Radio Voice of Librty - Sweden Sep.23, 2015
Written by Radio Voice of Liberty Swedenኣቦመንበር ሰልፊ ደሞክራሲ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ (ሰዲህኤ) ሓው መንግስተኣብ ኣስመሮም ብ26 መስከረም 2015 ምስ መላእ ኣባላት ሰልፊ ኣኼባ ኣካይዱ። ንሱ ኣብቲ ብኤክትሮኒካዊ መንገዲ (ብፓልቶክ) ዘካየዶ ኣስታት 4 ሰዓታት ዝወሰደ ኣኼባኡ ብሓፈሻ ንመስርሕ 2ይ ጉባአ ሰደህኤ ብዝርዝር ገሊጹ፡ ብፍላይ ድማ ንሓፈሻዊ መስርሕ ኣጸዳድቓን ትሕዝቶን ፖለቲካዊ መደብ ዕዮን ቅዋምን ሰልፊ ዝምልከት ዓሚቝ መብርሂ ሂቡ። ምስዚ ኣተሓሒዙ መስርሕ ኣመራርጻ መሪሕነትን ፖለቲካዊ ውሳነታትን ዝምልከት’ውን ኣብሪሁ። ብዘይካዚ እቲ ኣብ 2ይ ጉባአ ዝተመርጸ 33 ቀወምትን 4 ተጠባበቕትን ኣባላት ዘለዉዎ ማእከላይ ባይቶ ናብ ስሩዕ ስርሑ ቅድሚ ምእታዉ ከካየዶ ዝጸንሐ ምድላዋትን ዝሓንጸጾም ናይ ዝተፈላለያ ኣብያተ ጽሕፈት ትልምታትን ፈጸምቲ ኣካላትን ዝምልከት ሰፊሕን ዝርዝራውን መገለጺ ሂቡ።
ድሕሪ እዚ ዝርዝራዊ ሓበሬታዊ መብርሂ፡ መድረኽ ሕቶን መልስን ምስተኸፍተ፡ ተሳተፍቲ ነቲ ዝተዋህቦም መብርሂ መሰረት ገይሮም ዝተፈላለዩ ሕቶታት ኣቕሪቦም ኣዕጋቢ መልስታት እውን ተዋሂብዎም። ካብቶም ኣብ መድረኽ ሕቶን መልስን ብሓያሎ ካብ ተሳተፍቲ ዝያዳ ቆላሕታ ዝተዋህቦም ዛዕባታት ፖሊሲ ሰልፊ ደሞክራሲ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ፡ ኣብ ምሕያል ውሽጣዊ ሰልፋዊ ዓቕሚ፡ ሓድነት ተቓወምቲ ሓይልታት ኤርትራ ዝምልከትን ኣተገባብራኡን፡ ኣድላይነት ተሳትፎ መንእሰያትን ደቂ ኣንስትዮን ዝምልከቱ እቶም ቀንድታት ነይሮም።
ኣቦመንበር ሰልፊ ነዞም ሕቶታት ናይ ሰልፊ ፖሊስን ዝተሓልፈ ተመኩሮታትን መሰረት ብምግባር ክምልስ እንከሎ፡ ሰልፊ ናይ ምሕያል ሓላፍነት ንዝተወሰነ መሪሕነታዊ ኣካል ዝግደፍ ዘይኮነስ ብጻዕርን ተወፋይነትን ኩሎም ኣባላት ከም ዝረጋገጽ ገሊጹ። ጉዳይ ሓድነት ሓይልታት ተቓውሞ ብደረጃ ጉባአ ይኹን ናይ መሪሕነት ኣኼባታት ዝያዳ ግምት ተዋሂብዎ ብደቂቕ ክዝተየሉ ከም ዝጸንሐ ብምጥቃስ ሰልፊ ኣብዚ ዛዕባዚ ዘለዎ ውህሉል ተመኩሮ ኣብ ግምት ኣእትዩ ብሓድሽ ኣገባብ ክሰርሓሉ ተዳልዩ ከም ዘሎ ኣነጺሩ። እዚ ከምዚሉ እንከሎ፡ ናይ መንእሰይ ተሳትፎ ኣብዚ ዝካየድ ዘሎ ቃልሲ መተካእታ ከም ዘየብሉ ብምርዳእ ኣብ ጉባአ ዝያዳ ቆላሕታ ካብ ዝተዋህቦም ዓበይቲ ጉዳያት ከም ዝነበረ ኣረጋጊጹ።
ኣብ መወዳእታ እዚ ብህድኣትን ሓላፍነታዊ ስምዒትን ዝተኻየደ ኣኼባ፡ ተሳተፍቲ ኣብ ዝሃብዎ ርኢቶታት፡ ምስ ውድባት ዝግበር ርክባት ጥንቁቕን ኣብ መጽናዕቲ ዝተመርኮሰን ክኸውን፡ መሪሕነት ንመሰረታት ውድብ ኣብ ኩሉ መዳያት ከንቀሳቕሶም፡ ኣባላት ሰልፊ ብወገኖም ኣብዚ ወሳኒ ኣዋን ኣበርክተኦም ከዛይዱ ቅሩባት ምዃኖም ኣነጺሮም። ኣቦመንበር ብወገኑ ኣኼባ ከጠቓልል እንከሎ፡ ነቲ ዝነበረ ተሳትፎን ዝተዋህበ ሃናጺ ሓሳባትን ኣመስጊኑ፡ እቲ እንብህጎን ንቃለሰሉ ዘለናን ዕላማ ንክዕወት ናይ ኩሉ ኣባልና ቀጻሊ ተሳትፎን ዘይሕለል ጻዕርን ዝያዳ ክሕይል ጸዊዑ።
27 መስከረም 2015
“ዕዉር እንታይ ትደሊ ብርሃን፡ ነጋዳይከ ደሓን” ዝብል ምስላን ዓሚቝ ትርጉም ዘለዎን ንኩላትና ብሩህን’ዩ ዝብል ግምት ኣለና። ብመንጽር እዚ ኣብዚ እዋን’ዚ “ህዝብና እንታይ’ዩ ዝደሊ?” ኢልና ክንሓትት ኣገዳሲ እዩ። እዚ ሕቶዚ ቅድሚ ሕጂ’ኳ ዝተላዕለ እንተዀነ፡ ክሳብ እቲ ግቡእ መልሱ ዝረክብ ክደጋገም ግድን ስለ ዝኾነ ኢና ነልዕሎ ዘለና። እቲ ናይዚ ሕቶ’ዚ ናይ መወዳእታ መልሲ ካብቲ ህዝቢ እዩ ዝርከብ። ኣብ ሓደ ጉዳይ ካብቲ በዓል ቤት ዝያዳ ዝፈልጥ ስለ ዘየለ። እቲ መልሱ ኣብቲ ዝነብሮ ዘሎ ኩነታት ክምስረት ናይ ግድን እዩ። ነቲ ህዝብና ዝነብሮ ዘሎ ኩነታት ብዕምቈት ናይ ዝገምገመን ብቕንዕና ናይ ዝተረደአን ኣካል መልሲ ነዚ ሕቶ “ሎሚ ህዝብና፡ ሰላም፡ ዕቤት፡ ደሞክራሲ፡ ምኽባር ኩሉ መሰላትን ህዱእ ጉርብትናን እዩ ዝደሊ” ዝብል እዩ ክኸውን ዝግበኦ ዝብል እምነት ኣለና።
እዚ ኣቐዲሙ ዝተጠቕሰ እዋናዊ መልሲ ንህልዊ ሕቶ ህዝብና፡ ህያው ንክኸውን እቲ ነዚ ባህጊ ህዝብና ዘይቅበል ኤርትራዊ ባይታ ኣቐዲሙ ክምድመድ ናይ ግድን እዩ። ነቲ ናይ ግድን ዝኾነ ምምድማድ ከይተቐበልካን ኣብ ምትግባሩ ዓቕምኻ ዝፈቕደልካ እምኒ ከይደርበኻን ምጽባይ ግና እቲ ድሌት ሕልሚ ኮይኑ እዩ ዝተርፍ። እቲ ክምድመድ ዝግበኦ መንግዲ ዓወት ዝረጋገጽ ንጉጅለ ህግደፍን ፖለቲካዊ ባይትኡን ጽሂኻ ብምጉሓፍ ጥራይ እዩ። ህዝብና እዚ ኣቐዲሙ ዝተገልጸ ድሌቱ ንክረጋገጽ ቅድም ህልውና ህግደፍ ከኸትም ከም ዝግበኦ ኣዳዕዲዑ ይፈልጥ እዩ። ከምቲ ኣብ ተመኩሮኡ ነጻነት ንክረጋገጽ መግዛእቲ ክውገድ ናይ ግድን ዝነበረን ብኸምኡ ዝተቓነዐን ማለት እዩ። ካብዚ ሓሊፉ ከምቲ ሓይሊ መግዛእቲ ኣብ ኤርትራ ዝተኸሎ ኣጽፋር ከይተነቕለ ናጻ ኤርትራ ምውናን ዘይተኻእለ፡ ኣጽፋር ጉጅለ ህግደፍ ከይተማሕወ ራህዋን ቅሳነትን ከም ዘይርከብ ይፈልጥ እዩ። ምናልባት ግና ኩነታት ስለ ዘጸገሞን ኣእዳዉ ስለ ዝሓጸረን፡ ክሳብ ሕጂ ክንድቲ ኣንጻር መግዛእቲ ዘርኣዮ ኣበርክቶ፡ ዝባኑ ቀሊዑ ኣንጻር ጉጅለ ህግደፍ ተሳትፎ ከርኢ ብዘይምኽኣሉ ህዝብና ነዚ መትሓጃ ዘየብሉ ዘበን ህግደፍ ርዒምዎ ከይከውን ዝሰግኡ ወገናት ይህልዉ ይኾኑ። ብእምነትና ግና ብዘይካ ብኣጻብዕ ዝቑጸሩ ብሰንኪ ተንኮል እቲ ጉጅለ ዝደንዘዙ፡ ወዮ ደላይ ፍትሒ፡ ማዕርነት፡ ሰላምን ልምዓትን ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ነዚ ዝነብሮ ዘሎ ሕማቕ ዘበን ሓንጎፋይ ኢሉ ክቕበሎ ፈጺምካ ዘይሕሰብ እዩ።
“እቲ ቀንዲ ናይ ለውጢ ሓይልን፡ ናይቲ ለውጢ ቀዳማይ ተጠቃምን ህዝቢ ኤርትራ እዩ፡ እቲ ሓቀኛ ለውጢ ከዓ ካብ ውሽጢ’ዩ።” ክንብል እንከለና፡ ካብዚ ኣቐዲሙ ዝተገልጸ ጽንዓትን ተወፋይነትን ህዝብና ነቒልና ኢና። እቲ ካብ ውሽጢ እዩ እንብሎ ለውጢ ምእንቲ ከድምዕ፡ ምስቲ ካብ ኤርትራ ወጻኢ ዝግበር ዘሎ ለውጢ ናይ ምምጻእ ኣህላኺ መስርሕ ክናበብ ከም ዝግበኦ ክዝንጋዕ የብሉን። ኣቲ ናይ ግዳምን ናይ ውሽጥን ናይ ለውጢ ማዕበላት ክናበብን ከመላላእን እንተዘይክኢሉ ግና፡ እቲ ገዛኢ ጉጅለ ኣብቲ ሃጓፍ ኣትዩ ንኸዳኽር ዕድል ስለ ዝህቦ ሓደገኛ እዩ ዝኸውን። ኣብዚ እቲ ምስቲ ኣካላዊ ኣርዑት ወጻዒ ጉጅለ ህግደፍ ዝነብር ዘሎ፡ ንለውጢ ብሃንቀውታ ዝጽበ ህዝብና ክወዳደር እንከሎ፡ ዝምድናዊ ነጻ ኮይንካ ናይ ምውሳእ ዕድል ዘለዎ ኤርትራዊ ሓይሊ ተቓውሞ ዝያዳ እጃምን ሓላፍነትን ከም ዘለዎ ክፍለጥ ዝግበኦ እዩ። “እሞ እዚ ሓይሊዚ ኣብቲ ትጽቢት ዝግበረሉ ቦታን እጃምንዶ ኣሎ?” እዚ እቲ ሓይሊ ተቓውሞ ባዕሉ ክምልሶ ዝግበኦ እዋናዊ መሰረታዊ ሕቶ እዩ።
እዚ ኣብ ደንበ ተቓውሞ ብደረጃ ሰልፊ፡ ውድብ፡ ማሕበር ወይ’ውን ብውልቂ ዝዋሳእ ዘሎ ሓይልታት ካብ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ዝተረከቦ ዘይልወጥ ውክልና የብሉን። ግን ነናቱ ናይ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ድሌትን ባህግን ዘንጸባርቕ’ዩ እሞ ጽባሕ ኣነሆ እዚ ናተይ ርኢቶ’ዩ” ኢለ እንተቕሪበሉ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ኣይነጽጎን እዩ ኢሉ ዝኣመነሉ ሓሳብ ኣምሪሑ እዩ ዝቃለስን ዘለዓዕልን። እዚ ህዝባዊ እዩ ኢልካ ዝኣመንካሉ መትከል ኣምሪሕካ ክትውድብ ክትትልምን እንከለኻ ዝካየድ ቅድመ መጽናዕቲ ብዛዕባ ሕቶ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ክህሉ ናይ ግድን እዩ። እዚ መጽናዕቲ ብጽፈትን ቅንዕናን እንተደኣ ተኻይዱ፡ ምስቲ ናይ ህዝቢ ድሌት ምሉእ ብምሉእ ክሰማማዕ፡ ወይ'ውን እቲ ፍልልይ ኣዝዩ ጸቢብ ከምዝኸውን ፍሉጥ እዩ። ንድሌታትን ባህግታትን ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ዘንጊዕካ፡ ካብ ናትካ ውልቃዊ ወይ ጉጅላዊ ህርፋን ጥራይ ነቒልካ ምናልባት እውን ዘይኤርትራዊ ተመኩሮ ቀዲሕካ ዝትለም መትከልን ዝካየድ ውደባን ግና ሎሚ ደገፍ ህዝቢ ዘስእን ጥራይ ዘይኮነስ፡ ጽባሕ እውን ምስ ህዝቢ ዘራጽም ክኸውን ናይ ግድን እዩ። ጥራይ ደኣ ኣብኡ ንብጻሕ እምበር ህዝቢ ኣበይ ከይበጽሕ ኣገዲድና ርኢቶና ከም ዝቕበል ክንገብር ንኽእል ኢና ዝብል ዓመጸኛ ሓሳባት’ውን ሓሓሊፉ ውሪሕምሪሕ ይብል እዩ።
ከም ሓደ ፖለቲካዊ ትካል፡ ጉዳያት እንዳወዳእካ ክትከዶ ዝግበኣካ ርሕቀት ክሳብ ክንደይ እዩ? እቲ ከም ርኢቶ ክትሕዞን ክትቃለሰሉን እምበር ብዘይተሳትፎ ህዝቢ ኣብ መደምደምታ ከተብጸሖ ዘይትኽእል ዕማምከ ኣየናይ እዩ? ዝብሉ መሰረታዊ ሕቶታት ብግቡእ ምምላስ ናይ ሓደ ውድብ ወይ ሰልፊ ብቕዓት፡ ውሕልነትን ህዝባውነትን ዝምዘነሉ እዩ ተተባህለ ምግናን ኣይኮነን። ንመሰረታውነት ናይዚ ሕቶታት ሸለል ኢልካ ቅድሚት ዝስራዕን ደሓር ዝመጽእን እንዳደዋወስካ፡ ኣብ ጸቢብ ፖለቲካዊ ውደባ ብምኹዳድ፡ ሓደ ጉዳይ ባዕልኻ ወዲእካ ንህዝቢ ኣብ ጉዳዩ ናይ ምውሳን መሰል ነፊግካ ከተመንግጎ ምፍታን ግና ዘይሩ ዘይሩ ካብቲ ጉጅለ ህግደፍ ዝምረሓሉ ዘሎ ናይ “ባዕለይ ይፈልጠልኩም” ሕማም ዘድሕን ኣይኮነን።
ሎሚ ኣብ ደንበ ተቓውሞና ብዛዕባ ኣድላይነት ተሳትፎ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ኣብዚ ናይ ለውጢ መስርሕ ከይተላዕለ ኣይውዕልን እዩ። ከምዚ ምዃኑ ጽቡቕ እዩ። ብዘይተሳትፎ ህዝቢ ዝዕወት ለውጢ ስለ ዘየለ። ሓደ ጉዳይ ግና ኣሎ። እቶም ናይ ህዝብና ማዕበላዊ ምልዕዓል እንብህግ ውድባትን ሰልፍታትን ወይ ብኻልእ መልክዕ ዝተወደቡ ኣካላት፡ ምናልባት ናይ ህዝብና ተሳትፎ ኣብ ቃልሲ ከምቲ ንደልዮ ንዘይምዃኑ፡ ጠንቁ ንሕና ከይንኸውንከ ጠርጢርናዶ ንፈልጥ። ንሕና ካብ ምክእኣል፡ ምጽውዋር፡ ፍልልያት ምቕባልን ምምሕዳርን፡ ተሓታትነትን ጉዳይ ህዝብን ሃገርን ቀዳምነት ምስራዕን ርሒቑና፡ ብኣንጻሩ፡ ምስ ምንጽጻግ፡ ምትሕብባእ፡ ንፍልልይ ብዓይኒ ጽልኢ ምርኣይ፡ ውልቃውን ውድባውን ጉዳይ ቅድሚ ጉዳይ ህዝብን ሃገርን ኣብ ምስራዕ እንዳነበርና፡ ህዝቢ ናይ “ምሳኹም ኣለና” ድምጺ ተነፈገናስ እቲ ጠንቂ ንሕና ዲና ህዝቢ? እዚ ኣብ ጉዳይ ዝምድናና ምስ ህዝብን ሕድሕድናን ጥራይ ኣይኮነን ዝለዓል፡ ዝምድናና ምስቶም ቃልስና ንክዕወት ክደጋገፉና እንጽበዮም ኣካላት’ውን በዚ እዩ ክቃነ ዝኽእል። ስለዚ ክንገብሮ እንደልዮን ክኾነልና እንብህጎን ኩሉ፡ ንድሌትን ወሳኒ መሰልን ህዝብና ኣብ ግምት ዘእተወ ክኸውን ናይ ግድነት እዩ። ኣብ ዝኾነ ጽፍሒ ብዛዕባ ናይ ካልኦት ኣበርክቶ ክንሓሳብ ክንጽበን እንከልና፡ “ኣነኸ?” እትብል ሓጻርን መሰረታዊትን ሕቶ ከይንዝንግዕ ሓደራ።
26 መስከረም 2015
Part II: The Myth of Sanctions against Eritrea
I chose this issue as a separate topic because it exemplifies the twisted nature of politics. The irony of the UNSC sanction is that both the regime and opposition see political benefits in maintaining the sanctions. When examined closely, the purpose and effectiveness of the UNSC sanctions have been distorted to fit the target audience. Contrary to his public lamentations, DIA is using sanctions to further justify his oppressive rule, while the opposition see that sanctions will weaken the regime. DIA needs plausible justification to oppress the population, while opposition needs ever more oppression to ignite, hopefully, a popular uprising, while the world pretends to do something by imposing an empty sanction. Moreover, the regime needs a cause to rally its dwindling supporters. The regime’s latest propaganda is, ‘the US and West hates us, and has never accepted us as an independent country, and wants to shove us back into Ethiopia by punishing us economically. We shall overcome as we always have done.’
