Network of Eritreans for Constitutional Governance (NECG)

Peel the Layers all you want, no one’s gonna do it Eritrea Tyrant’s way

20 October 2008
Berhane M Tekeste

Eritrea tyrant Afawerki is at odds with regional, continental, and international organizations like IGAD, AU, and UN including major powers like the United States for one and only one reason: Afawerk’s ‘My way or the highway’ tyrannical modus operandi.

One can peel the layers all the way as deep as one wants beyond Donald Payne, Obama or whatever all election cycles in the US might yield, but no one is going to bow in deference to this insane modus operandi and do it Afewarki’s way for the world does not tick according to the whims and dictates of tyrants around.

Case in point: Congressman Donald Payne’s recent address to a mob of Eritrean-American accomplices to the tyrannical crimes being perpetrated on our people of Eritrea by ruler Afawarki that now present themselves as supporters of Senator Obama with the hope of getting him on the tyrant’s side.

Therein, representative Payne’s crime: He is charged with 4 counts of not doing it Eritrea tyrant’s way: Demarcation, freedom of press, prisoners, and conscription.

On demarcation, Payne failed to label it the tyrant’s way ‘resolved’ instead he labeled it ‘unresolved’. On the rest, Payne dared to bring up terms that tyrant Afawerki is allergic to hence have been taken off the land’s vocabulary.

Additional charges against Mr. Payne include crimes of calling the war in Somalia ‘Eritrea Ethiopia proxy war’ and making “repeated unnecessary analogies between Ethiopia/Meles to Eritrea and Eritrean leaders.” For that, the congressman was warned “Our organized efforts will help us to hold them to account for what they say do in the future.” Wow! There are consequences to be paid for not doing it the tyrant’s way?

Woe unto you that don’t do it the tyrant’s way! Mighty Afawarki might come down on you like a ton of bricks!

In conclusion, word is out: “Eritrea has a convincing history that no matter who resides in the White House, regardless of the messengers and the message, her path is clear. Eritrea knows how to determine her destiny and there is nothing any one can do about it!” Well, why then bother at all about remarks made by US congressmen or other US officials in the first place? What was then the tirade over Mr. Payne’s remarks all about? Just for the heck of it?

Congressman Payne, got the message? Now you know how to do it next time if there comes one such time again.

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