The
Habitual Distortion of the Eritrean Elites is Major Cause for the Havoc &
Suffering of the Eritrean People
(Response
to Petros Tesfagiorgis)
ጌታቸው ረዳ
Here are two of my responses combined together, part from the previous
and part to your latest response “Eritreans Have a Profound Sense of Their
Own History: A Response to ጌታቸው ረዳ By Petros Tesfagiorgis potsed at Aiga ”
Dear Paulos;
I need to
remind you back to what you wrote and the response I did on which you seemed
not to grasp, or intentionally do closed your eye what is written there. I read
your response this time again in the hope you will challenge my points,
unfortunately, you have failed to strike my valid points and Questions
referring my response as full of fallacies. No it was not. I will prove you
wrong below.
1- As you clearly stated it yourself, you do not want to
response point by point, because, I caught you red-handed distorting the incident
like that of TiHisha’s death in Addis Abeba. You told your readers that Temesgen
Haile (Tihisha) was arrested, tortured and put to death. Which is a white lie? Perhaps
you are ignorant of knowing your own icons; or simply you have no idea what you
were writing. I corrected you to straighten up your distortion, that, he was
not caught or arrested or tortured. He jumped himself through a high tower
building window in Addis and expired. He did this because; he was the ring
leader of the bandits in Addis and decided not to expose members of his
clandestine thugs who were exploiting and destabilizing Ethiopia. Here you are saying you can’t response to my
points, because they are full of fallacies.
You can’t respond to it, because you even tried to distort recorded
incident.
Distortion is not new to most of the Eritrean elites.
It is habitual. Because of it, the suffering of the Eritrean people is majorly
caused by the elites such as you. The denial is too many, still fresh in our
memory as fresh as since the establishment of Eritrean Liberation (the
Eritrean elites’ lies and distortion could go far as far as denying identity
which some identified themselves as Arabs. Our memory is still active), so I am
not surprised.
You tried to distort history saying;
2-
“Accordingly, the
EPLF changed its political narrative to one that declared that the EPLF was
fighting against the repressive regime in Ethiopia, and not the people of
Ethiopia, who were oppressed themselves.”
How brilliant! You forgot to tell us that each of you
were murdering each other and those who followed EPLF or ELF or Ethiopia, as
free people to follow whoever they want to follow were target for murder,
torture and disappearance. Who can believe you now, when you are telling us you
were not fight with the people of Ethiopia, but with regimes when you were
clearly slaughtering each other.
Yes, you were fighting our people. You know as well as
I do, that each Eritreans have nicknames for the Tigrayans and Amhara. “Agame”
for the people of Tigray. And “Adgi” for the people of Amhara. Those vocabulary are accepted norms on the
mind of each Eritreans (be it elders or youth or children) since Italian era.
If as you lie above, that the EPLF was fighting
against the repressive regime in Ethiopia and not the people of Ethiopia- why
then you lost a gut (lost moral ground) to stand up and said “Amhara should not
apologize the Eritrean people?” Amhara were made to apologize by camouflaged
Amhara individuals in Asmara stadium when the EPLF stooge of the time “TPLF”
send the following individual Ethiopians to apologize the Eritrean people
camouflaged as Amhara?
And your war was not against Haileselassie government or
the Derg as you claimed- your war operation was against Amhara people. The
documents and radio DimiTsi Hafash audios are evidences. Of course, which you
and your likes romanticized your struggle as “AnTsar Amharu” (Tsere- Amhara/Shewa).
Was not it so?
Rememebr this names? I gave reminded you last time? Is
this a fallacy?
1-Tesfaye Habis
(Kabata) Not Amhara!!!!
2-Endrias Eshete (from Menz. A close confidante of
Meles Zenawi and a friend of the CIA Paul Henz)
3-Tadele Yimer
(unknown- but he was working as Hotel workers’ federation)
4-Negus
AsgeleTew
How do you explain the above Mr. Petros?
