amend the Complaint or Communication, appropriate application for amendment. the Complainant can do so by making an 237. In the circumstances the Commission shall not consider the enhanced or additional reliefs sought by the Complainants set out in the Complainants' submissions. For the avoidance of doubt in this Communication, the Commission will only consider and determine the prayers set out in the Complaint or Communication filed by the Complainants and which have been summarized in paragraph 15 hereof or reproduced in paragraph 238 hereof. 238. For ease of reference, we reproduce the prayers that the Complainants seek from the Commission in this Communication are that: The Complainants Commission) to: request the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (the (a) Find the laws, policies and actions challenged' above as violating the rights of the Victims as well as all Ethiopians; and (b) Draw the attention of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) to the situation in accordance with Article 58 of the African Charter. 239. The Complainants anchor these prayers on the alleged violation of the Articles 4,5,6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 16 African Charter based on the Respondent State's implementation of the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation No. 652/2009. The Complainants want the Commission to make a finding that the laws and actions undertaken in the context of the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation No. 652/2009 as being a violation of the rights of the victims and all Ethiopians. 240. From the Complainants' prayers aforementioned, it is crystal clear that the bone of contention in casu is essentially the reasonable justifiability of the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation No. 652/2009 in relation to Articles 4,5,6,7,8,9,10 and 16 African Charter. Before addressing all the provisions of the African Charter on which heads of arguments have been articulated, it is pertinent to point out that neither the Complainants nor the Respondent State made any submissions on the provision of Article 4 of the African Charter. This suggests that the allegation on the violation of Article 4 of the African Charter must be considered to have been indeed abandoned and that the Commission is therefore entitled to find no violation of Article 4 of the African Charter and it so finds. 241. Article 5 of the African Charter provides that: Every individual shall have the right to the respect of the dignity inherent in a human being and to the recognition of his legal status. All forms of exploitation and degradation of man particularly slavery, slave trade, torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment and treatment shall be prohibited. 242. Article 6 of the Charter provides that:

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