Eritrean opposition parties move closer together
Posted: 20 Sep 2020, 11:48
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As long as they're for this, all the power to them in their endeavor for an open democratic system & for a country of justice & rule of law!.....1. Protecting the Sovereignty & territorial integrity of Eritrea.
Mind you:to set up an alternative mechanism to demarcate the contested parts of the boundary b/n Eritrea & Ethiopia..
... only the full implementation of the Algiers Agreement will lead to the sustainable peace...and Ethiopia has committed itself under the Algiers Agreement to accept the Boundary Decision as final & binding.
Ethiopia: Living with Lowered Expectations
Saleh AA Younis
July 28, 2000
Politicians the world over are advised by the professional consultants that the secret to success is to lower expectations. This way, if expectations are met, it is a great victory; if they are not, they never were meant to be, anyway, so what is your beef? It is, as they say, a win-win situation. If expectations are exceeded, it is a license to throw caution and reason to the wind and start ceaseless sessions of self-love.
While African politicians everywhere try to emulate their Western counterparts in the Lower The Expectations game, the Ethiopian leaders--true to Ethiopia's myth of 3000 year history--are way, way ahead in the game of deception and deceipt.
(1) Instead of taking responsibility for the drought and famine in Ethiopia, Ethiopian leaders told the world that at least they, unlike the Derg, didn't try to keep it a secret. Don't expect us to prioritize our resource and feed our people; be grateful that we told you that we are starving. Victory for Lowered Expectations.
(2) Instead of taking responsibility for placing their nation and its leader on the Enemies of the Press list for five consecutive years, they said the jail accomodates more. Don't expect us to live up to the terms of our constitution; be grateful that we at least have a quasi-free press. Another victory for Lowered Expectations.
(3) Instead of taking responsibility for the looting and devastation of Tessenei and Barentu and the bombing of Hrgigo, they told the world that at least they didn't carpet bomb Eritrea. Don't expect us to fight using the rules of the game; be grateful that we didn't do worse. After all, we had total air superiority. Another victory for Lowered Expectations.
(4) Instead of taking responsibility for the bogus elections that saw them re-elected by 90% + margins, they told the world at least we had elections. Don't expect us to implement democracy; be grateful that we are exercising a little charade. Another victory for Lowered Expectations.
There has been one case of exceeded objective expectations and failing short of secret expectations.
For two years, the Ethiopian spokesperson, the Walta writers, the officials at the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry, the Prime Minister, the Foreign Minister, the governor of the sovereign state of Tigray, and every TPLF cadre worth his stolen Eritrean villa were singing from the same hymn book. It went like this (all together now): Aggression must be reversed. Ethiopia wants nothing more and nothing less. Nothing more; nothing less. That was the bottom line.
Back then, I wrote a piece for Visafric entitled
warning of the ever-shifting Ethiopian conditions for peace.Ethiopia's Bottomless List of Bottom lines
I am told from reliable sources that the piece was circulated at the US State Department amongst the Henze-ites. Not as evidence of Eritreans concern; but as one more proof of Eritrean paranoia. Moreover, I got a letter from the Man with Information Advantage (the American Mekele NGO guy who couldn't stop crying about the tragic bombing of the Mekele school) chastising me for my foolishness and telling me that Ethiopia has no interest besides restoring status quo ante. How paranoid of me.
Status quo ante did not include Senafe, all that claim of reversing aggression was bogus and the State Department, as usual, was wrong. The Ethiopian government's response?
(5) Don't expect us to withdraw from undisputed Eritrean territories; be grateful that we didn't go further because if we wanted to, we could have. Really. After all, 60% of Eritrea's force has been decimated. And, they admitted, they had thought about marching to Asmara. Or, as the Prime Minister put it in his diplomatic briefing, the temptation was there.
Another Temptation of Lord Meles was, Asab. Port, the final frontier. After trying and failing to capture Asab, he pretended that he never tried to get it anyway. If I wanted to, I could quit smoking. I just don't want to. More lowered expectation. The game of lowered expectations first started with Meles telling us that he doesn't care a whit about Massawa and Asab, which, after all, according to him, is nothing more than a watering hole for camels. This is a classic case of
(A man who doesn't own an [deleted], scorns a mule.)Adgi zeyblus beqli y'niek.
