In its latest report, the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea (SEMG) formally presented its very damning case against Eritrea. It went at great lengths to provide documentary evidence, complete with over 300 pages of annexes replete with pictures, “official Eritrean documentation”, etc. Most readers simply glossed over the report and went lazily to its heart and substance. It sets the tune by strongly asserting that
Eritrean involvement in Somalia continues to represent a small but troubling part of the overall equation. Asmara’s continuing relationship with Al-Shabaab, for example, appears designed to legitimize and embolden the group rather than to curb its extremist orientation or encourage its participation in a political process. Moreover, Eritrean involvement in Somalia reflects a broader pattern of intelligence and special operations activity, including training, financial and logistical support to armed opposition groups in Djibouti, Ethiopia, the Sudan and possibly Uganda in violation of Security Council resolution 1907 (2009).[1]
It delves even deeper by attempting to thoroughly magnify what it sees as the Government of Eritrea’s financial, businesses, and military transactions in attempting to not only explain how the GOE could pay for such reported acts of destabilization, but to impress on the readers about the nefarious activities of the GOE. But is the SEMG’s report really that credible or is it simply a case of the SEMG (and others) looking to scapegoat Eritrea and paint it as the troublemaker?
To begin with, the SEMG, contrary to their lofty assertions, provide no proof whatsoever that the Eritrean government offered any type of support to any groups in Uganda in the entire report. You would think that if they were to suggest (albeit with a disclaimer such as “possibly”) that the GOE destabilization machinations over-reach all the way to Uganda, that they would provide at least one supposed instance or act of sabotage. They proffer none. Their inclusion of Uganda seems as if it were meant merely to sensationalize their claims of Eritrean destabilization efforts against all its neighbors.
Similarly, the case the SEMG presents against Eritrean involvement in (South) Sudanese affairs is equally as nonexistent. It cites allegations and “suspicions” that aren’t worth printing but provide little in the way of hard facts and evidence, which inevitably led it to infer “it is not possible to conclude, on the basis of this limited evidence, that Eritrea has provided direct military assistance to groups engaged in the destabilization of southern Sudan in violation of resolution 1907 (2009).”[2] In reality, there is nothing to suggest or imply that Eritrea is doing anything to damage its relations with South Sudan, especially in light of the fact that Eritrea helped South Sudan/ Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM) get to where they are now.
Likewise, the SEMG’s claim of Eritrean involvement in Djibouti’s internal affairs is completely out of touch with what the SEMG’s own report finds. According to the SEMG, “Although a formal ceasefire was announced on 9 June 2010, under the auspices of Qatar, Eritrea has continued to provide support for a splinter group of FRUD known as FRUD-Combatant (FRUD-C), 211 headed by Mohamed Kadd’ami(Kadamy), an Afar politician reportedly domiciled in France”.[3] To that end, it provides a photograph reportedly taken in October 2009 of Eritrean Naval Admiral Humed Karekare with FRUD-C leaders. Leaving aside that the picture lacks any context and was from October 2009 by the SEMG‘s own admission, how is a picture proof positive of anything? More importantly, other than being prejudicial, what’s the relevance of such a picture from 2009 to the SEMG’s current 2010-11 mandate? After all there is a picture of Rumsfeld shaking hands with Issayas Afweroki, complete with a quote in which Rumsfeld lauds Eritrea’s commitment and experience in fighting terrorism, suggesting even, that the US “could learn from that [Eritrea’s] experience”. Should Eritrea likewise advertise that as proof positive of its claim that it has always been committed to fighting terrorism and thus absolving itself of all charges made against it?
To further its case, the SEMG refers to an interview with Mohamed Jabhaa, a former FRUD-C commander currently under arrest in Djibouti. According to the SEMG, Mr. Jabhaa stated that Eritrean “support” to his militia dated back to late 2008. However, Mr. Jabhaa, contradicting the Djibouti government’s claim (that Eritrea was providing FRUD-C with Military support), states that Eritrea is “supporting us, providing food, medicines and treating our wounded fighters but denied receiving any weaponry or military equipment”[4]. He states unequivocally “that his group had to purchase uniforms, arms and ammunition from Yemen”. What’s more, even the Djibouti government seemingly contradicts its own claims that FRUD-C is receiving aid from Eritrea by asserting to the SEMG that FRUD-C “engages in banditry and extortion to sustain itself”[5] in this very same report. If Eritrea was funding, training, and financing FRUD-C, why would they need to resort to banditry and extortion to sustain itself, or have to buy their own weapons, uniforms, and ammunition from Yemen? The SEMG’s report provides no current dates, facts, etc. to back up any claims that Eritrea was or is in any way providing any help, be it financial, military, or otherwise, to FRUD-C or any other Djibouti group during the current mandate. It is worth mentioning here that Mr. Mohamed Ahmed Said Jabha was arrested by Djiboutian forces on May 1st, 2010 and that he was reportedly tortured during his incarceration,[6] making any claims he makes under duress very suspect.
Given the bad blood that still permeates Djibouti-Eritrean relations, it is not inconceivable that the authorities in Djibouti wouldn’t “impress” upon Mr. Jabha to make fantastic allegations against Eritrea even though no such credible evidence exists or is offered. Even Ethiopia had recently publicly stated that its intelligence services would be working with Djibouti’s to counter “the Eritrean threat”, and as such it seems very likely that Ethiopia and Djibouti could have coached Mr. Jabha into saying exactly what they wanted him to say[7]. Thus, at best what the SEMG documents here is a detained prisoner who claims, quite possibly under duress, that Eritrea had provided his group “only with medicine, food, and treatment of wounded fighters.” There is no mention of whether such “help” occurred during the SEMG’s current mandate or before the imposition of the sanctions against Eritrea. This is hardly a smoking gun or proof positive of current Eritrean “destabilization efforts in Djibouti” or even worth documenting.
On the matter of Eritrean involvement in Somalia, which was one of key motivators for the sanctions against Eritrea, the SEMG mentions a Nairobi-based diplomat that claims “Eritrea flew in 25 foreign fighters into Kismaayo airport on the 30th of March 2011.”[8] This is but just one source. The SEMG didn’t even bother to (or more likely couldn’t) corroborate such claims from any other sources, specifically those in Kismaayo, where the supposed landing took place. Likewise, the SEMG cites a Somalian military source that claimed to have heard from an al-Shabaab official that “an aircraft with wounded fighters left Kismaayo for Eritrea on 4 April 2011.”[9] Leaving aside the hearsay aspect, once again, not a single other source is cited to corroborate such claims. Never mind the absurdity (or for the matter the capability) of Eritrea flying in and out a dozen or two fighters, injured or battle ready, back and forth between Eritrea and Kismaayo; a journey of over 2000 kilometers each way. In spite of the SEMG’s need to document such prejudicial claims, the SEMG can only rightly conclude that “The Monitoring Group has not been able to independently verify those reports and therefore does not consider them to be “beyond reasonable doubt”[10]. Suggesting that it is “not beyond reasonable doubt” is overly generous.
Incidentally, one issue that many who frequently quote the SEMG report to condemn Eritrea conveniently fail to mention is that, according to the report (Annex 5), a great deal of weapons being sold in Bakaara market were from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and Transitional Federal Government (TFG) stockpiles. In other words, a great deal of ammunition and weapons being bought and sold in Somalia and being used by the various antagonists, including Al-Shabaab, were provided by AMISOM and the TFG, and indirectly, those providing them with such arms (i.e., Ethiopia, the U.S.).
On the issue on Eritrea’s purported financial support for “al Shabaab linked individuals” the SEMG provides documentary evidence it says it was provided from individuals from the Eritrean Embassy in Nairobi, from 2008, not the current 2010-2011 mandate. Similarly, the SEMG’s claim that Eritrea is funding al Shabaab-linked actors to the tune of $80,000 is based on the claims of one individual (“Eritrean businessman”), with no corroboration, evidence, documentation, etc. As far as the current mandate is concerned, it provides neither documentation nor even any specifics. It instead assumes that based on previous alleged financial support for Somali actors and claims by (only) two Nairobi-based individuals that Eritrea was still continuing to provide that same financial support. Paradoxically, while many have been vociferously referencing the claim that “Eritrea was/is bankrolling Al Shabaab to the tune of $80,000/month”, the SEMG acknowledges that by its “conservative estimates” Al-Shabaab generates “between $70 million and $100 million per year, from duties and fees levied at airports and seaports, taxes on goods and services, taxes in kind on domestic produce, ‘jihad contributions’, checkpoints and various forms of extortion justified in terms of religious obligation, or zakat”[11]. In other words, according to the SEMG, Al Shabaab is able to generate anywhere from $6,000,000 to $8,000,000 per month to finance its own campaigns. Under such circumstances, would the Al Shabaab really need someone to give a “paltry $80,000/month” (amounting to 1% of the revenues)? For the sake of argument, even if one were to believe such claims of Eritrea “bankrolling” the Al Shabaab to the tune of $80,000/month, in light of the SEMG’s claim that the Al Shabaab generates more than 100 times that amount, is Eritrea really what’s keeping Al Shabaab afloat or responsible for its dominance?
