Network of Eritreans for Constitutional Governance (NECG)




If it's 24th May, It's Eritrea Independence Day!

22 May 2009
Berhane M Tekeste

Mark it up, circle it, boldface it, underline, and highlight it indelibly! It is firm, If it's 24th May, It's Eritrea Independence Day!

Congratulations and Happy 18th Independence Anniversary Eritrea, the land and the people!

On 24th May 1991, to us the people and country of Eritrea, our 30 years of bloody struggle was over once and for all and Eritrea emerged as a politically independent and self-governing sovereign nation without any ifs or buts.

We celebrate our independence day in solemn reverence and absolute gratitude to those brave men and women that paid the ultimate price in life and limb and because we owe to them unreservedly for the being of this what we today call mother land: Eritrea.

The people of Eritrea did not get what they fought for, democracy, justice, and rule of law, but what they fought against and dreaded most: Barefaced brutal tyranny perpetrated by Isias Afewarki. Regardless, we will cherish what we have for no one can take that away from us, and fight for what we have been denied.

18 years into our national independence, Eritrea has become the archetype of

  • A sovereign nation without sovereignty

  • A sovereign country turned into a private Estate of one man

  • Sovereign people turned into mere subjects in their own country

  • A sovereign nation denied of elections, parliament, rule by a national constitution, freedom of speech, freedom of religions, free media, etc

  • Sovereign people living in their own country like tourists on a quarterly renewable visa

  • A sovereign nation that has been terrorized into accepting tyranny and denouncing democracy

  • A sovereign nation that must accept to eat less if it complained about food shortages

  • A country where the Land and all of its resources not the people matter

  • A country where human rights is a mockery and detention without trial reigns

  • A country where its capital has become a playground for international tyrants and all those that have utmost disdain for the sovereignty of the people and cheer tyrannical oppression.

  • A liberation front-turned-into-homegrown-occupation front

  • A homegrown subjugation replacing foreign subjugation

  • An entire country turned into a giant prison

  • Cheap labor at the cost of others' misery

What has become of Eritrea 18 years into its independence is a theme for a book or even a movie but for the sake of brevity I will leave it at that.

For now let us cherish the moment, If it's 24th May, -------------- fill in the blanks, thanks! Hint: Scroll up all the way to the top!


****** CONGRATULATIONS AND HAPPY 18th INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY ERITREA, THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE *****

 

  
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