Then the usual assortment of "Ethiopia tiKdemers" (an alliance of Dergistas, Janhoyists and permanent Eritrea-haters) started openly expressing their lust of Asab (It has been seven years since Eritrea formally became a nation in 1993, so this must be another 7 Year Itch.) In his usual mock-professorship, the Prime Minister gave a few reasons why he doesn't want the mule. What he is telling is that he never once said that he, on behalf of Ethiopia, has committed to the United Nations and the OAU (in countless documents) that he respects Eritrea's sovereignty. Even using crooked maps made in Mekele, Eritrea includes Asab. Case closed.
It is in the long-term interest of Eritrea and Ethiopia to strike a commercial deal on Asab. But this deal has to be one among equal and sovereign nations. It is something that can come about not as part of peace process negotiations but after the peace negotiations have been concluded and the land is demarcated. In the meantime, Ethiopia can use many of the fine alternatives it told us it has like Mombasa, Berbera, Port Sudan.
Sometimes, politicians have to live with the consequences of their lowered expectations.
His field survey included visiting Eritrea and Ethiopia, interviewing Eritrean and Ethiopian civilians and government officials (even the usually tight-lipped EPLF officials were willing to be interviewed on the record) and pouring through Eritrean and Ethiopian archives as well as the Public Records Office (London) and the U.S. National Arhives (Maryland.) The research culminated in a book ("Identity Jilted or Re-imagining Identity?",Red Sea Press, Inc., 1998)preferred to grab the state machinery in Addis Ababa and stay Ethiopian.
It seems that only Eritreans have something to learn from this bloody war and every Ethiopian is going to tell us what the lesson is. Alemseged's lessons are called "realities" and they go something like this:Eritrean leaders to face realities.
Eritrea's unity with Ethiopia is necessary... Eritrea can not achieve economic growth with out unity [with Ethiopia].
Welde-Ab Welde-Mariam, 'Ertra n'men?' ['Eritrea for whom?'] Nay Ertra Semunawi Gazetta, May 22, 1947, part IV, p. 4.If we do wish the best for our children and the future generations, then let us not hate unity [with Ethiopia]. Unity is strength, unity is dignity, unity is prosperity, unity is victory.
But then I am telling Mr. Alemseged Abbay information he knows because his books includes hundreds of reference material; including from Research and Information Center of Eritrea (RICE). Why then this dishonesty? Can't people like Mr. Alemseged Abay see nothing beyond ancestry and the theory that heritage is destiny? Why is Mr. Alemseged trying to turn an Eritrean legend, into a poster boy for Ethiopianism. What is next? Ibrahim Sultan, at heart, was a unionist? Abdelkader Kebire, had he not been assassinated by the unionist, would have endorsed union with Ethiopia? When will the desecration of our heroes end?O, my land! Forty years ago, before I left thee, I shed blood for thy sake. Today, forty years later, I return to shed tears of joy.
It is all futile, but they never give up.an Eritrea without ____ is not worth fighting for.
People like Alemseged can read Eritrean history without and fast forward the pages, that deal with people like Ibrahim Sultan. In his thesis, Alemseged argued that the Derg's viciousness drove Eritrea away from Ethiopia. What he forgets--or perhaps is not terribly concerned about because it doesn't involve people of the "trans-Mereb"--is that Ethiopia's organized savagery against Eritrea did not begin with the Derg and, sadly, has not ended with the Derg. For every "sheEb" that the Derg pepetrated, there was an "Una" that Haile Selassie initiated. So, yes, Eritreans do indeed speak in broken Italian and and play Amharic songs at weddings not because we are proud of either period in our history but because it is our history....The educated Eritreans that we have, let alone for their country Eritrea, they are doing a service for Ethiopia. If evidence is needed, without going too far, in this assembly, 99% of the Ethiopian delegation to the UN are of Eritrean ancestry...