1. History and Effectiveness of Sanctions (in general)
The use of international sanctions, i.e. diplomatic and trade, is a recent phenomenon, which arose from the creation of organized international institutions such as the United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU), along with tremendous growth in trade and economic integrations in post second world war era.
Before this period, countries engaged in a form of self-sanction, or isolationism, such as China in 1371 under Ming Dynasty which banned maritime shipping, and Japan in the 1650s under Tokugawa shogunate (Sakoku/kaikin policy). In a form of reverse sanctions, Britain forced China to trade in the 1850s, which led to the Opium War and eventually acquiring Hong Kong to achieve its mercantile aims. Similarly, Portugal established its base in Macau for the same purpose. The United States forced Japan to open its trade in 1850s - and told in no uncertain terms that if it failed to open its markets that it faced military consequences. Ironically, it was a century of military threats if countries didn’t open up from their self-imposed sanctions. The less fortunate countries became ‘overseas colonies’. Forcing others to trade was at the heart of medieval mercantile adventures.
Today it is isolating countries, rather than forcing them to engage to trade that has become a modus operandi of international politics. The shift from forcing a nation to trade to withholding trade has been necessitated by changes in international politics, i.e. war as last resort, and due to increased economic integrations of the world. But it is still understood that encouraging isolationist countries to engage is one approach to deal with entrenched and antagonist regimes. China is one example, and current efforts with Iran and Cuba are the latest examples.
It is debatable whether sanctions do work. Under what circumstances do sanctions work? Do sanctions bring about change, i.e. is it about changing regimes or is it about changing the behavior of a regime? Does its effectiveness depend on whether the population is generally active versus pacifist, strong economic class exists, or other factors (or combinations thereof)?
Some examples where sanctions has had some impact
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South Africa
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Iran
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Zimbabwe
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Russia
No Impact
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Cuba
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North Korea
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Saddam’s Iraq
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Syria
One may argue that there are some factors that determine if sanctions may have some impact:
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The sponsors must impose strict sanctions and pursue the sanctions aggressively and wholeheartedly, as the UK did with Zimbabwe, the US with Iran, and the US and EU with Russia and South Africa.
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The targets of the sanctions are governed by ‘opportunist dictators’ than ‘ideologue dictators’, and face some degrees of public pressure to alleviate adverse economic conditions and are willing to address them to certain degrees.
2. Background on Sanctions against Eritrea
DIA and its spin-masters would like us believe that the UNSC sanctions is a U.S. (our bogeyman / hoongoogoo) plot to strip away our sovereignty and give us away to those evil Woyanes like they did to us in the 1950s. What a crap!
The hard fact is that the UNSC sanction against Eritrea is because of the regime’s PATTERN of belligerent behaviour over almost two decades that even Russia and China, members with veto powers, couldn’t condone and thus allowing the sanction to pass. China and Russia insisted a watered down version more out of fear of precedence than concern for the Eritrean regime.
The 2009 Eritrea-Somalia sanctions, UNSC Resolutions # 1907 and #2023, were imposed ostensibly due to active meddling in the internal Somali, Djibouti, and possibly Ethiopian political affairs. Of course, all nations have rights to pursue their national interests, but only in smart way lest it becomes self-destructive. As a nation way down the international political food chain, political prudence goes a long way to achieve both short- and long-term national interests.
Even the most politically naive can surmise that the regime has been actively accosting diplomatic, political, and supposedly economic sanctions against itself. It sought, and continues to seek, needless confrontations with regional and international interest groups, nations and organizations over IssacDawit, Djibouti, and Somalia - while trying to cozy up with rogue regimes.
At the risk of being repetitive, it is worth reminding like a tired television commercial, that DIA’s belligerent politics has resulted in,
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Loss of Hanish Islands to Yemen: islands that were in possession of Eritrea historically (and Ethiopia while it occupied Eritrea). Worse is Eritrea losing the fishing and other rights associated with water territory!
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Conflict with Ethiopia resulting in loss of over 20,000 precious Eritreans, two-to-three times that many injured in this needless war. One of the Eritrea’s heroes, Min. BerakiGhebresilase, had voiced prudent approach to handling the situation but fell on deaf ears of the regime. Although DIA wants to tell us that we gained Badme, in reality, Eritrea lost most of the lands that belonged to it under colonial treaties and enshrined in the AU founding documents.
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Conflict with Djibouti, which eventually nudged the UNSC, which includes China, to impose sanctions.
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Meddling, which is different than constructively engaging, in Somali politics, resulting in UN sanctions.
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Belligerent tones towards the West, esp. the US, regional and international organizations - and everything in-between.
The latest news that Al Jazeera staff were released in Egypt after “Presidential Pardon” is just one example how astute politicians with a well formed agenda play their hands in international politics. For example, releasing IssacDawit would have the regime’s cause with Sweden, albeit Sweden hasn’t done much, and the EU in general. They would all have removed that one small stone out of their shoes, but PIA insists on imprisoning IssacDawit although he poses absolutely no risk to the regime. One can only surmise that DIA is pursuing self-isolationism by antagonizing the rest of the world with whatever little way he can - and in the process destroy everything Eritrea and Eritrean. It is sadism at its zenith.
Examining the sanctions themselves, despite the regime’s ever louder complaints of the UN sanctions, in reality, UNSC sanctions have been symbolic rather than having any noticeable impact on the regime.
With undying hope of becoming a regional super-power, ‘goblel’, at least, in the Horn of Africa, and eternally hoping to become the next darling of the US, DIA is pursuing Pyrrhic Victory to annihilate Ethiopia and take the mantle. DIA was forced to retract into its shells after its Somalia agenda was utterly defeated and discredited. However, now that DIA has found some hope that his involvement with the ‘coalition’ against the Houthis in Yemen would give him some leverage that he has boldly and publicly welcomed Dr. BerhanuNega of GINBOT 7. DIA is gambling that he has now some leeway to interfere in Ethiopia’s domestic politics because he is more valuable politically to the Middle Eastern crisis, and also to take advantage of the recent Ethiopian election. Unfortunately for DIA, and probably fortunately for everybody else, TPDM’s defections has thrown a monkey wrench into DIA’s plans to torch the entire Horn of Africa. Still, DIA’s undying belief in gunboat diplomacy, where he is receiving cash and oil from Sudan, Egypt, Iran ,Gulf States, and who knows who else, in exchange for offering a mercenary army and access to our territory is the root cause of Eritrean suffering. His policies are predicated on one belief, that “Might is Right” in dealing with the Eritrean population as well as the world.
Although not all conflicts were started by DIA, his opponents understood his reckless disregard for rule-of-law and international politicking and thus giving them carte-blanche to advance their political agenda before an accountable regime is established in Eritrea. In his many interviews, which have become rare lately, DIA wants to project an image of a well-meaning guy who is misunderstood by everybody. Even if one assumed so, the job of a well-meaning leader isn’t to run a nation as his personal fiefdom and run a socio-economic and politics experiments to the detriment of everybody else who subjected to unnecessary and indefinite cruelty. In other words, no amount of well-meaning intentions can excuse human right abuses.
As a result of DIA’s PATTERN of disruptive and destructive behavior, the UNSC - which includes CHINA and RUSSIA passed the following resolutions,
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S/RES/1907 (2009) passed on December 23, 2009 and imposes the following sanctions
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Arms embargo
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Travel ban
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Asset Freeze
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S/RES/2023 (2009) passed on December 05, 2011 expands on the Resolution 1907
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Cessation from collecting “Diaspora Tax” under CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES (section 11 of the resolution)
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Due diligence in dealing with the Eritrean mining sector (sections 13 and 14). Due diligence is open to wide interpretations.
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There are corresponding legislations by EU, Australia and other countries.
III Effects of Sanctions on Eritrea
After attempting to downplay the effects of sanctions at the beginning, DIA has now embraced the so-called sanctions against Eritrea as yet another tool in his endless and tiring political propaganda. But in reality, the sanctions may have affected DIA diplomatically but nothing else. The impact of diplomatic isolation might be to shift from the regime’s ostensible campaign to finalize the physical demarcation of the border to DIA’s destabilizing role in the region, but this diplomatic isolation is, wittingly or unwittingly, DIA’s choosing.
1. Military hardware sanctions(arms embargo) against the regime has NO impact on the regime. It doesn't have the budget and hard currencies to buy military hardware anyway. In fact, it may be selling its armaments to raise hard currency. If ever it needs to buy armaments, it can do so clandestinely in the black markets.
Impact of military hardware sanctions: nil
2. Diplomatic sanctions(travel ban) have been embarrassingly non-existent. After voting to impose sanctions on high-level regime officials, no country has imposed on any regime official six years later. To the contrary, regime officials have been allowed to freely travel to many countries without any form of restrictions, except possibly to and within the US. This is in contrast, for instance, to Zimbabwe where the UK imposed strict limitations and forced other EU members to follow. The US did put Mr. YemaneGebreab on the list but is still allowed to travel to United Nations in New York because of an agreement with the UN when establishing its headquarters in New York.
Impact of diplomatic sanction: NIL (US travel restrictions within the US for Eritrean diplomats is an eye-for-an-eye for the Eritrean regime’s actions.)
3. Economic sanctions against the regime consists of a couple of countries curtailing the 2% Diaspora Tax and putting unspecified limitations on the mining sector. Despite being mentioned in the sanctions, not all nations enforce it, and is done in duplicitous manner. For instance, Canada expelled the Eritrean representative over illegal collection of 2% to fund illegal activities, and yet a Canadian mining company, Nevsun, still operates in Eritrea pouring billions of dollars into DIA coffers while violating international laws against slavery.The Eritrean dictatorship has been allowed to earn hundreds of millions (nearly $1 billion in US) in 4 years. The same with other countries such as the UK and Australia. One may even surmise that banning the 2% is designed to force the regime to allow foreign companies to extract minerals; thus for their own interests.
Pertaining to the ‘Diaspora Tax’, the wordings in the resolution states that the regime can’t coerce or force Eritreans to pay it. Strictly speaking, it doesn’t even prevent voluntary payments. Does requiring Eritreans to pay for services considered ‘coercing’? The vague nature of the resolution, or no subsequent clarifications, has rendered the sanctions toothless. The fact remains that those Eritreans who have personal affairs to attend to back in Eritrea must somehow pay it. As such, this specific sanction can only be referred to as an ‘inconvenience’ sanction. Inconvenience has its functions, but in this particular case, it is not effective enough.
Impact of economic sanction: almost NIL (more inconvenience than being effective)
It is worth reiterating that economic hardships in Eritrea is totally and absolutelyself-inflicted. For instance remittances have been falling because DIA
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Has banned private construction of housings
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Has practicallybanned all private enterprise
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Purposely abandoning public projects (Chinese finance in Ethiopia for instance) including infrastructure, Free Port/Zone, and others. The regime's behavior is judged within its pattern of behavior soon after independence rather than post UNSC sanctions.
In addition, DIA is creating high inflation by printing money and thus devaluing the currency. As Eritreans find that their wages and salaries are being eroded while rent and food prices going up, this feeds into rampant corruption. All this feeds into chaotic system that is destroying the country.
4. Asset Freeze - No impact as no official has been designated yet, as is for the travel ban.
Trade Sanctions - there is no trade sanctions, except some due diligence in dealing with mining sector as discussed above, on Eritrea. However, even if there was trade sanctions, it would have had little impact on Eritrea because DIA has deliberately stifled the private sector in Eritrea, which would have been the source of export for Eritrea. Similarly, Eritrea's imports, which is not under sanctions, is minimal limited to food and energy, and the rest being so negligible on the world scale, that it would be useless to sanction. Moreover, there is no need to impose formal trade sanctions as the regimes reckless economic governance is leading to total collapse of its currency, making imports too expensive for ordinary Eritreans.
World Bank, IMF, China and Eritrea
DIA propaganda machinery tells us implicitly that Eritrea's economic woes is due to international sanctions preventing it from obtaining funds from World Bank, IMF and other international organizations and states.
But DIA's policy of self-reliance and self-sufficiency (more like self-destruction), remnant of old communist and Maoist beliefs, has been the main culprit in isolating itself from engaging with international organizations. The main reason for shunning these organizations isn't because DIA is averse to borrowing, but doesn't want the West to use 'indebtedness' as political leverage against him. Otherwise, PIA is probably astute enough to know his deeply held belief in Maoism hasn't even worked in its home county, but the hoopla of 'self-sufficiency' is being used to sustain its repressive policies.
If DIA had really wanted to engage in economic development, he would have dealt with China, NOT the US, EU, World Bank. China is fuelling most of African and Asian, and now South American, economic growth. China is not averse with dealing with the most repressive regimes, internationally sanctioned countries, or any regime operating outside international norms. It is DIA that is shunning China. Whenever DIA needed China, from stashing away millions, if not billions, of dollars of unaccounted and stolen Eritrean money, to repairing the Hirgigo Power Plant, to building the Gedem Cement Factory, China has been there whenever DIA needed China.
Of course, the US, France and other Western countries have sector specific grants available for third world countries such as for energy (electricity) developments, which Eritrea could have tapped into if it wasn’t for DIA’s ideological rigidity entangled with his ego. There are now rumours that the EU is set to grant over $200 million for economic developments in Eritrea - probably out of misguided belief that the regime can be bribed into stemming down the Eritrean refugee crisis. Throwing money at ideologue dictators is like throwing into the wind.
Graver Political Developments than Sanctions & the Outdated Westphalian Treaty
Tired of continuous wars in Europe, its monarchs and leaders met in the Town of Westphalia in the year 1648 to formulate a new principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states. Before 1648, European nations invaded others on whimsical excuses that put the continent on perpetual war footing. Nearly 300 years later, the UN and later the AU (OAU) adopted the same principles of non-interference as the cornerstone of international diplomatic relations and conduct of nations and international brotherhood.
However, the principles of non-interference in the internal affairs of sovereign countries has been modified in the last few years, especially after the 1994 Rwandan genocide when the world powers realized adverse events in a sovereign country impacts other countries directly through refugee crises and indirectly through the collective consciousness of people as unified human beings. Should be ignore the immense sufferings of other people just because they live across artificial borders? Of course, there are dangers of using human rights violations to interfere in the internal politics of sovereign countries.
Post-1994 Rwanda, the general consensus is that the world, as represented by the United Nations, UN Security Council - and even regional groupings such as ECOWAS have the moral and political obligations to interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign countries if violations consisted of genocide, crimes against humanity, or war crimes - and even coups against democratically elected governments. These international groups may use sanctions or force to pre-emptively prevent mass human sufferings or to restore political stability. ECOWAS, for instance, has played effective roles in restoring and stabilizing political situations in Guinea Bissau, Burkina Faso and elsewhere. Moreover, the recent coup in Burkina Faso met swift reactions from the Peace & Security Council of the AU and West African nations.
It is also worth noting that during the latest UN Human Rights Council meeting over Eritrea, the Representative of Ghana echoed this very same sentiment. The Ghanaian representative stated that although the AU founding principlesare based on non-interference in the internal affairs of other member states, i.e. Westphalia model,African leaders have also come to understand that to promote African democracy, and hence to realize socio-economic growth,that African leaders must now believe in the principle of non-indifference.
Ironically, despite DIA's complaints of foreign interference in the internal affairs of Eritrea, DIA, as die hard Maoist follower and ardent disciple of communist thoughts, is the biggest subscriber of the principle of non-indifference. DIA's fingerprints are all over Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti, Yemen, DR Congo, (Great Lakes) and other countries. Political hypocrisy is to complain when others interfere in your internal affairs, but justify interference in affairs of other countries as necessities of security, to help our brotherly neighbors, or for some other high sounding but ultimately for self-serving reasons.
Opposing Sanctions
Although the opposition camp supports sanctions as way of, ostensibly, diminishing the legitimacy of the regime, but at the same time, it is predicated on increasing hardship on the general public that could spark public uprising. Unfortunately, as stated above, the UNSC sanctions is toothless. Unless the world body imposes severe, and ever increasing, sanctions against an oppressive regime, as was done with Zimbabwe, Iran, Russia, and others, these sanctions have no effect. As shown above, the sanctions against Eritrea is in name only. As the regime is not democratically elected and cares less for domestic or world opinion, it doesn’t even suffer from the stigma.
DIA is someone who believes that he can get away with anything and that one day - either of his own choosing or fate - things will change and that all the pain and sufferings of the past will be forgotten like the morning mist.
In my view, the opposition should NOT indefinitely support empty sanctions as a victory against the regime. There is no hypocrisy in welcoming sanctions at first and then call for it to be rescinded if it no longer serves a purpose, or runs against one’s political strategy - if there is one. In other words, if the world body isn’t serious enough to impose tough sanctions that will bring about change, then it should lift sanctions, and thus depriving the regime of the propaganda that the world, and esp. the US, is trying to strip Eritrea of its nationhood.
Having observed the nature of dictatorial regimes, which are replete with historical observations, one may even argue that forcing the regime to open up economically, as is being done with the mining sector, is the better route to address Eritrea’s woes than pursuing the strangulation route. More than anyone, it is PIA who is politically allergic to any form of socio-economic development because growing wealth will necessarily lead to calls for socio-economic reforms. Moreover, openness in today’s world means greater integrations with the world, which, again, lead to calls for socio-economic reforms. Thus, one may argue, either the West should impose serious and severe sanctions against the regime, or force the regime to open up economically - not unlike middle and late medieval China and Japan, which were forced to trade and thus ending their isolationist policies. Similar questions are raised over Cuba which has remained isolated for over half-a-century.
In fact, as will be discussed later, many roads lead to Rome, [as in all], and it is not necessarily the politics of destruction, isolationism, division, and other negative acts that will only get us to our destination. We do NOT need to be the mirror reflection of the regime, or react in tit-for-tat manner. If so, the regime has control over us. Our every political approach should evaluated dispassionately and purely on the merits of its outcome and based on the very principles we want to project. Nothing more, nothing less!
The opposition camp should be flexible and strategically oriented enough to adjust its political position to advance its cause. Equally, the opposition camp would require strong communication to avoid appearing to be dithering or equivocating. Our position to the world body (UN) should be, either get serious enough with the sanctions or rescind it.
Ultimately, the current toothless sanctions regime may have value to the Ethiopian government only, which allows it to pre-empt any pressures to resolve the border issue. Others concerns, such as interference in Somali affairs, have now subsided as the wings - not just the feathers - have been clipped off of the Eritrean Pol Pot regime.
Lifting sanctions doesn’t necessarily end opposition camp’s efforts to isolate the regime. There are still other avenues, including through UN & AU Human Right Councils, to address many of the regime’s abuses as manifested by the refugee crisis, slavery campaigns, and other national local legal avenues available to pursue. We are only limited by our imagination, pooled resources, and determination in pursuing other effective legal avenues. One may surmise that the fact there is a UN sanction on the regime would embolden other jurisdictions to take tougher stance on the regime, but this is not supported by facts. Conversely, one may fret that lifting the sanctions regime would weaken other efforts to weaken the regime. For example, the recent heavy COIE criticism of the regime would still not have changed even if sanctions were not imposed. The COIE was established because of the epic level Eritrean refugee crisis. It is the West’s shot across the bow to warn the regime to stem the tides of Eritrean refugees. If this tide continues, the regime WILL be officially accused of crimes-against-humanity - regardless of any other efforts because it directly threatens the West’s interests.
