By Habtom Yohannes
April 13 April 2006
It is your Eritrean and Swedish constitutional right to listen to the right hand of the dictator Isaias Afworki who is responsible for the indefinite incarceration of the Swedish-Eritrean national Dawit Isaac. His wife and children are living in Sweden among you. Would you dare to ask Yemane Gebreab about the whereabouts of Dawit Isaac and the other prisoners of conscience? And what their crimes are? And when they will be brought not to special kangaroo courts but to an independent constitutional court. If you do so, you might have an excuse to visit such a money-collecting meetings.
My respected compatriots,
These days you will go from different parts of Europe to Sweden to attend a meeting organised by the sole party in Eritrea: the Peoples Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ). Mr. Yemane Gebreab (Monkey) will address the meeting and probably the Eritrean Ambassador to Sweden (Ato Araya Desta ?) will sit on the right side of Ato Yemane Gebreab and Dr. Musse Misghina will sit on the left side of the party ideologue. Marx, Lenin and Engels.
What do you expect to hear from Mr. Yemane Gebreab and his cohorts? Those of you who have been visiting similar meetings in the past could dream and jot down blindly what the speech will be. Let alone from Yemane Gebreab nothing new is to be expected from President Isaias Afwerki of PFDJ. To expect something new from the apostles of Isaias is like expecting something new from the old mantra's of Mengistoe Hailemariam.
Let me guess some of the ingredients of Ato Yemane's Easter speech:
{{ 1. Ethiopia's refusal to accept the final & binding of the decision of EEBC,
2. Weyane's intransigence; the huge internal problems of Ethiopia. That Weyane is undemocratic and unconstitutional,
3. The West led by the United States of America has been pampering Ethiopia at the cost of Eritrea and the Eritrean people,
4. The Eritrean government has successfully foiled different initiatives to derail the legality of the EEBC-decision,
5. The international community, except Libya, China, Cuba, North Korea and the Republic of Belarus (Lukashenko), is the enemy of the Eritrean people,
6. Against all these odds the Eritrean Government together with the Eritrean Defence Forces will foil these international conspiracies against Eritrea. We will certainly foil them if you, our youth in the Diaspora, stand with us in this patriotic struggle. You have done so in the past - we are very grateful - for that, and we are certain you will continue to support us until victory is achieved,
7. We know the Weyanes, supported by Eritrean sell-outs and traitors will not rest until they seize the ports of Eritrea. But this is only a dream as long us you remain with us,…etcetra.
8. The wonderful achievements of Warsay Yikaalo… }}
He will add to these verses the marvellous economic achievements of the country on the economic level (oil, gold), infrastructural accomplishments of PFDJ and the harvest that feeds not only the Eritrean people but the whole continent. We have offered the hungry Ethiopian people help but they have rejected it,
On the diplomatic level we have been achieving wonderful results. Even the international community and the ever-brotherly government of the Sudan have asked us to bring peace in The Sudan. And as ever before we are doing our best to achieve peace and democracy in our neighbour Sudan,
After the unforgettable speech of Mr. Yemane Gebreab, you will go the dance floor (wegah tibel leyti, dance until down) and Sunday and Monday will arrive. And nothing, not a yota, will change. You have "enjoyed" the festivities, PFDJ will earn money but the Eritrean people will continue to suffer under the regime you support blindly.
Be sure that Ato Yeman Gebreab won't talk about:
1. Why the Eritrean regime has failed diplomatically on almost all fields, even on the border issue while Eritrea has the moral ground on every bit of it?
2. The Constitution of Eritrea (ask him when it will be implemented?),
3. Why the only Eritrean psychiatrist and Eritrean orthodox clergy, Dr. Fitsum Gebrengus has been in detention without any trial together with other intellectual clergy of the Orthodox Church of Eritrea?
4. Why His Holiness, the Eritrean Patriarch Abune Antonios, is removed from power by laymen, like Yuftahe Dimetros with the support of the Eritrean regime.
5. Why the Eritrean regimes have been persecuting believers for believing what they believe as long as they abide by the law, which is none-existent in Eritrea since the Constitution is not implemented. You can’t run a country for ever by decrees and charters?
6. Why the Eritrean regime doesn’t bring the G-11 and other prisoners of conscience to trial?
7. If all the prisoners of conscience are alive; if they are at all alive, why they don't get any visit from their family?
8. Why are innumerable Eritrean youth flocking to neighbouring countries, even to Ethiopia?
9. Why are the Eritrean peoples cursing the Eritrean leaders daily for the predicaments they are in?
10. Why do we have toothless "Eritrean Parliament" and "Eritrean Cabinet of Ministers"? Why is the budget of the country unknown to the Eritrean Parliament or to anybody else except to Isaias and his cohorts?
11. Why are generals and pseudo generals running the country instead of capable administrators?
12. Why are university teachers, university students fleeing the country whenever they get the chance to do so; the courageous students in South Africa?
13. Does the respected gentleman Yemane Gebreab know the whereabouts of the Eritrean journalists -some of whom former fighters for independence like Fessahaye Yohannes, Joshua- who disappeared in 2001 without trace? As the G11 and other prisoners of conscience, nobody knows where they are imprisoned and if they are alive? 5 years long in prison!
14. The Eritrean-Swedish journalist Dawit Isaac is one of them! Ask Yemane Gebreab about him! The wife and children of Dawit Isaac are in Sweden where you are listening to him who is responsible for the misery of the country.
15. Yemane Gebreab won't talk about responsibility and transparency. For they all are accountable to the only god in Eritrea: Isaias Afwerki.
And much more sensitive issues won't be raised. The organisers, the PFDJ, will ask for your money and not for your vote! They are not interested in your vote. They have confiscated your vote without your consent.
My Eritrean youth wake up! Please don't cooperate anymore in the organised destruction of your country. History and I hope your conscience too will hold you accountable for keeping your eyes blind and your ears deaf for the sufferings of your people.
Save Journey to Sweden and back home.
Have a blessed Easter.
And remember those Eritreans who are going to "celeberate" Easter in the dungeons of Ato Yemane Gebreab and Ato Isaias Afwerki. Please ask about them!
Reactions are welcome: habtomy@asmarino.com
Habtom Yohannes
April 13, 2006
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