UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL, Over 20200 voices are united for 25000 voiceless Ethiopian immigrants in Saudi Arabia. I want to sincerely thank everyone who signed the petition. Big thank you for those of you who are encouraging other to sign the petition. I guarantee you, OUR EFFORT WILL MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE.
Please continue to forward the petition to everyone we know:
http://petitions.moveon.org/
We need to make sure our combined voice is heard loud and clear. As we are determined to help the voiceless and the helpless that are raped, beaten, tortured and murdered in day light in Saudi Arabia, I strongly urge all of us, to do the following:
1) Call Local and international media and media agencies so that, they will give exclusive media coverage for the brutal action and for the massive human right abuse in Saudi Arabia particularly against Ethiopian (Please find the list for some of the prominent media agencies at the end of this email, please use the link in item 5) to find local news paper and their editors). Please remember these media and media agencies have pages on public website and we need to leave comments in their for our VOICE to be HEARD LOUD AND CLEAR.
2) Call and meet with local and federal/national government official and help them to understand the situation. Suggest their government to help the massive exodus back to Ethiopia. (E.g. They may send airplanes or ships to transport the immigrants back to Ethiopia, They may help those immigrants who does not want to go back to Ethiopia to move them to country of their choice, support with logistics and humanitarian aid in Ethiopia (such as counseling, training, education, settlement and rehabilitation)
3) We need to organize teams in every city possible, to hand in the petition to addressed organization and to local and national/federal governments in person (if you volunteer for
this great cause, please let me know your city (and your contact info) so that we could form teams
4) As requested by way too many of the petition signers, we need to substantiate our support for the Ethiopian immigrants in Saudi Arabia. We have already started an infrastructure in North Ease Ohio, USA to conduit our financial support to the Ethiopian immigrants through non-political, humanitarian organizations such as Ethiopian Red Cross and Ethiopian Red Crescent organizations. We want to make sure these organizations use the donation money only to help the Ethiopian immigrants in or from Saudi Arabia. Once we get confirmation back from these organizations we will provide the details regarding the donation, the account and the trustee. In case you want where we are right now, we have already opened a new bank account for this charitable work under Menelik Hall Foundation which is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) incorporated in the state of Ohio since 1987 to do charitable works for Ethiopia. Again, we will advise the details in the next couple of days.
5) Last but not least, now, it’s really important that we get more visibility for this issue. Can you please take a moment to write a quick letter to the editor? Decision-makers regularly read letters to the editor to see what residents are talking about.
You don’t need to write a lot. Your letter should be no more than a few sentences and it should reiterate the main message of the petition, which is:
“Recently the number of violence and horrific act against immigrants in Saudi Arabia especially Ethiopians has been off the chart. Witnesses and video footage uploaded to social media sites such as Facebook and YouTube shows how much the level violence is escalated. The so called police and militia “ SHABAB” of Saudi Arabia has been noted killing, torturing, raping and beating immigrants from Ethiopia. The Immigrants who are arrested and stuffed in overcrowded prison and parks in Saudi Arabia are attempting their voice to come out to the world. But the situation is not allowing them. The massive human right abuse is getting worse in the Riyadh area and the numbers of victims are escalating by every hour. WE NEED to VOICE FOR THE VOICELESS. I strongly urge every member of our family, friends and friends of Ethiopia to sign this petition so that we will be HEARED LOUD AND CLEAR
The blessed people of Ethiopia, Prophet Mohamed on his own word said, “Do not touch the Habesha/Ethiopians” is now violated on the so called the Holy Land in our time.
Click here to find your local newspaper and submit your letter: http://civ.moveon.org/
Thank you for making your voice heard on this important issue.
Zekarias Bekele
Zekarias@ieee.org
http://www.ethiofreedom.com/stop-violence-against-ethiopians-in-saudi-arabia-time-to-act/
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