Having understood that the West, and similarly with the Ethiopian government, will not do one iota more than what is for their ultimate interests, it is time we engage in a constructive debate and then formulate policies and action plans that reflect political reality.
Of course, we should be glad to have wedo-geba.net quote us on this one!
BerhanHagos
September 25, 2015
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Written by በይ ኤርያ ኤርትራውያን ንዲሞክራስያዊ ለውጢዝሓለፈ ሰንበት 20 መስከረም 2015 እቲ ብ በይ ኤርያ ኤርትራውያን ንዲሞክራስያዊ ለውጢ ሰፊሕ ምድላው ዝተገብረሉ ብ ተባዓት ደልይቲ ለውጢ ዶር. ዳንኤል ረዘነን ጋዜጠኛ ሜሮን እስቲፋኖስ ዝተመርሐ ህዝባዊ ኣኼባ ኣብ ኦክላንድ ካሊፎርንያ ንተሰታተፍቲ ብዘዕግብ መንፈስ ተኻይዱ።
እቲ ህዝባዊ ሰሚናር ከምቲ ዝተመደበሉ ሰዓት 3:00 ድሕሪ ቀትሪ እዩ ተጀሚሩ። እቲ መደብ ነቶም ናይ ስራሕ ግዜኦምን ዕረፍቶምን ብምውንዛፍ ካብ ኤውሮጳ ነቂሎም ኣብ ኣሜሪካ ምስ ደለይቲ ለውጢ ስፍሕ ዝብለ ህዝባዊ ምይይጥ ዘክይዶ ዘሎ ክቡራት ተቃለስቲ ናይ እንቛዕ ድሓን መጻእኩም ምልእኽቲ ብምስማዕ እዩ ተኸፊቱ። ስዒቡ ከኣ ምስ ራእን ዕላማታትን እቲ ንኹሎም ኣብ በይ ኤርያ ዝርከቡ ናይ ለውጢ ሓይትልታት ሓቁፉ ዝንቀሳቐስ ዘሎ በይ ኤርያ ኤርትራውያን ንዲሞክራስያዊ ለውጢ ዘላሊ ሕጽር ዝበለ ሓበሬታ ናብ ህዝቢ ቀሪቡ።
ካብዚ ቀጺሉ ዶር. ዳንኤል እቲ ንሱ ዝተደለወሉ ክፋል ናይቲ ሰሚናር ንህዝቢ ከካፍል መድረኽ ተቐቢሉ ። ኣስተምህሮ ዶር. ዳንኤል ኣብቲ ኣብ ወርሒ ሰነ 2015 ብመርማሪት ኮሚሽን ወድብ ሕቡራት ሃገራት ንጉዳይ ኤርትራ ተሓቲሙ ዝወጸ ን ኣብ ኤርትራ ዘሎ ግህሰት ሰብኣዊ መሰላት ዝሰነደ ረዚን ሰነድ ዘተኮረ ኮይኑ፡ ነዞም ዝስዕቡ ነጥብታት ማለት ፥ ተራ ኤርትራውያን ኣብ ምዕዋት ስርሓት መርማሪት ኮሚሽን ውድብ ሕቡራት ሃገራት፡ ኣበርክቶ ናይዚ ታሪኻዊ ሰነድ ኣብ ምእላይ ምልካዊ ስርዓት ካብ ሃገረ ኤርትራን ኣውንታውን ኣሉታውን ተሞክሮታት ናይቲ ኣብ 26 ሰነ 2015 ኣብ ጀኒቫ ስዊዘርላንድ ብሓይልታት ድሚክራስያዊ ለውጢ ኣብ ኤርትራ ተደልዪ ዝተኻየድደ ሰፊሕን ፍሉይን ሰለማዊ ሰልፊ ‘ውን ኣብሪሁ ‘ዩ ።
ዶር ዳኒኤል ኣብ ኣስተምህሩኡ፡ እዚ ብመርማሪት ኮምሽን ተዳልዩ ዝወጸ ሰነድ ድምር ውጺት ናይቲ ኤርትራውያንን ፈተውቲ ኤርትራን ከይተሓለሉ ንነዊሕ ዓመታት ዘካይድዎ፡ ኣብ ኤርትራ ፍትሕን ዲሞክራስን ንምንጋስ ዝዕላምኡ ሓያል ሃገራዊ ቃልሲ እዩ ድሕሪ ምባል፡ ኤርትራውያን ብውልቂ፡ ብጉጅለ፡ ብማሕበርን ወዘተትን ብምዃን ነታ መርማሪት ኮሚሽን ልዕሊ 700 ዝኾኑ ምስክርነታት ክትእክብ ሓጊዞማ ‘ዮም። እዚ ሰነድ ከኣ ኣብቶም ዝተዋህቡ ምስክርነታት ተሞርኩሱ ዝተዳለወ ታሪኻዊ ሰንድ እዩ ኢሉ። እቲ ሰነድ በቲ ዘለዎ ፍሉይ ትሕዝቶ ኣቓልቦን ትኹረትን ማዕከንት ዜና ዓለም ስሒቡን ከም ውጺቱ ከኣ ሰፊሕ ሸፈነ ረኺቡ እዩ ብምባል ንተሳተፍቲ ነታ መርማሪት ኾሚሽን ኣብቲ ብሕጂ እተካይዶ ስራሓት ክደጋገፍዋን ክትሓባበርዋን ኣትሪሩ ኣዘኻኹሩ። እዚ ተዘርጊሑ ዘሎ ሰነድ “ኣብ ኤርትራ ገበን ኣንጻር ሰብኣውነት ተፈጺሙ ክኸውን ይክእል እዩ “ ዝብል ሓረግ እዩ ኣስፊሩ ዘሎ። እዚ ናብ ፍጹምን ደምዳምን ምሉእ ሓሳብ ማለት “ ኣብ ኤርትራ ገበን ኣንጻር ሰብኣውንት ተፈጺሙ እዩ” ናብ ዝብል መታን ክሰጋግር ሕጂ ውን ከይተሓለለና ክንሰርሕ ኣሎና ብምባል ንተሳተፍቲ ተማሕጺኑ። እቲ ብሕጂ ዝወጽእ ሰነድ ከምዚ ልዒሉ ዝተጠቕሰ ምሉእ ሓሳብ ሒዙ እንተድኣ ወጺኡ ከኣ እቲ ዝቕጽል ዕማም ማለት ነቶም ብገበን ተኸሲሱም ዘሎዎ ሓልፍቲ ጉጅለ ህግደፍ ናብ ኣህጉራዊ ቤት ፍርዲ ገበነኛታት ንምስግጋር ኣዝዩ ሓጋዚ ክኸውን እዩ ኢሉ።
ብዛዕባ እቲ ድሕሪ ሒደት ማዓልታት ምዝርጋሕ ናይዚ ሰነድ ኣብ ጀነቫ ዝተኻየደ ናይ ደልይቲ ለውጢ ሰለማዊ ሰልፊ ከኣ ከምዚ ዝስዕብ ክብል ተንቲኑ፡ “ ድሕሪ ሎሚ ሚዛን ሓይሊ ናይ ደምበ ደልይቲ ለውጢ ኣብ ዝለዓለ ጥርዚ በጺሑ ከም ዘሎ ዘረጋገጸ ኣጋጣሚ እዩ ነይሩ። ንኹሉ ኣብ መላእ ዓለም ዝርከብ ደላይ ለውጢ ኤርትራዊ ዘሕበነ ተሪኻዊ ፍጻሜ ከኣ እዩ። እዚ ሰለማዊ ሰልፊ ዝመሃረና ቀንዲ ነጥቢ እንተ ሃልዩ፡ እታ ንሰለማዊ ሰልፍን ካልእ ከምኡ ዝእምሰሉ ዓበይቲ ሃገራዊ ጉዳያትን እተካይድ ጉጅለ ንኹላቶም ደለይቲ ለውጢ ዝሓቖፈት ምስ እትኸውን፡ ዋንነት እቲ ጉዳይ ናይ ኩሉም ሓይልታት ለውጢ ይኸውን፡ ኩላቶም ከኣ ኣብ ምዕዋቱ ከይተሓለዉ ይሰርሑ ፡ ኣቲ ውጺቱ ከኣ ዓቢ ይኸውንን ኢሉ። ምስኡ ኣታሓሒዙ ከኣ ነቲ ን 29 ጥቅምቲ ኣብ ከተማ ኒውዮርክ ክካየድ ተመዲቡ ዘሎ ሰለማዊ ሰልፊ ኣብ ምዕዋትን ንኹሉ ዘሳትፍ ኣብ ምግባርን ኩሉ ብዝከእሎ ከበርክት ተላብዩ። ኣብ ኩሉ እነካይዱ ንጥፈታት ብዝተኻእለ መጠን ንብዙሕነት ማሕበረሰብ ኤርትራ ዝነጸበረቐ ክኸውን ክንሰርሕ ኣላና ክብል ውን ተላብዩ።
ቀጺላ ንኩነታት ኤርትራውያን ስደተኛታትን ዝገጥሞም ዘሎ ጸገማትን ኣተኩራ ኣስትምህሮኣ ዘቕረበት ጋዜጠኛን ተጣባቒት ሰብኣዊ መሰላትን ወ/ሮ ሜሮን እስቲፋኖስ እያ ነይራ። ጋዜጠኛ ሜሮን ኣብ መደረኣ፡ ኤርትራዊ ካብ ሃገሩ ዝስደድ ዘሎ ብሰንኪ እቲ ኣብ ሕንብርቲ ገርና ነጊሱ ዘሎ ዓመጸኛን ምልካዊ ስርዓትን እዩ ድሕሪ ምባል፡ እቲ ኣብ ርእሲ ኤርትራውያን ስደተኛታት ዝወርድ ዘሎ በደልን ግፍዕን ውን ምስ ምእላይ እዚ ስርዓት ጥራሕ እዩ ዘኽትም ኢላ። እቲ ዘሕዝን ኤርትራውያን ካብ ሃገሮም ወጺኦም ኣብ ጎረባብቲ ሃገራት ኣብ ዝእትውሉ እዋን ውን እቲ ንስደተኛትት ዘድሊ ሓልዮትን ፡ ምክልኻል ይስእኑ ምህላዎም እዩ ኢላ፡ ከም ሳዕቢኑ ከኣ ቀንዲ ግዳያት ናይቶም ኣብ ዘይሕጋዊ ምስግጋርን ንግድን ደቂሰባት ዝተዋፈሩ ገበነኛታት ኮይኖም ኣሎዉ። እቶም ካብ ኤርትራ ኣምሊጦም ናብ ሱዳን ዝኣትዉ ስደተኛታት ብመጠኑ ጽቡቕ ናይ ምንቅስቃስ መሰላት እኳ እንተ ሃለዎም ኣብ ዝኾነ እውን ኣብ ርእሲኦም ንዝፍጸም ገብን ዝከላኸለሎምን ዝጠበቐሎምን ኣካል ከም ዘየሎ ኣብነታት ብምሃብ ኣብሪሃ። ብኣንጻሩ እቶም ናብ ኢትዮጵያ ዝስደዱ ኤርትራውያን ከኣ ኣብ ውሽጢ እቲ ናይ ስደተኛታት ምዓስከር ክሳብ ዝሃለዉ ብመጠኑ ካብ ክወርዱም ዝኽእል ገበናት ዝከልከለሎም ኣካል ኣሎ። እንተኾነ ግን ብሰንኪ እቲ መግስቲ ኢትዮጵያ ዘለዎ ካብ መዓስከር ስደተናተት ናይ ዘይምውጻእ ዝምልከት ፖሊሲ ናይ ምንቅቓስ መሰላቶም ኣዝዩ ዝተደረተ እዩ። ከም ሳዕቢኑ ከኣ ናብ ዝተፈላለየ ከባቢታት ኢትዮጵያ ተንቀሳቒሱም ክሰርሑን ንንብሶም ክሕግዙን ኣይክእሉን ኢላ ። ብሰንክቲ ኣብ ሓደ ዝተወሰነ መዓስከር ንነዊሕ እዋን ኮፍ ምባል ዝምጽኦ ተስፋ ናይ ምቑራጽ ሳዕቤን ከኣ ብዙሓት ካብቶም ስደተኛታት ኣደዳ ናይቶም ብዘይ ዝኾነ ጸገም ኣብተን መዓስከራት ዝዝንብዩ ዘይሕጋውያን ኣሰጋግረቲ ብምዃን ብዘይ ዝኾነ ፋይናንሳዊን ስድራቤታዊን ደገፍ ካብ ኢትዮጵያ ብሱዳን ፡ ሳህራ ፡ ሊብያ ኣቢሉም ናይ ኢውሮጳ ንምስጋር ናብ ኣዝዩ በዳህን ፈተትን ዝኾነ ጎዕዙ ይስለፉ። ከም ውጺቱ ከኣ ኣስታት 80 ሚኢታዊት ናይቶም ኣብዚ ዝሓለፈ 3 ዓመት ኣብ ማእከላይ ባሕሪ ዝሞቱን ፡ ናብ ኤውሮጳ ዝሰገሩን ኤርትራውያን ስደተኛታት ካብ ኤርትራ ናብ ኢትዮፕያ ዝሰገሩ እዮም ነይሮም ኢላ።
ኣብዚ እዋን እዚ ብሰንኪ እቲ ኣብ ግብጺ ዘሎ ፖለቲካዊ ኩነታት ተኣሳሲሩ ኣብ ሲናይ ብመንግስቲ ግብጺ ዝምራሕ ወተሃደራዊ ስርሒታት ይካየድ ኣሎ፡ እዚ ከኣ ነቲ ብሲናይ ኣቢልካ ናብ እስራኤል ዝግበር ዝነበረ ጉዕዞ ጠጠው ኣቢልዎ ኣሎ ክበሃል ይከኣል እዩ። እንተኾነ ግን እቲ ኣብ ሊብያ ዘሎ ዘይርጉእነት ዝፈጠሩ ፖለቲካዊ ሃዋህው ሎሚ ኣብ ሊብያ ኣቲ ብድዓሽ ዝፍለጥ ኣረሜናዊ ምንቕስቓስ ተፈጢሩ ኣሎ። እዚ ጉጅለ ውን ከም ኩሎም ካልኦት ዓመጽቲ ንኤርትራውያን ከም ቀንዲ ግዳያቱ ዝገብረ ምዃኑ ነቲ ኣብ ርእሲ ኤርትራውያን ዘገጠመ ጽዱጽተ መኑ ኣብነታት ብምሃብ ገሊጻ። ኣስዒባ ውን እቶም ብዙሕ መከራን ግፍዕን ተጸዊሮም ኤውሮጳ ወይ እስራኤል ዝኣትዉ ኤርትራውያን ብሰንክቲ እቲ ዝሰገርዎ ኩነታት ዝገደፈሎም በሰላን፡ ኣብ ስደት ዝገጥሙም ማሕለኻታትን ተበዲሆም ኣብ ጭንቀትን ንብሰ ቕትለትን ከም ዝወድቁ ነቲ ኣብ ዝሓለፈ ወርሒ ኣብ ሃገረ ሽወደን ዘገጠመ ዘሕዝን ፍጻሜን ካልእን ብምጥቃስ ንተሳተፍቲ ፍልጠታ ኣካፊላ። ንሳ ኣብ መወዳእታ እዚ ኣብ ወጻኢ ዝነብር ዘሎ ኤርትራዊ ነትን ብሰንክ ስደት ዘኸተሎ ሞትን ህልቂትን ኣብ ኣዝዩ ዘስካሕክሕ ኩነታት ወዲቀን ዘለዎ ብዙሓት ስደራ ቤታት ኤርትራ ብዝዓቕሙ ኣብ ምሕጋዝን ነቶም ኣብ ወጻኢ ዝመጹ ዘለዎ ትሕቲ ዕድመን ልዕሊ ዕድመን ኤርትራውያን ኣብ ምብርታዕን መንገዲ ኣብ ምርኣይን እጃሞም ከብርክቱ ብምልባው መደረእ ዛዚማ።
ነዚ ስዕቡ ዝቐረበ መደብ እቲ ናይ ሕቶን መልስን ርኢቶን መድብ እዮ ነይሩ። ዶር. ዳኒኤልን ጋዜጠኛ ሜሮንን ከኣ ሓደ ብሓደ ነቶም ካብ ተሳተፍቲ ዝቐረብሎም ንሓድነት፡ ንተሳትፍነት መንእሰያት፡ ንብዙሕነት፡ ንተራ ምርማሪት ኮምሽንን ኣህጉራዊ ቤት ፍርዲ ገበነኛታት ኣብ ምልጋስ ስርዓት ህግደፍን፡ ካልኦትን ሕቶታት ዘዕግብ መልሲ ብምሃብ መሊሶሞም።
ኣብ መደምደምታ መንጪ ናይዚ ብመርማሪት ኮሚተ ተሓቲሙ ወጺኡ ዘሎ ሰነድን ጠንቂ ስደትን መግረፍትን ኤርትራውያን ስርዓት ህግደፍ ምዃኑ ንኹሉ ደላዪ ለውጢ ብሩህ ‘ዩ ድሕሪ ምባል፡ ኣብ ሓድነት ዝተሰረተ ሓባራዊ ቃልሲ ብምክያድ ንስርዓት ህግደፍ ካብ ሃገርና ሓግሒግና ንምእላይ ከይተሓለልና ክንሰርሕ ይጽንሓለይ ዘይበሃለሉ ሃገራውን ታሪኻውን ግዴታና እዩ ድሕሪ ምባል። ሓድነት ብምትእምማንን ተጻውርነትን ዝጥራይ ኣምርእዩ፡ ኣብኡ ንምብጻሕ ከኣ ኣብ ዝሕብሩና ነገራት ሓቢና ብምስርሕን ፡ ይቅረ ብምብህሃልን ክንዓትሮ ከም እንኽእል ብምሕባር፡፡ ብወገኖም ውን ነቲ ኣብ ሞንጎኦምን ው/ሮ ኢልሳ ጭሩምን ኣጋጢሙ ዘሎ ዘይምርድዳእ ክፈትሑ ድልዋት ምዃኖም ንተሳተፍቲ ሓቢሩም። በዚ ከኣ እቲ ሰፊሕ ተሳተፍነትን ምርድዳእን ዝተረእየሉ ህዝባዊ ኣኼባ ( ኣስተምህሮ) ናይ ሓባር ስእሊ ብምስኣል ተዛዚሙ። በዚ ኣጋጣሚ በይ ኤርያ ኤርትራውያን ንዲሞክራስያዊ ለውጢ ነቶም ከይ በቐቑ ፍልጠቶምን ተሞክሪኦምን ዘካፈሉና ሓፍትና ሜሮንን፡ ሓውና ዳን ኤልን ካብ ልቢ እንዳ ኣመስገና፡ ነቶም ናይ ዕረፍቲ ግዜኦም ነዚ ኣስተምህሮ ዝወፈዩ ካብ ኩሉ ከባቢታት በይ ኤርያ ዝተሳተፉ ኣባላትና ከኣ ኣዚና ነመስግን።
በይ ኤርያ ኤርትራውያን ንዲሞክራስያዊ ለውጢ
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22 መስከረም 2015
ኤርትራ ብብዝሒ ስመን ካብ ዝለዓል ሃገራት ሓንቲ ካብ እትኸውን ነዊሕ ግዜ ኮይኑ ኣሎ። እቲ ክወሃባ ዝጸንሐን ዘሎን ተወሳኺ ቅጽላት በብግዜኡ ዝቀያየር እዩ። ንሓንሳብ ኣብ ትሕቲ መግዛእቲ ንሓንሳብ ድማ ኣብ ትሕቲ ውሽጣዊ ወጽዓ። ኣብ ሓደ ታሪኻዊ ምዕራፍ ዓዲ ሓርበኝነትን ንመሰሉ ኩሉ ዋጋ ክኸፍ ድንብርጽ ዘይብሎ ኣብነታዊ ህዝብን። ሎሚ ድማ ዓዲ ወጽዓ፡ ፍትሒ ኣልቦ፡ ስደትን ሕሰምን ትበሃል ኣላ። ኤርትራውያን በቲ ገሊኡ ቅጽላት ይሕበኑን ይኾርዑን በቲ ገሊኡ ድማ ይሓፍሩን ይሽቑረሩን።
ሃገርና እዚ ዝተገልጸ ቅጽላት ክውህብዋ ዝጸንሑን ዘለዉን ቀንዲ ደቃ ማለት ዜጋታታ ባዕሎም እዮም። እዚ ማለት ግና ከባብያውን ግዳማውን ጽልዋታት እውን ግደ ኣይነበሮን ማለት ኣይኮነን። እነሆ ሕጂ እውን ናይ ደቃ ወሳኒ ግደን ናይ ግዳም ሓይልታት ጽልዋን ኣብ በቦታኦም ኣለዉ። ጉዳይ መጻኢት ኤርትራ ናይ ምውሳን ወሳኒ ግደ ግና ኣብ ኢድ ደቃ’ዩ ዘሎ። ኣብዚ እዋንዚ ሓላፍነት ኤርትራውያን ካብ ናይ ኩሉ ግዜ ኣብ ዝኸበደን ዝጸንከረን ደረጃ እዩ ይርከብ። እዚ ማለት ግና ቅድሚ ሕጂ ኤርትራ እዚ ሒዛቶ ዘላ መልክዕን ልኡላውነትን ክትሕዝ ዜጋታታ ዝኸፈልዎ ዋጋ ቀሊል ነይሩ ማለት ኣይኮነን። ኤርትራውያን ዝከኣል ዘይመስል ዝነበረ ክኢሎም ክሰዓር ዘይመስል ዝነበረ ስዒሮም እዮም ኣብዚ በጺሖም። እንተኾነ ሎሚ እውን ዘይከኣልን ዘይሰዓርን ዝመስል ግና ዝከኣል ብደሆታት ኣብ ቅድሚ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ተገቲሩ ኣሎ። ኣብዚ ዘለናሉ ምዕራፍ ቃልሲ እቲ ቀንዲ ብደሆ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ምስዓርን ምውጋድን ወጻዒ ጉጅለ ኢሳይያስ ኣፈወርቂ ክኸውን እንከሎ፡ ካለኦት በቲ ኢሳይያስ ክኸፍቶ ሒዅ ዝብሎ ዘሎ ዘይቅዱስ ሃጓፍ ከይኣትዉ እሞ ጉዳይና ካብ ኢድና ከይወጽእ ክንጥንቀቕን ምስ ግዜን ምዕብልናታቱን ክንጉዓዝን ከድልየና እዩ።