Yet, no one, no TPLF or any TPLF followers apologize for such fabrication. We do not expect to hear apology, because they knew it was a crime to fabricate a crime and accused the Amhara people responsible for the Eritrean sufferings and crimes done in Eritrea. This very, very important, at least, to us the Ethiopians, in particular, to our Amhara brothers and sitars who were accused for nothing unfairly by both EPLF&TPLF for too long.
Look, let alone when you guys were in the jungle, even after you claimed you got your freedom, your Amhara hatred could not go away from the mind of the Eritreans. What you did to our people (you and your brother Paulos were part of the regime serving it at the time). Read this in Amharic, unless you also denied can’t read Amharic.
“አህያን የጦር ሠራዊት ልብስ አልብሰዉ; የጦር ሠራዊት ጫማ አድርገዉለት “ቼ’ “ዉሽ” እያሉ ኢትዮጵያዉያኖችን አህያዉን እያሳዩ ነበር የሚደበድቡን……”
(ከኤርትራ በግፍ እንዲወጡ የተደረጉ ኢትዮጵያዊን) posted
at Ethiopian seamy- source Reporter.
According to the lady who was a victim of the
Eritrean racists and the regime—she is saying in the detailed Amharic report;
“We were gathered and dragged all Ethiopians
in one place in the center of Asmara city. Then, the Eritreans dressed a donkey
a military Uniform and a military boot, insinuated the Donkey as the Amhara
people and beating us to hell and calling us ’Donkeys.” (source as above)
I want all of you know that it is time to heal
yourself before talking peace with us. You or your leader Isayas are all
racists and begets who call black skin and fat lips as Barya/HarnaTs/Kenfar.
Have you ever heard your leader Iasyas Afewerki calling Colonel Mengistu Hailemariam
“Harero, Bariya, Minchiram, Kenfar….?” Yes you did hear Isayas Afewerki calling
him as such! This was talked publicly in
when “Eritrean Town Hall meeting with Isyas Afewerki, held in Washington DC”
(USA). You and your likes were his own tools serving him shamelessly at the
time. You remember that clearly. It is
on you Tube and recorded on home videos.
So, to say your struggle not with the people of
Ethiopia, but with the repressive regime of the time is a lie and the habitual
twist and turn character of the Elites of Eritreans’ is not new at least for me.
Even the well known opportunist Dr. BereKet Habteselassie, still believes,
Eritrea was a colony of Ethiopia. This is the man who is saying such ignorance;
a man himself was a Mayor and finally an Attorney General of Ethiopia to a colonizer
country- supposedly to colonized him.
Where will it be better treated the sickness you all are
suffering with this deception and denial not to admit failures and crimes? This
is why I am saying the suffering of Eritrean people is not primary lack of
peace, but lack of bright Eritrean minds with fresh thinking. As Yossef
G/Hiywet said it correctly ‘you all are romanticizing Gedli” which is a primary
cause for the hell Eritreans are now suffering. The Gedli are no body or
nothing, but the work of the corrupted and distorted Eritrean elites industry
of destabilization, intimidation, murder and repression.
Shockingly, you even deny that Isyas lead EPLF
infected Eritrean Medical doctor by HIV virus for not going along with the regime's crime work- regardless, I gave you the evidence himself the doctor
talking with tears on his interview posted on you Tub. I can’t say nothing to such
response, but to ask you ‘Were you by any chance part of such conspiracy or
your family members or friend involved in it?” If such is not the case, then
there is no way, such educated person like you denied ever such crime occurred.
Have you called the doctor and challenged him that it never occurred to him by
the EPLF lead government in Asmara?
Let me conclude with the hatred of Amhara & Tigray
people by Eritreans asking you this. You know, you and your likes were accusing
the Amhara as a colonizers. I speak with confidence- if you could have put to
court and asked under oath to testify to the question “Mr. Petros - at one time
or another have you ever used the word Agame (referring to Tigrayans) or
“Ae-udug” (donkeys) referring to the Amhara people? Your Attorney could have jump in to advice you
not to say anything, instead use your 5th Amendment not to increment
yourself. Right!? Such is a norm in the mouth of each Eritreans at one time or
another in their life.
