“Moon of the South”, an obscure weekly magazine, published excerpts of an interview with Francois Bozize, the deposed President of the Central African Republic in its April 4 edition this month. The reporter a certain Issa Sikiti Da Silva, quotes the former CAR President who stated that “Chad helped Seleka rebels to overthrow” his government.

But then, the reporter gratuitously impugns Eritrea to claim that “the arms used by the Seleka rebels during the final assault on the presidential palace were purchased from Eritrea and transited by Chad with the permission of Deby”. The author does not provide a shred of evidence for his outlandish statement. He simply cites “Le Journal de Brazza” as a source to add: “Eritrea, a rogue state badly hit by EU and US sanctions (sic), has a history of arming African rebel groups, including Somalia’s Al-Shabab”.

Comment: Finger pointing on Eritrea has become common to the international community for anything that goes wrong around. This country has done so many illegal things to be taken for granted, for making similar crimes anywhere in the continent. Why get into this cyclic problem to begin with? YOU HARVEST WHAT YOU PLANT by making criminal activities and oppression your signature profile; and you better swallow the accusation without calling foul now for no one would believe you anyway!

Eritrea rejects in the clearest of terms Amnesty International’s wild accusations that it has “jailed at least 10,000 political-prisoners. Amnesty’s [] political assault on Eritrea is totally unsubstantiated, with the organization unable to back its claims with facts. It is hardly surprising that it admits that it does not “know the exact figure.”
Amnesty claims that the prisoners are kept in “unimaginably atrocious conditions.” Once again this merely reflects its own fanciful flights of imagination and is not based on credible evidence.”

Comment: Eritrea has been accused by many international media for its character. The accusation continues and so does the denial. Eritrea finds AMNESTY’s inability to prove the claim “hardly surprising” but I found its position on this issue overly surprising because it did not allow them to enter the country where the prisoners are located. The tranquilized Eritrean politicians asked for credible evidence on prisoner counts without neutral investigation from outside Eritrea. It denies it had 10,000 prisoners and asks for proof without allowing neutral observers inside the country and giving them access to the relevant sites claimed to be containing the prisoners in “more than 300 prisons in the country”. Many people drink, I just do not know what our leaders are drinking!

“In line with the longstanding goodwill of the people and Government of Eritrea to witness Egypt and its people assuming their rightful position and role, they have fully demonstrated their genuine support for the transitional forum introduced in that country over the past two years. The Eritrean people and their leadership, beyond fully respecting the choice of the Egyptian people, hope that all interested parties and leaders of the forum would guide the transition in the right direction.”
Comment: You do not represent the people of Eritrea because they did not choose you to be their government, so talk only about yourself on this issue. Yet, it is hard to believe this nation talking about Egyptian democracy in a way that does not explain the message to the point. The worst dictatorship on the planet has the gut to discuss the Egyptian transition to democracy “in defence of the people’s choice” while ignoring all the choices of the thousands of Eritrean demonstrators around the world. The contradiction says that it was against the people’s choice in Kaddafi’s experience.

As you see, the country could no longer write a productive press release that communicates it with us all efficiently 8 months into this year because there is nothing going on in all fields of socio-economic life in Eritrea. No press release is necessary on the country’s income in millions from the mining activities (because it all belongs to the officials). Deception, interference, denial and confrontation have become the regime’s main profession, where it is now considered guilty for every mess not only in our region but on continental dimensions as a result. If you lose something, you first suspect a neighborhood thief for stealing it: this is what the Eritrean government made itself through many continental criminal activities. If you always lie, then anything you say is considered as a lie: no one believes Eritrea for anything because it is a compulsive liar.