“ኣቲ ኤትራውያን ክዕወቱን ዝከኣል ዘይመስል ዝነበረ ክኽእሉን እንከለዉ ቀንዲ ዓቕሞም ካብምንታይ ይፍልፍል ነይሩ?” ዝብል ሕቶ ኣገዳስን መሰረታውን እዩ። ብዙሓት ወገናት፡ ንጅግንነት፡ ንትብዓት፡ ቆራጽነትን ተጸዋርነትን … ከም መልሲ ናይ’ዚ ኣቐዲሙ ዝቐረበ ሕቶ ከም ዘቕርብዎ ፍሉጥ እዩ። ሓቂ እዩ እዞም ዝተጠቕሱ ቅጽላት ንህዝቢ ኤርትራ ኣይግብእዎን ማለት ኣይኮነን። እቲ መሰረታዊ መልሲ ናይዚ ሕቶ ግና፡ ናይ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ናይ ተዓዋትነት ምስጢር “ኣብ ክንዲ ንሕናን ንኻትኩምን ንሕና” በሃልነቱ እዩ። ማለት ሳላ መሰረታዊ ንዘይኮኑ ፍልልያት ኣመሓዲሩ ጉዳይ ህዝብን ሃገርን ቅድሚት ምስርዑ እዩ ተዓዊቱ። እቲ “ሓድነት ሓይሊ’ዩ” ዝብል ኣምር ሓቅነቱ ካብ ዝተራእየሉ ተመኩሮታት ሓደ ተመኩሮና እዩ ትዝበሃል’ውን ምግናን ኣይመኾነን።
ከምቲ ዘይንስሕቶ ጉዳያት ብተጻራሪ እዮም ዝቖሙ። ደጋፊ ክህሉ እንከሎ ተቓዋሚ ኣሎ። ሰዓራይ ክህሉ እንከሎ ድማ ተሰዓራይ። ቃልስን ዓወትን ህዝቢ ኤርትራ እውን በዚ እዩ ዝግለጽ። እዚ ሎሚ ተተሓሒዝናዮ ዘለና ቃልሲ’ውን ካብዚ ሕጊ’ዚ ወጻኢ ኣይኮነን። ክልተ ተነሓናሕቲ ሓይልታት ኣብ ዝጋጠምሉ ነፍሲ ወከፎም ተዓዋቲ ንክኾኑ፡ ቀንዲ ሃሰስ ኢሎም ክርኽብዎ ዝደልዩ ናይቲ ኣንጻሮም ሓያል ጐድኒ እዩ። ንዓኡ ኣዳኺሞም ምእንቲ ክስዕርዎ። ከምቲ ኣቐዲሙ ዝተገልጸ፡ ሓያልነት ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ካብቲ ዘይንቕነቕ ሓድነቱ ዝነቅል ስለ ዝነበረን ዝኾነን ነዚ ሓያል ጐድኑ ንምድኻን ብኣኡ ኣቢልካ ንምንብርካኹን ብጸላእቱ ዘይተፈንቀለ እምኒ ኣይነበረን። ትልሚ “ቆላማን ደጋማን” ናይዚ ቀረባ ግዜ ተዘክሮና እዩ። ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ግና ሳላ ኣብዚ ዛዕባዚ ብዘብለጭልጩ ተስፋታት ዘይተዓሸወ ተዓዊቱ።
እቲ ናይ ሓደ ህዝቢ ሓድነት ንምድኻም ዝምረጽ ስልቲ ብምርጫ ናይቶም ጸረ ሓድነት ዝውሰን ኮይኑ፡ ናይቲ ዒላማ ዝግበር ህዝቢ ኣከዋውና እውን ኣብ ግምት ይኣትው’ዩ። ንኣብነት ኣብ ኤርትራ ንሃይማኖትን ጀኦግራፍያዊ ኣቐማምጣን ብዙሓት ወገናት ከም ናይ ሓድነት ህዝቢ መበተኒ ስልቲ ክጥቀምሉ ፈቲኖም እዮም። ብኣንጻሩ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ነዚ ብዝሕነቱ መመልክዒኡን መፈልፈሊ ሓይሉን እምበር መፈላለይኡ ክገብሮ አርትግ ቅሩብ ስለ ዘይኮነ እነሆ ኣብዚ ዘለናዮ ሉኣላውነት በጺሕና። እቲ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ንምብትታን ዝግበር ልሙስ ፈተነን ኣንጻርዚ ምብትታን ዝግበር ሓያል መኸተን ከዓ ሎሚ’ውን ኣብ መድረኽ ቃልሲ ህያው እነሀዉ። እቶም ተዋሳእቲ ግና ክቀያየሩ ባህርያዊ እዩ። ኣብ ሓደ ናይ ቃልሲ መድረኽ እቶም ንህዝቢ ኤርትራ ኣተፋኒኖም ግዳይ ክገብርዎ ዝደልዩ ዝነበሩ ባዕዳውያን ሓይልታት ክነብሩ እንከለዉ። ሎሚ ከዓ ጉጅለ ህግደፍ ነቲ ፈላላይ ተግባር ወሪስዎ ኣሎ። እዚ ጉጅለ ወጻዒ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ’ዩ ኢልናዮ ስለ ዘለና፡ ተመሊስና ምእንቲ ሓድነት ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ክግደስ ኣይንጽበዮን ኢና። መን ንሓድነት ናይቲ ድሂኹ ክገዝኦ ዝደሊ ህዝቢ ምስ ተገደሰ። እቲ ንክቅበሎ ዘጸግመና ነዚ ጉጅለ ኣወጊዱ ራህዋ ከምጽእ ዝቃለስ ዘሎ ናይ ለውጢ ሓይልታት፡ ንሓድነት ህዝብን ሃገርን ኤርትራ ከም ናይ ቃልሲ ሓልነቱ ክከላኸልን ክሕሉን ተዘይበቒዑ እዩ።
“እዚ ንርእዮ ዘለና ጉዳይ ኤርትራስ ብኸመይ እዩ ክፍታሕ?” እዚ ሕቶ ሎሚ ኤርትራውያን ኣብ ዘዝራኸብሉ ኣጋጣሚ ከም መኽፈቲ ኣፍ ዝለዓል ናይ ሻቕሎት ሕቶ እዩ። ገሊኡ “እንድዒ እንታይ ፈሊጥና” ኢሉ ይምልስ። “ክላእ እዚ ጉዳይና መፍትሒ የብሉን” ብዝብል ተስፋ ዝቖርጹ እውን ኣለዉ። “ ሽግር ካብ ሃለወ መፍትሒ እውን ክህሉ ግድን እዩ። ጸገምና እንተ ብጉርሒ እንተ ብገርሂ ነቲ መፍትሒ ክንረኽቦ ስለ ዘይከልና ኢና ንጽገም ዘለና” ዝብል ድማ ካልእ መልሲ እዩ። ብዘይካዚ “እቲ ጸገም ጉዳይ ኤርትራ መፍትሒ ዘየብሉ ኣይኮነን። መፍትሒኡስ ኮለል ኢሉ ዝረአን ብተመኩሮ ዝተመስከረሉን እዩ። ጸገምና ነቲ ኣብዚ ኣለኹ ኢሉ ዝጣራዕ ዘሎ መፍትሒ ተቐቢልካ ክትትግብሮ ቅሩብ ዘይምዃን እዩ” ዝብል ተስፋ ዘይቆረጸ ከዓ ናይ ብዙሓት መልሲ ነቲ መሰረታዊ ሕቶ እዩ። እዞም ትስፉዋት መልሲ ዝብልዎ ድማ ፡ ኣብ ጉዳይ ሃገርን ምድሓን ህዝብን ኣብ ክንዲ ዝፈላልየካ መንደቕ ምስራሕ ዘራኽበካ ድንድል ሃኒጽካ፡ ኣብ ክንዲ “ንሕናን ንስኻትኩም ንሕና እንተንብል” ዝብል እምነት ምኽታልን ምትግባርን ጥራይ’ዩ ዝብል እዩ። እዚ ድማ “ለካስ ገላቢጥካ ተረኻዮ ጉዳይና ፈታሒ እምበር መፍትሒ ኣይኮነን ስኢኑ ዘሎ” ዘብል እዩ። ነዚ ብዝምልከት ኣብ ፖለቲካዊ መደብ ዕዮ ሰልፊ ደሞክራሲ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ሃሰስ እንተበልና ከዓ ኣብ 1.1.2 “….. ሰደህኤ ኤርትራ፡ ሰላምን ሓድነትን ዝሰፈና ሃገር ንኽትከውን፡ ንናይ ሓድነት ባህልን ሓርበኛነትን ጸጋ ብምልላይ ንኤርትራዊ ሃገራዊ ሓድነትን ብዙሕነትን ንምዕቃብ ይጽዕር።” ዝብል ዓንቀጽ ነንብብ።
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መበል 14 ዓመት ዝኽሪ 18 መስከረም፡ መዓልቲ እሱራት ኤርትራውያን
Written by ሓባራዊት ኣዳላዊት ሽማግለ ፍራንክፈርትn ከባቢኡንብ18 መስከረም 2001 ስርዓት ኢሳያስ ብድሕር'ቲ ኣትኵሮ ዓለም ዝሰሓበ ኣሸበርቲ ኣብ ኣመሪካ ዝፈጸምዎ ናይ ኣልቓዒዳ ስርሒት ተኸዊሉ፡ 11 ላዕለዎት መራሕቲ ህግደፍን 10 ጋዜጠኛታትን ኣሲሩ። ምኽንያት መእሰሪ ናይ'ቶም 11 ላዕለዎት መራሕቲ ህግደፍ ኣኼባ ናይ "ባይቶ ኤርትራ" ክግበር ስለዝጠለቡ ክኸውን እንከሎ፣ ናይ'ቶም 10 ጋዜጠኛታት ከኣ፡ ንውግእ ኤርትራን ኢትዮጵያን ይኹን ንትግባረ ቅዋም ዝምልከት ቃለ-መሓትትን ሓተታታትን ኣብ'ተን ናጻ ተባሂሉ ዝተኣምነለን ጋዜጣታቶም ስለዘስፈሩን ዘቃልሑን ኢዩ ነይሩ።
እዞም እሱራት እዚኣቶም ከም'ቶም ቅድሚኦም እተኣስሩ ማእለያ ዘይብሎም ናይ ፖለቲካን ናይ ሕልናን እሱራት፥ ብዘይ ክስን ብዘይ ፍርድን ምስ ቤተሰቦም ይኹን ምስ ሰብኣውያን ማሕበራት ከይራኸቡ ተሓሪሞም ኣብ ማእሰርቲ ከምዝበልዩ ኰይኖም ኣለዉ።
ኣብ'ቲ ተኣሲሮምሉ ዝርከቡ ቤት ማእሰርቲ ዒራዒሮ ኣብ ሓለዋ ተመዚዙ ዝነበረ እሞ ካብ'ቲ ስርዓት ቅድሚ 4 ዓመታት ዘምለጠ ተጋዳላይ፥ መብዛሕትኦም እቶም እሱራት ከምዝሞቱ እቶም ዝተረፉ'ውን ብዝተፈላለዩ ዓይነት ሕማማት ይሳቐዩ ምህላዎም ኣዝዮም ውሑዳት ደሓን'ዮም ዝብሃሉ ድማ ከቢድ ሰንሰለት ኣብ ኣእጋሮም ተሰኪሞም ኣብ ሸላታት ተዳጕኖም ምህልዋምን ኣቃሊዑ ነይሩ።
ኣብ ርእስ'ዚኦም በሽሓት ዝቝጸሩ ኤርትራውያን ንስርዓት ህግደፍ ተቓዊምኩም፡ ዕልዋ ክትገብሩ ፈቲንኩም፡ ኣድማ ገርኩም፡ ካብ ሰራዊት ኰብሊልኩም፡ ዶብ ክተሰግሩ ፈቲንኩም፡ ስርዓት ኢሳያስ ዘይቕበሎ ሃይማኖት ስዒብኩም፡ ኣባላት ተቓወምቲ ውድባት ኢኹም . . . ወዘተ ተባሂሎም ዝተዳጐኑን ዝተቐንጸሉን ውን ውሑዳት ኣይኰኑን።
ስርዓት ህግደፍ ኣብ ልዕሊ እሱራት ዝፍጽሞ ስቅያትን ዓዛብን ንዓለም ዘስደመመ ኢዩ። ኣብ ርእስ'ቲ ፍሉጥ ዕለት ዕለት ዝፍጸም ማህረምቲ፡ ምጥማይን ምጽማእን፤ ብርእስኻ ኣብ በርሚል ማይ ምጥሓል፡ ብኤለክትሪክ ምሕራር፡ ብዝተፈላለዩ ኣስማት ዝጽውዑ ናይ ማእሰርቲ ኣገባባት ምስቃይ (ሀሊክፕተር፡ ቍጽሪ 8፡ ኣብ ጽሓይ ምንቅዕራር፡ ኣብ ርሱንን ቆራርን ኮንተይነራት ምእሳር፡ ኣብ ገረብ ምንጥልጣል . . .ወዘተ) ዝኣመሰሉ ኢ-ሰብኣዊ ተግባራትን ኣተሓሕዛን ኣብ ልዕሊ ንጹሃትን ጸግዒ ዘይብሎምን ውልቀ ዜጋታት ይፍጸም ኢዩ። ስኣን ጽርየትን ሕክምናን ዝሞቱ ውን ውሑዳት ኣይኰኑን።
ሎሚ መበል 14 ዓመት ማእሰርቲ ናይ'ቶም ብጕጅለ 15 ዝፍለጡ ላዕለዎት መራሕትን ጋዜጠኛታትን ኣብ እንዝክረሉ ዘለና ግዜ፡ ብሰንኪ ብኵራት ሰብኣዊ መሰላት፡ ፖለቲካውን ቍጠባውን ማሕበራውን ጭቇናታት ማእለያ ዘይብሎም ኤርትራውያን መንእሰያት ንስደት ይውሕዙን ግዳይ ምድረበዳታትን ውቅያኖሳትን ነጋዶ ደቂ ሰባትን ይዀኑ ኣለዉ። ስደት፡ መለለዪ ኤርትራን ኤርትራውያንን ኰይኑ ምህላዉ ኣሉ ክበሃል ዝከኣል ኣይኰነን። ኣብ ኣውሮጳ ካብ ዝኣትዉ ዘለዉ ስደተኛታት ድሕሪ ሱርያውያን ኤርትራውያን ኢዮም እቶም ዝበዝሑ።
ብኻልእ ሸነኸ ከኣ፡ ስርዓት ኢሳያስ፡ ኢ-ሰብኣውን ምልካውን መንነቱን ተግባራቱን ኣብ ቃልዕ ወጺኡ፡ ንፖሊሲታቱ ዝገጥሞ ዘሎ ተቓውሞታት ብደረጃ ሃገር ኰነ ብደረጃ ዓለም ካብ ግዜ ናብ ግዜ እናዓበየ ኢዩ ዝመጽእ ዘሎ። ብኤርትራውያን ደለዪቲ ፍትሒ ኣብ ኵሉ ኵርንዓት ዓለም ዝካየድ ዘሎ ተቓውሞታትን ኮሚሽን ምርመራ ሰብኣዊ መሰላት ኣብ ኤርትራ ናብ ባይቶ ሰብኣዊ መሰላት ሕቡራት ሃገራት 483 ገጻት ዝሓዘለ ጸብጻብን ድማ ነዚ ሓቂ'ዚ ዝምስክሩ ጭብጥታት ኢዮም። ንኣብነት፡ ኣብ ጀነቫ በሽሓት ዝቝጸሩ ደለይቲ ፍትሒ ኤርትራውያን ዝገበርዎ ሰላማዊ ሰልፊ ዕላማታቱ ብሓደ ሸነኽ፡ ብስርዓት ህግዲፍ ዝፍጸም ዘሎ ገበናት ንምዅናን ክኸውን እንከሎ፤ ብኻልእ ሸነኽ ድማ፡ ኮሚሽን ምርመራ ሰብኣዊ መሰላት ሕቡራት ሃገራት ንዘቕረቦ መጽናዕቲ ንምድጋፍ ኢዩ ነይሩ።
ሎሚ፡ ኣብ ፍራንክፈርት እንርከብ ደለይቲ ፍትሒ ንመበል 14 ዓመት ዝኽሪ ተረኽቦ 18 መስከረም ንምኽባር ተሰልፊና ዘለና፡ ንኵሎም'ቶም ምእንቲ ሰላም፡ ፍትሒ፡ ዲሞክራስን ሰብኣዊ ክብርን እናተቓለሱ ዝተዳጐኑ ይኹን ዝተቐንጸሉ ጀጋኑና ንምዝካር ኢዩ። ኣብ ርእስ'ዚ፡ ንዅሎም'ቶም ብድሕነት ህዝቦምን ንሃገሮምን ዝግደሱ ዜጋታት ይኹኑ ውድባት፡ ነዚ ጠንቂ ናይ ኵሉ ስቅያትን ሓሳረ መከራን ኰይኑ ዘሎ ስርዓት ንምእላይ ቀዳምነት ሂቦም ሓቢሮም ክሰርሑ ንምጽዋዕን ንምዝኽኻርን እውን ኢዩ።
በዚ ኣጋጣሚ'ዚ፡ ብዘይ ክስን ፍርድን ተኣሲሮም ዘለዉ ናይ ፖለቲካን ሕልናን እሱራት ብዘይ ቅድመ-ኵነት ክፍትሑ ንጽውዕ።
ክብርን ዝኽርን ንእሱራትን ሰማእታትን ኤርትራ
ውድቀት ንዲክታቶርያዊ ስርዓት
ንሰላም፡ ፍትሕን ዲሞክራስን ዝካየድ ቃልሲ ክዕወት ኢዩ።
ሓባራዊት ኣዳላዊት ሽማግለ ፍራንክፈርትን ከባቢኡን
ኤርትራዊ ሃገራዊ ባይቶ ንዲሞክራስያዊ ለውጢ
ሰልፊ ዲሞክራሲ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ
ስምረት መንእሰያት ኤርትራውያን ንድሕነት ሃገር
ዩናይትድ ፎር ኤርትረያ (United 4 Eritrea)
Eritrean refugee crisis continues to escalate due to Canadian mining
Written by Michael StewartThe gut-wrenching photo of drowned toddler Alan Kurdi has strained Canadians' humanitarian mettle. Many have criticized Stephen Harper's failure to welcome a single refugee across Canada's borders since publication of the photo, yet few have reckoned with the ways in which Canadians are complicit in driving desperate people toward the sea.
