Appreciation letter to Foreign affair Minister the Honourable John Baird
Honorable Minister John Baird Minister of Foreign Affairs House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6 June the 10th, 2013 Your Excellency, On behalf of all Peace and justice loving Eritreans we would like to thank you for siding with justice and truth.
Honorable Minister John Baird
Minister of Foreign Affairs
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6
June the 10th, 2013
Your Excellency,
On behalf of all Peace and justice loving Eritreans we would like to thank you for siding with justice and truth. The decision to expel the Eritrean Government Consul General in Toronto has solidified Canada’s values that we all consider self-evident
We know that your patience has been tested when the Consul General ignored your several diplomatic notes telling him to stop collecting the 2% tax . We know what your decision was made on solid undisputed evidence and followed strict diplomatic due process, two virtues that the Eritrean government is adamantly refusing to follow.
The Eritrean Canadian Human Right Group never doubted Canada’s principled stand and we have been proved right. We thank you for making Canadians proud by doing the right thing for all Humanity.
Yours respectfully,
Getu Tsegai.
Eritrean Canadian Human Rights Group (ECHRG)
wedi Forto June 12, 2013
Getu,
Well done!
Please keep up the good work, and ignore the ignorant PFDJ thugs. Their insults can mean one thing: you have hit them where it hurts!
Thank you, sir!
wedi-forto
Nay-HAqi June 12, 2013
Canada expelled the Eritrean official on false and unsubstantiated premises. The Eritrean government is cruel and its human rights track record is dismal. However, the government never pressure Eritreans into paying the 2% tax. I don’t pay the tax and yet I travelled to Eritrea a couple of times without any problem. Every Eritrean knows that the accusation Canada used is based on the allegation of few individuals . As a result many Eritreans have started to believe the Eritrean government which all along accused western nations of conspiracy. I think Canada must expel Eritrean officials for mistreating its citizens and not for collecting the 2% income tax which is actually the duty and right of every Eritrean.
TwoWayStreet June 12, 2013
Now that the Canadian government has expelled the Eritrean Consul General Mr. Semere,
Do you think I can buy a house in Eritrea?
Do you think I can request Birth Certificates for my kids who were born in Eritrea?
Do you think I can give power of attorney to my uncle who lives in Eritrea?
all without paying the 2% and the defense contribution? Or is the government going to ask me to transfer the money to other countries or to Eritrea?
I have never paid 2% before, for my own reasons, and have never asked any service from the Eritrean government; no family member back home was harassed or jailed or forced to do anything, just because I have never paid the 2%.
Look forward to your comments on how will this play out for Canadian-Eritreans who will be asking services from the Eritrean government.
Life is a Two Way Street. Please look both ways before you cross!
senait June 12, 2013
twoway,
You are worried about your house in Eritrea, you are worried about birth certificate for your kids. Have you thought about fathers who had to watch their kids abused infront of their in Sinai desert? Have you thought the youth back who are serving the dictator as slave and wasting their time without having their own kids to have “birth certificate”
TwoWayStreet June 14, 2013
Senait
I guess you missed my point. I don’t pay 2%, and I don’t plan to ask any service from the current regime. I am just trying to find out what did the expulsion of the official accomplish, what is the victory, what did we gain or loose. If you have read a little lower you might have changed your mind.
Obahara June 12, 2013
Selam,
Somewhere, I found a note written by Dawit Meconen that is somehow similar to one of the notes I posted here earlier and I thought injecting it here together with my said note for one or anyone to make what they will of with them:-)
Dawit’s note went:
Judging by the tone of his report and the extent of childish satisfaction he seems to get out of the sad situation, he could be a disguised woyane agent. But if he is a true Eritrean and did it 100% convinced that by so doing he would advance the Eritrean democratic cause, he must be exceedingly shallow and that he had not learnt anything from the lessons of the past.
When woyane decided to stir up border incidents as a means of engulfing the two countries, Eritrea and Ethiopia, into war, it invited to Addis Abeba many former ELF senior officials, the officials, whom, only fifteen years before, it had collaborated with EPLFs in the disintegarion of their organization.
Fours after the disintegarion of ELF, convinced that the Eritrean liberation was weakened and that the people of Eritrea were divided, woyane attempted to futher accentuate the problem by painting EPLF as Petty Bourgeois organization that did not represent the interest of Eritrea.
