Eritrea: Festival Of Perpetrators & Perpetuators Of Tyranny

As I stated repeatedly in my earlier installments, Eritrea ruler, tyrant Isaias Afeworki has mastered and perfected the mechanics of perpetuating tyranny and made it to an art like no other tyrant.

In Eritrea, tyranny is perpetuated, firstly, by employing Gestapo tactics of intimidation and fear in order to assure full submission to it, and, secondly, by preoccupying the public with issues and festivities that divert attention away from tyranny. In line with the later, Afawerki's tyrannical machinery launches a series of Festivals laced with preoccupying diversionary issues dubbed conveniently with different labels but choreographed essentially the same way at this time of the year, every year.

Eritrea Festival attendees welcoming and cheering ambassadors of tyranny enthusiastically in DC, this weekend? Talk about non-politicized event!

The Festivals are advertised as a matter of fostering, cultivating, and promoting national culture and patriotism as well as an avenue to socialize with each other. But it is all Festival of the perpetrators and Perpetrators of tyranny for they are celebrating the success of their diversionary maneuvers that have deflected away attention from what the people of Eritrea are subjected to: Sheer, barefaced, palpable, and brutal tyranny.No one talks about tyranny, the nation is completely preoccupied with Fetivals. They can't have any better.

The Festivals are broadcast as non-political social event. Yet, the Festivals are opened and blessed by ambassadors and other high-level surrogates of Tyranny that are also engaged in conducting political seminars. Woldai Futur, Minister of National Development (guest of Honor), Ghirmai Ghebremariam, Eritrean Ambassador to the United States and Araya Desta, Permanent Representative of Eritrea to the UN opened the DC Festival officially. And in Swedent it was Abraha Asfaha, Minister of public works and certainly the Eritrea Ambassador in Sweden that were in charge of blessing the Festival.

Now what part of that is non-political affair? What was the need for the presence of political emissaries of tyranny if it were not political? Who is fooling whom here?

On the flip side of the coin, there are Festival goers that swear they are not in it for political reasons, just social thing. Yet, you see them according enthusiastic welcome and cheering agents of tyranny wherever they show up- see included photos. If one had to take Festival goers by their word, then they should have at least protested the politicization of the event as expressed by the active participation of high-level perpetrators of tyranny. They could have staged walk-outs in protest of politicization of the event? No, they don't do that because they don't mean what they say. It is a lame excuse.

Ambassadors of tyranny officially opening Eritrea Festival in Sweden in the presence of cheering Festival attendees? Talk about non-politicized event! Emissaries of tyranny even get a bouquet of flowers! For what? perpetuating tyranny? Talk about Festival goers being there not for political reasons?

Turn it and roll it all you want, but what is advertised as Eritrea Festival is beyond any doubt Festival of the perpetrators and Perpetrators of Tyranny wrapped in 'social event'. If it were indeed a purely social/cultural affair designed to keep Eritrean diaspora in touch with the essence of their motherland, then the tyrant should stay out of it in words and deeds and make it up to diaspora communities to plan, design, and organize such Festivals on their own terms and without any involvement of agents of tyranny in whatsoever form or shape.