Earlier this month, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson hosted a public forum on the refugee crisis. Those in attendance discussed the complexity and cost of privately sponsoring refugees and revisited a campaign promise to make Vancouver a Sanctuary City.
Daniel Tseghay, a writer, broadcaster and an activist, is of Eritrean descent and spoke at the mayor's forum. "Every single Eritrean that exists in the diaspora," Tseghay told Mayor Robertson, "knows someone directly or has someone in their family who has drowned in the Mediterranean."
While the initiatives proposed by the city are wonderful and should be supported, he added, "there's also a lot we can do to prevent people from becoming refugees in the first place."
Tseghay cited Nevsun Resources, a mid-tier mining corporation headquartered a few doors down from the Georgia Hotel in downtown Vancouver. Nevsun owns and operates one of the biggest open-pit copper mines in the world, the Bisha Mine in Eritrea. The mine provides nearly one-third of Eritrea's foreign exchange earnings.
Last November, three Eritrean refugees filed a civil suit against the company in the B.C. Supreme Court for alleged slave labour practices in its camps. The suit alleges that as many as 600 military conscripts were forced to build the Bisha mine in the first stage of its construction. Nevsun vigorously denies the charges -- even though in 2013, it was pressured to admit "regret" that Segen, the government subcontractor all foreign investors are forced to use, had exploited conscripts from the Eritrean army.
"People are fleeing Eritrea for a number of reasons," Tseghay told rabble.ca. "But at the forefront of people's minds for leaving Eritrea is the threat of being conscripted indefinitely."
This June a damning United Nations report that specifically names Nevsun and the Bisha mine found that Eritrea was guilty of widespread human rights abuses including extrajudicial murder, widespread torture, rape and forced labour.
"Vancouver is pretty directly involved in exacerbating, in fuelling this refugee crisis in Eritrea," Tseghay said. When Eritreans flee their homeland, he adds, they are fleeing a Canadian mining company.
Vancouver is a mining superpower. Approximately 800 mineral exploration and extraction corporations call the city home. Canada has one of the lowest corporate tax rates in the world and the extraction industry enjoys massive backing from the Harper government. There are no mechanisms in place to sanction Nevsun and no statement of condemnation from the relevant ministry -- even though the House of Commons International Development's Subcommittee on International Human Rights has been holding hearings on Nevsun's operations since February 2012.
Last week, Sunridge Gold Corp., another Vancouver-based resource firm, announced it had been awarded three mining licenses in Eritrea to build a copper, zinc and gold mine worth billions. Shares in Sunridge rose 12 per cent before lunchtime.
"When the city focuses on some of the things it can do to offer space for the current refugees without discussing its own complicity in a system that makes it wealthy," Tseghay said, "I feel like it is a form of saviourism."
"Let's not discuss the ways in which we've created this problem," said Tseghay. "Let's only look at the grand and noble and laudable ways in which we've helped these 'poor' people. That's how it comes off and I think that is a major problem."
"It gives the city a reputation it doesn't deserve."
The vast majority of Eritrean refugees, about 90 per cent, are between the ages of 18 and 24 years old. But even UN officials have been shocked by the high numbers of children under the age of eight fleeing Eritrea for Europe without a parent or guardian. Last year, the number of Eritrean refugees arriving in Europe tripled to 37,000 -- and 78 unaccompanied minors arrived in a single month.
In April, two boats heading to Italy from Libya capsized within a single week and over 1,300 refugees, including countless Eritreans, perished.
The death of three-year-old Alan Kurdi finally touched a nerve here in Canada, spurring many to finally take seriously a refugee crisis at least four years in the making.
There has been no viral photo of a black Eritrean child that has impelled wealthier nations into action. No western country has vowed to immediately redraw its inadequate refugee policy because hundreds of black and brown bodies were claimed by the Mediterranean.
"We know that there's this history of African children, of their pain being neglected or their pain being diminished and not seen as extreme or as requiring as much attention as the pain of a light-skinned child," says Tseghay. "That's a real phenomenon."
"I'm glad that there has been the response and the attention drawn to the refugee crisis because of that photo," says Tseghay. "But it is disheartening that we didn't see that same response [to] photos of little black children."
"Black death, African death is unimportant. It's seen as natural and as something that we shouldn't really worry too much about."
Last week, Nevsun announced it would be expanding its drilling in the Harena region of the Bisha mine while the refugee crisis continues apace. Nevsun did not respond to requests for comment.
Michael Stewart is a freelance writer and the rabble.ca blogs coordinator. He lives in Victoria, B.C.
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Source=http://rabble.ca/news/2015/09/eritrean-refugee-crisis-continues-to-escalate-due-to-canadian-mining
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- ንገሊኦም ብዙሕ ንገሊኦም ውሑድ ክውሰኾም እዩ ማለትካ ድዩ
- ኣይፋሉን እንታይ ኣህወኸካ፡ ከም መንግስቲ ብመጀምርያ ደሞዝ ክውሰኽዩ ኢኻ እትብል
- ሕራይ ድሕሪኡኸ እንታ ትገብር፡
- ድሕሪኡ ቀስ ኢልካ ድማ ከክንድ’ዚ ትብል እምበር ብታህዋኽ ሃንደፍ ኢልካ ኣይኮነን ዝዝርጋሕ!
- ወይ ጉድ ከምዚ’ውንዶ ኣሎ? ደሓን ይኹነልኩም ካብ መዓስከዩ ኣቲ ወሰኽ ክጅምር፡
- እንታ ወዲ ትህወኽ ዘለኻ ኢኻ ትመስል፡
- እዋእ ኣበይ’ዩ እቲ ታህዋኸይ?
- ኩሉ ነገር ቀስ ኢልካ እዩ እምበር ብሃታሃታኮ ኣይኮነን
- ሓድሽ ደሞዝ ዝወሃበሉ መዓልቲ ተዘይተቖሪጹስ መተዓሻሸዊ ከይከውን ኢለ እየ’ሞ ይቕረታ፡
- ስማዕ እስከ እቲ ተስፋኸ ናይመን ኮይኑ
- ኣየ ንስኻ ዕላልካ “ተፈታሕካዮስ ቁጻር ጥራይ” ኮይኑኒ
- ዎ! እዚ እሞ ተስፋ ዝህብ ስለ ዝኾነ ብዋዛ ንሪኦ ኣይኮነን
- ግደፎንዶ፡ ብመሰረቱ እዚ መንግስቲ ትብልዎ ዘለኹም ጉጅለ ደሞዝ ክውስኽ ዓቕሚ’ውን የሉን
- ኣንታ ብዛዕባ ገንዘብ ዲኻ
- እወ እንታይ ሸይጡ እዩ ገንዘብ ከምጽእ
- ግደፎንዶ ኣብ መዓልቲ ክንደይ ኩንታል ወርቂ ድዩ ዝሸይጥ ዘሎ
- ወይ ጉድ ኣብ መዓልቲ ኩንታላት ደኣ፡ ዕፉን ድዩ ወይ ዳጉሻ። ወርቆዶ ኣይኮነን
- ቅድምሞ ንብለካሞ ስምዓና
- ሰሚዐካ እንድየ፡ ንሱ ጥራይ ኣይኮነን ዓቕሚ ተዝህልዎ እውን እዚ ጉጅለኻ ንሰራሕተኛ ዝርህርህ ኣይኮነን
- እዚ እሞ ካልእ እዩ ንሃገርካን መንግስትኻን ኣሕሊፍካ ምሃብ ጽቡቕ ኣይኮነን
- ዝብለካ ዘለኹ ካብ በሃሊኡስ ደጋሚኡ ድዩ ዝበሃል። ኣዚ ዝቃወሞ ዘለኹ ጉጅለን ሃገርን እንታይ ኣራኺብዎም?
- መሲልካ እንታይ ከተምጽእ ኢኻ ደሊኻ?
- ተስተውዕል ዲኻ ሰራሕተኛ ኤርትራ እኮ ክሳብ ሎሚ ጡረታ የብሉን
- ግደፍንዶ ንድሕሪት እንዳተመለስካ ዘረባ ኣይተግፍሓልና
- ስማዕ ደኣ ንስኻኮ እዚ መንግስትኻ ሃብታም እዩ ኢኻ ትብለኒ ዘለኻ። እሞ ኣብ ወጻኢ ብናይ ካልኦት ጸጋ እንዳተጠቐምካ
- እወ መንግስትና ሃብታም እዩ። ብዘረባ በዓል ወያነን ኣሚሪካን ኣይትተዓሾ እየ ዝብለካ ዘለኹ።
- ሕራይ እቲ ናይ ውያነን ኣሜሪካን ግደፎ ዘይመላዕልትኻ ኣይተልዕል እሞ፡ ህዝብናኸ ከመይ ይነብር ኣሎ?
- ስማዕ ስማዕ ድኽነት፡ ስእነትን ዕርቃንን ኣብ ኩሉ ዘሎ እዩ
- ግርም በል ወስኽ ከም ድላይካ ክሰምዓካ
- ሓቀይ እየ ኣብ ኣሜሪካ እውን’ኮ ጸሞም ዝሓድሩ ኣለዉ
- ግደፍ እሞ ላዕሊላዕሊ ኣይትኺድ
- ታይደኣ ክገብር ምዝራብ ከሊእካኒ
- ስማዕ ሎሚ ኣብ ኤርትራ ሕክምና የለን፡ ቀለብ የለን፡ ፍትሒ የለን፡ መሰል የለን፡
- ኣየ ጉድ እዚ ደኣ ናይ ጸላእቲ ዕላል እንድዩ
- ደሓን ንስኻ ፈታዊ መንግስቲ እንዲኻ፡ ናይ ፈተውቲ ዕላል ከዓ ንገረና፡ ጉዳይ ሕክምና፡ ትምህርቲ፡ መግቢ ኣብ ኤርትራ ከመይ እዩ ዘሎ?
- ዎ! ግደፎ በዚ ኣይንረዳዳእን ኢና። ናብ ካልእ ጉዳይና ንኺድ። ንስኻ ከም ቀደምካ ኣይኮንካን ገለ ሰባት ረኺበሙኻ ኣለዉ።
- ናይ ሰባት ምርካብ ጉዳይ ግደፎ። ንስኻኸ ኣብ ኤርትራ ጾሞም ዝሓድሩ ቤተሰብ የብልካን ማለት ድዩ?
- እዋእ፡ ጾምካ ምሕዳር ጥራይ ኣይኮነን ኣብ መንገዲ ስደት ኣብ ፈቐዶ ባሕሪ ዝጠሓሉ ቤተሰብሲ’ውን ኣለዉና እንድዮም። እንታይ’ሞ ይግበር ግዜ ዘምጸኦ ጸገም ኮይኑ
- ደሓን ነቶም ስደርኦም ደኣ መን ዋጋ ሂብዎም። ነቲ ሰብኣይ ንምሕጓስ ነቲ ዘጋጠሞም ጸገም ሽለል ኢልኩም፡ ነቶም ግዳያት ፈተውቲ ነብሶም ኢልኩምዎም እንዲኹም። ይኹነልኩም ሓደ ኣዋን ግዜ ከም ዝፋረዱኩም ግና ኣይትረስዕ።
- ስማዕ እባ ብዛዕባ’ዚ ጉዳይ ሃገና ደሓን ኣፍልጦ ዘለካ ኢኻ ትመስል። ደሓር ኣይተማርር። ብዛዕባዚ ንዛረበሉ ዘለና ጉዳያት ዕሙቕ ዝበለ ኣፍልጦ እንተልዩካ ግና ንገረና። ኣነ ብስምዒት እየ ዝዛረብ ዘለኹ እምበር ዝፈልጦ የብለይን። ነዚ ኣገቀራርባይ ካብ ፍቕሪ ኤርትራ ሓሊፍካ ምስ ካልእ ከይተተኣሳስሮ። ስለቲ ድፍረተይ ከዓ ኣዋእ ይቕረታ ኣቖጢዐካ ከይከውን’
- እዋእ ኣነ ካባኻ ንላዕሊ ዝፈልጦ የብለይን። ጉዳይ ሃገርን ዝብን ከዓ ንኹላትና ማዕረ እዩ ዝብጸሓና። እንተኾነ እቲ ዝረአ ክንሓብኦ ኣይግበኣናን’ዩ። ሎሚ ህዝብና ኣብ ዓዲ ፍትሒ ስኢኑ ጸቢብዎ ኣሎ። ካልእስ ይትረፍ ዝተኣስረ ቤተሰብካ’ኳ ኣበየናይ ቦታ ተእሲሩ ከም ዘሎ ዘይትፈልጠሉ ኩነታት’ዩ ዘሎ። መን ኣሎ ኣብ ቤት ፍርዲ ቀሪቡ ክምጉት እሞ ከም ሓቁ ክወጽእ ዕድል ዝተዋህቦ ክሱሱ? መን ኣሎ መሰለይ ተጋሂሱ ኢሉ ቅሬታኡ ከስምዕ ዝተፈቕደሉ? መን ኣሎ ክመሃር ደልዩ ናይ ምምሃር ዕድል ዝረኸበ? መን ኣሎ ሓሚሙ ግቡእ ሕካምና ዝረኸበ? መድሃኒት ተኣዚዝሉ መድሃኒት ብገንዘቡ ክገዝእ ዝኸኣለኸ? ጉዳይ ስደት፡ ጉዳይ ምዕጻው ዩኒቨርስቲ፡ ጉዳይ ደረት ዘየብሉ ዕስክርና፡ ጉዳይ ስራሕ ኣልቦልቦነት፡ ጉዳይ ስእነት ሰላምን ምድኻም ሓድነት ህዝብን እኮ ሎሚ ኣብ ኤርትራ ኣይኮነንዶ ንዓና ንዓለም’ውን ኣዘራራቢ’ዩ ኮይኑ ዘሎ። እዝስ የደቅስዶ?
- ኣዋእ እሞ ንሕና ነዚ ትብሎ ዘለኻ ጸገማት ንምፍታሕ እንታይ ክንገብሮ ንኽእል ጉዳይ ኣሎ
- ንሱስ ግደፎ ድሌትን ርትዓውነትን እንተዝህሉ፡ ኣነ ኮነ ንስኻ ክንገብሮ ዝግበኣና ብዙሕ ነይሩ። እንተተቢዕና ጸግምና እውን መፍትሒ ዘይርከቦ ኣይኮነን።
- እስኪ ኣነጺርካ ንገረኒ ብዛነብሰይ እንታይ ክገብር እኽእል?
- ኩሉ ካልእ ግደፎ ብመጀምርያ ነታ ሕልናኻ ኣብ ኤርትራ ብሰንኪ ጉጅለ ህግደፍ ህዝብና ኣብ ኣዝዩ ኣጸጋሚ ኩነታት ከም ዘሎን ህጹጽ መፍትሒ ከም ዝድልዮን እመን። እቲ ቀንዲ እዚ እዩ። ነቲ ሃገርናን ህዝብናን ዘዕኑ ዘሎ ጉጅለ ህግደፍ ፖሊሲኡን ብወግዒ ኮንኖም። እቲ ድሕሪኡ ዝመጽእ ናይ ዓቕሚ ጉዳይ እዩ። ቅድሚ ኩሉ ነቲ ኣብ ሃገርና ዘሎ ኩነታት ከምቲ ዘለዎ ከተንብቦ ድፈረትን ብቕዓትን ይሃልኻ።
- በል ናይ ኩራ ዘረባ ግደፎ እሞ እንደጋና ሕጂ’ውን ኣነ ህዝበይ ንምክሓስ እንታይ እየ ክገብር ዝግበኣኒ?
- ክትገብሮ ዝግበኣካ ብዙሕ ነገራት ኣሎ። ግና ድማ ቀሊል እዩ።
- ግደፎንዶ እቲ ከም ርዱእ ትወስዶ ዘለኻ ብዙሕ። ኣነ ከማኻ ተመኩሮ የብለይን ሕጂ ኣብዛ ዘለኹዋ ሃገር ኮይነ ነቲ ኣብታ መከረኛ ሃገርና ዘሎ ኩነታት ንምቕያር እንታይ ክሕግዝ እኽእል?