Woyane as an organization is weak but since it has become proxy of the interest of the Western powers, we have to understand that it is a potent threat to the very existence of our country. unfortunately, our home front is not safe either. Isaias Afewerqi does not seem tyrant for tyranny’s sake; day by day, it is becoming more and more apparent that he is woyane more than Eritrean.
Recall Adolf Hitler was not a German, he was Austrian.He joined Germany in the Frist War and as a German Chanceller, he annexed Austria with Germany. Secretive Isaia Afewerqi may be playing Hitler.
In the context of all these intertwined problems, the question we should all ask is: How do we extricate our country? Should we painstakingly forge Unity and foil the conspiracy of woyane and Isaias, or bicker like children , in the manner of the reporter, and let the conspirators drives wedges between us? We must choose.
My said note follows below:
First, focusing on Eritrea and DIA come to Eritrea to destroy its people, this bloodsucking despot did not hide his intentions right from the get go : Revolution before Unity : Change in the Eritrean Body-Polity before Their Unity in Diversity Under the Rule of Law : Change through the death of old Eritrea and the construction of the new on the graves of the old : The dying dog DIA is determined to build his cult of Enda Nhna-Nsu or, if you will, the cult of “we-are-him”, on the graves of the Eritrean people before he can start looking south of Eritrea and try joining his loot to his mother of old:-)
Second, Eritreans are stuck between a rock and a hard place : Between DIA and his bloodsucking PFDJ regime and the EPRDF regime of his wicked and backbiting Weyane cousins. At the end, they are both the same in different ways for one violates the sovereignty of the Eritrean people from within while the other violates the sovereignty of their homeland from without! Eritreans are being played by two evil regimes whose Motto is : We don’t need the people of Eritrea but their land or , if you will: We need Eritrea and not its people!
Third, it may be that if Eritreans can’t unify their forces and resources both from inside and outside to stop the death and destruction taking place in their country based on national and international laws, they will kiss their territorial and political sovereignty good bye! Time is all there is for Eritreans to gain or lose what they want and if they can’t spend their time trying to accomplish their aims instead of wasting it in allying themselves with and talking to those who wish the Eritrean people ill directly or indirectly, they will come out as losers at the end!
Fourth, if Eritreans want to survive as a people trying to become a nation governed by laws and institutions instead of by the whims of men and machines, they have to rally their forces and resources from inside and outside their country and claim what is rightly theirs under national and international laws! Eritreans should sooner or later recognized that playing the game of my enemy’s enemy is my friend is futile for the one they call their friend is in reality the wolf that was but now come in the guise of the enemy of their enemy. Eritreans should also come to realize that the two errand and cousin regimes who have turned their lives into a living hell on Earth between them primarily strive to tire and subdue the Eritrean people into joining beggar Ethiopia according to the wishes of their pimping masters and their friends!
In conclusion, as in like father like son, the relationship that was, is, and that which may come between Eritrea and Ethiopia can be generally expressed thus:
DIA/PFDJ = Weyane/EPRDF = Mengistu/Derg. = Janhoy + The Hag of Old : Motto : We don’t need the people of Eritrea but their land : We need Eritrea and not its people : Eritrea Merieta Ember Hzba Ayedliyenan Iyu! It is said that those who forget their history are condemned to repeat it and Eritreans are repeating that which has been said and done by joining themselves to those who wish them ill as a nation in the making both from inside and outside their homeland!
Peace!
Obahara June 12, 2013
Sorry, brother or sister TwoWayStreet, I tagged the above note to yours by mistake or design:-)
Peace!
sidiabdu@gmail.com June 12, 2013
It is always about your interest. Would I get this or that.
Brother, it is called sacrifice. Get the picture, end the suffering of Eritreans once and for all: Brick by Bric. There will be many other steps that the Canadia Government and others can do more. However, be patient we will reach the promised land eventually.
