(Oct 08, 2011, ADDIS ABABA)--The Eritrean regime is trying hard these days to be loved and paid attention to.
The tragedy is the system is incapable of understanding it does not and cannot deserve anything of the sort.
The U.S. administration quietly rebuffed a letter dated July 30, 2011 from beleaguered Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki anxiously wanting to get President Barack Obama’s attention.
Obama rightly distrusts unelected leaders who are not accountable to their own people.
Obviously, the leader of the free world has nothing to gain from lies or half truths that come his way from dictators. Regimes that rely on torturing others are intolerable.
Isaias has not only subjected his people to mass poverty, mass ignorance, and murder but is also said to be aligning himself with Al Shabab in order to kill and terrorize innocent Somalis and other Africans.
In response, the U.S. has allocated some drones to the Horn region in partnership with Uganda, Ethiopia and other East African states to try to quell Al Shabab and its backers.
The Eritrean leader’s July letter to Obama tries to explain why he should not face more UN sanctions and why Ethiopia should move out of “sovereign Eritrean territory” meaning from Badme - an allegation no longer credible.
In reality, this is a demarcation issue and a call for a talk on how to demarcate the border does not necessarily make Ethiopia an aggressor. The only way to find out is to sit down and talk.
This commentator has tried to reached out to Eritrean Ambassador to the African Union, Ato Girma Asmerom, several times in the last three weeks for an interview mainly centered on the Badme myth.
When phone calls were not answered, interview questions were hand-delivered to Ambassador Girma’s office in the Ethiopian capital.
The U.S. administration quietly rebuffed a letter dated July 30, 2011 from beleaguered Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki anxiously wanting to get President Barack Obama’s attention.
Obama rightly distrusts unelected leaders who are not accountable to their own people.
Obviously, the leader of the free world has nothing to gain from lies or half truths that come his way from dictators. Regimes that rely on torturing others are intolerable.
Isaias has not only subjected his people to mass poverty, mass ignorance, and murder but is also said to be aligning himself with Al Shabab in order to kill and terrorize innocent Somalis and other Africans.
In response, the U.S. has allocated some drones to the Horn region in partnership with Uganda, Ethiopia and other East African states to try to quell Al Shabab and its backers.
The Eritrean leader’s July letter to Obama tries to explain why he should not face more UN sanctions and why Ethiopia should move out of “sovereign Eritrean territory” meaning from Badme - an allegation no longer credible.
In reality, this is a demarcation issue and a call for a talk on how to demarcate the border does not necessarily make Ethiopia an aggressor. The only way to find out is to sit down and talk.
This commentator has tried to reached out to Eritrean Ambassador to the African Union, Ato Girma Asmerom, several times in the last three weeks for an interview mainly centered on the Badme myth.
When phone calls were not answered, interview questions were hand-delivered to Ambassador Girma’s office in the Ethiopian capital.
In view of the fact that several past requests from this reporter for a Q&A with Eritrean strongman Isaias Afewerki and his top aides have been ignored, it seems the current attempt to gain information from another Eritrean official has also failed. FULL ARTICLE AT Black Star News »
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