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 Network
of Eritreans for Constitutional
Governance
(NECG)
Eritrea
Tyrant: AU Shameful, Despicable, and Disgraceful
25
May 2009
Berhane
M Tekeste
Eritrea
tyrant: AU's call for sanctions against Eritrea shameful,
despicable, and a disgrace to those that authored it.
After
listening to Eritrea tyrant's address to the nation in Tigrigna
language on the occasion of yesterday, a vital omission in the
English edition of the speech, shabait.com, is what actually got me
hitting my keyboards again. Vital because it pertains to AU's last
Friday's call for sanctions against Eritrea tyrant.
Speaking
in Tigrigna to a live audience in Asmara, Eritrea tyrant Afewarki
flatly dismissed AU
statement that called for UN sanctions against Eritrea as
shameful, despicable and a disgrace to those that authored it.
Nothing
new here. Every time any thing that caries the label 'Africa' does
not spin Afewarki's tyrannical way, Afewarki's reaction has always
been the same: Disparaging and demeaning response. This month alone,
Afewarki has called African governments systems fraught with
uneducated people trying to do the job,.. servants and champions of
colonialism... he called African organizations instruments of
Neo-colonialism,..AU talks in vacuum..IGAD is irrelevant and more.
Afewarki
at odds with regional, continental, international organizations and
major super power could have and will eventually have adverse
economic, political, diplomatic, and social impact on the people and
country of Eritrea. Yet, Afewarki gets away with it because he is not
beholden to any law (he has long furloughed it) or parliament
(banned) in Eritrea. Under such tyrannical circumstances, there is
not much the people of Eritrea can do but hope for the best. But the
international community, specially the UN, can do a lot to rein in
this tyrant gone literally wild: Stop talking, start acting, please!
Thanks.
One
other thing that struck me listening to Afewarki yesterday is the way
tyrant Afewarki is now referring to our Independence Day. To us, the
people and country of Eritrea, the day 24th May is not a
day like ever other day, it has a special name: We call it, very
rightly so, Independence Day. We then attach the duration for the
record to so reflect forever and because we value and enjoy ever
minute of it, but for practical purposes every year of it. This year,
like all the years prior to it, we have been referring to 24th
May as '18th Independence Anniversary' until yesterday,
when Afewarki departed from this traditional and legal way of
referring to it.
Tyrant
Afewarki spoke of 24th May simply as 'auspicious day'!
No reference to the term 'independence' or the duration! From his
tyrannical point of view the departure makes sense because it is an
indication that Afewarki has finally realized that it is tough to
speak of 'independence' and 'tyranny' in the same breath! The
departure makes sense for yet another reason too: For, how long can a
nation be labeled 'new' if nearly two decades of politically
independent existence is not long enough to elect a government?
Tyrant Afewarki has yet again finally realized that no one is buying
his 'Eritrea is a new nation' excuse for lack of democracy, justice,
and rule of law in Eritrea. No more of that, Afewarki has settled for
tyranny, period.
Finally and most importantly, not mentioning the duration of Eritrea's independence makes sense because it removes one more reminder of the duration of Afewarki's tyrannical reign over Eritrea!
18 years of tyranny and counting, it's a nightmare tyrant Afewarki certainly doesn't want the people of Eritrea and the international community to be reminded of!
You
want a taste of how mean Afewarki treats Africa? Listen to this
exchange between BBC and Afewarki' version of Joseph Goebbels in
Eritrea, Ali Abdu, recorded one day after IGAD's call for sanctions
against Eritrea tyrant:
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