The facts do truly speak for themselves; although the SEMG started with a preconceived notion that Eritrea was in fact continuing to support various “destabilizing actors in the region” and thus, in violation of the Security Council resolution, the evidence it purports to uncover and document in its latest report provides little to no real evidence of such. Its claims of “possible Eritrean destabilization attempts in Uganda and (South) Sudan” are clearly without merit, and the SEMG begrudgingly admits as much. With regards to Djibouti, its case whittles down to the testimony of one individual who possibly under duress can only claim (without specifying when) that, at best, Eritrea “helped the rebels by providing food, and treatment … but that they had to buy their weapons themselves from Yemen”. This speaks to not just the SEMG’s desire to document true facts, but to present a largely circumstantial and prejudicial case against Eritrea. With regards to Eritrea’s role in Somalia, the SEMG equally provides scant evidence on any such role in its current mandate. Even the claims of Eritrean financial support, of which no real evidence is provided for the current mandate, should be looked at against the backdrop of the SEMG’s “conservative estimates” that Al Shabaab generates $6-8,000,0000 a month from its own sources. But yet the brunt of the focus is on Eritrea’s “purported bank rolling of Al Shabaab to the tune of $80,000/month”, a figure equal to 1/100th of Al Shabaab’s own revenue stream. In all, what the SEMG report uncovers is nothing but circumstantial, outdated, uncorroborated evidence replete with prejudicial accounts by dubious people. It is meant entirely not to provide real tangible facts, but to further the narrative of Eritrea being the “spoiler of the region” responsible for all the troubles and ills of the horn of Africa, and that it should be punished further. Unfortunately for it (and those pushing that agenda), the “evidence” it documents falls far short of that.
Notes
[1] Report of the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea, http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2011/433, p. 13
[2] Ibid., p. 90
[3] Ibid., p. 74
[4] Ibid., p. 75
[5] Ibid., p. 74
[6] http://www.omct.org/fr/urgent-campaigns/urgent-interventions/djibouti/2010/10/d20911/
[7] http://www.waltainfo.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25808&Itemid=90
[9] SEMG report, p. 48
[10] Ibid., p. 48
[11] Ibid., p. 27
Filmon is right and the entire rest of the world is wrong! Wow! That beats every body. What a crap!
Check out this video: http://www.eritreadaily.net/News2010/article201108181.htm
I sometimes wonder if the tigrawian know that Eritreans can tell that they are tigray even if they write under pen name.
I am 100% certain that Emanuel is from Tigray.
How do I know that? A little puzzle for ema’s a single marble brain….
Woldeab woldemariam is Tigrai too, lol So what lol
Who told you Harbena weldeab weldemariam is tigrina speaking Ehiopian.
Woldeab Woldemariam himself lol
ETHIOPIA: TPLF’s Hidden Support to Al-Shabab Exposed – Orion Asmelash .Truth by nature is self-sustained, it does not get old as time goes, nor does it get defeated by the majority, as evil and deceptions get stronger, truth shines more splendidly in the middle of a great confusion and lies. With all that propaganda regarding Al-shabab since 2006, who would imagine what was hidden underneath TPLF’s closets concerning the mysterious dirty affairs it has with Al-shabab?, and who would think that TPLF would work both with Al-shabab and the so called TFG and other ethnic Somalia groups to keep the fire burning?, Well, It is only through time and crisis that truth became more clearer. The international community has been misled big time when it comes to Ethiopia’s doctrine on Somalia. Ethiopia’s Claim of fight against Al-shabab and terrorism is a big lie and deception. Ethiopia neither want Al-shabab to take over Somalia and nor does it want Al-shabab to desist or die. TPLF cannot survive without terrorism. It is through this that the regime got support from the west and stayed in power for 20 years. The people in the horn of Africa knows TPLF from head to foot, they are familiar with its tactics and games. Anyone who observed TPLF’s behavior for the last 20 years will hardly miss what is behind the scene. TPLF leaders and their followers are like a chameleon, they change colors every season but their aim and real character is always the same. Their mind produces nothing good than fertilizing evil thoughts of bigotry and dirty plots. What TPLF says and does is always the contrary. When they say it is good, it means evil; when they tell you it is dark, it means light; when they say it is bitter, it is sweet. When they call for peace, it means for war; when they advocate for justice, it means they have made crimes; when they denounce terrorism, it means they want it. It is always the opposite. They have a very long and extrudable tongue to deceive and mislead others, but for those who know them very well, deep inside their thoughts “they hatch the eggs of vipers and spin a spider’s web”.
TPLF’s music of “Al-shabab” has become like a national anthem. Is TPLF fighting Al-Shabab or supporting it? Well, for those who know TPLF’s character it is not hard to scramble their words and speeches. The people in the region have seen the egg long ago before it got hutched. Today, even little children know how to solve TPLF’s cross words. Unless the international community and specially United States are intentionally cooperating or bypassing TPLF’s hidden agenda, it is not difficult to understand the regime’s strategy in Somalia and the region in general. Considering TPLF’s behavior and past track records, including its terrorism activities, such as abducting aid workers, kidnapping foreigners and robbing up banks while they were rebel fighters against the Mengistu Regime before 1991, it is therefore logical to suspect and enquire to see if there is any reason why TPLF would like the spirit of terrorism to continue exist and live in the region. This is not speculation or conspiracy theory; I am not the first to claim this either. I will let the facts speak for themselves. In 2008, South African Ambassador to the United Nations, Dumisani Kumalo, who was basically the chairman of the U.N. Security Council’s Somalia sanctions committee at that time, in his remarks to the Security Council’s said:
“Eighty percent of ammunition available at the Somali arms markets was supplied by TFG and Ethiopian troops,”
No one denies the fact that TFG is controlled and directed by TPLF, thus technically according to Kumalo’s report, 80% of the arms supplied to Al-shabab came from TPLF. Therefore, we should not be surprised when Ethiopia is supporting Al-shabab. The only thing we need to do is to find the reason why Ethiopia supports Al-shabab and other ethnic rebel groups in Somalia? Then, the answer becomes clearer. First, we need to understand TPLF’s method of operation. TPLF is like a wolf in sheep clothing. With its chameleon like long tongue always present itself to the west as an anti-terrorist regime. The United States and the international communities believed it. Not knowing TPLF’s tactical game behind the scene, with TPLF’s lead they all dipped their hands into the bowl of blood shed that they now regret. Eritrea’s continuous advocacy for an all-inclusive political solution for Somalia was refuted, and instead Eritrea was considered as a “spoiler”. Today, after a lot of try and error experiment, the international community realized that Ethiopia’s ill-advised strategy has created the worst humanitarian crisis in history, now it seems that the international community is prepared to change strategy so as to devise something functional to solve the Somalia issue. There is a saying that, “A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way”. Those who were stubborn to listen Eritrea’s advice for many years, now seems to embrace Eritrea’s strategic solution, which is an all-inclusive political participation of all parties for a peaceful and lasting solution for Somalia. By now, all parties have understood that every road to Somalia through TPLF is a crooked road and those who follow and walk along TPLF regime will see only crisis and destruction. Because the international community has started to change strategy on Somalia, Eritrea went a step further by reactivating its IGAD membership to facilitate and pave the right way for Somalia’s political solution. TPLF’s strategy on Somalia seems like it is fading away and Eritrea’s innocent and genuine proposal solution for Somalia is gaining momentum and will soon take over the platform to lead the IGAD member states and the international community to a viable and lasting solution for Somalia’s crisis. TPLF is showing frustration as Eritrea joins IGAD because Eritrea’s strategic solution will bring all Somali parties into one table for a common benefit towards reconstituting Somalia. Ethiopia’s old and failed self-centered tactic of getting aid in the name of managing the Somalia crisis is vividly exposed that it is only intended to prolong TPLF’s life in power and today it is slowly loosing its popularity. TPLF’s paranoia is exposed with its silly and childish behavior at the IGAD council of ministers meeting in Addis Ababa on August 24th. TPLF’s security agents has abused, harassed and threatened Eritrea’s envoy and forcefully expelled Eritrea’s representative Biniam Berhe from the meeting. TPLF’s shameful frustration is a sign of weakness and defeat.
So, why is TPLF choosing instability and crisis as a means of survival to prolong its life expectancy in power? Let’s dig in to it more….
TPLF’s agenda in Somalia and its act of invasion in 2006 was not to fight terrorism but to disintegrate and weaken Somalia. Despite the clear evidence, Eritrea was instead used as a scape goat to conceal Ethiopia’s Evil adventurism. I wonder how many people know that Eritrea, even before it became a nation had been fighting against Bin laden and terrorism since 1989, this is even before the world knows Bin laden, but today, instead of acknowledging Eritrea’s contribution to world peace and security, the country was betrayed by the Security Council repeatedly and unfairly. In the world we live in today, reasonableness, fairness, impartiality and Justice has been continuously trodden underfoot, in its place arrogance and selfishness rules over righteousness. Like in the old times, “The innocent is convicted and Barabas the criminal was released” What a Justice!Kumalo’s assertion of Ethiopia’s support to Al-shabab needs to be reconsidered. The regime in Ethiopia has managed to stay in power because of Al-Shabab. United States supported and protected TPLF both financially and politically, as a result, TPLF was saved from falling, thanks to its friend Al-shabab. The west has been misled, TPLF is not against Al-shabab, instead mysteriously encourages Al-shabab to remain functional .The Regime’s strategy on Somalia is a no peace and no war situation. To sustain this condition, Al-shabab is a concealed co-partner of TPLF. It is a well-known doctrine of TPLF that as long as Somalia is disintegrated and weakened, the regime’s life expectancy can be prolonged. That is why Ethiopia supplies arms both to the so called TFG and to Al-shabab mysteriously to keep the fire burning. In TPLF’s thinking, a stable Somalia is a threat to its survival. Here, we need some analysis and we should ask why it would cause a threat? Why is TPLF allergic to peace and stability? Well, in their reasoning, since they are a minority group, the only way to continue ruling is when there is disintegration and defragmentation in the region, on one hand easy for them to rule and on the other they get financial and political support in the name of fighting terrorism and managing the crisis.