3- You initiated peace between the two people, because,
Quote,
“To initiate a peace dialogue with the people of
Ethiopia is a priority because no-peace, no war has served the
Eritrean regime as an escape goat to hold the Eritrean youth hostage under the
program of indefinite national service/forced labor, which gave rise to the
influx of huge number of refugees to exile, as well as other forms of human
rights violations.”
Then, I said, the defect for the peace to stall is not
the people of Ethiopia or the people of Eritrea as you naively suggested.
Therefore, no reason to call both people to make peace. Because, the cause for
the peace to stagnantly stay where it is now is “. Why? Because, you even said it rightly so above quoted (#3),
though, you naively destroyed it back again yourself.
You said:-
Quote;
“
If so, who is causing the suffering? Are the two
people the cause of their won suffering or as you said it rightly so “The
Eritrean regime”? It is the Eritrean regime who is intentionally for its
scapegoat purposes holding the peace to stalled, because “no peace no war has
served the regime in Eritrea magnificently”.
The people
inside Eritrea and their army as you said can’t demonstrate, even with a peaceful
demonstration to address their issues against Isayas regime. In my opinion,
this suggested to me they are too wimp to challenge the group in power. Worst
as that, even those armed with a gun are worst wimp than the ordinary unarmed
citizens. So, therefore, because of such unfortunate circumstances, I gave you
two options for the Eritreans and two options for Ethiopians a way out, as a fast solution to bring peace among the
two people.
Options for Eritreans
(A) Remove the regime by army coup or by individual
nationalist/or groups.
(B)
By ‘New’ Armed
guerrilla fighters not by those who are already in Ethiopia doing nothing, for
years and years, but holding the title “Hotel Guerrillas” or as one of my
Eritrean friend calls them “Yeharer
Senga” (Kilib)
Option for Ethiopians
(A)
Replace the regime
in Ethiopia by democratic and nationalist leaders or regime, not a leader or
group who sided with Eritreans against own country Ethiopia’s interest.
( B) - Okay,
that is fine to create peace and harmony with is good intention. But, we can’t
even create our own peace, let alone focusing with you guys. The problem is not
here currently between you and us- the problem we are having an issue is
dealing with your comrades in arms called TPLF.
Those were my
points and you failed to grasped them, because as the rest of your comrades
inside or outside Eritrea, are habitually addicted to lies and deceptions. The
Elites in Eritrea for some reason still won’t acknowledge their misdeeds and
false policies for supporting EPLF leaders as their tools to dehumanize the
Eritrean people in the name of Liberation and Freedom, while they murdered each
other for so long.
You know and I know
that, you guys made the Eritrean fields and mountains butchering places for
fellow Eritreans. Yet, EPLF never apologize the ELF fighters and families for
atrocious genocide it committed.
You all deceived
your won people and the world with a myth and unheard slogan in the world; “Had
Libi, Hade Hizbi”
The following was also a distortion on your
previous article, which my readers need to really understand the lie carefully.
Quote:-
“Lightening attack by combined EPLF and OLF forces
against the Ethiopian army took place in mid-1980 in the South of
Ethiopia. It struck fear into the Military Junta. At that time the EPLF
army traveled all the way through the Sudan, to join the OLF in the South.
Look how fallacies and ignorant argument you are
coming with when you referred to the Amhara school children genocide by your
own EPLF combined with your stooge “OLF” which you described it as
“ a lightening attack against the Ethiopian Army and
struck fear into the Military Junta.”
Lord give us mercy! You called the genocide of the “Amhara
School Children” as a lightning strike against the Army in 1980, which was a
genocide campaign against the Amhara people lead by Mekonne (the deceased EPLF
commando leader) of the POL POT of the Sahel guerrilla group? You are proud
your EPLF for joining the criminal OLF who still will face for genocide crime
in Ethiopia and brag and glamorized about it? How normal is your rational mind?
