February 20, 2002

An open letter to the EU parliament

Mussie Isaac

The EU parliament's resolution on Eritrea has forced this writer and many

outraged Eritreans to ask "Just who the hell do these people and

countries think they are?''

Who they think they are is very important to know. Because, as far as

Eritreans are concerned , we have the Italians whose 60 years occupation

of Eritrea is marked with, among other crimes, murder, rape, looting and

racism.And as if these were not horrible enough, they maintained their

irresponsible silence while their former colonial victim was further

subjected to 30 more years of the same at the hands of the Ethiopians.

Under Italian maladminstration, Eritreans could only go to school up to a

grade that would enable them to learn sufficient Italian to be able to take

and execute orders from their masters; could not walk on the same side walk

as any Italian; Eritrea's most fertile lands were given to Italian farming

outfits while the owners of the land were reduced to laborers .One could go

on and on with such heinous acts and policies that the Italians perpetrated

on our people.

And then we have the English whose atrocities in Africa could never be

matched by any human being.Wherever you see corruption ,so called tribal

wars, religious wars,abject poverty and the likes you can rest assured that

the English had been there.They are the masters of divide and rule,experts

on creating religious and tribal feuds and arming both sides of a

conflict.They only let go of their victim when there is nothing more to

loot.One can not help but remember the fact that the British, in their

brief but most painful maladminstration of Eritrea, armed Christians and

Moslems in Eritrea and encouraged them to kill each other.

while these may be the two members with whom Eritreans have had unpleasant

encounters, the writer,as many Eritrea's do,still holds international

organizations such as EU, OAU and UN responsible for the role they played in

allowing Ethiopia to inflict tremendous amount of human and material damage

in the 30 years that it occupied Eritrea.

For an organization that -never attempted to correct the injustice that was

being meted out to Eritreans for 30years

 - never condemned Ethiopia's war of aggression, most recently

 - that turned a blind eye when Eritreans were being murdered in mass.

 - that seemed content to see that the

only right Eritreans deserved was the right to be murdered.

Its parliament's irresponsible utterances and the language and tone of the

resolution is nothing more than the reflection of the organization's height

of hypocrisy , arrogance and disrespect for African people in

general and Eritreans in particular.

What these aspiring colonial masters of the 21st century seem to have

forgotten is that Eritreans did not need their misguidance and approval to 

achieve their independence and our martyrs did not give their lives so we 

could take orders from EU.

In conclusion , I doubt very much that I am alone when I say "if whatever

assistance (or is it pay back for what was stolen from us in the first

place)you provide to Eritrea makes you think that you can order us around,

you are mistaken. Perhaps you should take your assistance and shove it up

your, you- know- what and mind your own goddamn business''.

awet n hafash

Eritrea never kneels down

Mussie Isaac
 

Mussie Isaac is the sole bearer of responsibility for this article.