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Get
rid of Shaibya’s evil system
Editorial
Ethiopian Observer
A good old friend from Eritrean origin, who is a good raconteur (a person
with the ability of telling good anecdotes or stories) told me
once about a mean, angry and bad-tempered woman, who used to
terrorize the whole neighborhood. (Excuse us for its stereotype;
it can equally be valid for a man). She used to pick quarrels with
the people around her with no apparent reason. She used to swear
like a bargee and spew her violent and taunting words of abuse and
slanders on all who were in her immediate vicinity. The moment
they heard her voice, they used to tremble and get into their
homes and shut their doors behind, wishing her misfortune and
death. Once upon a time knowing that she could not find her victim
around, she called her daughter to hand her rag shawl (netéla) so
that she can go down the street and fight with somebody in the
distant neighborhood. A man, who was walking by and didn’t know
the asperity of this woman, heard these astounding words and tried
to persuade her to calm down and come to her senses. All of a
sudden the woman jumped of joy to have found her instant victim
nearby and ordered her daughter to ignore bringing her shawl.
This is exactly what makes this story to fit in the pugnacious nature of
Shaibya, a quarrelsome and troublesome nuisance and terrorist in
our region. However, Shaibya’s coercion has gone further by
demanding total submission of the neighboring countries not only
by using abusive words but also swords, not only using verbal
torment but also arsenal and war. Eritrea has been at war with all
its neighbors ever since 1995, when it first tried to occupy the
Hanish Islands, belonging to Yemen by dispatching its “Armada”
with its “first class Marine Corps”. Djibouti was on the
second wave of attack, but Shaibya was deterred to pursue its
territorial claims due to the existence of a powerful external
force. Therefore, the turn of events went this time aiming to both
occupy Kassala and depose the Sudanese government and send a
“caravan of tanks”, rolled by the” invincible regiment”.
The 4th country to suffer from the lunatic adventure of
the Eritrean leadership was Ethiopia, which unfortunately and
unexpectedly was invaded by Shaibya. Though the barbaric act
against school children in Mekelle can never be forgotten,
Shaibya’s declaration that its “highly sophisticated and
modern air force” could unleash irreparable damages on cities as
far as Addis Ababa, proved to be an empty rhetoric.
Now countries, which are far from the border limits, have become victims
of Shaibya either through direct meddling and sponsoring of
terrorists as in the case of Somalia or issuing statements and
warnings against Uganda and Kenya. The US is now on the next row,
where Shaibya is inviting to measure swords with. Yet, Shaibya is
back where it started and is increasingly reciting its “glory
days” in Nakfa and trying to spread its propaganda and to fight
its own cold war with the enormous task of “defeating the US”.
Shaibya owing to its egomania can never show finesse in dealing
neither with its people nor with other nations of the world. It is
a leadership with paranoia of grandeur, which has unrealistic
hopes and daydreams dictating its will and becoming the powerhouse
of the region. The leadership’s pettish conduct has gone from
bad to worse and it can never contribute to a meaningful
cooperation or détente in the Sub Region.
Eritrea, a Lilliput (small country) at the periphery and some times
called the pariah state has no resources of its own to fight or
create chaos and havoc in our region. It is employed by some rich
countries as a mercenary to create other mercenaries in Ethiopia
(extremist CUD, EPPF, OLF, ANDF, SLF, ONLF, etc,), Sudan and
Somalia to destabilize and thereby act as a kingmaker with the
prime purpose of looting and stealing the resources of these
countries. Its entire population is suffering under extreme human
rights violations, degradations, and oppression, where basic
democratic rights (election, free press, assembly, demonstrations,
expressions, etc) are totally forbidden. Its productive youth and
even those up to the age of 50 are conscripted to the army and are
subjected to severe hardships in the deserts and trenches. The
dispersal of the youth out of the towns may supposedly give a
respite for the rogue regime to have free hand to control any kind
of uproar against its autocratic rule. At the same time the regime
out of desperation is trying to provoke Ethiopia into open
confrontation so that its downfall is to be blamed on Ethiopia.
There is only one option left. It is Eritreans, who have to
organize themselves and get rid of this evil system so that they
can create a democratic system and live in peace and harmony both
with themselves and their neighbors.
PS: 42 days have gone since Shaibya sponsored the kidnapping of 8
Ethiopians. The world should be reminded and urged to work for the
safe release of them.
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