Are you out of your mind?
Let me remind your distortion brother what took place
in such genocide campaign took in Assosa (Southern Ethiopia Benshangul). The
insurgency campaign had two objectives to carry. Since they were supported by
Sudanese Tanks,
1)
EPLF-OLF objective was to chase out
the 42000 thousands of Sudanese refugees the border town of Assosa who were
being cared for by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. The
Khartoum government accused these refugees of serving as the source of military
recruitment for the SPLA. And hence the collaboration of the Khartoum
government in the invasion of Ethiopian territory. (THE ASSOSA (Welega) SHAABIA-OLF MASSACRE: OF PEASANT SETTLERS: 1990
-Aleme Eshete (PhD)- source Ethiopian Semay)
1)
EPLF-OLF objective was to
chase out the 42000 thousands of Sudanese refugees the border town of Assosa
who were being cared for by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.
The Khartoum government accused these refugees of serving as the source of
military recruitment for the SPLA. And hence the collaboration of the Khartoum
government in the invasion of Ethiopian territory. (THE ASSOSA (Welega)
SHAABIA-OLF MASSACRE: OF PEASANT SETTLERS: 1990 -Aleme Eshete (PhD)- source
Ethiopian Semay)
2) So upon arrival in Assosa the
EPLF and OLF fighters had divided the population of Assosa by ethnic and
linguistic identity. The Tigrigna speaking settlers were separated from the
rest to be taken back to Tigrai, which, in retrospect, makes one strongly
suspect the presence among the armed invaders of the Tigrai Peoples Liberation
Front (TPLF) – another offspring of the EPLF strategy for the tribal
dismemberment of Ethiopia, which EPLF armed and organised since TPLF inception
in 1975 The Amharic speaking peasants of “Gojam Sefer” were separated and told
to leave the country in five days These poor peasants included some who have
settled there for generations. They were told that they had come to liberate
Assosa as a Galla territory. The peasants had naturally responded this was
their country where they have lived some for decades, where they have toiled to
earn whatever they have earned as farmers or as small traders, and that they
had nowhere to go. They had particularly targeted the Amharic speakers of
“Gojam sefer” (“Gojam town”) the area inhabited mainly by the Gojamese who were
treated as “neftegna” armed colonizers.
Following this, early on Tuesday (15 Tir or January 1990) the
EPLF/OLF armed men had called on every tucul in Gojam Sefer inviting all – men,
women and children, to an urgent assembly. When the people arrived, they took
them to a school building and divided them into two classrooms. here were among
the invited peasants pregnant women, mothers with newly born babies, as well as
children and men and women in advanced ages. Then the EPLF/OLF and certainly
also TPLF forces ordered the doors of the class rooms closed and those inside
were brutally massacred by hand bombs and launchers, following which the school
building was put on fire. Those who managed to run away were searched and
gunned down. Among the estimated 300 dead were men, women children, and newly
born babies. Many others had survived with heavy wounds and mutilations. It was
the tale as told by these videotaped survivors that the world has come to know
about the Assosa massacre. (Source same as above).
This was the crime
you are glamorizing that your “EPLF and OLF” did strike a fear in the heart of
children and mothers committed genocide crime. Shame on you Petros!.
You also tried to
show how a man of moral you are advocating peace as below stated even though
you still glamorize a genocide crime.
You said:-
“I advocate for peace from the point of
view that the campaign for peace is a movement of moral conscience that can end
the suffering and pain of the victims – the ordinary people and not the
politicians.”
First to teach people to establish
a movement of moral conscience,
One needs to avoid
glamorizing crime of genocide. 2- one need to apologize to its people for
causing so much pain upon the people of Eritrea by being a stooge to the
current criminal groups ruling Eritrea currently. Isayas alone is not and
should not be accountable for such heinous crime and abuse. You all Eritrean
elites involved with Isayas system need to apologize before you do anything.
