Freedom and justice do not come easily to some people. Millions of people raise their voices and cry out for freedom and justice to shine upon them. For example, the Burmese, the Chinese, the Iraqis, the North Koreans, the Palestinians, the Somalis, and, of course, we the Ethiopians long for freedom and justice for our people in jail, in house arrest, in exile, and for the whole people under oppressive dictators.

In the past, the great freedom and justice lovers such as Mahatama Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., and others like them, marched on the streets, spent, some of them, years in confinement and dragged by police for freedom and justice, and today, we their adherents continue to march, demanding freedom and justice for our people whose rights to speak out about their grievances are taken away from them by ruthless dictators who care nothing about their people but only for themselves and for their political gangs.

Freedom and justice are like new born babies covered with fresh blood, and no country ever gets its freedom and justice without a blood shed. Only the luckiest ones get their freedom and justice with less blood shed but others with an ocean of blood in their streets, in their houses, in their farmlands, in their offices, in their market places, in the churches, Mosques, Synagogues, and in the battle fields. That is what freedom and justice require from each one of us – a complete surrender of our lives to the two of them.

The irony here is that injustice and slavery also do not come easily; they require hard work and blood shed. For example, Meles Seitanawi came to power by slaughtering hundreds of Ethiopians and continues to this day to kill people to stay in power. As a result of the blood shed committed by Meles and his death squads, injustice and slavery are flourishing today in Ethiopia and in Somalia.

To eliminate injustice and slavery, to commemorate the deaths of our brothers and sisters who gave up their lives for justice and freedom, to create an awareness among our people that there is still hope for our country to be free and start a new life, to tell to the world that hunger and disease are not the only enemies of our people, but man-made injustices and slavery are killing our Ethiopian people, and to let especially the United States and the European Unions know that the Dictator Meles Seitanawi is responsible for the destruction of Ethiopia by selling its lands to a foreign country, its valuable gold to the Arab merchants, its indispensable artifacts to the highest bidders, and by waging his own war against neighboring countries and its own people, we will march and continue to march in the streets of Addis Ababa, in the streets of London, in the streets of Washington, in the streets of Rome, in the streets of Ontario, in the streets of Johannesburg, in the streets of Sidney and in many other streets of freedom and justice loving countries.

We will not only march in the streets for these two noble causes – freedom and justice for our people – but we will also held prayer meetings in Churches, in Synagogues, in Mosques, and in private meetings in our houses, in our offices, and in stadiums. We will publicly declare the deaths of our brothers and sisters killed in the daylight time, gun downed in the dark rooms, rotten in the jail, expelled from their country and passed away in a foreign land, and we will not be quiet until justice is done for all of them, killed, jailed, expelled, and persecuted by our common enemy – Meles Seitanawi.

As we march, singing the song of freedom and justice, we will not be intimidated by those power abusers, baby killers, slave drives, treaty breakers, political liars, and renegades. Our march, joined by thousands of concerned Ethiopians and others, intimidates our enemies and sends them into hidings because they do not want to see us march, conversing about their crimes against our people slaughtered in 2005 and after that.

We are witnessing what has happened to our brothers and sisters in the streets of Addis Ababa, in the streets of Gondar, in the streets of Oromia, and in the streets of Ogaden, but our enemies are denying it as if it has never happened; they may deny it, but the streets, the buildings, and the telephone poles will affirm it. The weather of that day, the sun, the stars, and the moon of that night will testify for the bloods of those innocent Ethiopians shed by the hands of Meles’ death squads.

Therefore, let us march, hand in hand and sing in one voice one song that resembles the song of Moses and Mariam, after they crossed the Red Sea in great triumph; yes, we have not yet triumphed, but we believe one day we will triumph, and our enemy pharaoh – Meles Seitanawi – will be drawn into the Red Sea- the River Nile. Then freedom and justice will shine upon the people of Ethiopia forever and ever.