The minority TPLF group represents 6% of Ethiopia’s 80 million population but controls close to 95% of the social, political and economic affairs of the country. What is more ironic however is, according to one reliable source, “93.5% of all key military positions in the Ethiopian National Defense Forces are occupied by ethnic Tigreans, far in excess of their 6% representation among the Ethiopian population”. So, what does this mean?. A united and integrated Somalia frightens TPLF, a united and strong Eritrea frustrates TPLF, and a united and cohesive Ethiopia terrorizes TPLF. This minority Regime is threatened by any sort of peace and stability. That is why it waged war with Eritrea and Somalia, because it feels uncomfortable to live in a stable and peaceful environment, that is why it chose the divide and rule policy by disuniting the people of Ethiopia in to different ethnic groups. Today, TPLF supports Al-Shabab because defragmented Somalia suites its way of thinking and governance. Therefore, as long as there is Al-shabab, TPLF can stay in power and extend its life expectancy.
This minority regime survives only when there is crisis and fragmentation in the region. Somalia’s disintegration benefits only TPLF. The United States and international community have been deceived and should reexamine TPLF agenda in Somalia. As long as this evil wolf is supported and allowed to continue its destabilizing mission in Somalia, there will be no peace in the Region.
met, the mega idiot….
are you not the same group from the minority Kebesa-Tigrinya ethnic who wanted to use the same TPLF as an instrument of exploiting Ethiopia’s vast material resources you crave so much back then until 1998???
Kimalam-KebesaAgame!
Thank you for a well thought out summary and articulate rebuffing of the anti-Eritrea SEMG report. As you pointed out, the sole purpose of the report is not to present facts but to denigrate Eritrea using lies. Where no facts were found, the report desperately tries to stretch whatever ‘supporting information’ it could find into a sensational ‘affirmation’.
It is quite telling that the report doesn’t bother to include the overwhelming evidence in favor of Eritrea.
Dear Filmon:
Thank you so much for such a detailed and truthful analysis. Keep up the good work! Let’s spread the truth. The report is full of lies and lies.
Dear Emanuel: Don’t be emotional – read that facts and judge instead writing emotionally. Yes Eritrea might not support the TFG and that it’s right! But that doesn’t mean that it is supporting Alshabab.
Ahmed
Filmon:We are not speaking about Eritrea, me and you or the people of Eritrea, bro! The talk is about the man in control of Eritrea and is acting and speaking on behalf of the people and country of ERitrea without any kind of authorization to do so: No Constitutional authority-country not governed by the national constitution, no expressed popular consent- we never ever had national Elections.No parliament! So, the talk is about tyrant isyas. The people of our country are not consulted at all by this man. It is important to make this distinction.
Eritrea tyrant Esayas has never ever beyond reasonable doubt distanced himself from AL Shabab. Watch the video again, listen to BBC recent exchange with yemane gebreab. These are facts not emotions.
Filmon, don’t think the rest of the world is dumb to buy into MESG REPORT blindly. There are highly qualified people in the world that would have torn the report into pieces if it were not genuine.
You can say all you want, Esyas has lost all the trust and credibility of the world. You are talking to yourself with your sophomoric presentation of the matter.
Yes, hizbin mengistin hade aykonen, hizbi wahabi srah, mengisti tekebali srah iyu. Hizbi nMengisti kab srah kisogo yikiEl.
Finally, the Report is only one of the many other ways to expose the tyrant’s destablizing activities. By the way, the UN is not a court of law, its decisions are political decisions, which decision do not necessarily follow that of a court of law. izi wedahanka
Why is that many woyane agents like Emanuel spell PIA’s name as “Esayas” as opposed to ” and “Isiais” and the last name “Afwerki” causes them much trouble and end up with “Afowerki, Aforki, Afeworki…” the spelling errors at “Eritreadaily.net (the Sh!t site)” are surprisingly identical as those in “waltainfo and Aigamino” So, wake up buddy, Eritreans know how to read between the lines, and you are better off worrying about your minority ruler (6% ruling 94% by slaughtering youth in broad daylight), who has a constitution and authorization to sell amhara/oromo land, burn ogadien villages with people in it, mass rape somali women, sell amhara/oromo baby in the intl. adoption market, starves its opponents willfully,sells aid food, invades neighboring countries as a CIA foot soldier… what an authorization hehehe..
Great job Fili arkey keep the spirit…peace4Eritrea
john
Eritreadaily.net is doing it purposely, not spelling error, you dummy! lol
the above is written by Emanuel from Tigray. Emanuel is a lying scheming little agame. Eritreadaily.net is Sh!t trove. Why do you say “me and You Eritreans bro..” You are lying. Come out of your borrowed identity before opening your chenawi mouth.
Ahmed read my response to you that I by mistake directed at Filmon.No emotions facts, watch video read my response.
Thank you Filmon for an excellent response to the so called SEMG, a group that was solely hired to come up with fabricated stories for a henchmen and women at the UN Security Council. No wonder why the world body, i.e. the United Nations is in a such state of destitute for all of its institutions have been hijacked by corrupt memebers such as those who constitute SEMG. Writing a 300 page of a fiction doesn’t entail facts as Filmon’s response clearly outlines. Thank you Filmon.
Excellent article, I am surprised it was printed. The fact that the author is Eritrean-Canadian , should lead to a closer examination of the facts in this article. The facts stand and are easily examined. The same stricter standard should be used when reading articles presented by known Eritrean enemies. There are some who insist on discussing our president, it is futile . The people of the sovereign state of Eritrea are elated with Shabia. I know there are those who wish we were in a famine, a crisis,a war, but we are not. The people of the sovereign state of Eritrea cannot be fooled or duped by westerners,missionaries, jihadists, and we would not be fooled by one of our own. Let the cries for freedom of religion,democracy,the press, commence in 5,4,3,2,1…..
Why are you surprised? Let me recall you that you are dwelling outside of Eritrea, where there is no freedom of press. I think you forgot that you can write and publish whatever you want.
I know now why you support Isaias’s government, because you are unable to remember how the tyranny killed and detained Eritreans who just gave their political opinion and asked for their rights of religion.
the first and the most tynny poorest country leader of issayas affetsdki is a lier no more begging to egypt or libya,or qatar he was getting financial from them.
Do not try to cover it up, it is not secret Eritrean Issias support the extremist there is no doubt and because of the North African Revolutions now the Egyptian and Libyans leaders are gone and Eritrean Issias become naked, he has no choice than defending himself no one back him up, So Tesfaye you are not telling the Truth, Eritreans government directly financing the terrorist, I am sure he has share on the American embassy bombing in Kenya and Tanzania but it is not proven yet…
Yonas it is a shame for you to write this garbage, what evidence do you have to accuse president Esayas? where you there,did you witness all what you have written? obviously not.
Tedros, Esyas refuses to condemn Al shabab! That is enough! in fact Esyas defended Shebab when some of them were caught in Australia! what more evidence do you want
emanuel komal agame
john, Agmae niAka YiQerbukha, nsu nihna, nihna nsu tiblom zelekha, Haqifkayom alekha ab Asmara,lol.
john,
are you not yourself an agame through and through? deny it as you might but to your dismay your roots are asuch! What a Dehumaised sub-human: Kebesawi-Ahiya!
the first and the most tynny poorest country leader of issayas affetsdki is a lier no more begging to egypt or libya,or qatar he was getting financial from them.he is minority leader of eritrean high land i mean the majority of eritrea is muslims believe or not.he was for the first time in history habesha chritian jungle president issayas affetsidki or mohamed tahirr alaminn leaning and kissing like maid the butt shoes of mubarek egypt and gazaffi libya,quatar kallifa etc he the worst women kissing arabs for help.
Dear Flimon I support a couple of a soccer clubs,that don’t mean that I send them cash or any other items. The honorable president Esayas did not say he sends weapons, all he said was he supports the ideology of those who fights for independent Somalia.what is wrong with that,don’t you want have peace in the horn of Africa,or you care less because you are not there.
you are all damn beause you suprt the weak beggar man
Although the UN monitoring group is set by the UN, as an Eritrean I consider this group as a means to realign my government on the right way and to convince my president that intervening in another country’s affair is wrong when you have not accomplished your simple home works (like democracy, rule of law, financial security and other issues clouded by the border conflict with Ethiopia) inside Eritrea. I will not be surprised if I hear that some people say he is trying to do his homework while president Isaias is telling he has not done a lot by himself in his local interviews.
