe power in September 1974. The Derg era was characterized by massive human rightsrnviolations and internal conflicts. So after a bitter 17 years struggle he defited in 1991 by thernEthiopian Peoples‘ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) Girmachew Alemu (2010,pp.4-5).rnThe new rulers announced a radically different nation and state building policy. Under thernguidance of the EPRF they declared their interest that to break the past injustices and to developrna new Ethiopian society based on freedom, equal rights and most notably self-determination forrnall Ethiopian peoples. The right to self-determination is the foundation of the new constitutionalrnstrategy of state building. In the FDRE Constitution ethnic groups which are territorially definedrnhave become the bearers of sovereign power and entitled to the right to self-determination byrnconstructing nine constitute units arranged based on territorial and hitter titular ethnic majorityrngroups. So harari is one of the nine regional states which is an inhabitant of different ethnicrncommunities. Hrari is the sovereign power and become the majority ethnic of the region. But nonrnindigenous minorities are discriminated in political participation. The only Harari and Oromornpeople are the participants in the political game (Harari constitution 2004).

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