Ever since the independence of Djibouti, over 40 years, the worst ever human rights violations have been taking place against Afar nationals in the country. Artbrary imprisonmt, vehement human rights violations, extra judicial killings and tortures against Afars are legalized by tyrant clan led administration. Countless people have been disappeared, killed, handcuped and exiled to escape the sufferings prevailed in the country. Similarly, number of women, children and elderly have also been slaughtered cold-blooded in the broad day light by the butcher regime of Mammaasan.
In general speaking, indiscriminate and unimagenable atrocities have been regularly carried out on the Afar people.
Likewise, the Afars are denied political, social and economic rights; have no access to basic social and legal services as well. At the same token, Afars strictly forbiden from engaging in any profitable activity which add economic values. As a result, living conditions of the people has been worsening from time to time. And, most of Afars forced to live under absolute and abject poverty.
Besides, Afars are deprived of the citizenship rights they deserved as the natives of the nation; though the settlers enjoy unlawful benefits in the country. In the other words, indegious community (Afars) of the country are cosidered as strangers, where the migrants (Issa) are eligible for unconditional previleges. There fore, we can certainly say that the Afar people are subject to descrimination, estigmatization and marginalization in their ancestors land.
The Mammasan dominated governing elite controlled all aspects of the economy of the country. About 90% of economy of the nation is occupied by this previleged group. In addition to this, these arrogant de facto rulers, have completely controlled all lives of the ordinary people.
These ethino-centeric evil-doers that ruling the country solely for their own benefits designed an elimination policy so as to wipe out Afars from the face of the earth. To this end, this regime has been under taking extensive systematic extermination and intensive genocidal campaigns to achieve this goal. This is the intended act that targets particular group of community to deliberately eradicate them. This is unambiguously a genocide or a crime against humanity, according to definitions of Anthropology, Sociology, Archeology Psychology and UN Human Rights Commission. So, concerned parts should at least have condomned the evils against man kind.
Yet unfortunately, international community turned the blind eye to the on going unspeakable atrocities by oppressers to destroy entire Afar community.
Even the world powers claim that they are creaters of democracy and protecters of human rights remain slint about the massive repression under way in the country.
It is not surprising that the reason of the world powers' ignorance of acute problems of Djiboutians. As every nation priortizes its national interest, powerful contries prefer to utilize the Djibouti's geographic & strategic posion rather than standing for the rights of others. Djibouti lies greatly important place along Red Sea coast that is most favorable in the global arena. Thus, the world powers hesitate criticising operassers and focus on galvanizinig smooth relations to cosolidate the national interests of their respective contries.
Accordingly, in the recognition that no one would fulfill our responsibility on behalf us; this is the high time for us (Afars) to stand unison and join forces to fight for the rights of our people and end brutal repressions affecting lives of our people in our home land.
Currently The Youth are Protesting and struggling against Dictatrship of Djibouti Government.