Yes, this is what passes for insight in Walta Land.It would seem that even the direct mention of his name was tacitly considered to be blasphemous; he was instead respectfully called "wede Afewerki" - the son of Afewerki.
Speaking of the good Prime Minister, he gave another rambling briefing to Your Excellencies in Addis Ababa. The PM and his entire cadre of the thieving, lying, looting accomplices have developed this habit of prefacing all their lies by saying "as you know", "as you all know." Protocol prevents the diplomats from saying, "no, we don't know that" so they have to be silent conspirators but the reporters, once in a while, will say, "no, we don't know that" as the BBC told Salome when she was saying-"as you know"-- Ethiopia accepted the peace proposals and Eritrea didn't. An unusually alert BBC reporter reminded the Spokesperson of Ethiopia's procrastination on the Technical Arrangements long after Eritrea accepted the deal.A traffic jam when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
Why? BecauseAfter Successfully completing their mission, Ethiopian Defense Forces Withdraw from Western Eritrea.
Actually, what the Ethiopian Ministry meant to say was that the (valiant, heroic, stupendous, fill in your favorite hyperbole) Ethiopian Army did was withdraw from Southwestern Eritrea (Barentu), to Western Eritrea (Tesenei) on its way to Northwest Ethiopia (Humera). This is either because the road from Tesenei to Humera is far more accommodating than the path from Barentu to Humera or the road via Tesenei provides the "highly disciplined" Ethiopian army with greater opportunities for looting and vandalism. In either case, the gallant Ethiopian army had completed its mission and had withdrawn. All the (demolished, routed, annihilated, decimated) Eritrean Defense Forces had to do was stand by the road and wave goodbye to the Ethiopian Army cheerfully.Ethiopia has no territorial claims over Eritrea. The withdrawal of the Ethiopian defense forces from western Eritrea is proof of that.
You have to read it for yourself what CNN, Reuters and the BBC said about that. If I report it, it will be seen as "provocation" by the trigger-happy folks in Mekele.had clearly been a big battle.
We are the neighbors of Ethiopia, historically the home of expansionist empire builders. The lesson for us is to have a robust, well-trained professional army and a detached and disengaged foreign policy that is entirely apathetic to the soap opera in the South. In the meantime, let's concentrate on the Eritrean Development Foundation and feed and shelter our displaced population.curious phenomenon. When you cut off the legs of frogs, they turn deaf.
Zmeselo wrote: ↑20 Sep 2020, 17:47Do I belive in a country with a Constitution & a democracy, where political positions are earned by the ballot & are time limited?
YES!
Will we Eritreans reach there, without a civil war & bloodshed?
DEFINITELY!
Do I want justice to be transparent & that we must be told the whole story & with documentary evidence, what all those arrested for political reasons are accused of?
ABSOLUTELY!
When- is the obvious next question & my answer to that is- never before the total demise of the weyane (considering their arrest is related to them) & the return of our occupied lands.
Why?
Because the weyane & their lapdogs will use that as an opportunity for creating chaos & discord in society, & as relief from the predicament they finds themselves into. Stuck into a corner, they see Eritrea as a way out.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) wrote: ↑20 Sep 2020, 14:49The evil agame Awash/QB loves to see his own Tigray people suffer, while he's making money trafficking the Tegaru victims to Yemen.
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Guess where in Tigray the evil agame hyena Awash/QB/Justice Seeker.. is from?
Awash wrote: ↑20 Sep 2020, 18:17
The boogieman is always your agame excuse to suffocate, muzzle, and smother the Eritrean people to death. What good is it after the people have been emaciated, indoctrinated, exiled and culturally extinct? Moron, as they say in America "...the baby with the bathwater".
Ugum idiot will always be ugum idiot
because it's like putting "lipstick on a pig"Zmeselo wrote: ↑20 Sep 2020, 17:47Do I belive in a country with a Constitution & a democracy, where political positions are earned by the ballot & are time limited?
YES!
Will we Eritreans reach there, without a civil war & bloodshed?
DEFINITELY!
Do I want justice to be transparent & that we must be told the whole story & with documentary evidence, what all those arrested for political reasons are accused of?
