ARDUF
Unity Front (ARDUF)
Freedom, Justice, Democracy
Contact: mabay44@yahoo.com
The Standoff in Afar Region and the Arbiter from Mekele
Over the past one quarter century of its rule the TPLF mafia group has created a number of puppet
organizations to represent various national groups in Ethiopia particularly in the so called backward
regions of Somali, Ben Shangul, Gambela and Afar. But none is loyal to its masters in Mekele than
the Afar regional leaders in Samara, as the regional capital is now known, none is glued as an
appendix to TPLF than APDPA or ADE as it is known locally.
This particular relation between TPLF and ADE has its own reasons. Some are historical others are
due to the fact that the Afar region occupies in long range strategy of the TPLF. This “QADE”
mafia gang originally was part of TPLF itself. They brought them or assigned them into the power
by TPLF to make the Afar politically unpredictable, economically weak and infrastructurally
underdeveloped, and to impose Tigray ethnic hegemonic control forcibly over the Afar people. The
three regional leaders who came with TPLF are Ismail Ali Sirro, Awal Seyoum and Mohamed
Anbatta are still in power in the Afar region. One as President, one as Security Official and the third
as speaker of the regional Parliament. The longest serving region leader Ismail Ali Sirro is already
elected to the National House of Representatives. So by definition he is not liable any more to be
The current Executive Committee of the ruling Party (ADNP) has disgracefully failed to elect a new
President for the region due to the deep political division and corruption caused by the outgoing
puppet President Ismail Ali Sirro who claims that the Afar will be at each other’s throat if he quits.
The fact is that the rampant corruption, bad governance, maladministration, discrimination and
tribalism policies planted by TPLF in the puppet officials of the Afar region is going to put the Afar
region into violent chaos and anarchy, but not because Ismail Ali Sirro is replaced. The Executive
Committee left for Mekele as they do every time, they are not able to settle their differences. Every
Afar official in Samara has his own lord in Mekele with whom he shares the money he pockets from
his corrupt practices. The three puppets are afraid not to be accountable for their crimes, but one day
they will have to face the reality. They want to make sure that their cronies are placed in their
places. Recently, over a hundred innocent people are arbitrarily and unlawfully arrested in the Afar
region because they protested against those practices.
Constitutionally, all federal regional states are equally accountable to the Federal Constitution,
while the Afar Regional State is accountable to the Tigrai Regional State and it ruled from Mekele
directly. Afar people have no say in deciding their own destiny. It is a fact that, corruption, famine,
insecurity and instability which are currently facing the Afar is directly linked to the climate of
unethical, unskilled and inexperienced leadership inability of the so called Afar Democratic
National Party (ADNP). While the whole Ethiopia and probably the world is worried about the
hunger and starvation which killing both the livestock and human beings in the Afar region, the
regional officials are in standoff as they were not able to elect the Executive Committee.
Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (ARDUF)
They are waiting an arbiter from Mekele to arrive. The Afar were denied their fundamental right to
vote for and elect their representatives and leaders. They are no exception in today’s Ethiopia. That
is they have to fight together with the rest of the Ethiopians to dismantle this apartheid regime that
has denied them their basic civil and democratic rights.
Victory to the heroic ARDUF/UGUUGUMO
Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (ARDUF)
Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (ARDUF)