I would like to remind everyone, Eritrea is not made up of the Nine Ethnic Groups but not with one man’s pillar, Isaias Afwerki. So if you are Eritreans, take care of your people. But if you are trying to play with Eritreans by supporting and enlightening the wrong ideology of our president, here are your bosses (Ethiopia and USA) playing with you.
Moreover, these imposed sanctions are for the current Eritrean government not for the people and land of Eritrea. But if you think these sanctions are going to hurt the Eritrean people in another way, then fight against the current government of Eritrea.
Mind your own business
After all let’s comment from the angle of true Eritrean spirit
Before talking about democratic implementation
We must be responsible about our country,s territorial integrity Most of the people of the so called democratic countries,are nationalists before they contemplate about justice i.e
they defend their governments even they bomb other
countries people invade, exploit,massacre in the name of cover up of so many excuses. Nationalism
Nationalism then and only then the so called justice will florish. Long live our beloved country with its Heroes and Heroines Proud of our history of struggle and we are proud of our self reliance other things will follow in the future developments.
No one can clarify the definition of Nationalism to Eritreans.But you can explain who is the cause of the sanctions imposed on Eritrea to the Eritrean people and we will see the result.
No one can clarify the definition of Nationalism to Eritreans.Who is the cause if sanctions imposed on Eritrea is the question now.
Isaias’s regiom is the cause of sanction.
Think about what you say before making an ass of your self or bark like a hungry DOG at something you don’t know. What were you thinking when you gave your self the pen name of Wedihagger. A real Eritrean wouldn’t be vogue of his own ID such as naming himself as wedihagger every one is wedihagger of some where. Out of pride a true Eritrean distinctively announces him self as anewediere. An idiot lying Tigreyan like you believe he confused people using a tigregna name like wedihagger. Trust me I know you are not Eritrean.
Some of you who replay to this article, who you claimed to be Eritreas are really not upto good eritreans. Why do you talk about democracy while your country is invaded by foreign enemy. I believe it is just pure hate not only against the government but against the people of eritrea. lets build our own democracy for our own good. Democracy is not a merchendise you impoprt it is a process.
The majority of the comments are coming from Ethiopian. This article is spot on and literally shreds their 300 page of “maybes”, “perhaps”, “likely but not” assumptions against Eritrea. The Somalia Eritrea Monitoring Group [SEMG] claimed there were 2,000 Eritrean troops in Somalia and till this day refuses to apologize for their lies. If they can completely fabricate such claims as a country sending 2,000 troops, then their latest attempts of accusations of maybes and perhaps hold no merit, especially since they are coming from random people. They are literally taking anyone’s word, so long as it falls with their preconditioned plot that it’s Eritrea that’s the problem, not Ethiopia that invaded Somalia or indirectly funds Al-Shabab and every rebels in Somalia. What a joke!
Other good reads are:
“The Terrorism Stock Market”
http://www.madote.com/2011/07/terrorism-stock-market-ethiopia-and-al.html
“Eritrea Condemns Al-Shabab – Uganda supports Eritrea”
http://www.madote.com/2011/08/eritrea-condemns-al-shabab-uganda.html
Tedros
It is clear you and john and others like you are lost causes, but let me try to drill some sense into your thik head. Just litsen to yourself parroting Isais: In case you do’t get it, the statement after the dash is yours.
All sensible Eritreans supporting sanction – wrong.
UN – wrong.
Djibouti – wrong.
Ethiopia – wrong.
IGAD – wrong.
Eritreans suffering in the Sinai – need evidence.
Young Eritreans running away – need evidence.
Many Eritreans burried in the Mediterranean – what?
Hunger in Eritrea – evidence.
Allow UN into Eritrea to give you evidence – no.
You need grade school education to know that Filmon’s article is not worth the paper it is written on.
My friend (as DruE is to Isais), with this kind of twisted logic, you will win no real friends because they see through you. Eritrea will be free when the likes of you are ….
Cannot say I wish you good luck. For all we know, you could be S. Tesfamariam, aka the witch of North America!
Semere, Bingo! TeAwet! This crap was written as you guessed it rightly by S. T.mariam! She posted it on dehai.org today! Check it out:
http://www.dehai.org/archives/dehai_news_archive/0625.html
It was posted (not written) by Sophia Tesfamariam. She also indicated that the author of the article is Filmon Tesfay. Emanuel, your English language proficiency level seems to be very poor. Or are you purposely twisting things just like your government in Addis Abeba?
Abraham, first tell me what makes my English language proficiency poor. Just point out one single issue. Why would S T post other people’s articles? Filmon Tesfay has equal access to dehai and could have posted his own article, doesn’t need S T marian to do it for him! This article was written by S T mariam. Now go hang yourself
I think anyone with a minimum of inteligence could see the report of this mointoring group to lack any credibility whatsoever. Put a-side differences and it is clear the charge does not hold water in any court of law. It is just a joke. Why not the UN keep it’s relivence by at-least sounding a little more credible. The charge that Eritrea supports can not stick by any streach of imagination. Perhaps the Ethiopian government is known to do anything to stay in power.
Filmon,
Thank you for this well written article. It is becoming more and more apparent that the monitoring group report is full of unsubstantiated accusations. It only shows the corrupt nature of the authors who have made their mind up from the get go and went to an extreme length to find a prove the preconception. The result is over 400 pages of crap.
As you have highlighted the accusation that Eritrea is paying $80,000 a month has come from one individual. There is no evidence to support this. However, the media has run with a story that Eritrea is bankrolling Al-Shabab.
One issue that you have missed is that the report was passed to Ethiopia well in advance so that it can use it to garner support in the region and get few countries to gang up against Eritrea. The only country in the region that did not have a chance of reviewing the report in advance was Eritrea. This goes to show that the Monitoring Group has an Agenda.
The Monitoring Group must be in the pocket of some countries. The more sanctions are imposed, the longer the life of the group will be and the more money they will earn. They will have no interest in seeing the sanctions lifted. They are morally bankrupt. They would rather see 5 million people suffer under sanctions than lose their income.
In a fair and just world, the onus of proof is on the accuser and the presumption of innocence until proved guilty is the norm. We live in an unjust and unfair world, so Eritrea has to do all it can to expose this group and let the world see that they are nothing but liars of the highest order.
Any body who pretends as an Eritrean and has a dream of sanction on Eritrea is purely Agame or from the super minority unstable mind. It is understandable to support or criticize your government. Make sure you differentiate between leaders and country & People. Sanction directly affects to the people not to the government or leader. That is why I strongly believe that the entire Eritrean public should be against Sanction. Other wise we don’t need further proof that you are either Agame or you are just a person with unstable mind. For example, Emmanuel and Semere could be classified in either of the groups (Agame or unstable mind).
Go Eritrea!! Go Eritrea!!
Filmon,
Thank you for this well written article. It is becoming more and more apparent that the monitoring group report is full of unsubstantiated accusations. It only shows the corrupt nature of the authors who have made their mind up from the get go and went to an extreme length to find a prove the preconception. The result is over 400 pages of crap.
As you have highlighted the accusation that Eritrea is paying $80,000 a month has come from one individual. There is no evidence to support this. However, the media has run with a story that Eritrea is bankrolling Al-Shabab.
One issue that you have missed is that the report was passed to Ethiopia well in advance so that it can use it to garner support in the region and get few countries to gang up against Eritrea. The only country in the region that did not have a chance of reviewing the report in advance was Eritrea. This goes to show that the Monitoring Group has an Agenda.
The Monitoring Group must be in the pocket of some countries. The more sanctions are imposed, the longer the life of the group will be and the more money they will earn. They will have no interest in seeing the sanctions lifted. They are morally bankrupt. They would rather see 5 million people suffer under sanctions than lose their income.
In a fair and just world, the onus of proof is on the accuser and the presumption of innocence until proved guilty is the norm. We live in an unjust and unfair world, so Eritrea has to do all it can to expose this group and let the world see that they are nothing but liars of the highest order.
Abraham, is it supposed to prove Emanuel wrong by pointing out that S.T. posted the article in Dehai as opposed to she wrote it herself? I do not want to insult you so we can maintain some civility in the forum. However, I must tell you that attacking the messenger does not demonstrate knowledge or intelligence. If someone is keeping good faith about this place called Eritrea, whether he or she was born in Shiketi or Tembien; or he expresses what he believes better in French than in English is of less consequence to the Eritrean people. Try to file it in the circular bin. Thanks to the likes of you, we are scattered all over the world now and you know this: Eritreans do not take second place in the language they use primarily, especially if we went to school for it.
And Aron, the holes in Filmon’s article (or S.T’s posting) are too many to count as opposed to the report by the UN group. Just on the face of it, the whole world did not dream up the multitude of injustices thrown at the Eritrean people and now at our neighbors by the people who were supposed to help us be a first rate country in the whole of Africa if not the world. Try to think. When we Eritreans are crying foul at our loudest voices, the world is beginning to litsen to us and that, my friend, is a powerful proof to the UN. If a government does not respect its own people, any thing it says is not believable. And being in the company of rogues like Ghadafi does not help you either.