On Somalia requirement: According to Assenna, the government had recently talked to Qatar where an Eritrean diplomat disclosed that Eritrea now recognizes the Somalian government. This is a paradigm shift (unexpected) folks and a clear indication that Eritrea has felt the consequence of being the only rebel in the world against peace and democracy in Somalia. It was not long time ago that Eritrea press-released stating “Press Statement Monday, 20 August 2012A joke worth denunciation “Enough is Enough!” As of late, rumors have been circulating as regards the so-called election scheduled to take place in Mogadishu. ‘Somalia on the path to democracy’; ‘change would come through democracy’; ‘an election being conducted under better circumstances’; ‘it is an election due to take place at a time when the transitional government is in control of large portion of Somali territory’; ‘Mr. X has been nominated’; ‘Mr. Y would run for the election’; ‘this time is better than the previous one’; ‘and the support of the international community is currently on the rise’; etc. The rumors are boundless; the deliberate means employed to propagate them along with the sophisticated tactics too are drawing attention – all these to the gullible!   bla, bla….“

Desperate Yemane Monkey invents a new concept of CONSTITUTION: Around 230 years after the creation of CONSTITUTION in the US (since Sept. 17, 1787, the era of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin) and that “Today, roughly half the planet lives under democracy of some sort”, the Eritrean regime has invented a more compact version of CONSTITUTION and here is the brief:

Yemane, the head of Eritrea’s POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION has introduced unheard of democratic concept to the already overly unique MANIFESTO of Afwerkism. This is a new invention or unique democratic formula unknown to the universe in the past: it is the most efficient constitution to date because it dwarfs the universal concept by a third of its previous composition.

Kabbire: “ erikid, ኣንታ ቆልዓ በጃኻ ሸንካ ደቅስ።”

Comment: The response made me laugh to the point of lunacy; it took me back to the early days of my life when my beautiful Mama used to pick up something for lightly spanking a misbehaving kid (six of us) in the butt in our crowded house. Clearly, the kid is an indoctrinated victim of Afwerkism masterminded by the dedicated Afwerkist called Yemene Monkey. I feel sorry for him and I know he deserves sympathy and love from all of us but I appreciate the artistic talent of Kabbire in disciplining him in such a spontaneously assertive fashion.

I have never been approached to speak out my opinion by any youth organization in the Diaspora except one instance at TESHAMO Pal-talk (please do not take this as arrogance because I know I am an ordinary Eritrean no better than any other citizen, sorry if you do). I, however, believe that I have a clear position on the Eritrean question (TEMPORARY UNITY FOR A TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT TO DEMOCRACY) and that I would have served the resistance efficiently, given the chance by the youth leaders strictly as an advisor: but so far in vain! Trust me, things would have been different if genuine Eritreans were given the chance to contribute in the struggle for freedom in Eritrea, but only if confident and honest Eritreans were in the leadership of the youth that believe in participation and political efficiency for democratic Eritrea.

Comment: That is all we have to do to be a democratic society and god bless you brother. This procedure is what has been complicated by our forces without providing any other alternative in the open. This has so far being rejected by some of them without giving us another choice or explanation. So far they are sleeping on this without confidently saying what else they have for us to save our nation from dictatorship. This silence is the cause of any contemplation from the forces of unity and freedom on the opposition based on circumstantial evidence rather than on something concrete and it is rationally justified. The circumstantial evidence states that the divided forces are quite on their strategy: they should come out on the open individually to teach us about their strategy of saving Eritrea from dictatorship. We have several times said our formula for Eritrean democracy on the open and in this forum and we expect them to do the same or at least comment on our proposal!!The only solution to close the misunderstanding gap then stands at the court of the forces that must expose their political positions precisely.

Brother! All the work I have been doing with people like you in the past was to just get into this eloquently summarized input by a brilliant mind like yours. Everything you put in the steps are correct for transiting a society from DICTATORSHIP to DEMOCRAY but the condition (2) can be further reconfigured through discussion and mutual agreement. I think people in said transitional committee should also be allowed to run for public offices if they choose to do so. This, however, is not hard for us to solve because we can take either one of the choices: to me both alternatives would have been acceptable in an honest political environment.

To summarize it, the different parties or forces or individuals in the resistance unite temporarily to form a TRANSIONAL GOVERNMENT, then they diverge out of the temporarily unity after they topple the government together and individually organize during the transitional period for election. Whoever is elected then runs the country until next election depending on agreed upon codes in the constitution of the country. ERITREA WOULD THEN JOIN THE DEMOCRTATIC COMMUNITY OF THE WORLD and the rest of us live in our country peacefully.

In an honest circle between progressive elements of the society this process can be reduced to practice like it did in any other situation like ours (SOMALIA, LIBERIA, GHANA, etc). To be cntinued