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 Network
of Eritreans for Constitutional
Governance
(NECG)
Eritrea
Tyrant: Free Press? What Free Press?
23
October 2009
Berhane M Tekeste
Eritrea
tyrant Isias Afewarki: Free Press? Reporter: Yes. Afewarki: What Free Press? Reporter: The kind
of things you see in the pic? Afewarki: There is no such thing
called Free press in the world? Reporter: Then what do you call the things
you see in the pic? Afewarki: It's The West's conspiracy to get at me!
Thank you Mr. self-styled-president-for-life!
Free
Press? What Free Press? There is no such thing called Free Press in
the world is the immediate, patented and automated response of
Eritrea tyrant Isias Afewarki upon mention of the term Free Press!
And when the tyrant is confronted with this term live on TV, like Al
Jazeera's Riz Khan Show last year, he gets schizophrenic paranoid
attack and infantile temper tantrums because Afewarki's perceives
Free Press as the 'West's code word' to get to him! Listen
On
Tuesday Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) Paris-based but
globally present Press Freedom watchdog published this year's World
Press Freedom Index and Eritrea ranked 175th out of 175
countries evaluated! Neither RSF nor any one else in the world is
taken aback by that, Eritreans not the least, because free press does
not exist even as a concept let alone in practice in Eritrea and any
mention of free press in Eritrea could send people to jail without
sentencing and Eritrean journalists have either been made to
disappear, died in prison, or are still waiting to die in prison even
as we speak! So why is Eritrea still in RSF's evaluation list? Matter
of courtesy because Eritrea is listed as a free and sovereign
member of the international community!
One
can evaluate Eritrea for many other societal norms such as national
elections, freedom of religion, political opposition, human rights,
rule of law etc but they are non-existent in tyrant Afewarki's
Private Estate of Eritrea because he considers any and all of the
above again as 'The West's code words' to get him!
For
full report of world press index click here.
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