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