Fetsum: ZEYTERFELKA GASHAS ATSEBIKA SAAMO EYUTINEGER

Question of the moment:

Quote of the moment: ‘I have decided never to dominate or be dominated by external mind, only to learn from and coexist with it. My outlook of nature is my life that I will never compromise for any personal advantage or imposed philosophy. I have an independent mind: I am a universal human being without ethnic identity and religion that neutrally radiates my subjective views with no intention to convince or dictate‘

Further; none of the existing opposition forces under the leadership of former EPLF fighters can use Vacarro’s past attachment with the regime as excuse to hurt his struggle for unity for they themselves brought us this dictatorship by direct participation in the front and also because most Eritreans including myself rallied behind EPLF before and after independence until our respective points of departure down the road. I have heard this contradictory argument from individuals in the opposition groups and it does not make sense at all. You don’t throw rocks at any one from behind a glass door position!

Some of the opposition forces in my long observation have a problem with unity and therefore our weakly bonded forces in the EDA could not produce all inclusive unity. It is clear that external interference is necessary to temporarily unite them all under a transitional government for democracy: that interference is the INDEPENDENT MIND of the society!

As it stands, the Vacarroian movement appears neutral (independent of the opposition forces), the reason it was expected to be the best place to start for us towards that objective. It will have to be better organized with the best minds of the community, however, in order to succeed and emotional support alone cannot help it without rational input. Our effort should then focus to help Vacarro not though unconditional flirtation but through constructive confrontation.

Mathematically; the movement’s momentum is zero in DC. I don’t know what is going on elsewhere but there is nothing visible here in DC and the movement only exists in theory. The fact remains that there is immediate homework for his team to fix here in DC before the momentum touches down for good because once he lets it go this way, his movement will naturally die out soon: we humbly remind our brother to understand this consequence because the issue is time sensitive (it has already been close to 4 months since our brother left us with hope and nothing after). Every day passing unanswered takes something away from the momentum and this should be obvious to all of us from experience.

I can only pray for God to help Vacarro expedite the effectiveness of his movement in this direction before TIME neutralizes his movement but we should not wait for repair idly. We just cannot do more than this remotely!! Our independent mind must continue making us more creative without depending on any movement. For us, life moves on and we will continue using our autonomous intelligence and spirituality to serve our people with our limited capacity!

Let us build a close relationship between us: let our number inflate for others in the resistance to feel our presence and give independent minds a chance to involve. The harder we work as a family in this project, the better chance we have to settle on a comprehensive philosophy of unification and the sooner we can present our collective case to our people. Awareness on the concept of genuine democracy is important here: Our success rate depends on how honestly well we do our homework academically because the cleaner in this aspect, the stronger we can unanimously challenge unity-defying forces in the opposition camp behind substantial international support.

At the bottom-line, there is only one concept of DEMOCRACY and no room for any opposition group to misunderstand or change it without intention to dominate power illegally. There is only one road for a society to move from dictatorship to democracy: Transitional government. Sooner or later, Eritrea can only be democratized via this road map because it is the only bridge humankind knows going from dictatorship to democracy. How long it will take us to make it is a good question to ask but ZEYTERFELKA GASHAS ATSEBIKA SAAMO EYUTINEGER. There are different sociopolitical ideas, however, that our opposition forces can freely adopt to help our society but the people must have the ultimate right to choose what they want through democratic election from here on. The unification movement should dispatch from this fundamental understanding of building a peaceful and strong nation ahead, hopefully we will soon better understand Vacarro’s movement if this was the case or not. Yet, we should continue organizing ourselves for whatever academic challenges our struggle may face from the all inclusive resistance in the near future.

You don’t want to enter Asmara without at least starting this preparation because neither Vacarro nor you can stop whatever may take place in the country including civil war in this situation. Eritrea cannot help being a stage of unpredictable confrontation for power between the existing thirty something organized groups with all of us involuntarily recycling our remotely observer status for ages to come if the brother lets this opportunity slip away without concretely reconfiguring his movement! This makes it necessary for the collective independent mind to organize for checking and balancing our political situation ahead but only if we develop our relationship closer.

This unity drive is double sided: it serves the society for ever in our proposal’s condition or terribly jeopardizes it otherwise. Now is the time for us all to leave no void for being taken for a ride again. The lousier and porous we unite without clear objective beyond overthrowing the government the better the ambitious forces in the opposition camp with hidden agendas take advantage of our efforts to dictate political power by force. Remember that mother-nature (death) can resolve the stalemate between the people and the dictator but we are responsible for producing a transitional government to democracy before or after his departure or at least for starting to develop the relationship between free minded Eritreans for democracy in order to impartially influence the future political situation of our motherland. The experimentation period is over for us Eritreans after 22 years of suffering under this dictatorship. Eritrea cannot afford another political mess and we must make sure in unison that nothing but democracy flourishes in our nation after this regime dies out of the society. The prerequisite for success is hard working for it today through close relationship between the independent minded Eritreans.

In conclusion, I willingly and unconditionally united with the Shabias during the struggle because they had a clear objective (ERITREAN INDEPENDENCE). Remember that we are not fighting for independence now but for freedom and democracy, meaning that our question today is democracy.  I want to see the whole objective of the movement before fully accommodating it.

I seriously believe that we Eritreans do not need unity to overthrow the dying regime but we need it to define the future political life of our country. Every Eritrean must ask why we need unity, what type of unity and to what end? We need to ask “where is the unity taking us?”And the movement has the responsibility to answer this clearly. If the answer of the unifiers is just to remove the regime and face whatever we may face after, as it currently seems to be; I am not part of it because this objective does not need unity at all. You can worship if you want but please don’t pressurize me to do the same. Accept my individual democratic right to stick with this school of thought and I will accept yours whichever way it may go. If their answer is to democratize the country, the next question is how? Because we have over thirty organized groups including the government claiming the same thing without telling us how to bring it about. If it has a clear road map to democracy, then it must show it in writing: only on this condition do I want to be counted in. The movement must give us its agenda as to how it plans to go with this rout but there is no democracy without description that I can either trust or believe. This is not about trusting a movement but being careful for the sake of the people based on the consecutive Eritrean experience of betrayal on this subject matter. This is rather checking and balancing it on the merit of its democratic content. I have been an animal for blindly following the Shabias and the regime but I am not one any longer to blindly accept something obscure on how to bring democracy in Eritrea; nor do I feel comfortable on why they shy spelling it out for us in accordance to the universally accepted concept of transforming a society from dictatorship to democracy! My position here is “thank you but no”.

I thank the people contacting me to discuss the current challenges on the ground and want to tell you all that you are helping me tremendously to voice your concerns through my articles. I appreciate all participants ahead for working hard to strengthen the relationship of independent minded Eritreans through discussion in the forum. What I write here comes from many minds in our community and we are keeping brother Vacarro posted on our concern as much as we can through this medium; and we can only hope that he refines his movement with our concerns in mind! Please keep calling me for whatever reason at 202-702-3977.