Without apologizing and acknowledging your share to the deception and crime
involvement during and after the struggle- that person or group/groups have no
business talking about peace. You the Eritreans elites such as you, need to
solve the hostility among yourself and the Eritrean people before talking peace
among you and us. Are these facts and records fallacies?
This was the crime
you are glamorizing that your “EPLF and OLF” did strike a fear in the heart of
children and mothers committed genocide crime. Shame on you Petros!.
You also tried to show how a man of moral you are
advocating peace as below stated even though you still glamorize a genocide
crime.
You said:-
“I advocate for peace from the point of
view that the campaign for peace is a movement of moral conscience that can end
the suffering and pain of the victims – the ordinary people and not the
politicians.”
First to
teach people to establish a movement of moral conscience,
One needs to
avoid glamorizing crime of genocide. 2- one need to apologize to its people for
causing so much pain upon the people of Eritrea by being a stooge to the
current criminal groups ruling Eritrea currently. Isayas alone is not and
should not be accountable for such heinous crime and abuse. You all Eritrean
elites involved with Isayas system need to apologize before you do anything. Without
apologizing and acknowledging your share to the deception and crime involvement
during and after the struggle- that person or group/groups have no business
talking about peace. You the Eritreans elites such as you, need to solve the
hostility among yourself and the Eritrean people before talking peace among you
and us. Are these facts and records fallacies?
Coming to your current
response;-titled “Eritreans have a profound sense of their own history”
Yes, you smelled me right; my main contention is ‘Peace cannot
take place unless the “issue of the illegal separation [which is the independence
of Eritrea] and illegal blockage of sea port” is addressed under different
regimes /representatives/ beside those in power.
I just
laughed to your statement below when saying:-
“With the
defeat of Italians, during the Second World War, the case of Eritrea, like
Libya and Somalia became a case of De-colonization.”
This is
another lie. There was never any claimant to Libya, Somalia as there was a
claimant to Eritrea which is Ethiopia. This is because, Eritrea was part of
Ethiopia throughout history legitimately since Axum, AmdeTsion (13 century- who
formed the present map from Eritrea all the way even some part of Somali),
Tewodros, Yohannes, Haileselassie and Derg.
No Libya and
Somalia never were part of any other countries like Eritrea was part of
Ethiopia. What the hell were you and your likes of Bereket doing in Ethiopia if
you think Ethiopia was colonizer of Eritrea? You and your likes were
comfortably working and studying as equally. Strangely, even better privileged,
better schooled, with lands and houses and businesses paying equal tax than any
other of us, until the Badme conflict broke.
Majority
number of Eritreans told history at the era of Adey Adey “We are Ethiopian not
anything called Eritrea a name given by Italian Colonizer”. And there, they
protest demanding ‘a fast reunion’ and they got it. But, the distorted Islamic right wing called themselves not Eritreans but Arabs loose hellfire upon the
Eritrean people establishing terror group called Jebha; who yourself claimed
Christians were targeted and slaughtered by Islamic wings inside Jebha. And you
followed such opposition who claimed stood for justice and opposing religious
discrimination to fool the people.
As a result
of the conflict inside jebha, your leader Isayas assigned inside collaborators
like “Haile W/selassie “DeroU” formed a clandestine group within Jebha and
finally managed to destroy it forever. He and his gangs established a Kebessa
group (Christian group) claimed the need to defend the Christians themselves by
joining the new group lead by Isayas from the atrocities of the low landers
(Muslims). Read NeHnan Elamanan. Or read a marvellous book called “Telmi Ni
Zeree Kirdad ትልሚ ንዘርኢ ክርዳድ” (ደራሲ ረድኢ መሓሪ)- authored Redee Mehari (which I did a commentary on
it under the title “BILASH TAHRIR” ብላሽ ታሕሪር) on which the author liked it.
Coming to
the Colonial issue which is been let loose for so long with few challengers.
I have no
idea if you were following my Amharic papers before regarding this issues of
colony; but, here is the fact which is written in English by Dr. Negussay Ayele
(rest his soul in peace) similar to my Amharic written arguments so you can
understand me in case you claimed you can’t read Amharic (the usual Eritrean
Amaharic and Amhara hate and distortions).