- ኣጆኻ እቲ ሎሚ ካባኻ ዝድለ ብዙሕ ኣይኮነን ድፍረትን ፍትሓውነትን ጥራይ እዩ ዘድሊ
- ጽቡቕ ኣጀማምራኻስ ጽቡቕ ይመስል። እስኪ ቀጽለለይ
- ስምዓኒ ደኣ፡ ቅድሚ ኩሉ ኣብ ኤርትራ ወጽዓ ከም ዘሎ እመን። ከምዚ ኣነን ንስኻን ኣብዚ ብናይዘን ንነብረለን ሃገራት ደሞክራሲያዊ ጸጋ ንጥቀም ዘለና ህዝብና ከም ዝብህግ ከዓ ተረዳእ።
- ኣንታ ኣሕጽረለይንዶ
- ደሓን ጽናሕ ደኣ እቲ ዕላል ጀሚርናዮ እንዲና። እዚ ጉጅለዚ ከይተወገደ ኣብ ሃገርና ቅሳነት ከም ዘይህሉ ተረዳእ። እዚ ጉጅለ እንተ ተወጊዱ ኤርትራ ዋና ክትስእን እያ ካብ ዝብል ግጉይ ግንዛበ ውጻእ።
- ወይ ጉድ ለካ ዘይምፍላጥ ጸገምዩ።
- ጽናሕ ደኣ ዝጀምርናዮ ክንውደኦ ኢና። ርግጸኛ ኣይኮንኩን ምናልባት ከም’ዞም ገሊኦም ኣብ ዓዲ ገዛ ይህልወካ። ኣነ እውን ብዓቕመይ ንእሽቶ ገዛ ኣላትኒ። እንተኾነ እቲ ጉጅለ ምሳይ ተተባኢሱ ነታ ገዛይ ተሰኪሙ ኣይወስዳን እዩ። መሬት ምስ ወገሓ ኣብታ ዘላታ ክትጸንሓኒ እያ።
- ኣንታ ንሱ ጥራይ ኣይኮነን እቲ ጸገም
- ወይ ጉድ መዓስ ጠፊኡኒ፡ ካብ ሓጐስን ሓዘንን ቤተሰበይ ክፍለ እየ ዝብል ስግኣት ከም ዘሎ’ውን እፈልጥ እየ። ክልተ ዓይኒ ርኢኻ ዝኸውን ኣይኮነን። ምእንቲ ፍትሒ ካብ ከምዚ ዓይነት ቤተሰባዊ ጉዳያት ምትራፍ ክትቅበሎ እዩ ዝግበኣካ። ኣብ ቀብሪ ኬድካ ተምልሶ የለን ተሪፍካ ዝተርፍ ከዓ የለን። እስኪ ኣስተውዕል ኣሕዋትካን ኣሓትካን ዝኸፈልዎ መስዋእትን ካብ ከምዚ ዓይነት ማሕበራዊ ጉዳያት ምትራፍን ኣየናይ ይኸብድ።
- በልበል ንሎሚ ይኣኽለኒ ብዙሕ ቁምነግር ነጊርካኒ። ሕጂ ከምዚ ክገብር እየ ክብለካ ኣይክእልን እየ። ኣብ መጻኢ ዕላልና ከዓ ኣብ ሓደ ነጥቢ ንበጽሕ ንኸውን።
- ስማዕ ደኣ ሓቅኻ እዚ ጉዳይ ተባዕ ውሳነ ዘድልዮ እዩ። ንሱ ድማ ብታህዋኽ ዝኸውን ኣይኮነን። ግና ኣስተውዕል። ጉዳይ ህዝብናን ሃገርናን ግዜ ዝህብ ኣይኮነን። ናይ ጽባሕ ታሪኽና ሎሚ ብእንገብሮ’ዩ ዝስራሕ። ሎሚ ምስ ርኢቶ እዚ ጉጅለ ተሰሊፍና ጽባሕ ርእስኻ ተድንነሉ ከይከውን ኣስተውዕል። ሕሰበሉ። ንመጻኢ ከዓ ኣይንረሓሓቕ።
- ጽናሕ ደኣ “ዘየደቅስ ነጊሮምኻስ ድቅስ ይሓድሩ” ድዩ ዝበሃል፡ ኣነ በይነይ ዝገብሮ ነገር የብለይ። በዚ ዝገለጽካለይኮ ሓርቢቱኒ እዩ ዘሎ። እቲ ምስ’ዞም ኣብ ዓድና ዘለዉ ምብኣስስ ሓቅኻ ዝሕሸሉ መኾነ። ካብ ስኽፍታኳ ነጻ መወጻእና። ክሳብ ሎሚ ምኽንያታት እንዳፈጠሩ ጉልበትናን ንብረትናን ዘማሰኑንና እውን ቀሊል ኣይኮነን። በቲ ክልተ ካብ ሚእቲ ዝብልዎ ዘይፍትሓዊ ክፍሊትስ መዓስ ቀሲንና። እንተኾነ እቲ ክትነግረኒ ዝጸንሕካ ምስቶም ተቓወምቲ ኩን ማለትካ እንድዩ ምስ መነኦም እየ እሞ ክኸውን። ንስኻ’ኳ ከምዚ ኣዘራርባኻ ምስ ገሊኦም ከም ዘለኻ ገሚተ ኣለኹ። ከምዚ ዕላልካ ከዓ ምስ ብሱል ውድብ ዘለኻ ኮይኑ እዩ ዝርደኣኒ። ስለዚ ኣነ እውን ምሳኻ ተተሰራዕኩ ከመይ ትርእዮ?
- እዚኣ ናይ ውሳነ ጉዳይ እያ። ኣነ ካባኻ ዝሓብኦ ኣይኮነን። ኣባል ሰልፊ ደሞክራሲ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ዝበሃል ሰልፊ እየ።
- ንሱኸ መራሕቱ በዓል መን ይበሃሉ?
- እቲ ጸገም ካብዚ እዩ ዝጅምር። ክትሓቶ ዝግበኣካ ናይቲ ሰልፊ መራሕቲ ዘይኮነስ መትከላቱ ኣብ ህልውን መጻእን ኤርትራ እዩ።
- በል ሕራይ ሓወይ ካብ መትከላት ናይቲ ሎሚ ናትካ ጽባሕ ድማ ናይ ክልቴና ዝኸውን ሰልፊ ሓደሓደ ግለጸለይ እሞ ንሎሚ ዕላልና ንወድእ በጃኻ። ዘይተሓስበ ብዙሕ ኣዕሊልና ሕጂ ቆጸራ ስለ ዘለኒ ሰብየ ዘጸቢ ዘለኹ።
- ሓቅኻ፡ እንኳዕ ደኣ ነዚ ኣብቀዓካ እምበር እዚ ትሓቶ ዘለኻ መትከላትስ ብደረጃ ጽሑፍ’ውን ከምጸካልካ እየ። ብተሃዋኽ ዘይኮነስ ኣጽኒዕካ ትኣትዎ እዩ። ክሳብ ሽዑ ግና እዚ ኣባሉ ክትከውን ትመርጾ ዘለኻ ኤርትራዊ ሰልፊ፡ ህልዊ ጉጅለ ህግደፍ ክውገድ ኣለዎ፡ ሓድነት ህዝብን መሬትን ኤርትራ ክዕቆብ ኣለዎ። ኣብ ኤርትራ ሃይማኖት ናይ ግሊ እዩ ሃገርን መንግስትን ግና ናይ ሓባር እዮም ንዝብል እምነት ይጸቕጠሉ፡ መጻኢ መንግስቲ ኤርትራ ኣብ ብዝሕነት ብዝተመስረተ ሕገመንግስታዊ ስርዓት ክምራሕ ኣለዎ ኢሉ’ዩ ዝኣምን።
- እዚኣስ ኣይክትሓስመንን እያ ።
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Dr. Daniel Rezene and Activist Meron Estifanos in Oakland
Written by EPDP Bay Area
“Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are,”
Gene Sharp
Over 150 Eritreans from all walks of life, converged into down town Oakland, California, to listen to Dr. Daniel Rezene and Maron Estifanos on their experience on UN Commission of Inquiry, Geneva demonstration, and human traffickers. The meeting was hosted by Bay Area Eritreans for Democratic Change (BAEDC aka DAERO).
Dr. Daniel took the stage first with his confident and eloquent speech on his experience with Commission of Inquiry (COI) and the Geneva demonstration. He articulated the background of the effort taken by many Eritreans to the UN Human Rights Commission in the beginning of the twenty first century. He also spoke in detail about the COI process and how we get to where are now. Over six hundred well documented cases were collected from Eritrean citizens on the abuses that heaped to them by the repressive government. The commission will report its final findings in June of 2016, and he reminded to the audience that, what the COI is doing is an added value to our core fight against injustice. He said we shouldn’t stop fighting or depend only on the COI work.
The Geneva demonstration is a chapter that all opposition camp around the globe should take a lesson. The Dr. detailed on the planning and execution aspect of the project. He admitted it had a shaky start at first, and the committee restarted the whole process again, which helped them to reap a very successful outcome. It is very encouraging to learn, all their meeting was done via technology (paltalk etc.). The Dr. suggested formidable and permanent committees are needed for tangible results. He also call on attendees to participate in the upcoming New York demonstration.
Meron Estifanos on her part spoke very eloquently and emotionally on the Eritrean people’s plight. She also spoke in detail about the encounters they face to reach their dream destination. The traffickers lured their prey by offering zero down payment until Libya. She said the traffickers are so bold that they move money in bulk of tenth of thousands from one bank to the other without any concern. They even boast that they have agents all over the world; Asmara, USA, Canada, Europe, Saudi, etc. She spoke about specifics that happened in Sinai by the Bedouin, in track to Libya by ISIS and Chadian squads, and in the last two months pirates in the Mediterranean.
Both Dr. Daniel and Meron reminded the audience to focus on the root cause of all the issue. It is the sitting dictatorship in Asmara that is causing the journey to hell. Their message was to put aside all our differences and to focus only on toppling the evil system in Asmara.
It is worth mentioning also, Dr. Daniel and Meron explained the recent development on the conflict between them and sister Elsa Chirum. They said they have differences on work related issues, and they brought it to the surface after their effort failed to alter the situation. They reflected their high regard and respect for her great work that she has done, and they are ready at anytime to hash their issue with her and focus on their priority.
In conclusion, the audience had a chance to ask questions and answers were given in detail. The BAEDC board did very good job in managing the logistics of the meeting. Both guests expressed their impression of the quantity and quality of the audience.
ንሰበነቶምን ሞያዊ እምነቶምን ክብሉ ብዙሓት ሊቃውንቲ ተሳቕዮምን ተዋሪዶምን እዮም። ኣብ ግዜ በዓል ጋሊለዮ ዝነበረ ኩነታት ምስቲ ሃይማኖት ተኣሳሲሩ ዝጐዓዝ ዝነበረ መንግስቲ ንፍልስፍና ከም ቀንዲ ተጻይ ሃይማኖት ይቚጸር ነበረ። እዚ ከኣ ስነፍልጠት ኣንጻር መንፈሳውን ጸረ ኣምላኽን ምዃኑ በቶም ሽዑ ዝነበሩ መራሕቲ ሃይሞኖት ክብ ዝበለ ጐስጓስ የካይዱን የስተምህሩን ነይሮም። እዚ ጥራሕ ዘይኮነስ ክሳብ ናይ ሞት ፍርዲ እውን ይብይኑሎም ነይሮም። ጋሊለዮ ጋሊለይ ነቲ መጽሓፍ ቅዱስ ጸሓይ ኣብ ዙርያ መሬት ትዘውር ዝብሎ “ምስ ስነፍልጠታዊ ክትዕ ዘይዛመድ እዩ” ብምባሉን ነቲ ኮፐርኒካስ መሬት ኣብ ዙራያ ጸሓይ ትዘውር ንዘበሎ ደጊፉ ዝጸሓፎ ጥራሕ ንምሉእ ዕድሜኡ ናይ ገዛ እሱር ኮይኑ ንኽነብር ተፈርደ። ብዘይካዚ እውን ራዘስ ዝተባህለ ኢራናዊ ኣብ መንጎ 860 ክሳብ 932 ዝነበረ ሊቅ እምነታዊ ድርቅና ውግእን ጽልእን እዩ ዝወልድ ብዝብል እምነቱ ብዙሕ ተሳቕዩ’ዩ።