Proud Eritrean? That is funny!
Whether the sanctions hurt the people or the monkeys is a gut wrenching decision. However, pull your head out of the sand. The people have been hurting bad! And stop describing people you don’t even know as this or that. Only sanctions against the monkeys are applicable here. By the way, you do not sound too proud throwing garbage around. Come back to your senses. Eritreans would not risk their lives to cross to Ethiopia if they did not think it was the last resort.
Militia woyane foot soldiers lurking around on strictly Eritrea stories reminds me of my childhood days in Eritrea: Agames barging-in at every open door and making ridiculous limena tantrums and not leaving you alone.
Well, why are the lunatic and sychophant Diaspora Kebesa-Agames of ArrTerra so much frustrated as the snooze gets tighter and tighter??? Why now???
The intelligence of the international community is no more to be insulted, and international public opinion can not be confused by a manipulative and misinformative articles where such high sounding nothing articles are nowdays being published at non-suspecting media forums or platforms.
These same Agames of Kebesa in Diaspora were telling the whole world that their tiny and dirt poor ArrTerra is invincible, that they are “Israelis of Black Africa” who will show the world miracles, that they are special people with extraordinary affinity to Europeans, that they are by far the most civilised people by nature and etc……
The naked truth however about these Agames of Kebesa, north of the Mereb River, is the fact that they are the most thoroughly Dehumanised subject of the then Apartheid Italian Settler Colonial administration!!!
Basically, their country’s strategy is by and large driven by an extremely very dangerous self-destructive xenophobic ultra-nationalism!!! They wholly based their country’s development with an unlimited free ride on the huge emerging Ethiopian market and Ethiopia’s vast untepped material resources. Back then in 1997 with the launch of the worthless Nacfa curremcy, their grans swindling strategy was exposed and stopped in its tracs to rot, they thought they can intimidate Mighty Ethiopia by initiating a border war where they invaded the tiny village of Badme using regular army which was being peacefully administered by Ethiopia until then. Tiny ArrTerra is publicly implicated in its hopeless military manouver by the UN Claims Commission which was entrusted to investigate the real culprit behind the border war — i.e. Arrterra!
Now to deny Ethiopia peace for development and thereby to blackmail Mighty Ethiopia, the Minority Regime of Kebesa-Agames in ArrTerra manipulate the chaos in lawless Somalia in broad daylight for all to see. This is the single most important core reason why weakling ArrTerra is getting ready to be punched and slapped in public by the UN Security Securoty for its unbridled behaviour in negatively affecting world stability and security in the horn of Africa :-) Case closed!!!
Eritrea is a peaceful country who lives in peace and harmony.
It wishes the best thing to it’s neighbors, no one takes serious the report of the somalia monitoring group and the woyane puppets like Sendabo K.
This is Ethiopian minority and genocidal regime reports picked up by the monitoring group with no evidence. They are buyers and no self respecting African can swallow such a big lie.
Sarah,
You are a typical retarded Shabiya-Whore — Don’t you know that? If as you unashamedly claim tiny & dirt poor ArrTerra is a peaceful country, why did you guys ignited a devastating war at your your own peril agains all your neighburs, including a country of the coast off the Red Sea (Rep. of Yemen)?
In fact, it is thanks to the woyane that you reached this point – without them you would not have achieved a fake independence! You Dehumaised EriSlaves conspired against the Ethiopian people to use the woyane as your puppets and instruments of exploiting Ethiopia’s vast material resources. But they are too smart not to listen to the wishes and aspirations of the Ethiopian public against your machinations. Yes, we Ethiopians resisted your diabolical parasitic agenda. Capita? Idiot!!!
Sendabo K. please respect our sisters.If you are agame you should be proud of it. But We all know the tyranny deserves more sanction.
VIVA sanction against Isaias.
Ato Bereket,
I’m not agame but then you shouldn’t be ashamed of your own natural roots — you are asuch one of your kins through and through. For us Ethiopians, both the Tigrinya speaking peoples trascending the mereb river are one and the same: just agame!
The only difference between you dummy groups is the fact that the agames of Kebesa are a thoroughly denigrated bunch with a Dehumaised soul while the other part on Ethiopia’s side is a Free Ethiopian with an untarnished Original soul still intact since time immemorial.
As to your naughty sister, you better nurture her first to behave in a civilised manner — otherwise, she doesn*t have the liberty to defame my dear country Ethiopia and you expect me to stand-by as an alien spectator and tolerate such a wild bitch!
Thanks for your understanding, though.
Sendabo K.
Are you still there, barking?
Sendabo K (chigaram worobela)
Since when does a beggar has a right to opine on matters of history and politics. You brag about 3000 years of slavery, hunger and pestilence that has left your dirt poor “country” to be raped at will by anyone with a sack of wheat. The soviet colonels use to literally slap your Mengistu era masters is the face, should they stray from order. Your modern day masters would bend over for the whims of the US even if it means the rotting bodies of your fellow skinnies (people) have to be dragged around Mogadishu’s sewer infested streets long after they have been killed on a dog war for their master. You wouldn’t know independence and self respect even if it slaps you in the face in your god forsaken ethnic bantusta land. You need to spend your time picking cramps from the dirt and leave this discussion to the Eritreans and their heroic leaders.
Sendabo K. you sound uncivilized. Being & half-bred (half-adgi half-agame that is) “Ethiopian” is a curse. you just proved my point…you keep coming to us Eritreans,…that’s exactly how agames behaved in Asmara. I remember even our fierce dog was no match to their dogged (no pun intended) persistence.
Do less TALK more WORK, FEED your starving brothers and sisters instead of begging for wheat…people are getting tired of seeing “3000 years” of hunger & severe malnutrition.
Sendabo K.
Iam a proud Eritrean girl. Watch out the streets of Addis Abeba is full of 100’s of thousandds of prostitutes, 300;000 homeless and 14 million starving people. You think you have 3000 years of history, that’s all fake Ethiopia have no history more than 200 years when Eritrean history is more than 3000 years since the greek civilization of Ptholemee III. Eritrea predates many ancient history’s of nations and civilazations.
You must be ashamed of your empty bravado.
Sarah&Yirdash,
You inferieros are really funny, you never fail to amaze the entire world through your acrobatic delusions.
An Eritrean, rather the tiny minority Agames in Kebesa, are sufferring from the curse of being humiliated, tarnished and ultimately dehumaized by the Sicilian colonial settlers who happen to peach in a trashy modernity into your accursed land through your forefathers dedicated services as Baristas, Shoe-shiners, Pasta boilers and as Basement House Niggers…QiQiQiQiiii….Who built inherited Asmara??? Who were the civil engineers, the town planners, the architects, the surveyors, the regional planners, the drafters — Of course, not a single ArrTerran because only a rudimentary elementary school upto Grade 4 was reserved for you Ahiyoch ;-) in youe own country!
Now that legacy is haunting you to the core including your grand children, you cry foul. Independence is independence, you must learn to live that way because that was your choice in the first place! You can’t conceptualise a parasitic development agenda at my peoples’s and my Ethiopia’s expense!!!
BTW: Do not expect me to be your puppet in your economic survival war against the inteterests of my hard working parents and relatives because the material resources you so much crave do belong only to the Sovereign peoples of my dear Ethiopia ;-)
Well, there is no Ahiya and Fandiya like ArrTerrans – You are all Dedeboch, Twisted, Delusional, Jealous, full of Inferiority Complex as Colonial Slaves with a Dehumanized Soul, Wortless, Liars. The entire world knows you asuch – Keep weeping!!!
Beware of woyane paid agents whose aim it is to come to such Eritrean discussions to provoke, antagonize and thus distract from the main topic. We’ve seen them come and go over the years. Don’t fall for it deqi Adey.
Again, I would like to commend Filmon for this excellent article.
B Abatmer,
What an idiot are you! You ArrTerrans are natural born liars so much so that you work hard to manipulate international public opinion and get busted, now you lament to beware of agents of this and that. What a twisted logic is that, please, Eri-Agame Shoe-shiner?
Who sanctioned this platform to be an exclusive ArrTerran discussion forum??? Anyways, I can’t blame you for you possess a retarded IQ by virtue of your cursed origin as a Kebesa-Agame. Once a Listro, always a Listro – Once a Dehumaized Beggar Slave, all coming generations Beggar.
Ayeee, Ye’Ne’MinnTesseNot Wurdet – Killetamoch ;-) ArrTerra and Fascist-Shabiya must be sanctioned to the core!!!!!!!
Sendabo K.
Have you ever seen a barking dog? After a while, it just gets ignored. So some Eritrean knocked you senseless with a testa in Sangatera when you were a kid is not our fault. Too bad you still cannot get over it. Just go home man. You have stopped making sense and even the words you use are traumatized. If you don’t get first time, read it again!
Simiye,
Why are you so bitter and frustrated? Ante Ahiya, Ye’Shoe-shiner Lij, instead of wandering around why can’t you face the Lions of Ethiopia at Badme head-on? You don’t need to outstrech yourself in far away chaotic Somalia.