Here is Professor
Negussay Ayele which I will quote him in a brief notes from his long document.
Fascist Italy made
the first Ethiopia-Eritrea border regime spanning the period of 1896-1936 obsolete
when it invalidated the treaties it had signed and invaded Ethiopia. It then
completely changed the boundaries and instituted a new cartographic make-up of
the Horn region, albeit for five years. With its deliberate unprovoked
aggression, Fascist Italy violated the treaties and obliterated previous
Ethiopia-Eritrea borders, which were operational between colonial Italy and
Ethiopia. Therefore, those colonial treaties pertaining to the Ethiopia-Eritrea
borders were rendered null and void as of 1936.
When Italian
invading forces entered Addis Ababa in May of 1936 they altered the
geopolitical landscape of the Horn. They merged Ethiopia with their colonial
possessions of Eritrea and Somalia to create Italian East Africa. The
boundaries between Ethiopia on the one hand and the Italian colonial entities
of Eritrea and Somalia were no more. So, when the Fascists were booted out of
Ethiopia-Eritrea in 1941-42, the borders of the region were no longer what they
were in the pre-war period. Had the British not decided unilaterally to keep
the Eritrean coastal region under their control as ‘Occupied Enemy Territory',
the whole of Ethiopia-Eritrea would have re-emerged as one entity. The pretext
for this unilateral action by the British was the expanding war by the Allies
against the Axis powers and hence the need for Allied presence in the Horn.
Needless to say, the ready image of Eritrea for the British (as the premier
colonial power in Africa) was the ante bellum Italian colonial cartography they
were familiar with, despite its nullification by Fascist Italy.
Here then is the
cartographic representation of that 1936-1941 Ethiopia-Eritrea border regime.
Map 1. Ethiopia during
Fascist Italy's Occupation (1936-41).
The bottom line here
is that as of 1952, Ethiopia’s de jure international boundary in the North
recognized by the whole world was the thousand kilometers long shores of the
Red Sea, not Eritrea. Of course, internal ELF/EPLF secessionist struggles a la
Biafra, Shabia, Anya Nya in Africa were joined in the region. A federated
country is one country under a single sovereignty regardless of ongoing
secessionist movements or civil wars in it. Aside from opinions alluding to the
subject, the UN Resolution did not enunciate what to do in the event of a
critical constitutional issue in the federal system, such as what happened in
1962, when the Eritrean assembly voted to abolish the federation and opt for
outright union. What is known is the fact that the United Nations did not react
one way or another on the change of status from federal to union at the time or
thereafter. Curiously, under the zealous guidance of then Secretary General
Boutros-Ghali, the UN, along with the TPLF in Addis Ababa, facilitated and
expedited the process of EPLF-Eritrean secession from 1991 through 1993.
That 1952-1987
cartographic rendition of the administrative border regime of Ethiopia- Eritrea
was as follows.
Map 2. Ethiopia between 1952-1987.
After some
thirty-five years of the border regime depicted above we come to another border
regime which features cartographic change in Ethiopia’s internal geopolitical
landscape. In 1987, the Derg government of the day opted to make extensive
internal border changes to reflect its cultural, economic, political and
strategic dictates. Subsequently, the whole country was reorganized into thirty
units. In the north, the new map of Ethiopia comprising about a third of the
Afar inhabited parts of the administrative region of Eritrea as well as Afar
areas of Wello and adjacent administrative regions, as one unit designated
"Asseb Autonomous Region." The other two-thirds of the
Eritrean administrative region became "Autonomous Region of Eritrea."