ኣብ ግዜና እንተኾነ እውን ብቐጥታ ይኹን ብተዘዋዋሪ ንስነ-ፍልጠት ናይ ምንጻግን ዕሽሽ ኢልካ ብምሕላፍን ናትካ ፍልስፍና ብምምጻእ ንምትካእ ዝሕልኑ ብዙሓት ኢዮም። ንኣብነት ‘’ብዘይ ህላዌ ሰልፍታት ድሞክራሲ ውሕስነት የብሉን” ዝብል ኣሎ። ነዚ ብኣንጻሩ ብምትርጓም፥ ውድብ፡ ሰልፊ፥ ውደባ ኣየድልን እዩ ዝብሉ ኣለዉ። ንስነ-ፍልጠት ወጊድካ፥ ንሓቂ ሓቂ ክበሃል ኣብዘይከኣለሉ ደረጃ እንተበጺሕካ ወጻኢ ካብ ቅንዕና ትኸይድ እሞ ነቲ ቅኑዕ ብጌጋ፥ ነቲ ጌጋ ከኣ ብቅኑዕ ክትትርጉሞ ትብገስ። ንሓቂ ተኸቲሉ ዘይጎዓዝ ህዝቢ ነቲ ስነ-ፍልጠት ንጎኒ ገዲፉ ኩነታት ፊን ብዝበሎ እዩ ገምጋም ዝህብን ሚዛን ዘንብርን። እዚ ከኣ ንነፍሱ ሓራ ክውጸኣ ኣብዘይክእለሉ ደርጃ ስለ ዘእትዎ ናጻ ክኸውን ዘለዎ ባህግን፥ ንኽስልጥን ዘለዎ ዕግበትን ኣወሃሂዱ ከተግብሮ ፈጺሙ ኣይክእልን። ሓደ ካብኡ ኣብ መንጎ ጐነጻውን ዘይጎነጻውን ኣገባብ ቃልሲ ብዝምልከት ብዙሕ እኳ እንተተጻሕፈን እንተተባህለን፥ ኣብ ዝተወሰኑ ወገናት፡ ነቲ ስነ-ፍልጠታዊ ሸነኹ ሓንጎፋይ ኢልካ ናይ ምቕባል ድሌት ግን ጌና ዓቐበት እዩ ኮይኑ ዘሎ።
ጨቆንቲ ስርዓታት ካብ ምንታይ ባህሪ ተበጊሶም እዮም ዝጭቁኑ ክንመራመረሉ ዘሎና ጉዳይ እዩ። ጨቆንቲ ስርዓታት ኣብ ስነፍልጠት እምነት ስለዘይብሎም፥ ንናጽነት፡ ዲሞክራስን፡ መሰል ደቂ-ሰባትን ኣብ ግብሪ ክውዕል ፈጺሞም ድሌት የብሎምን። በዚ ዝኣክል ኩሉ ግዜ ኣገዳስነት ናይ ሰባት ብሰላም ራህዋን ምንባር ኣብ ኣእምሮኦም ከቶ የለን።። ካብዚ ዝነቐለ ናብ ውልቀ ረብሓ ብምድሃብ እታ ረብሓኦም ከይትጠፍእ ወርትግ ኣብ ጎነጽን ውግእን ወረ ውግእን ተሓቢኦም ክነብሩ እዮም ዝጽዕሩ። ኣብ ኣእምሮ መለኽቲ እምበኣር፥ ሓፈሻዊ ረብሓ ህዝቢ ዝብል ኣምር ፈጺሙ ስለዘየለ ብውሑዳት ተገልገልቲ ኣቢሎም ንብዙሓት ክደቚሱ፡ ክቐትሉን ክኣስሩን ከጨንቑን ይርከቡ።
እዋኑ እዋን ፍትሒ፥ መሰል፥ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ምሕደራ፥ ማዕርነት፥ ኣሳታፍነት እምበር ምፍልላይ፥ ምዕብላል፥ ኣንነት … ወዘተ ኣይኮነን። ነዚ ፍትሕን መሰልን ዲሞክራሲያዊ ምሕደራን፥ ብስነ-ፍልጠት ዝተሰነየ ውሑስ ዝገብር እቲ ዘይጎነጻዊ ወይ ከኣ ሰለማዊ ኣገባብ ኣቢልካ እዩ ዝረጋገጽ። ምኽንያቱ ብብረት ዝምጽእ ዋላ እኳ ነቲ ጨቋንን መላኽን ስርዓት ክድምስስ እንተኸኣለ፥ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ምሕደራ ዝተኸለ ግን ዳርጋ የለን ክበሃል ይከኣል። ብሓይሊ ዝመጽእ ህውከት፥ ጥሜት፥ ድንቁርና፥ ምፍልላይ፥ ሕነ ምፍዳይ ወዘተ እምበር ፍትሒ ቅሳነት ማዕርነት ዝብላ ኣብ መዝገበ ቃላት ወተሃደራዊ ኣተሓሳስባ ይኹን ኣብ ጐነጻዊ ኣምር ፈጺመን የለዋን። ባህርያት ሓደ ስርዓት ካብ ዝውስኑ መለክዕታት ሓደ እቲ ኣመጻጽእኡ’ዩ ተተባህ’ውን ምግናን ኣይኮነን።
መላኺ ስርዓት ከምቲ ኣቐዲሙ ዝተገልጸ ኣብ ጐንጽን፥ ህውከትን ራዕድን’ዩ ስልጣኑ ከጣጥሕ ዝኽእል። ነዚ ንምግባር ከኣ ኣሎ ዝበሃል እከይ ተግባራት ጭቆናን፡ ግፍዕን፡ ዓዛብን መከራን፡ ማእሰርትን መቕተልትን ቀንዲ መሳርሒታቱን ዕላምኡን ኢየን። ስለዚ፡ ኣብ ስነ-ፍልጠት ዝኣምን፥ ንስናይ፡ ቅኑዕ ህዝባዊ ምሕደራን ምስ ምሉእ መሰል ደቂ ሰባት ዘውሕስን ስርዓት ብጐነጻዊ ኣተሓሳስባ ክትግበር እዩ ማለት ዘበት እዩ።
ገለ ገለ ሰባት ወይ እውን ኣባላት ውድባት ኩለ-መዳያዊ ኣገባብ ቃልሲ ኢና ነካይድ። በዚ መሰረት እዚ ከኣ ሰራዊትና ካብቲ ውድባዊ ፖለቲካዊ መደብ ዕዮ ዝተዓጥቀ እዩ ክብሉ ይስምዑ። እዚ ግን ንዝመጽእ ውጽኢት ሰራዊት ዝኾነት ትኹን ውድብ ካብ ናይ ጐነጻዊ ኣተሓሳስባ ወጻኢ ከኸውን ኣይክእልን እዩ። ከመይሲ በትርን ካሮትን ክኽውን እዩ እቲ ጉዳይ። ርሑቕ ከይከድና ሰራዊት ደቡብ ሱዳን ኣብ ትሕቲ ከመይ ዝበለ ፖለቲካዊ መደብ ዕዮ ዘገልግል ከምዝነበረ ኩልና ንርደኦ እዩ። ኣብ መወዳእታ እታ ሃገር ናጽነታ ምሰረኸበት ግን፡ እቲ ሰራዊት፥በቲ ፖለቲካዊ መድብ ዕዮ ኣይተገዝአን። እነሆ ከኣ ኣብ ነሓድሕዱ ብዓሌት ተፈላልዩ ክንደይ ነብሳት ይሃልቃ ኣለዋ፥ እታ ሃገር እውን ቅሳነት ስኢና ኣላ።
ሓደ ሰራዊት ሃገራዊ ሓይሊ ወይ ከኣ ብፖለቲካ ዝተዓጥቀ ዝበሃል ኣብ ትሕቲ ሓደ ኩሉ ህዝቢ ዝኣምነሉ ቅዋም ምስ ጸደቐ ዝምስረት፡ ንህዝቡን ነቲ ቅዋምን ሕጊ ተኸቲሉ ዝከላኸል ምስዝኸውን እዩ። ካብዚ ሓሊፉ ዘይጥርኑፍ ሰራዊትን፥ ዝተፈላለየ ፖለቲካዊ ራእይ ዘለዎ ተቓውሞታትን ዝምስረት ሰራዊት ካብ ጠቕሙ ጉድኣቱ ይበዝሕ። ምስናይ እዚ ኩሉ ግዜ እቲ ዝምስረት ምንቅስቓስ ሰናይ ስነ-ምግባርን፥ ስነስርዓትን ዘይብሉ ፖለቲካ ምስ ዝኸውን ድማ፡ ዝኸፍአ ኩነታት እዩ ዝፈጥር። ሓደ ካብኡ ኣብ ነንሓድሕዱ ዝመናጨትን፥ “ኣነ ይበልጽ” ኣብ ዝብል ሃናጺ ዘይኮነ ውድድርን ይጥሕል እሞ ነቲ ጨቋኒ ስርዓት ኣብ ምልጋስ ዓቕምታቱ ኣወሃሂዱ ናይ ምግጣም ዘለዎ ተኽእሎ ምህሙን ይገብሮ።
ጉዳይ መለኽቲ ናይ ዝኸድዎ ጉዕዞ፥ ንኹልና ብሩህ ከም ምዃኑ መጠን፡ ብመንጽር እቲ ደላይ ለውጢኸ ኣብ ምንታይ ሃዋህው ይርከብ ኢልካ ምሕሳብ ኣገዳሲ እዩ። ብመሰረቱ ደላይ ለውጢ ከበሃል ከሎ እንታይ ማለት እዩ? ንዝብል ሕቶ ብግቡእ ክምለስ ይግባኦ። ደላይ ለውጢ ከበሃል ከሎ ካብቲ ህልዊ ኣገባብ ምሕደራ ናብ ዝሓሸ ምሕደራ፥ ከምኡ እውን እቲ ዝትከል ስርዓት ንኹሉ ብማዕረ ዝዳኒ፥ ናይ ህዝቢ መንግስቲ ንክኽውንን ማለት እዩ። እዚ እንተደኣ ኮይኑ እቲ ትርጉሙ ድማ፡ካብ ነንሓድሕድካ ናይ ምርሕሓቕን ጸለመን ናጻ ክኸውን ከምዘለዎ ናይ ግድን እዩ። ካብኡ ሓሊፉ እቲ መላኺ ዝጥቀመሉ ኣገባብ ዝኽተል እንተኾይኑ እቲ ውጽኢት እውን ካብቲ ምልኪ ዝሓሸ ክኸውን ከምዘይክእል እዩ ዝእምት።
መላኺ ስርዓት እምበኣር ኣብ ጐነጽ ከምዝኣምን ርኢና ኣሎና። ምኽንያቱ ኣብ ስነ-ፍልጠት ሰለዘይኣምን እዩ። ስለዚ፡ ዝኾነ ይኹን ብስነፍልጠት ዘይተመስረተ ጉዳይ፡ ኩሉ ግዜ ናብ ምልካዊ ኣተሓሳስባ እዩ ዘምርሕ። ክሳብ ሎሚ ዝተወሰኑ ወገናት ነቲ ስነፍልጠት ዝብል ኣምር ጎስዮም ክኸዱ ኢኻ ትርኢ። ንሱ ድማ ፍትሒ፡ ዲሞክራስን፡ ናጽነትን በየናይ ኣገባብ ይመጻ ንዝብል ኣምር እዞም ውሱናት ወገናትሰብ ብሓይሊ ኣቢሉ እዮም ዝብልሉ።
ልክዕ እዩ ጐነጽን ዘይጐነጽን ኣብ መድረኽ ካብ ምልኪ ናብ ዲሞክራሲ ፍልይ ዝበለ ኣምር ከምዘለዎ ክሰሓት የብሉን። ክልቲኡ ከም ኣገባብ ክምረጽ ዘለዎ እዩ። ይኹን እምበር ኣብ መንጎ ካብ ምልኪ ናብ ዲሞክርስን፥ ካብ ጎበጣዊ መግዛእቲ ናብ ናጽነትን ዘሎ ፍልልይ ምግንዛብ የድሊ። ስለዚ እቲ መድረኽ ዝጠልቦ ኣገባብ ከመይ ህዝቢ ናብቲ ንሱ ዝደልዮ ስርዓተ ምሕደራን፥ ንሱ ዝቆጻጸሮ መንግስትን ክምስርት ይኽእል ዝብል ግንዛበ እዩ ክገዝኣና ዘለዎ። እዚ ከኣ እቲ ክምረጽ ዘለዎ ኣገባብ ዘይጎነጻዊ ወይ እውን ናይ ህዝባዊ ናዕቢ ኣገባብ ኣቀላልሳ እዩ። ስለምንታይ ንዝብል ሕቶ ምምላስ ከድሊ እዩ። ንሱ ድማ ኣብ መንጎ እዘን ክልተ ኣገባባት ዘሎ ፍልልያት ብምግንዛብ ጥራሕ ኢና ክንርደኦን ክንበጽሖን ንኽእል እሞ፥ እስከ እቲ ፍልልያቱን ዝራኸበሉን ነጥብታት ርኢና ምስ ህልዊ ኩነታት ህዝብና ኣየናዮም ይመዝን ኣንፈት ክህበና ይኽእል እዩ።
ጐነጻው (ዓመጻዊ) | ዘይጐነጻዊ (ሰላማዊ) |
ኣገባብ ቃልሲ እዩ | ኣገባብ ቃልሲ እዩ |
ኣብ ሓይሊ ብረትን ዓመጽን ይመርኰስ | ኣብ ህዝባዊ ኣብያን ናዕብን ይምርኰስ |
ብረት ውሑዳት እዮም ዝሕዝዎ | እምብታን ናዕብን ግና መላእ ህዝቢ እዩ ዝሳተፎ |
ኣብ ሕነ ምፍዳይ የድህብ | ኣብ ቅኑዕ ህዝባዊ ፍታሕ የድህብ |
ብጐነጽ ዝረኽቦ ውጽኢት ኣቢሉ ኣብ ጸቢብ ክሊ ይጉስጉስ | ህዝቢ ብሓባር ንዝረብሓሉ ውጽኢት ባዕሉ ይለዓል |
ብዝሒ ሰብኣዊ ጉለብትን ንዋትን ክሳራ ኣለዎ | ውሑድ ሰባኣዊ ጉልበትን ንዋትን ይሓትት |
ቀጻሊ ሕዱር ጐነጽ ይወልድ | ቀጻሊ ዘተኣማምን ሰላም ይወልድ |
ነዊሕ ግዜ ይወስድ | ሓጽር ግዜ ይወስድ |
ጐነጽን ካልእ ቂምን ምልክን ይወልድ | ቀጻልን ዝተኣማምንን ፍትሕን ሰላምን የንጽፍ |
ዲሞክራሲያዊ ስርዓት ምትካል ኣየውሕስን | ዲሞክራሲያዊ ስርዓት ናይ ምትካል ልዑል ውሕስነት ይህብ |
ስልጣን ብሰላም ኣየረክብን | ስልጣን ብሰላም ናይ ምትሕልላፍ ዝሰፈሐ ዕድል ኣለዎ |
ስልጣን ዋንኡ እቲ ብሓይሊ ዝመጸ ውሱን ክፍሊ እዩ | ስልጣን ዋንኡ እቲ ለውጢ ዘምጸአ መላእ ህዝቢ እዩ |
ስርዓት ምቕያር ብዘይ ሓቀኛ ዲሞክራሲ ለውጢ | ስርዓት ምቕያር ምስ ሓቀኛ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ለውጢ |
ናይ ደቂ ሰባት ኣንነት የለዓዕል | ናይ ሓባራዊ ህዝቢ ማዕርነትን የበራብር |
ናይ ሓጺር ረብሓ ወይ መኽሰብ እዩ | ንነዊሕ ዝጠመተን ቀጻሊ ሓባራዊ መኽሰብ እዩ |
እዚ ብመጠኑ እቲ ረብሓን ጸረ-ረብሓን ናይ ክልቲኡ ብምውድዳር ኣየናይ እዩ እቲ ቀጻሊ ቅኑዕ ምሕደራ ዘውሕስን፥ ንህዝቢ ኤርትራ ዝዋጽእን ንምግማት እንጽገም ኣይመስለንን። ደሓር ከኣ እቲ ጉዳይ ስርዓት ንምቕያር ጥራሕ ወይ ናይ ስርዓት ለወጢ ምስ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ትካላት ዝስዕብ ዲዩ ኣይኮነን እውን ክንመራመረሉ ዕድል ይህበና። ምኽንያቱ ስልጣን ምስ ስኒት ኣልቦን፥ ስልጣን ምስ ስኒትን ኣዝዩ ዝፈላለ ስለዝኾነ። ስልጣን ምስ ስኒት ኣልቦ፥ ፍትሒ፡ ቅሳነት ፈጺሙ የለን። ስልጣን ምስ ስኒት ግና ሓልዮት፡ማዕርነት፡ፍትሒ፡ምምቕራሕ፡ ምክብባርን ምትእምማን ይርከብ።
ድራር መንታይ
ኣባላት ማእከላይ ባይቶ ነቲ ተፈጢሩ ዘሎ ሽግርን ፍትሑን ዝሓዘ ደብዳቤ ናብ ፕረሲደንት ይልእኹ ።
Written by ክብሮም ግረነትኣብ ውሽትን ኣብ ውጻእን ዝነበር ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ቅድም ናጻነት ክውን ንምግባር ፣ ውግእ ምስ ወያኔ ምስ ተጋህደ ድማ ሉዑላውነት ሃገር ንምኽባር ዝፈትዎም መንእሰያት ደቁ ኣሕሊፉ ፤ ብዝገበሮ ገንዘብን ንብረትን ክእለትን ብምሉእ ወኒ ንሃገር ኣወፊዩ ። ዕላማኡ ድማ ናጻ ኤርትራ ንምርኣይ ጥራይ ዘይኮነ ፣ሓድነት ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ተረጋጊጹ ኩሉ መዳያዊ ማዕርነት ማሕበራዊ ፍትሒ ፤ህዝባዊ ምቁጽጻርን ፍቕርን ሰላምን ዝሰፈና ኤርትራ ንምርኣይ ካብ ዝነበሮ ሕልምን ሃንቀውታን ምዃኑ ማንም ኤርትራዊ ብምስትንታን ካብ ዝዛረበሉ ዘሎ ሓቂ እዩ ። እንተኮነ ግን ሓፋሽ ህዝብን ኣባላት ግምባር ብኣመራርሓ ኣከያይዳን ግምባርን መንግስትን ዕጉባት የለውን ። ናይ ህግደፍ ማ/ቤት ጽሕፈት ዘይሕጋውን ዘይሓላፍነታውን ሰሚናራት ብወገን ፕረሲደንት ዝውሰዱ ዘለው ዘይምክኑያት ስጉምትታትን ሻቅሎት ብጀካ ምፍጣሮም ኣሉታዊ ኩነታትውን ክፈጥሩ ዝኽእሉ እዮም ።
እዚ ሽገር እዚ ኣብ ግዜ ኹናት ወያኔን ምስ ምጭናቅን ዝመጸ ሽገርዩ ተባሂሉ ብገለ ወገን ክግለጽ ይፍተንዃ እንተሎ ብቀንዱ ድሕሪ ናጽነት ብፍላይ ከኣ ድሕሪ 1994 እናተዋሕለለን እናገደደን ዝመጸ እዩ ።ኣብ ግዜ ኹናት ወያኔ ክሳብ ኣብ ህላወ ሃገር ስግኣት ክውርድ ጥንቂ ዝኮነ እዩ ።ጠንቂ ሕጋውን ትካላውን ኣሰራርሓ ኣሳታፍን ሓባራውን ኣወሳስና ንቀንዲ ጉዳያት ተሓታትን ዲሞክራስያዊን ኣከያይዳ በብቁሩብ እናተዳኸመን እናማህመነን ብምምጽኡ ሕድሕዳዊ ምትሕልላይ ኣኽብሮትን እምነትን እናተረፈ ብምዃዱ ፣ሓገግቲን ፈጸምትን ኣካላት ስልጣኖም እናተመንዘዔን ሰርሖም እናደስከለን ብምካዱ ወዘተ እዩ።
ነዚ ሽገር እዚ ንምቕልስን ንምስግጋር ናብ ቅዋማዊ ስርዓት ንምውሓስን ኣብ ናይ ጥርን ንሓሴን መስከረምን 2000 ዓም ኣኼባታ ባይቶታት ተዛሪቡሎም ኣገደስቲ ውሳነታት ሓሊፍሎም ከብቅዕ ድሓር ግን ዘይትርጉምም ተዋህቡዎምን ካብ ተግባረ ዓዲ ውዒሎምን ይርከቡ ። ሓደገኛነት ናይዚ ቅልውላውዚ ብምትብሃል ከኣ ተገድስቲ ኣባላት ማእከላይ ባይቶ ኣብ ግበረ መልሲ ከይተደፍኡ ነቲ ስሩዕ ግዜኡ ዘሕለፈ ኣኼባታት ማእከላይን ሃገራዊን ባይቶታት ኪዕደም ጠለቦም ናብ ፕረሲደንት ኣቅሪቦም ። ተነጺጉ ግን ። ሕጋውን ሓላፍነታውን ጠለብ ኪንጸግ እንከሎ ኣታ ምርቓ ፋጻሚ ቤት ጽሕፈትን ማእከላይ ባይቶን ዘይብላ ግግይቲ ሰሚናር ማቤት ህግደፍ ግን ካብ ኣቦ መንበር ምሉእ ደገፍ ብምርካብ እቲ ቅልውላው ኣብ ክትኮሰሉ ዝኽእል ሓደገኛ ደረጃ በጺሑ ኣሎ ።
ነዚ ሽገር እዚ ንምፍታሕ ዘይሕጋውን ዘየድሊን ኣገባብ ይእመትዃ እንተሎ ፣ ብዘይካ ብሰላማዊን ዲምክራሲያዊን ሕጋዊን ልዝብን ፣ ካሊእ ፍታሕ ከምጽእ ዝክእል ኣገባብ የለን ። ክንዲ ዝኮነ ሕጂ እውን ህጹጽ ኼባታት ማእከላይን ሃገራዊን ባይቶታት ተጸዊዑ፤ እዞም ዝስዕቡ ጉዳያት ክዝረበሎን ስጉምቲታት ኪውሰደሎን የድሊ ።
ስለምንታይ ህጹጽ ኣኼባታት ማእከላይን ሃገርዊን ባይቶታት የድሊ ?