I remember during the Emperor’s days and Mengistu era, we used to pimp your Eri-bitchs in central Addis at Piaza, AratKilo, KazaInchis, Megenagna, TekleHaymanot, Saris, Lideta, Mexico Aq., Gotterra area etc day and night with my friends. Almost 96% were Eritrean prostitutes from the Kebesa province who don’t have a secure life over there – That is why they came to us to parasite on us Ethiopians like Gypsy families!
Now you are still on welfare handouts in Western countries after 20 years of fake independence :-(
Eri-Slavino: You ArrTerrans are to jealous and to inferior and too Dehumaised to be taken serious by the world – You are busted, Ahiyoch ;-)
Sendabo K.
I rest my case.
You are such one real time IDIOT! Go back home and liberate your Sawa Slave brothers and sisters who are sufferring under a Xenophobic Fascist ideology!
Ethiopia is only for Ethiopians, and not for the Gypsy Kebesa-Agame Parasites!!!
Good bye, EriAgame-Listro boy … Ye’Barista Lijj ;-)
Sendabo K. allow me to reiterate everyone’s point here that you sound very, very disturbed & traumatized. It pains me to see you so angry and levitate in borderline insanity. I feel sorry if any Eritrean have wronged you in the past. Feel free to open up and let us know if we can be of help. Only someone who escaped the insane asylum would behave so detached & agonized over nascent Eritrea. Breath, meditate, everything’s gonna be alright mon. chill.
D. A.
It is you inferior Slaves who are traumatised and delusioned to the core – not yet rehabilitated from the psychosis you administered to yourself since 1890! There is no cure whatsoever.
You thought you were to smart to manipulate our diversity so that you can pit Ethiopia’s one ethic group against the other be sewing the seeds of animosity and hatred – No chance for your diabolic machniations!
Yesterday, your ugly hate message was against the Amhara Hodam people whom you believe they have superiorly dominated you for x-hundreds of years, today it is the Agame weyanes whom you thought they might be loyal to ArrTerra than to Ethiopia the very country they run, and tomorrow when your maneuvering doesn’t succeed it will be the turn of the Gallas and Gudella Hadiyas whom you want to swindle their rich material resources and thereby you want to control their destiny :-(
Look, who is in fact now weeping and breast beating because you lost miserably! I am the one who have been advocating for an alterative strategic policy shift since day 1 back in 1991, namely: To free my Dear Ethiopia from Fascist-Shabiya’s instruments of intimidation. One such significant instrument has been the issue of port services. Now a completely new railway line is being developed throughout Ethiopia connecting her with the port of Djibouti in a strong integrative manner which will ultimately seal the fate of your worthless ArrTerra once and for all ;-)
Asuch a second new port for Ethiopia is being developed at Tadjura in Djibouti.
You Idiots can no more intimadate the rest of us, the 75 million Ethiopians, by holding the Tigray region as instrument of blackmail. We the majority of Ethiopians do not need your camel hole ports, case closed!!!! If the Tigrayans want to join you because of port proximity, good for both of you – We both want you to disappear from our Ethiopia: better you establish a single state together without us ;-)
Sendabo K., You need help.
If you admit to these facts:
1) Woyane uses lying as an instrument/policy for survival
2) Woyane is a weak puppet minority regime
3) USA unconditionally supports woyane
4) you are borderline insane
5) Badme belongs to Eritrea
6) Eritrea has no designs or has nothing to do with the concept of “Ethiopia” except friendly neighborliness
then i can take you seriously enough to have a spirited debate. other than that, this is the last you are gonna hear from me. PERIOD. And in case you continue to renege (which I suspect) then I wish you’ll get better and will one day love one of the most wonderful people on planet earth (Eritreans) instead of allowing your demons to continue taking a tall on you…with hatred that’s eating you alive.
D.A.
First of all, ArrTerrans are the most greedy, sly, untrustworthy, jealous, manipulative, liar and ungrateful people in this world – Our Ethiopian experience with you people confirms these real facts!
Look what you did to the Amharas despite their generosity that they made every oppurtunity available so that you succeed which no Ethiopian enjoyed at all. Look now what you did to the weyanes after they even made a hugely unacceptable sacrifice for your cause in blood and diplomacy to the detreiment of my dear Ethiopia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
You ArrTerrans are well known backstabbers – This uniquely outstanding character of yours will repeat itself again if and when the Oromo come to rule Ethiopia or declare their own sovereignstate. Why? Because you ArrTerans will unashamedly crave for their vast untapped material resources and try hard conspiring to control their free destiny without any foreign influence!
As to the issue of the USA: Is it not Fascist-Shabiya which did lobby hard to be their puppet, begged the USA so many times to be a direct servant (a free will servitude)? In fact, ArrTerra paid to the tune of $50,000.00 per month for a lobbying firm in Washington so that you do their dirty jobs in the Horn of Africa!
Badme does NOT belong to ArrTerra – The original treaty delimits it as an integeral part and parcel of my Ethiopia!
Dirt poor ArrTerra has in deed evil and subertive designs on my beloed motherland Ethiopia! If this were not the case, tiny ArrTerra’s Fascist-Shabiya does not need to train, arm, promote and support seccessionist elements in order that Ethiopia disintegrates into a dozen of mini-states!
As to hatred, ArrTerrans hate everything Ethiopian and this they do it ubiquitously in public for all to see! You inferior EriAgames are the number one xenophobic people ever Ethiopians came to know in this world. We despise you because you are a Dehumanised bunch of Idiots :-)
Sandabo K , you are busted…you useless agame. I challenge you to prove it otherwise. This is 100% certain statement. YOU ARE AGAME…THANKS FOR EXPOSING YOUR UGLY BACKSIDE…albeit inadvertently! we know your frustrations be hold tight for more blows to come…
Thank you Filmon Tesfay for a very well-written article.
I used to suspect that there may be a little truth to the accusations levelled at the Eritrean govt.
especially as it came from so many sources. I must admit that I perceived the official responses from Asmara similarly, as counter-accusations that may only be partly true. It was hard to tell the real truth because as loyal as I am to Eritrea, I tend to be sceptical of all information that comes my way, because it is almost always skewed with each source having its own ulterior motive. Both parties
in a fight tend to do what they accuse the other side of, but they claim they are justified while the other side is not.
Your article has debunked the entire myth that the
‘sanctions against Eritrea’ policy is built on. You’ve also brought full clarity to this highly confusing situation. There is no doubt in my mind now that US policy makers are pushing an agenda to harm Eritrea on false premises.
The question is why? A. Why the desire to harm Eritrea? B. Why do it on false premises? I think we can rule our ‘honest mistake’ at this point. It would be interesting to flesh out the answer to both questions above, i.e. find out what is the actual reason behind US policy makers’ animosity towards Eritrea and what is so questionable about it that it must be covered up in lies?
To Samiye – Ze Coward,
Why did you block the “reply” button? I know you don’t have sel-esteem, Shoe-shiner boy!
Well, since you Eri-Agames are clinically obsessed with ethnic identities vis-a-vis Ethiopia, I know very well what you are upto. To you Dehumaised Sicily Slaves, in Ethiopia it is only the Tigray-Agames are the ones who are objecting to your diabolical manoeuvure while the majority of us are content our destiny to be hijacked by you Xenophobic Fascists! I know what is unsettling you Asmara Agames because your tiny Tarnished & Twisted brain doesn’t have the natural capacity to enable you contemplate beyond the Mekele Agames – And the rest of Ethiopians are a non-issue for you, right?!
Now you would like to know who I am and where I come from – Who do you think you are after all that I am obliged to present rapport to your Idiotic demand? Ante Deddeb Wurinchilla.
BTW: I am a PROUD KAMBATA and a proud Ethiopian from Alaba-Kulito :-)
Keep-on weeping and breast beating Eri-Agamino, IDIOT!!!
To all Chifra-Shabiya Xenophobic Eri-Agame Fascists,
Do not inunidate and overcrowd discussion forums using multiple nick names while you inadveretently expose yourself with the accent of your boring, repeatitive and monotonous contents!
ArrTerrans are too idiot not to be busted and not to be detected – you are so predictable! You bitchy inferior people: born without hope, living without the sun while inheriting the fruits of others, waiting to die without achieving anything Original on your own! Cursed Eri-Agames are a jealous people who crave for what others possess!!!
Foreign Policy Journal should exercise minimum code of conduct measures over those abusing the comment section. A ‘Sendabo K.’ character is case in point. His incomprehensible insults aside, he’s been spamming the this webpage and should be flagged.
JH where are you!?
R. P.
Look, you don’t disappoint what I know about you Eri-Agames all along, namely: When you Chifra-Shabiya rascals are caught redhanded and exposed for what you are, you always cry foul and present yourself as victims ….
True to your undignified nature, when the going is going tough and you can’t compete on the levelled field, you lose hope whereby you resort to what you can best: defamation!
Ayeee, YeneMinnTeSinnot Wurdet & Killett ;-)
A closing remark is however due: Please, take your Ethiopian cousins along with you so that we the rest of the majority of Ethiopia can live in peace!
Thank you, Eri-Agames.
LIER…YOU ARE AGAME!!! STOP DENYING YOUR IDENTITY…
IDIOT – WHO ARE U TO TELL ME WHO I AM, INFERIOR ERI-AGAME!