This cartographic
modification or change of Ethiopia’s internal territorial shape was the border
regime that EPLF and TPLF found in place when they took over in Asmara and
Addis Ababa in 1991. Predictably, EPLF and its allies did not like that
internal adjustment. Nevertheless, unless one denies the verity of Ethiopian
sovereignty in 1987, and hence its legal competence to make cartographic
changes within its sovereign territory, these internal border adjustments
represent the legitimate exercise of the government in power at the time. Note
the fact that the TPLF government has redrawn the internal borders of what is
left of Ethiopia regardless of objections to it in some quarters. Hence, there
was no legal basis or dictate for an incoming government in Addis Ababa to hark
back to an obsolescent colonial border regime and carve out forty six thousand
square miles of territory including all of Ethiopia’s natural seashores to
EPLF.
Therefore, said the
grandeur Professor Negussay Ayele in his final argument’
“The problems
pertaining to relations between Ethiopia and Eritrea ought to be reexamined in
their entirety. The policy (vis-à-vis Eritrea) which until now has remained
murky and nebulous should be crystal clear and categorical. We should be able
to enunciate confidently the nature of relations between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
And, this is our right as citizens. We should not just plod on complaining like
the man who, when asked to beat his in-law, said, "but how can I go past my wife?"
(Personal translation).
The cartographic rendition of that 1987 border regime apropos to northern
Ethiopia is represented in the map below.
Map 3. The 1987 Border Regime of Ethiopia (1987-91).
How does this
rendition of Eritrean identity square up with the prevailing view in Ethiopia
at large or in Tigray, in Eritrea, or even in the rest of the world at the time
that Eritrea was being "created as a state by Italian colonialism?"
Despite his nationalist zeal as Ethiopia’s ruler, Eritrea was lost to the
Italians during the suzerainty of Tigrayan Emperor Yohannes. Still, it was he who
protested a century ago saying: "I
did not give them (the Italians) Massawa; the British gave it to them…Massawa
is Ethiopian and I have neither the intention nor the power to alienate any
territory which properly belongs to Ethiopia." The
question here is, "What gives?" How is it that an older generation of
Tigrayan leadership of Ethiopia that was there says Massawa (i.e, Eritrea) is
Ethiopian, and then another generation of Tigrayan leadership a century later,
which was not there, says Massawa (Eritrea) was not Ethiopian? Which generation
of rulers is in a better position to know? (For details on aspects of the
contemporary history of the region, see my "Ras Alula and Ethiopia’s
Struggles against Expansionism and Colonialism: 1872-1897" in The
Centenary of Dogali, edited by Tadesse Beyene, etal, Addis Ababa, 1988).”
(Negussay Ayele.)
So, therefore, Mr. Petros-
Some members of the
international community that had supported and recognized the single
sovereignty of Ethiopia-Eritrea, at least since 1950, facilitated this forcible
illegitimate act of politicize of Ethiopia in 1991 while others acquiesced to
it as a fait accompli. Under the circumstances, any formal agreement or treaty
concluded between the two colluding parties (EPLF and TPLF) to seal the border
based on such illegitimate acts, at the expense of the legitimate and abiding
interests of the peoples of Ethiopia-Eritrea, is bound to remain illegal and
unacceptable.
On Part 3 we will
see the uneducated argument that Petros accusing the previous rulers (Haileselassie
and Mengistu) regimes as Amhara rulers is illiterate assessment (this kind of
academic illiteracy is not only seen on Eritreans, but including with Tigrayans
and other ethno-centric Ethiopian politicians- TPLF, OLF, …). Thogh we asked for evidence, he or others
failed to back their claim with evidence when asked.
This shows that
Petros is still living in the mind of the old NaKafa school thinking. I doubt
Petros’s knowledge that all rulers in Ethiopia belong to which ethnic in time
memorial.
Again as to
Petros’s allegation against the reason Ginbot 7 or others opposition fighting
the regime in Ethiopia is because they are “Tigrayans” is unfair assessment.
Petros’s did not seem to educate himself the nature of abuse, atrocity and
genocide, deportation taking place in Ethiopia for the last 27 years. Even the
leaders themselves admitted when Petros is defending the undefended. Part 3
will continue……………..
Thanks
Getachew Reda
(Ethiopian Semay) getachre@aol.com
