Obang Metho

For those who don't know, the Solidarity Movement for a New Ethiopia is not an opposition group, but is instead a response to the need for the protection of the Ethiopian people from the TPLF/EPRDF government’s actions. Our main objective is not to take their office, but to bring about fundamental change to a system that promotes serial dictatorships, ethnic hatred and continued human rights atrocities to the people of Ethiopia.

The SMNE seeks to find solutions to bring reconciliation among the brothers and sisters of Ethiopia before our country breaks into violence and instability. This will require that each of us reaches out to others; one human being to another.

We in the SMNE are speaking for not only thousands of Ethiopians, but even a million who agree with these principles which are based on God-given moral laws. Some of these supporters are even within the country, within the TPLF/EPRDF administration and within the cabinet.

The SMNE is made up of people representing the diversity of Ethiopia as we believe our diversity our beauty—the garden of Ethiopia where every ethnicity is valued, nurtured and protected. This is the opposite of what the TPLF believe. Ato Meles Zenawi once stated how his own ethnic group is “golden” and “chosen;” however, he was mistaken because in God’s eyes, we are all human beings “golden” and “chosen.”

Let us not be fearful of any regime, power or force. May God help us find the answer to all the formidable challenges and obstacles ahead.