Press Statement By Sidama Civil Servants from Hawassa City Administration and Sidama Zone, 31 August, 2012 English Version From Hawassa, Sidama, August 31st 2012 We, the Sidama civil servants are deprived of our fundamental rights to leading our daily lives in peace and harmony due to an increased intimidation, harassments and imprisonments that the regime pursues against the Sidama nation for claiming its constitutional rights to regional self administration. The regime's regional cadres with federal forces brutalize Sidama people changing their tactics on daily basis. Despite these, the Sidama nation's continued claims to assert their aforementioned rights further created an atmosphere where the regime deliberately and systematically crushes Sidama civil servants and others members of the Sidama society under the pretext of violating constitution. We express our utter disappointments to doing so. Therefore:- 1. We all the sons and daughters of the Sidama nation u
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