• Urging senators to reject malicious bills
BY STAFF REPORTER
ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopian-Americans are launching voter voice campaign to urge senators reject the malicious bills H.R. 6600 and S3199.
Both bills that are based on fabrications are likely to damage the age-old Ethiopia-America diplomatic relations, it was learnt.
On Wednesday, Senate Foreign Affairs Committee that comprises 22 members from each of Democrats and Republicans will be voting on the latter bill, and if passes, it will go to the 100-member senate floor for another voting.
Genet Negusse, Ethiopian-American who is one of the coordinators of the advocacy campaigns told The Ethiopian Herald that Ethiopian-Americans and their organizations are working round-the-clock to urge some of the senators to reject the bills.Regarding the S3199, she said : “We need at least 12 votes to stop the bill from going to the senate floor.”
The Ethiopian-Americans will be writing letters to their congressmen and two senators in the White House depicting the true picture of the situation in Ethiopia.
Also, the Ethiopian-Americans will be calling to their senators to urge them reject both bills.
“I will meet one of my senator’s offices soon, Sen. Tim Kaine in Virginia, who is in the House Foreign Relations Committee to explain why he should reject the bill.”
There will be also demonstrations in front of the Capitol Hill building come March 28, 2022.
Kebadu Mulugeta Belachew an Ethiopian-American who participate in supporting the Ethiopian cause at various fronts told the newsroom that Ethiopians will deliver pamphlets detailing the terrorist TPLF atrocities and what the government has been doing to protect citizens.
The Americans must stand up to their principles which are promoting democratic ideals. In this regard, the terrorist has been doing all sort of evils against the Ethiopian people. “The U.S. should support the government of Ethiopia that could promote peace and development in the Horn region which is the confluence point of the two-side, the U.S. and Ethiopia.”
He said there are not any reasons to put economic and diplomatic sanctions against the government of Ethiopia.
The demonstration at the Capitol will help to aware the senators about the situation in Ethiopia, and it will augment the Ethiopian-Americans voter voice campaigns, he added.
The so-called H.R.6600 – Ethiopia Stabilization, Peace, and Democracy Act is sponsored by Rep. Malinowski, Tom of New Jersey and introduced on 02/04/2022.
A bill with a similar intention called “Ethiopia Peace and Democracy Promotion Act of 2021” sponsored by Sen. Menendez, Robert of New Jersey, introduced on 11/04/2021 was also referred the Committee on Foreign Relations. The committee will be voting on the bill next Wednesday, it was learnt
The Ethiopian Herald March 22/2022
