One might ask as to how  it failed?

We all know very well that our country is passing  a critical moment and thanks to the tyrrany of Issayas Afewerki and his PFDJ, the only legal political-party and its core leaders who all suffer the Identity crises & complexity, today it is beyond reach and it is certainly beyond repair.

Noam Chomsky’s FAILED STATES  broadly defines most of the countries failed to function properly, and without Institutions to govern the State or a nation. He even goes to the extent that the USA is not fulfilling its obligation to its citzens in several ways. Failed States like Somalia,and some African countries are without a functioning government and none of the foundations of good governance are visible,nor are there viable instituions to continue as a government or as a State.

We have a regime in Asmara,that has failed us all and blocked  the possibility of governing the State but instead has chosen  to kill all existing institutions, by applying the path of a mafia gang, without respecting most of the agreemens signed. International agreements are neglected totally by the regime and rules only by a decree according to the whims of  a one man, Issayas Afewerki.

The methodes of rule by the PFDJ  of Eritrea and the Khmer Rouge’s of Cambodia, have  a lot in common with each other. The dictators have both based their corrupt ideas on the Maoist Cultural Revolution, saying they both  based it on agrarian social revolution.

Whatever the common socialist ideas they used to start with, both are devastating and inhumain to both the Eritrean pasturalists and settled farmers, likewise to the elite and city dwelers of Eritrea. and Campochia.With both leaders consumed by their personal holy wars,both Campochian and Eritrean societies drifted into anarchy.

Everywhere you see in these most backward lands, now and then , you can spot a wild monkey jumping from branch to branch, even in the cities,while the majority of the population are held hostages by the regimes and not able to move from one place & to any where in their own countries. As it turns out,however, layering bits of modern world into a society still living in the Middle Ages is causing disruption-not broader progress.

The Campochia’s  Curse…………. a book called  Campodia’s Curse by Joel Brinkely @2011, clearly elaborates the situation during the Phol Pot‘s rule and the failure after that is a reminder to us Eritreans after the Post Issays period, if the dire necessities of the people are not met urgently today.

Khmer Krahom’s programs have much in common with  those of totalitarian regimes in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union,particularly regarding efforts to psycologically reconstruct individual members of society, which can result from these practices and which causes individuals to feel, effectively isolated from the rest of the community, these can be seen to have actually occured;refugees from both Kampochia and Eritrea are so afraid of arrest and execution that even in thier own homes the dare not  utter a critical word and obediently complied with every regime’s directive or decree.” Meanwhile, half of those who lived through the Khmer Roug era still suffer from post traumatic stress disorder today- and this affliction is being passed to the next genration,darkening the entire nation’s personality.”Brinkkley cuts a clear narrative path through the bewildering,cynical politics and violentsocial life of one of the world’s most brutalized  and hard-up countries. ……….the comment by FOREIGN AFFAIRS

With or without doctors, a patient could not survive in a Cambodian hospital without the help of a family member or friend. Many services are in accessible to anyone who is seriously ill. A study published  in the Journal of the American medical Association in 1995 looked Cambodian refugees in Long Beach, California,who came to the USA in the early 1980s, just after the Khmer Rouge years. More than half suffered serious,debilitating depression. Two –thirds had PTSD, post truamatic stress disorder,but through the 1990’s no one in Cambodia recognized this or offered any Treatment.

“The PTSD is also what most of us in Eritrea have suffered during the last 23 years of  PFDJ dictatorship. This syndrom is never raised among the diapora community nor is it recognized by the regime in Asmara. For people still seffering from the trauma of war,the continuing violence in the 1990’s and later, nourished the delibilitating mental illness that still plagued so many Cambodians. “Sometimes we hear them crying”said a farmer.”You can hear voices of women and children and men,just as if they were alive.

The state to where Eritrea under PIA’s (PFDJ) rule and its volentarilly silent  population is exactly similar to that of the Cambodian people’s  situation, during both the Khmer Rouge tyrrant rule  and there after,when that under a similar Hun Sen’s  long period of sole governing,whereby Human Rights abuses were not dealt by the Cambodian people themselves or the World community as such but went for a long uncontroked period of brutal rule.

Medhane Tadesse in his writing: The Eritrean-Ethiopian war:Retrospect and Prospect;1999

By elaborating Four Stages he analizes:

The Tigrigna factor, the EPLF-TPLF discord,the politics of Eritrean self-image and the post 1991 regional economic and diplomatic dispensation;

He therebye gives a unique and comprehenssive  prospective on what caused the destruction behind the Eritrean-Ethiopian war., the way PFDJ and its leader have created wars and hatred with the neighbours as a way out for its narrow economic ability to run Eritrea as a state with a healthy financial capability . Eritrea with its 30 years indeprndence struggle depended on its neighbours for economic progress,but the PFDJ chose a means of provoking all its neighbours by acting as a spoiled child  and its relationS with its close neighbours, got edgy and became a wor mongering regime.

What will be the scenario after the death of Isayas Afewrki as it is roumored  recently by the media if he is abscent for a long period? It is no body’s guess what the military will be doing or able to deal with the period after the disappearance  PIA, from the seen..Who will take the lead and to what direction will it be heading, and what will be the role of the people inside the country if the country is lead by any of the generals and colonels ,who are supposed to take over power from in the unpredictable period. Is there a way out from defragmentation of the country that has been bleeding for so long. since Isayas came to power in 1993. These and hundreds of questions have to be dealt soon if the country is going to survive this period and come as one nation ruled by a central government of any kind.

We, the opposition in the Diaspora seem to be undetecting to the idea of the eventual abscence of Issayas from the country. What will be our input in the above mentioned scenario? Could we be of any importance in stabilizing, the unpredictable period yet to come?

We don’t seem to have any significant bargaining power to have any influence in the period where the destiny of the country and its people seem to be uncertain.

Who else can play any role in preventing the country’s fragmentation to ethnic groupings or military infights as the most likely scenario to come forth. We are not yet ready to salvage the sinking ship, God forgiving us we need to come together and bring forward our joint action to support our compatriots in the country whatever positive action they may take during the eventuality of  the country emploding within.

• It is high time,that we Eritreans wherever we may be,need to start recoincile with each other, and unite our efforts for the dismantling of the dictator in our country and creat a strategy of  emergency and build a safety net to the suffering people inside the country. This can only be achieved if we put all hands together.
• Forget past differences and give prioriyty to our National Salvation
• Take a responssible attitude to the solution we may think could be useful in achieving what we are looking for.(The Salvation of our people and country)
• Let us be people of action and not damaging each other with unnecessary grievences between us.
• Let us respend to the recent wakeup calls of the Tripoli and Lampedusa disasters of our young.

God save our people and Eritrea

Tesfazghi Yitbarek

References

• Noam Chomsky’s FAILED STATES
• Joel Brinkely book @2011
• Medhane Tadesse The Eritrean-Ethiopean War: retrospective And Prospects