I DETEST, I DESPISE ALL AGAMES WITHOUT IFS & BUTS, GET IT SHOE-SHINER :-)
Lier? What a feat for a 4th grade graduate in Sicilian English…..QiQiQiQiQiQiiiiqqiiiqiiqqi
The right and correct word in English is: Liar, and not as you wrote it Lier.
BTW: Do you ever know that during the Settler Apartheid rule of the Sicilians, Tigrinya speaking Eri-Agames MUST walk in major ArrTerran cities and towns only along designated streets for natives??? Basement Niggar Eri-Agames MUST bow and salute when they encounter Whiety Settler Sicilians!!! Dirty and Sub-human Eri-Agames MUST carry special identity cards when they enter the quarters of the Whity Settlers to accomplish menial jobs as shoe-shiners, pasta boilers and cleaners & janitors!!! Inferior Native Tigrinya speaking Eri-Agames who work as Basement Niggers in the Whitey Settlers quarters MUST come in during the dawn early hours before the sun rises and leave for home only when the sun sets in during dusk hours!!! Natives MUST get elementary scoolinh ONLY upto 4th grade!!!
This is how you were DEHUMANISED to the core – Your Original Soul is no more there!!!
In stark contrast to you, I am a PROUD AND FREE KAMBATA from an exceptionally dear & great country called ETHIOPIA: We the once oppressed and marginalised peoples of Ethiopia are the future rulers of Ethiopia and by virtue of our huge numbers and vast material resources, we’ll have the final say on your fate Eri-Agames ;-)
“You have enemies?
Good, that means you stood up for something.”
We Eritreans stand for the noble principle of self-reliance; and our enemies are the beggar agames who live on their knees, waiting for food handouts.
We Eritreans stand for co-operation with the outside world based on equal partnership and mutual respect; and our enemies are the agames who traded their souls for a bowl of porridge.
We Eritreans stand for peace, stability and prosperity in the our region; and our enemies are the slave agames who leave no stone unturned to destabilize the Horn of Africa region because it serves their master’s strategic interest.
We Eritreans hold book drives, organize a car wash fundraiser and send thousands of laptops to school children in Eritrea; and our enemies are the agames who sell thousands of Ethiopian children every year.
When agame haterz hate on you, it’s cuz you have refused to entertain their anti-Eritrea propaganda. You are under no obligation to discuss or to engage in any political debates regarding Eritrea’s affiars with the evil agames who continue to occupy our sovereign Eritrean territories.
When someone is occupying your country’s territories, it is a declaration of war. We are officially at war with the agames. Their cyber psychological warfare is part and parcel of this war. Eritrea didn’t raise no fools. We know who our enemies are. Jesus said, “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them.” Agames are very predictable. We can easily spot them in a crowd. It’s usually their inferiority complex that gives them away.
Jesus also said, “Don’t give dogs what’s sacred; don’t throw your pearls to pigs.” Eritrea is our pearl, so is talking about Eritrea, so sacred. We will treat the agames the way filthy dogs and pigs are treated. Feed them trash. Remind them that they are the vultures at landfills; the stray dogs who live behind the dumpster; the filthy pigs who eat piles of garbage. Show no respect for the zombies who sell children. They are savage criminals. fuk ’em !
Peace !!
sendabo k, listen ante werada kenbata…minaba takalehe ante…ethiopia wist erasu ende and zer erasu atitawekim…be hadiya be hosana be areka yemibeklewin bokolo sebsibo kemeshet alfeh ante min takale….tinish atafrim …how ur stupid mind and all donkeys like u can compare with eritrean…we ereitreans are proud of ourselves…we dont like donkeys….We never give u our ports…case is closed. We know u as donkeys live in a place of no where…..Mejemeriya bedirk yemitsekayewin lemagn agerihin ena hizbihin temelketew….yalewin resource metekem yalchale donkey endet ke eritrawi gar endezi aynet ye kal mililis yaweral…my lovely and honorable eritreansssss pls know to whom u are talking…
henok – Ze inferior eri-agame,
Look we have been feeding you for many centuries, subsidising your parasitic lifestyle since your dry, barren and exceptionally inhosiptable ArrTerra: Even during an excellent harvest season, tiny & infertile Arrtera can produce cereals just 30-40% of its needs at best!!! Now the free ride is over :-)
Secondly, which ports are u talking about??? We boycott them forever – They will forever remain like that: just camel holes!!! We have really wisened up and decided to develop an alternative long term national strategy, namely: to use Djibouti’s 2 ports. My people can no more be intimidated where you parasites hold your cousin agames across the border as hostages as if because of their proximity to you we are expected to submit to your selfish and greedy intersts — NO way!!! We are building national railway networks from coast to coast which might integrate the Rep. of South Sudan itno our own Ethiopian orbit. Please do us a favour, Eri-Agame Henok: Take your agame cousins from Ethiopia along with you and establish your own “trans-mereb one-agame republic” aka “Africa’s newest nation”. We will surely be relieved of you, and very grateful to both of you agames in history ;-) Case close as far as port issues is concerned!!!
Don’t you worry, Il inferiero: We are wisely and strategically using our material resources. Our new generation is gearing to be in charge by learning new skills and adding knowledge to uplift our impoverished but hard working pesants thereby improve their quality of life!!!
Greetings from the Honourable Deputy PM of Ethiopia, Engineer Desalegn Hailemariam. He is by the way my closest cousin from Welayta ;-)
Bitchy Sarah,
You parrotted to the effect that “…the evil agames who continue to occupy our sovereign Eritrean territories … when someone is occupying your country’s territories, it is a declaration of war bla bla bla”.
Then, since you Eri-Agames are “invincible”, what are you waiting for till this minute? Your dumb cousins are facing you directly right across the Mereb river since the year 2000!!! Lucky you LiKisKisoch, the USA saved you from being annihilated back then in 2000 — Had it not been for the USA, Ethiopia could have easily overpowered you and then proceed/march straight into Soulless-Asmara. It took Mighty Ethiopia, just net 4-days during the 1999 Operation Sunset Badme war to liberate Badme which was later to be followed with just net 12 days to decimate you Askaris-Hungry soldiers from all the remaining Sovereign Ethiopian territoris you occupird by default!!! The men of ArrTerra are at heart women with no Manhood :-)
Self reliance? Since when, please? That is just a typical myth which was long busted after the Badme war — The war was never about Badme nor about borders. If Badme were to be ArrTerran, why did you want to occupy since it was yours & in your hand. You do not invade what is at your jursidication and civil administration. Why then did you not conduct referendum back then in 1993 if Badme was ArrTerran? The Badme war was a pretext for you inferior Eri-Agames to intimidate your other agame cousins so that as your puppets they would impose unacceptable economic & financial policies on us Ethiopians in your favor BUT WE THE MAJORITY OF ETHIOPIANS RESISTED & FINALLY PREVAILED!!!
The USA you mentioned as masters of weyane, in fact you Eri-Slaves were the very ones who did beg and lobby to be their prime slaves and loyaly serve America’s strategic interests in the Horn of Africa!!!
Do not pretend, just admit it cos the whole wotld knows these fact of yours by now, viz.: ArrTerrans’s inferiority complex is boundless, you are naturally a jealous people!!!
stop spitting in your mother’s womb…you are agame come out and admit it…no Ethiopian respect you at this time of their history…kambata..blah blah..anybody can claim that…you are agame..BUSTED!
What an IDIOT – Get out of here, you INFERIOE AGAME!
Agame..
Ante Inferior AGAME!
Mamush sam – Ze DEHUMANISED AGAME weeps all day and all night 24/7!
Sendabo k., you are supposed to be an Ethiopian with no Agame roots if it’s the case why don’t you defend your people against the Agames which put your country as a begar nation indstead of shouting on Eritrea.
You can’t call Eritreabs as Agames because Agames are Ethiopians, what happen Mr.Sendabo if you are against your rulers, why shout on Eritreans.
If you have a relative being as fertilizer in Eritrea sorry for it we didb’t envite you, you swallow the pill.You are rude yuor words in Amharic makes you as a beggar soul.
Why are you here, the discussion is about Eritrea, not Ethiopia.
It shows how schizophrenic you are. You are mad period.
Sarah do not believe his non agame protestations…he is damned agame. Period.
Look back at all his posts he speaks TPLF lingo head to toe. He refers ti amhara in third person…the tone of his ranting decidedly lacks typical amhara sentiments. He is far of the mark in being Orome..in one of his postings he refers to them as gallas…no Oromiyan would say that. He inadvertently states that Eritreans had better use assab as watering hole for camels..hello this is meles chenawi’s statement. The tenets of an amhara sentiment revolves around United Ethiopia (Eri included) only woyane has a problem with that such as this newram agame called Sendabo..agames are totally shocked with the recent stunning diplomatic blow dealt to them at the AU, UN and now IGAD and UGANDA..DO NOT TRUST THIS FOUL MOUTH WOYANE FOOT SOLDIER BLUBBERING..SEITAN N AMELU METSHAF KIDUS YI-TEKIE..
IDIOT agamino sam,
I am infact refering to the dregotary ethnic slurs you northern so caled Abesha Semites refer to us the southerners, such as: you “fake” Semites call us Gudella (to Hadiyas and Kambatas), Galla to the Oromo, Donkey to Amaras, Shiritam to Afars & Ogadeni Somalis and sub-humans to all marginalised southern peoples!!!
