The cat’s-paw

When the regime of the Eritrean president, Isayas Afewerki, had surprisingly put forward an initiative to reform relations between Eritrea and the Sudan, I had immediately written in this space under the title " The Leopard Can Not Change Its Spots", warning the Government of National Unity not to be deceived and blindly run after mirage. I had asked the government to be prudent and patient while considering the Eritrean motives that stay behind the plan, before responding to it. At that time, too, I said am of the opinion that the Eritrean regime had been in the face of inevitable war with its mother neighbor Ethiopia, and that it was not dim-witted to be engaged in that war bared-back. So, it wanted to quiet its western front until things at the southern front look better. As I have said; the hostility of Afewerki to Sudan will not end, because it is against the Sudan as a country, entity and people; not the Sudanese regime as such. Now Afewerki’s deeds have proven what we had said; because as soon as he has felt détente at the southern front, he put on his old spots and his hands began to practice the awful habit of disturbing Sudan’s stability and security; this time in another area not the east of Sudan but Darfur.Some diplomatic sources disclosed to the press an information about a Chadian-Eritrean plot to flare up situations in Darfur; as 8 Eritrean planes have airlifted military hardware to backup Darfur rebels to carry out an articulated plan that will begin by occupying vital areas in Darfur and will be ended by the total control of rebels over situations in Darfur.Of course these weapons were not from Eritrean warehouses and were not purchased by Eritrean money as well; because the budget and resources of Afewerki’s regime can not afford to good living for Eritreans who have scattered all over the four corners of the world.The Eritrean regime is an entrepreneur that works for powers that use it as cat’s-paw to scribble its neighbors and then it will, together with bunch around it, receive the price. The poor Eritrean people, however, will reap the wind, misery, scattering and disgrace