ABSOLUTELY!
When- is the obvious next question & my answer to that is- never before the total demise of the weyane (considering their arrest is related to them) & the return of our occupied lands.
Why?
Because the weyane & their lapdogs will use that as an opportunity for creating chaos & discord in society, & as relief from the predicament they finds themselves into. Stuck into a corner, they see Eritrea as a way out.
Zmeselo wrote: ↑20 Sep 2020, 18:33The question is rather why it itches you so terribly, everytime I wish the demise of some CERTIFIED ugum idiots, hated & wanted by everyone in the neighbourhood lodged in some hotel in killil tgray?
The same kith & kin!
Otherwise, you would've zero problems with their demise AND openness in Eritrea. For a normal person (especially of the Eritrean variety) both options would've been good & dandy but naah- not for you!
The weyane must survive at any cost, ምሽ?
Awash wrote: ↑20 Sep 2020, 18:17
The boogieman is always your agame excuse to suffocate, muzzle, and smother the Eritrean people to death. What good is it after the people have been emaciated, indoctrinated, exiled and culturally extinct? Moron, as they say in America "...the baby with the bathwater".
Ugum idiot will always be ugum idiot
because it's like putting "lipstick on a pig"Zmeselo wrote: ↑20 Sep 2020, 17:47Do I belive in a country with a Constitution & a democracy, where political positions are earned by the ballot & are time limited?
YES!
Will we Eritreans reach there, without a civil war & bloodshed?
DEFINITELY!
Do I want justice to be transparent & that we must be told the whole story & with documentary evidence, what all those arrested for political reasons are accused of?
ABSOLUTELY!
When- is the obvious next question & my answer to that is- never before the total demise of the weyane (considering their arrest is related to them) & the return of our occupied lands.
Why?
Because the weyane & their lapdogs will use that as an opportunity for creating chaos & discord in society, & as relief from the predicament they finds themselves into. Stuck into a corner, they see Eritrea as a way out.
Awash wrote: ↑20 Sep 2020, 18:44You stupid idiot, it's easy for you to wait for the agame junta to fulfill it's obligation to the Eritrean people while enjoying the freedoms and liberty in the West. You could care less, you self-centered baztard about those thousands languishing in undergroundcells and refugee camps due to the draconian and harsh treatment by the Agame savages. Idiot, you talk about weyane, melt, etc. etc. to create an excuse to swindle the Eritrean people of their hard gained right to be free from oppression.
Biszbiss AgameZmeselo wrote: ↑20 Sep 2020, 18:33The question is rather why it itches you so terribly, everytime I wish the demise of some CERTIFIED ugum idiots, hated & wanted by everyone in the neighbourhood lodged in some hotel in killil tgray?
The same kith & kin!
Otherwise, you would've zero problems with their demise AND openness in Eritrea. For a normal person (especially of the Eritrean variety) both options would've been good & dandy but naah- not for you!
The weyane must survive at any cost, ምሽ?
Awash wrote: ↑20 Sep 2020, 18:17
The boogieman is always your agame excuse to suffocate, muzzle, and smother the Eritrean people to death. What good is it after the people have been emaciated, indoctrinated, exiled and culturally extinct? Moron, as they say in America "...the baby with the bathwater".
Ugum idiot will always be ugum idiot
because it's like putting "lipstick on a pig"Zmeselo wrote: ↑20 Sep 2020, 17:47Do I belive in a country with a Constitution & a democracy, where political positions are earned by the ballot & are time limited?
YES!
Will we Eritreans reach there, without a civil war & bloodshed?
DEFINITELY!
Do I want justice to be transparent & that we must be told the whole story & with documentary evidence, what all those arrested for political reasons are accused of?
ABSOLUTELY!
When- is the obvious next question & my answer to that is- never before the total demise of the weyane (considering their arrest is related to them) & the return of our occupied lands.
Why?
Because the weyane & their lapdogs will use that as an opportunity for creating chaos & discord in society, & as relief from the predicament they finds themselves into. Stuck into a corner, they see Eritrea as a way out.