Do you deny that, Ante INFERIOR agame Shoe-Shiner???
During my college days at Hawassa junior agricultural college, I myself and our people throughout the south experienced such ethnic slurs first hand by the fake Semites aka northern Abeshas, including the tigrinya speaking agames of highland ArrTerra!!!
Regarding your ports though, I must add here the fact that you own them and you aspire to use them as instruments of intimidation and blackmail against the majority of Ethiopians — I recommend, you better make them available for your agame cousins across the Mereb so that you can share them peacefully. The best way to use them effectively would be I guess to do the easiest and the obvious strategy: both you agames (of ArrTerra & Ethiopia) to establish Africa’s newest nation, viz.: a trans-Mereb one single agame nation state!!!
Bye bye, Il Inferioro Eri-agame :-)
Oh Queen-Bitchy Sarah,
It seems that you hhave got lots of guts vis-a-vis your men who are without any manhood – interesting!
Well, firstly: Hapless and minnow ArrTerra is a country of some 4.5 million citizens with 9 different ethnicities, it is not a single and uniform mono chrome cultural entity. Among these Nine disparate ethnic, cultural and linguistic identities, we have the tigrinya speaking so called “tigrinya” group — This particular group is a minority in ArrTerra and makes up some 700,000 souls, is referred to as “agame”, and by virtue of the Dehumanising experience at the hands of the Settler Sicilians the Eri-agame do exibit a deep seated inferiority complex!!! Therefore all ArrTerrans are not agame asuch! Obviously, we have on the ground a single “agame” ethnic group trascending the Mereb both in highland ArrTerra and in highland tigray region of Ethiopia :-)
Secondly, the agames of Ethiopia are Ethiopian citizens and they will remain so within the Ethiopian fold like mine the Kambata ethnic or the Deputy PM’s origin the Welayta ethnic as long as there is equality and social justice in our beloved Ethiopia. In fact, I must remind you the fact that the agames you are now loathing are resisted by the majority of Ethiopians because while they are ruling over Ethiopia they were advancing and protecting the subversive parasitic agendas of Fascist-Shabiya within Ethiopia!!! We expect them to rectify in-time their skewed and anti-Ethiopia policies which were definitely in favour of ArrTerra – This biased and treasnous policy of the weyane in favor of ArTerra MUST be corrected as soon as possible which is apparently happenning now in a systematic manner. This is a welcome development as far as they are concerned because their primary loyality MUST be to Mighty Ethiopia rather than to a foreign political weakling called ArrTerra :-)
Thirdly, you are lying when you claim that this discussion is exclusively and expressly about tiny ArrTerra — Don’t display your IDIOCY in public and insult at least your own twisted intelligence because the issue at hand is about sanctioning ArrTerra by the UNSC. The article writer is none other than the anti-Semite Sophia Tesfamariam, Fascist-Shabiya’s number one war of dog!!! She is making a case to defend Shabiya’s criminal and mafia inspired outlandish record both as innocent and asuch a victim of Ethiopia’s machinations – This is absolutely wrong, and MUST be busted auch!!! ArrTerra is accused of actively destablising the peace & security of the Horn of Africa by IGAD where my Ethiopia as the epicentre of the region the prime target of ArrTerra’s diabolical campaign. Tiny and dirt poor ArrTerra has in deed a subvertive agaend of destabilisation agains the development interests of the Ethiopian peoples. Ethiopians are very busy reconstructing and developing their country to uplift themselves from abject poverty. Ethiopia does NOT have any interest to use ArrTerra’s port services nor does she intend officially or unofficially to occupy its ports, now & forever. We have completely opted for Djibouti’s 2 port services which are under Djibouti’s sovereign jursidication, namely: Djibouti port and Tadjura port :-) :-)
So much so that just accept the fate of the strangulating snooze which is getting tight & tighter round your ArrTerra’s neck. ArrTerra CAN NOT & MUST NOT be allowed to take Somalia as a hostage to blackmail my dear Ethiopia!!! Free Ethiopia’s untapped vast material resources are only for Ethiopians – Do NOT be jealous and crave for our riches.
Now go back to your hot, barren and exceptionally inhospitable ArrTerra and advise your Paranoid Shizophrenic Tyrant Il Duce IsAhiyas to give up his gangsterism in public before the eyes of the international community!!!
Thanks but no tanks :-) Good luck but you won’t surely succeed – What a pity for an unfortunate agames of ArrTerra!!!
Sendabo K,
If you were amhara…then election 05 and the bloodbath there after, followed by 99.9% TPLF majority in election 2010..the impoverishment, jailing and terrorizing of amhara leaders and so on would not have made you comeout and blubber about your “dear Ethiopia’s” construction feats…after all amhara’s say “mother/enat Ethiopia” not “dear Ethiopia” as stranger would say…but again your agame fellows have been estranged to Ethiopia for “Abay Tigray” and only came back to loot it.
If you are Oromo…the mass arrests of oromo people, witch hunt of their leaders and starving them willfully for not supporting the looting marauding agame army…would not make you say “dear Ethiopia” and its development oriented leadership that is now making “the right” thing.
If you are Ogadina…the burning of villages by agames, indiscriminate killing and mass raping of their women and children under agame would not make you say “my dear Ethiopia”…
Eritreans are very smart and sharply observant not to be taken for a ride by a foulmouthed beggared agame like you…the more you rant the more we come to know you..keep ranting agame boy.
i forgot to say..tumma galtenta though!
Shoe shiner agame boy sam,
Am glad that you replied without any hesitation – It seems to me that nowadays you inferior Geredoch do have nothing worthwhile to think except to pit one ethnic group against the other in Ethiopia by sewing the seeds of hatred and amniosity in the diabolical false hope of yours dividing and weakening Ethiopia’s unity thereby it will dismember into a dozen of mini-states! All such attempts by Eri-agames will just be futile, you denigrated sub-humans won’t succeed at all :-)
Look, you son-of-a-bitch-agame: Whatever your hairsplittings, I can feel it really how much you are so frustrated and delusinnend witnessing the discernible socio-economic developments of Wudd-EnatHager Ethiopia!!!
We the Kambata & Hadiya people originally hail from Shoa, Gojjam and Gondar regions but never from any locality of both agame provinces. Through time, we are intermarried and mixed with the Oromo, the Gurage, the Welayta, the Gofa, the Sidama and the likes. Therefore, while I am born and raised in Alaba-Kulito, my both parents hail from a small town called Durame! Case closed, Idiot.
As to the crimes and human rights violations committed against the Oromo, Ogadenis, Amaras etc, I condemn them and we are resisting the dictatorship of your agame cousins without ifs and buts. Time is changing in our favour, the majority of Ethiopia and we are the ones who will rule over her for the coming thousands of years – However, make no mistake the fact that you Parasite agames of arrTerra won’t succeed swindling and expropriating our vast material resources!!!
The weyanes you are loathing today were your intimate bed-fellows and both of you in deed conspired to exploit our resources so that you Gered-Slaves could develop an Asian tiger economy at our expense. The weyanes were facilitating your mafia thefts in broad daylight – We resisted and they submitted to our pressure. That is why you attempted to intimidate them in order that they on your behalf impose your Evil, Parasitic & Subertive designs on us. Asuch there is no fight between weyane and Fascist-Shabiya, rather it is a fight between Fascist-Shabiya and the rest of the majority of Ethiopia as to who controls our lash and vast natural resources. Simply put, Eri-agames are NOT going to control our destiny as free sovereign people!!!
By the way, why do not you worry about the ethnic cleansing and ethnic engineering crimes that is going on inside ArrTerra? Why don’t you condemn and resist Fascist Shabiya’s crimes agains ArrTerra’s indigeneous peoples? Why is that you don’t talk about the youth slavery going on in the Sawa military camp since 1996/7? Why is that ArrTerra has no a functioning constitution? Why there is no general election until now? Where are the imprisoned free press journalistd of ArrTerra? Are you condonning all these crimes of the tyrant Il Duce IsAhiyas?
Teballe Ennde, Abett Abett :-) If inferior ArrTerrans are smart as you claim, how then did the end up getting DEHUMANISED and DENIGRATED in their own country by Apartheid Colonists?
In conclusion: just learn to confine yourselves within your own exceptionally inhosptable barren land for what you fought ok eri-agamino shoe-shiner, the Yenne-MinnTessinnot’Zerr :-) Leboch’na Werro’Belloch!!!
The UN Security Council should in fact extend, further stiffen and tigthen a good dozen of pronunced sactions on ArrTerra!!!
Yeah :-)
To sam Eri-agame,
Why are you Tigrinya agames looting the GOLD wealth of the indigenous people’s in ArrTerra???
Everybody knows that the dry, infertile and barren Kebesa highland province of ArrTerra does not possess any worth mentioning or rather any meaningful natural resources, right?
However, if you are really interested in lively & substantive conversation with me, just share with me your e-mail address, so that we can dicuss on lots of issues directly one-to-one on the phone – I would be glad. I can call you anywhere in the world wherever you reside ….
Till then, take care & have a great weekend :-)
Greetings from Alaba-Kulito.