Berhe Tensea June 12, 2013
Thank you Mr Baird. Canada is a well known and respected country in the world. People all over the world know that Canada stands for justice and human rights, and you have reaffirem that that now as always .
sidiabdu@gmail.com June 12, 2013
I meant self/individual interest. It is time to stop thinking of me and me. It is time we think of Eritreans in general. Not on individual basis not by tribe and certainly not by religion. Eritrea belongs to all. All should fight for it. Staus quo is not a solution. Becoming a trained seal or a parrot is not an option. We habe no more time twaste to rescue this great country and let us make the rulers aware that their time is up.
TwoWayStreet June 12, 2013
I am just trying to grasp the magnitude of the so called “Victory” that Eritreans gained because of the expulsion of the Eritrean Consul General.
Here are my views on the expulsion:
1. I never paid 2% because I don’t know what the government will do with my money (transparency), so are any Eritreans. Will expulsion change this? No.
2. There are Eritreans who believe in the government and were paying 2% just to be up to date. Will the expulsion change anything with them? To some degree yes, some will find it inconvenient. This means a decrease in the tax income for the government.
3. Eritreans were paying 2% to get service from the government? Will the expulsion change anything? No, the government will keep collecting 2% tax somehow to give you service.
4. If you live in the diaspora and didn’t pay 2% will your family back home be harassed? No. this a lie in the first place, the only thing that will happen is you will be denied services.
5. Moral boosting for opposition group? Yes, this is the main victory, a moral boosting decision for the opposition group, and bad day for government supporters.
6. Sure that Eritrea will assign another Consul General, but this shows another diplomatic loss for the government, shows that GOE is increasingly becoming diplomatically isolated.
So sidiabdu, it is not about me it is about Eritrea and the effect of this decision on Eritreans in the diaspora, and on Eritrean situation in general.
TwoWayStreet June 12, 2013
I am just trying to grasp the magnitude of the so called “Victory” that Eritreans gained because of the expulsion of the Eritrean Consul General.
Here are my views on the expulsion:
1. I never paid 2% because I don’t know what the government will do with my money (transparency), so are any Eritreans. Will expulsion change this? No.
2. There are Eritreans who believe in the government and were paying 2% just to be up to date. Will the expulsion change anything with them? To some degree yes, some will find it inconvenient. This means a decrease in the tax income for the government.
3. Eritreans were paying 2% to get service from the government? Will the expulsion change anything? No, the government will keep collecting 2% tax somehow to give you service.
4. If you live in the diaspora and didn’t pay 2% will your family back home be harassed? No. this a lie in the first place, the only thing that will happen is you will be denied services.
5. Moral boosting for opposition group? Yes, this is the main victory, a moral boosting decision for the opposition group, and bad day for government supporters.
6. Sure that Eritrea will assign another Consul General, but this shows another diplomatic loss for the government, shows that GOE is increasingly becoming diplomatically isolated.
So sidiabdu, it is not about me it is about Eritrea and the effect of this decision on Eritreans in the diaspora, and on Eritrean situation in general.
Berhe Tensea June 12, 2013
Canada must teach the tyranical and coorupt regimes in Africa a lesson on how to behave and treat their sufferring people with respect and degnity.
NIHATELATAT June 12, 2013
N ERITREA GETSKUM TEGOMBIHKUM TETSEBEYWOM.CANADA?MININ TIRAY KITBLU.NIHN KE NIGEBRO DO YELEN EU.KKKKK GAHAFF NGAHAFF TEAKIBA TEQALASITTIMESL……..ALONA………MRIBRAB BAHRNA EYU NIAWET DMMA BZEYTIRTR AWET NIHAFSH ZIKRI NSEMATATNA.
Hzbi June 12, 2013
Don’t say ‘Eritrean Government Consul General’ he is not Eritrean consul general, he is HGDF consul and you should not call him General but Kedami HGDF.
TwoWayStreet June 14, 2013
Hzbi
I always try to be formal, and respect everybody. I try to put my views on issues without calling names, adding insults or being disrespectful, because it is not going to help my views, in fact it might do the opposite. I understand that not only you but others too are reading my response to you, so my words should be comfortable to read for everybody.
Thanks
Kombishtato June 12, 2013
A little break from politics. A sort of diversion from the Korean “Gagnam style” to the new Ethiopian style or Habesha style as they call it. I am amharic challenged though I can understand a bit.
Biniam Dana ቢንያም ዳና : Begna Style በኛ ስታይል New Ethiopian Music Video 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5vU0B5QybPk#!
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