william davison is senior analyst for ethiopia for the international crisis group he's just visited sit down and other parts of ethiopia i would have welcomed to today's every africa when it looks at one stage as if there was agreement on holding a referendum full statehood in sit down. why has the situation deteriorates it. well there's a number of reasons one of the key reasons is that the decision to proceed with the referendum on november came very late it actually came only a couple of days before the saddam a movement's appointed deadline and then it seemed to july when they wanted a referendum to be held before then and what promising to do otherwise. so there was agreement with the electoral order and the regional states decision to move ahead with a referendum in a few months time from some of the local leadership this is on a leadership. that wasn't effectively or officially communicates it to the rest of this is our movement. there were a number of disappointed activists and large numbers of disappointed saddam it used to spectate declaration of a regional state when they dem