JANUARY 11/2007

 DENOUNCE THE BRITISH AUTHORITIES FOR DEPORTING SOLOMON ABERA

Despite appeals by SOCEPP (December 22) and many other human rights organizations, the British government has deported asylum seeker Solomon Abera back to Ethiopia. He was suffering from cancer and being treated for it.

 It is a well known fact that the present British government works hand in glove with the repressive regime of Meles Zenawi, considered an ally in the anti terro war and thereby given carte blanche to commit atrocities inside Ethiopia. Britiain trains the regime’s spies,police,security forces and also gives these elements supplies. The decision to consider Ethiopia a safe country has no relation to the existing miserable state of affairs in the country but owes its justification to real politik considerations. The gross violation of human rights by the Meles regime is a fac tthat cannot be hidden and that continues to be exposed and denounced all over the world. Moreover, credible reports have revealed time and again that deportees ranging from Azanaw Demile in 1991 to four of the recent deportees from the Sudan have been ”disappeared’ by the regime.

 The deportation of Solomon Abera is an injustice on the part of the British authorities and SOCEPP condemns it while at the same time calling on the British government to immediately cancel all other such deportation plans.

SOCEPP