- ህግሓኤ ክቃለሰሎም ዝጸንሔ ዕላማታት ክውን ንምግባር
- ቻርተርን ቅዋምን ህግደፍ ዝሓንጸጾም ራእይ ፣ ዕላማታትን ዕማማትን ብጭቡጥን ብግብርን ንምትግባር
- መሰጋገሪ መንግስቲ ኤርትራ ክኽተሎ ብኣዋጅ 37/1993 ዝተሓጸጸ ቃሉን መንፈሱን ንክኽብር
- ቅዋማዊ ባይቶ ኣብ 23 ግንቦት 1997 ዘጽደቖ ቅዋም ህገረ ኤርትራ ንምትግባር
- ማእከላይን ሃገራዊን ባይቶታት ኣብ ጥርን ፣ ብፍላይ ድማ ኣብ ነሓሰን መስከረምን 2000 ዓም ካብ ዝገበሮ ገምጋምን ዘሕለፎ ውሳነታትን መሰረት ብምግባር ስሩዕን ዲሞክራሲያዊን ምስግጋር ናብ ቅዋማዊ ስርዓት ንምርግጋጽ ።
ዛጊት ኣብ ዝተኻየደ ቃልሲ ፣ ብሑሕ ዝተፈጸመን ፍረ ዝተረኽበሉን መዳያት ይሃሉ እምበር ብዙሕ ጉድለታት ከም እተራእየን ፣ ተሓታቲን ሓላፍነታውን ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሰርዓት ንምርግጋጽ ኪማሊኡን ውሕስነት ኪኾኑን ዚግብኦም ብዘይ ቀለዓለም ብዘይ ውልውልን ኪውስዱ ዘለዎም ናይ መሰጋገሪ እዋን ስጉምቲታት ከም ዘለውን ግሁድ ኾይኑ ኣሎ ።ኣብ ገመጋም ሕሉፍ ተመኹሮናን ብሕጂ ኣብ ኪውሰዱ ዘለዎም ስጉምቲታትን ናይ ኣረኣእያ ፍልልይ ክህሉን ብሓላፍነታዊ መገዲ እንተ ተታሒዙ ጥዑይ ሃዋሁ ኪፈጥርን ፖለቲካዊ ባህሊ ከማዕብልን ዚክእል ምኻኑ እምነት ናይ ዝኮነ ይኹን ሃገራዊን ዲሞክራሲያዊን ክኸውን ይግባእ ።
ብጀካቲ ብውልቂን ብዝተፈላለየ መንገድታትን ንነዊሕ ግዜ ክፍተን ዝጸንሔ ፣ ኣብቶም ዝሓለፉ ክክልተ ኣኼባታት ማእከላይን ህገራዊን ባይቶታት ሓገግቲ ኣካላት ግምባርን መንግስትን ኣድማዕቲ ፣ንፈጸምቲ ኣካላት ገንባርን መንግስትን ሓቀኛ ተቕጻጸርቲ ፣ ንምስግጋር ናብ ቅዋማዊን ዲምክራሲያውን ስርዓት ተጣባበቅቲ ከም ዝኮኑ ንምግባር ፣ግሉጽ ሃናጽን ሓላፍነታውን ክትዓት ክኻየዱ ከም ዝጸንሑን ሓደ ሓደ ኣውንታዊ ምዕባለታት ከም ዘርእዩን ይፍለጥ ።
ኣብ መንጎን ድሕርን እዞም ከክልተ ኣኼባታት ማእከላይን ሃገራዊን ባይቶታት ግን ብማእከልነት ፈጸምቲ ኣካላት ግንባርን መንግስትን ዝውሰዱ ዘለው ስጉምቲታት ።
ንውሳነታት ባይቶታት ዝጥሕሱ ወይ ዘይትርጉሙ ሂቦም ፡
ጉድለታት ንምእራምን ካብ ወድዓዊ ገምጋም ትምሀርቲ ንምቕሳምን ብኣባላት ባይቶ ኣብ ባይቶታት ንዝቐርቡ ርእይቶታትን ታዕሊቓትን ምስ ሃገራዊ ክድዓትን ጥልመትን ብምምዕርራይን ኣጀንዳ ወያነ ንምግልጋል ኾነ እልካ ዝተገብረ ዘመተ ብምምሳልን ፣ ብማእከላይን ሃገረዊን ባይቶታት ዘይተሓንጸጸን ዘይጸደቐን ኣብ ውሽጢ ግንባርን ህዝብን ስግኣትን ዘይቅሳነትን ፈጥሩ ሓድነት ዘላሕልሕን ናብ ፍጹም ፖሊሳዊ ስርዓት ዝምርሕ ጎስጓሳት ፣ ዘመተታትን ታህዲዳትን ምክያድ
ንስሩዕን ዲምክራሲያዊን ምስግጋር ናብ ቅዋማዊ ስርዓት ተደለይቲ ንዝኮኑ ክፍጸሙ ዘለዎም ዕማማት ከም እኒ --
- ህጹጽ ህዝባዊ ክትዓት ኣብ ሕግታት ሃገራዊ ምርጫን ፖለቲካዊ ሰልፊታትን ምጽዳቐም ኣብ ሃገራዊ ባይቶ ።
- ንጉባኤ ግምባር ኣቐዲሙን ኣብ እዋኑ ክዝተየሉ ዝግባእ ገምጋም ተመክሮና ኣብ መንጎ ሳልሳይን ራብዓይን ጉባኤታትን መጻኢ ዕድል ህግደፍን
- ንቅዋማዊ ስርዓት ተነጺፉሉ ክጸንሒ ዝግባእ ኣድለይቲ ቅድመ ምስናድኦታት
- ንሓራን ርትዓዊን ሃገራዊ ምርጫ ፣ ኣቀዲሙ ኪፍጠር ዘለዎ ምቹእ ኩነታት ( ናይ ርእይቶ ናጽነት ፣ ግዝኣተ ሕጊ ፣ ሰብኣዊን ዲሞክራሲያዊን መሰላት ምሕላው ) ወዘተ -ምውዳድ
- ኣብ ትግባረ ቅዋምን ቅዋማዊን ጉዳያትን ሰፊሕን ሓራን ሃገራዊ ክትዕ ምክያድን ምፍቓድን =ወዘተ ።
- ብሓጺሩ ፣ ነጥብታት ኣጀንዳ በዞም ዝስዕቡ ክልተ ዓበይቲ ኣርእስቲታት ክጠቓለሉ ይክኣል
ስሩዕን ዲሞክራሲያዊ ምስግጋር ናብ ቅዋማዊ ስርዓት ንምርግጋጽ ክውሰዱ ዘለዎም ጭቡጣት ስጉምቲታት ፣
ሓቀኛን ወድዓዊን ገምጋም ተመኹሮ ህግደፍን ዲሞክራሲያዊ ውሳነ መጻኢ ዕድል ህግደፍን ንምግባር ፣ ኪግበር ዝግብኦ ምቅርራባትን ዲሞክራሲያዊ ኣካይዳ ራብዓይን ጉባኤን ።
ስሩዕ ግዚኡ ኣኺሉን ንህጹጽ ኣኼባ ዘገድስ ጉዳያት ተፈጢሩን እናሃለወ ፣ ኣኼባታት ማእከላይን ሃገራዊን ባይቶታት ዘይምዕዳም ወይ ምድንጓይ ማለት ፣ ማቤጽ ፈጢሩዎ ንዘሎ ፖለቲካዊ ቅልውላውን ኣብ ህዝቢ ዘይምርግጋእን ሻቅሎትን ጸማም እዝኒ ምሃብን ፣ ንሰላማውን ዲሞክራሲያዊን ምስግጋር ናብ ቅዋማዊ ስርዓት ኮነ እልካ ምዕንቓፍን ስለ ዝኸውን ከም ኣባላት ማእከላዊን ሃገራዊን ባይቶታት ሓላፍነትና ብግቡእ ብምስካም ፣ሕጋውን መሰረታውን መሰላትና ተጠቒምና ፣ናይ ዝመረጸና ሕደሪ ኣክቢርና ፣ ናብ ህዝቢ ብወግዒ ወሪድና ርእይቶታትና ክንገልጽ ክንግደድ ምዃንና ንፍልጥ
ካብ ፕ/ኢሳያስ
ናብ ሽሪፎ
ብስም “ ቅድሚ ሕጂ ብፊርምኦም ዝጠለቡ ኣባላት ማእከላይ ባይቶ “ እትብል ብዕለት 28/3/2001 ዝተጸሕፈት ዝሰድድካለይ መልእኽቲ ሎሚ ንግሆ ብጺሓትኒ ርእየያ - ኣብቲ ሓቂን መሰረት ዘይብሉን ትሕዝቶኣ ኣትየ ኪዛረብ ኣየድልየንን ። ዓቅሊ ኪገብር ስለ ዝመረጽኩ ሥ፣ ንዝኾነ ንቔይቂ ናብ ዝቐርበለይ መኣዲ ከይተቀረብኩ ትዕግስቲ ክገብር እየ። ብቐጻሊ ምትኹቷኽ (provocation) ንዘየሎ ነገር ኣተዓባቢኹም ሽግር ክተዕርጉ እንተ ደሊኹም ግን ምርጫኹምዩ።
ድጊመ ካብ ጌጋ ናብ ልብኹም ክትምለሱ እላቦ።
ብድሕሪ እዛ ዳብዳቤ እዚ ማእከላይ ባይቶ ፡ ነቲ ዝነበረ ዘይምርድዳእ ናብ ህዝቢ ዘርጊሖሞ ።
ክብሮም ግረነት
9/18 /15
Part I: At War with Itself
Three days before independence day May 24th, 2001, one of the G15’s (‘reformers’) characterizing the state of affairs within EPLF/PFDJ as ‘Haba’e Kuslu, Haba’e Fewsu’ was splashed across one of the independent Eritrean newspapers, bringing into open months of speculations of troubles within PFDJ.
It was fourteen (14) years ago this month; a golden moment quickly became a missed opportunity to evaluate the successes, failures, and challenges facing EPLF/PFDJ and to find its cures to bring about positive change.
Above the political, economic, and legal destruction meted out against Eritrea in the last 14 years, it is the destruction of the very essence of being Eritrean, our very social fabric of being tolerant, being compassionate, and being just that will carry a lasting scar. Instead of building on our proud and prudent traditions and values, the regime is now feeding us incessant and blatant lies - and accusing anyone that questions its narratives as ‘anti-Eritrea’, ‘Woyane’, ‘traitors’, and ‘capitulators’. Its political campaigns are designed to divide the Eritrean society to thwart any potential resistance, any demand for reform, accountability and transparency, by sowing the seeds of mistrust, denigrating and disparaging individuals and groups of people that challenge its narratives in order to isolate and intimate them, if not imprison them. The regime is chasing a Pyrrhic Victory!
A leader, regardless how they came to power, of a nation can choose to bring out the best in the people they govern, or bring out the worst. They make the choice! DIA chose to bring out the worst in Eritrean people, in contrast and as an example, the late PM Meles Zenawi, the shrewdest and ruthless politician he is, chose to bring out the best in the people of Ethiopia. When PMMZ faced the same political challenges as DIA did, PMMZ imprisoned his opponents in humane way [although illegally] and then released them. He was teaching his people - tough love. In contrast, DIA imprisoned incommunicado indefinitely anyone who questioned him, and went on a path of sheer terror. He is busy sowing the seeds of hate, misery, intolerance and vindictiveness - which will scar the nation for generations, and which will test the unity and cohesiveness of the nation.
Instead of positive engagement - the very bedrock of nation building and achieving harmony - the regime has chosen to summon all the dark forces of human nature to ensure that it lives another day - and that, above all the economic and legal destruction - bodes ill for today’s and future Eritrea. We see the breakdown of family cohesions, mass flights - not only youths, but whole families and villages - and the strangulations of all economic and legal institutions.
It is suffice to mention the type of ‘un-Eritrean’ language inserted by the regime supporters such as the bored main stars of the Real Housewives of PFDJ in DC and elsewhere who have taken the art of character assassination to the highest levels of rudeness and despicable behaviour. As a reward for such behaviour, they have been given free reign to roam around representing the regime. It is nice to be tucking your kids into warm beds, feeding them cereals and jumbo burgers at Disney World, while enjoying the fruits of the freedoms afforded by the US Constitution, while one’s kids are also benefiting the jobs and wealth of a free nation; yet accusing others of wanting the same for one’s own children in Eritrea. Two sets of standards are called hypocrisy - and hypocrites sink nations. Then there is the good doctor, Doctor Faustus, who has been lending his ‘good’ name for such purposes - for what, a 15-minute fame. Then there is meskerem.net, or rather turncoat.net, or is it wedo-geba.com. It is racing not to raise the bar higher, but a race to the bottom inventing wild accusations against anyone resisting the regime. The unprincipled are hypocrites; and hypocrites destroy nations. These are some of the regime’s most conspicuous canon fodders in Diaspora who have come to symbolize what is wrong with the regime; and what ills today’s Eritrea.
In contrast to the Diaspora canon fodders, we shouldn’t blame too hard those card carrying PFDJ members living in Eritrea who go along with an oppressive regime out of fear or out of pacificism. We shouldn’t blame expat Eritreans who are serving the regime, albeit sidelined and probably useless, because they have the courage of convictions to return to Eritrea to help the country. These expats must live among the people who are suffering. It is those who live abroad and enjoy all the freedoms and fruits of wealthy nations and yet support a repressive regime with their remote control enthusiasm, while accusing fleeing Eritreans as ‘spoiled’, etc... that are hypocrites - and hypocrites never build a country.
Personal challenges, political challenges, social challenges, and other forms of challenges are inherent part of life; in fact, it is deeply interwoven into our very existence. As is for individuals, nations and organizations that resort to ignoring and hiding their illnesses, weaknesses, and challenges are only running away from their cures. Many societies have open cultures that allow them to debate contentious issues in passionate manners without feeling slighted, disrespected or losing face - and that more than natural resources, wealth, and technology, has been their deep rooted strength.
Those societies that transform their open culture into an open political institution, those open and transparent systems that announce their ‘political wounds’ in public- as painful as they are when divulged to the public - will quickly find cures before their wounds or illnesses becomes incurable, or spread to other parts of the body.
PFDJ’s Eritrea finds itself in a self-inflicted tragedy because the regime chose to ‘hide its political wounds’, turning its normal and curable political ailments into contagious and debilitating socio-economic and legal ailments that are manifesting itself in the mass exodus of Eritrean youths. Twenty four years independence later, PFDJ’s sickness has reached incurable stage. Despite an apparent socio-economic collapse, PFDJ keeps telling us that Eritrea has made progress and that all talk of doom-and-gloom is just what Eritrea’s enemies wish for it. We are told that the tens of thousands of our fellow countrymen - our very own kins, friends, and colleagues - our own flesh and blood - who are languishing in PFDJ Dungeons are not incarcerated incommunicado but is just a cheap propaganda of PFDJ’s enemies. Indirectly, we are being told to forget our own flesh-and-blood in PFDJ Dungeons, to forget the very ideals that thousands of our flesh-and blood who sacrificed so that we are free from oppression and fear; and to forget our wishes to regain our self-respect. We are told to pretend that the tens of thousands of our precious youths fleeing our beautiful country are nothing more than naive people fooled into thinking that better life awaits them elsewhere, that they deserve the tragedy for leaving their safe country and that is a form of punishment, or that they are traitors, or that Eritreans are more gullible than other nationalities and thus coerced by traffickers or that Western nations with evil intentions for Eritrea are coercing our youths to leave our ‘safe and prospering’ homeland. We are told to excuse, rationalize, deny, and downplay our tragedies. That is dehumanizing!
Eritrea is at war with itself. Although we have unresolved border issue with Ethiopia, we are not currently at war with Ethiopia. The last battle of the war with Ethiopia was fought in June 2000, which is 15 years ago - which is half the life of our 30 years of struggle for independence. There is no existential threat from Ethiopia. In fact, considering that DIA is doing an excellent job of destroying Eritrea, which if Ethiopia was to unleash on Eritrea would have been tantamount to war crimes, Ethiopia has no immediate need to remove him - and will apply sufficient pressure to contain him only against any direct and existential threats to its internal affairs. Ethiopia, either out of cahoots with DIA or out of DIA’s paranoia and egomaniac tendencies, will feed on the current political situation in Eritrea to further weaken, if not destroy, a militaristic Eritrea. For Ethiopia, aside from meddling in Ethiopia, DIA is doing an excellent job for Woyane. Between meddling and self-destruction, Ethiopia gains more from DIA and Eritrea’s self-destruction than it would suffer from DIA’s meddling in Ethiopian affairs. With the recent defection of DEMHIT, Ethiopia has even less short-term interest in Eritrea.
Broadly speaking there are three types of dictators - the selfish materialistic dictator, the idealist dictator, and benevolent dictator. The selfish materialistic dictators are found in many heavily corrupt countries; and these materialistic dictators know the limits of their power and are in fact risk averse to maintain their worldly possessions and pleasures. Their attitude is, ‘as long as you don’t touch my power and wealth, you can do whatever you want.’ The idealist dictator is a blind worshipper of ideals, and hence a fanatic. Their devotions to abstraction make them enemies of life. The sufferings of tens of thousands of innocent citizens through illegal and inhumane incarcerations and at the hands of people smugglers from within its bosoms are nothing more than sacrificial lambs to their fanatic ideas. Fanatic idealism - fanaticism - is what is turning an abundant and beautiful world into a miserable one for many. The attitude of a fanatical dictator is, ‘I want to control everything - which goes beyond power and wealth, but every movement of everybody and everything that moves.’ They suck all the oxygen out of the room. The third type of dictator, the benevolent, maintains absolute power overtly or covertly but increases and spreads wealth, while allowing a certain degree of freedom - sometimes allowing increasing freedom in controlled manner. Although their power games are hidden, and could be ruthless, they proceed along a publicly known path. The recent histories of many “Tiger” nations of the Far East, and now even Ethiopia, are some examples.
Before proceeding into detailed discussions of the current quagmire in Eritrea, one should note that the use of ‘PFDJ’ to describe the totalitarian regime of PIA, or DIA, is utterly wrong. PFDJ is defunct. The last EPLF/PFDJ Congress was held in 1994, i.e. 21 years ago which is eternity even by our ‘meda’ standards. The last PFDJ Central Committee meeting was held in the summer of 2000. The PFDJ Constitution, for whatever it is worth, requires the PFDJ Central Committee to be held every six month. Eritrea is a one-man dictatorship - anything else is window-dressing. Today’s Eritrea is one ‘halewa sewra’ on massive steroid.
Eritrean Refugee Crisis
Nothing screams louder - unfolding on the world stage for everybody to see at that - of the utter destruction of the country than the un-abating refugee crisis.
Yet we still have idol worshippers who are shameless in spewing out more excuses. When Prof. Asmerom Legesse criticizes the Commission of Inquiry on Eritrea [COIE], which was aptly critiqued by the super writer and thinker Saleh Younis, Prof. Asmerom should have asked himself first, is this his eulogy to the thousands who were swallowed by the Mediterranean Sea, Sahara Desert, and Sinai Desert – that’ the COIE was wrong about what happened to you, that it was a wrong analysis and methodology?’ Is this what wedo-geba.com would write on their tombstones, ‘you are Ethiopians pretending to be Eritreans’. Is this what the other idol worshippers write on their tombstone, ‘you were a victim of human trafficking, and shouldn’t have stayed home?’ What heartless things to say!
The refugee crisis is ‘Res Ipsa Loquitur’, i.e. the situation speaks for itself. No amount of academic gymnastics by professors or analytical bleach-washing by regime canon fodders changes what it is - a tragedy on massive global scale. When one is excusing a tragedy - one is destroying the very soul of a nation by that much! It is dehumanizing!
If one doesn’t have a family member, relative, or friends calling you in the middle the night for help, or have been visiting mourners who have lost loved ones, it is better to have one’s DNA checked.
For all those touched by all this utterly useless and home-made tragedy, our eulogy reads and is written on their tombs, ‘we feel your pain, we will do whatever it takes to alleviate the pains of all those who are living and suffering like you did.’
As a remembrance of the 14th year of the incarceration of 11 members of the G-15, reporters, and the other tens of thousands arbitrarily arrested prisoners-of-conscious, our own flesh-and-blood, the following series of articles will highlight the socio-economic, political, and legal destruction and challenges we need to overcome in order to build a viable nation from the socio-economic and legal ashes left behind from this brutal regime. Although most of the discussion focuses on the socio-economic and legal destruction meted out by the regime, the last part of this series addresses the challenges faced by the opposition and general public. The purpose of this series of articles is to challenge our conventional wisdom and presumptions, and hope to steer towards prudence and pragmatism. Some parts of the articles will be data heavy, and is purposely designed to equip readers with the ability to analyse in more a systematic manners. I welcome any corrections and constructive criticisms. The writer isn’t claiming to hold any special wisdom, but rather a different perspective with some blunt talk.
With the upcoming articles, I honour the bravery of the top EPLF/PFDJ officials and thousands of political activists who stood up to the brutal regime knowing that they faced certain death and extremely harsh treatments in the hands of their cruel colleagues and regime; they knew the risks. I compare socio-economic progresses of the G15 era (1991 to 2000) to DIA era (2001 to 2015).
We also honour our heroes Bitweded Abraha and Hassan Keckia who walked out of prison, but refused to be silenced knowing fully they would be incarcerated again – and they marched into PFDJ Dungeons willingly for what they believed and out of respect for the thousands they left behind. Tens of thousands of other brave Eritreans are now prisoners-of-conscious. They are our heroes - what Eritreanism is all about.
But the bigger tragedy that tears the soul of a nation is the cruelty metered out against our mothers and sisters - Mrs. Senait Debessay, Mrs. Aster Yohannes, Mrs. Miriam, and many other innocent mothers and sisters. When a regime is waging a war against mothers, nothing else is left that creates a country. Hopefully, their cries of agony will sweep away this cruel regime - sooner than one thinks, and that mercy falls upon the nation so that all the hate dissipates like morning dew. The fate of Eritrea lies in their cries!
Lastly, am I a Woyane for criticizing DIA and regime supporters for the way they are destroying our precious country? If one is a Woyane for speaking one’s mind, exercising one’s right to free expression, and defending the rights of the wrongly accused and the incarcerated, and the abused; and if regime supporters define being Eritrean as intolerant, merciless, cruel, inhumane, and hateful; then I am a proud Woyane. Of course, I totally disagree the way these ‘temberktis’ characterize being Eritrean, who are known for their compassion, hard work, and being industrious and law-abiding people. I am a proud Eritrean, like every 6 million of us, save the few spoiled ones who are giving us the bad wrap. By the way, the Woyanes, the Amharas, the Oromos - and all Ethiopians, the Sudanese, the Somalis, the Ugandans and others in our neighbourhood are all our flesh-and-blood - and we are one big family that we have to learn to work with in mutual respect and for mutual benefits.
In the following seven (7) part articles, I will review the state of affairs in Eritrea. Symbolically, Eritrea’s Coat-of-Arms with the Camel has come to symbolize NOT the undistracted and steady progress forward of the nation and the regime, but more like the old adage, ‘like piss/urine of a camel - backwards’.
Next: “The Sanction Myth”
Berhan Hagos
September 18, 2015