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Eritrea: Certified Tyrant Preaching Selflessness!

20 June 2009
Berhane M Tekeste


Certified, out-and-out Eritrea tyrant Isias Afewarki preaching and demandig Selflessness!

Speaking in his capacity as the undisputed Landlord of the private Estate of Eritrea on the occasion of Martyrs Day, yesterday 20 June, certified Eritrea tyrant Isias Afewarki preached and demanded “people and generations that champion the values of " selflessness and giving priority to the people above anything else,” Emphasis mine. How about that? This is coming from certified, out-and-out tyrant whose every fiber of his system is utterly devoid of any trace of 'selflessness' now turning around preaching and demanding same from others? What else makes tyrants like Afewarki tyrants if it were not for the utter lack and absolute negation of 'selflessness'?

Afewarki is fighting tooth and nail against what he is preaching and demanding from others (selflessness) by constantly redefining and re-inventing the measures of selflessness where it matters most like:

  • Governance and government of , by, and for the people of Eritrea that he negated by governance and government of, by, and for Afewarki, call it tyranny instead of democracy

  • negation of political pluralism

  • negation of elections- Afewarki has declared himself president of the land until death parts him

  • negation of the law of the people, national constitution, that he replaced with the law of the barrel of the gun

  • How about tyrant Afewarki the defendant, prosecutor, judge, and law of the land at the same time? Talk about selflessness!

  • How about tyrant Afewarki the executive, the legislative, and the judiciary branch of a government at the same time? Couldn't be any more selfless than that, huh?

  • "My way or the highway" domestic and foreign policy, etc. you name it...............

As you can tell, Afewarki's pitch for 'selflessness' beats the highest degree of phoniness and hypocrisy. Selflessness is the term Afewarki deploys to dupe the people into believing that all calls for democracy, elections, political pluralism are self-centered because they serves the purpose and interest of the few!

The other thing that struck me from tyrant Afewarki's word yesterday is not so uncommon but worth mentioning: Afewarki has redefined and re-invented all societal norms to fit tyranny. And on this Martyrs Day, Afewarki redefined and re-invented the cause our compatriots martyred themselves for too! He reduced it to ensuring national sovereignty and building an Eritrea “into a Homeland where succeeding generations are proud of and lead a secure and prosperous life”! There was no talk about the cause of governance and government of, by, and for the people of Eritrea (democracy), human rights, justice, rule of law, freedom of speech, religion, assembly, press, all that what our Martyrs sacrificed their precious lives for!

National sovereignty in the form of national independence is what our martyrs delivered not once but twice by sacrificing life and limb: First in 1991 and then during the border war when tyrant Afewarki messed with our national sovereignty attained 1991 and more Martyrs had to sacrifice their precious life to re-claim.

Ensuring national sovereignty and nation building is a non-issue for it is a given. It the job of a national government for why would people sacrifice their lives for national sovereignty they can't ensure and nation building they can't undertake? Who is kidding whom here? There is a very good reason why nations maintain a national army(ensure national sovereignty?) and there is an equally good reason why nations need a national government (nation building?). A certified tyrant like Eritrea tyrant Afewarki, egoistic in essence and nature, has no moral authority to preach and demand selflessness!

Want more? OK! Tyrant Afewarki exposed his lack of selflessness already only 3 years into national independence in 1994. At the time Afewarki boasted: Although, out of sheer humility, we have said otherwise, the EPLF is the one and only force that wrested the independence of this country; like it or not, there's no and can't be any other government in this country but the EPLF and the EPLF only; if we wanted to install a tyrannical government, there's no force that would stop us, whatsoever!(Rough translation from Tigrigna. Listen to the original audio audio below). I rest my case. Any rebuttal? You are welcome!

 

  
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