Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Bureaucracy: The pillar EPRDF rusting
Public service giving practice has always been complained in our country, especially in recent time, hearing countless complains against institutions performance is not something we are unfamiliar with. In fact, it pushes me to share you my observation of the relationship between the practice of serving the society and performance of the institutions, be the cause to start an open idea sharing on the subject; hoping you, the readers, also have your own perception of the matter and will forward it.
At the time of TPLF/EPRDF’s infant stage of administration experience there use to exist some sort of rule to be followed and a body somehow committed to be abide by its own rule in delivering the service through the social institutions, it could be due to the influence of inheritance from the preceding regime. The word ’bureaucracy’ used too often referring this set of rule, to the level that tempt to take the word as an Amharic origin, to describe inflexible, rigidly applied rules, regulations and the time it took to get the service needed. Seldom heard to be discriminatory…to the great deal can be said with its inefficiency, use to treat the society ‘more’ equally without the consideration of ethnic difference or political affiliation to the ruling regime. It can just be said it was less corrupt.
The usual say of bureaucracy is out dated, as the discrimination become official, and, public services and opportunities polarized in delivery; while to party affiliates given as rewards and incentives, the ordinary society will not get the appropriate service and be part of the opportunity sharing, which contradict the basic principles of bureaucracy and it’s unique character; free of bias. In such an environment same product, services are given in no uniform manner to its users; members of the institution don’t have equal knowledge of same issue, organizational culture, routine tasks, objective, vision and goal or the ethics needed by the establishment they are working for; nor, their exist obedience to the formal hierarchy of authority due to subordinates possession of real power. The existence of bureaucracy may not assure full implementation of rules and regulation, but it is a reliable cause for the creation of strong controlling body that measure deviation from pre set standards and take corrective actions to meet the standards. It is probable for an institution, association or any form of organized body that doesn’t have strictly applied rules and regulations to cease existing.
The gradual fading of exercising strictly applied service giving and/or opportunity sharing rules and regulations/’bureaucracy’ sourced from the regimes objective; total control of power. The way it has happened took different level of stages. Elimination of government power competitors; former regime alliance rebel fighters, gradually strong political parties, influential individuals, were the first phase. Their existence could have played major role in not just for the existence of unbiased rules and regulation, but also for the improvement of the service giving practice; as their existence necessitates having a mechanism mutually used to make decisions concerning the country’s matters. That did not immediately cripple the service giving or the usual ‘bureaucracy’. At such a time where regime power is monopolized and is vulnerable to abuse civil and professional associations could have played undeniable role in exposing wrong doings and promote good governance through serving as a controlling body, yet, become critical targets of the regime; subjected to intimidation, abuse and liquidation. Having done taking care of the existing challenges of wrong doings, TPLF/EPRDF injects drops of its loyalists in every institution as an immune for possible eruption of opponents. Started to build it’s ‘seduced’ society in the form of membership to the party, gradually associating it’s belongingness, lowering its administrative scale to the members and supporters of the party…conquering and excluding itself from providing administrative security to the rest; the mass,…recruiting, assimilating out of it and intend to grow bigger from the self created minority society; ‘seduced society‘. This limits the scope and vision of the countries institutions, their decision making abilities; limiting the planning capabilities, developing alternative menses of achieving their objectives and material commitment…their by lowering their productivity.
Those drops of TPLF/EPRDF rusts the already existing bureaucracy which supports the country’s institutions like a pillar when they itch and consume the countries resource for fear of dissent, instated of advancing their capacity. The effects are what we are observing now; none existence of clearly defined set of rules and regulations that is respected by its own writers, none existence of what we use to call bureaucracy. Poor performance of public institutions; education, health, legal, economic institutions, etc… Their poorness reflected by the polarization and biases in their delivery to the end users; the society and the negative contribution to the quality of life. Institutions becoming a stage where assigned party members satisfy their ego to its last drop, quarrel on pity matters…narrowing the minds of the countries human assets, instead of being a gear that move its country to the right direction. If continue it is possible the end to be having un organized, fractured individuals forming the society…having no protection or security of possession, means of advancing it’s interests, expressing its self, marginalized, depraved, unprivileged, outcaste society…to simply say desperate situation and society.
Monday, November 5, 2012
በደጋን ወረዳ ከ100 በላይ ሰዎች ታሰሩ አካባቢው በፌደራል ፖሊስ ተከቧል
ኢሳት ዜና:-በደቡብ ወሎ ዞን በደጋን ወረዳ ከሳምንታት በፊት የተፈጠረውን ችግር ተከትሎ አካባቢው ከትናንትጀምሮ እንደገና በፌደራል ፖሊስ ቁጥጥር ስር ከዋለ በሁዋላ ከ100 በላይ ሰዎች ተይዘው መታሰራቸውን የአካባቢው ነዋሪዎች ገልጠዋል።
ወጣቶችም አካባቢውን ለቀው ወደ ወደ ገጠር በብዛት መሰሰደዳቸውን የአካባቢው ነዋሪዎች ተናግረዋል።
ከታሰሩት መካከል በከተማዋ ውስጥ በእድሜ አዛውንት የሆኑት የ90 አመቱ አቶ እንድሪስ ከማል ይገኙበታል።
ኢሳት አንዳንድ ወጣቶችን ለማናገር የቻለ ሲሆን፣ ወጣቶቹ እንደሚሉት አካባቢው በሙሉ በፌደራል ፖሊስ በመከበቡ ወደ ጎረቤት አገሮች ወይም ወደ ሌሎች የኢትዮጵያ ከተሞች ለመሸሽ አልቻሉም።
እስረኞቹን ሆስፒታል ውስጥ በማጠራቀም ወደ ተለያዩ ቦታዎች ወስደው እያሰሩዋቸው መሆኑ ታውቋል።
ባለፈው ወር በደጋን በተነሳው ግጭት ከ4 ሰዎች ያላነሱ ሰዎች መገደላቸው ይታወሳል። የግጭቱ መንስኤ በአዲስ አበባ ከሚካሄደው የሙስሊሞች ተቃውሞ ጋር የተያያዘ ነው።
በሌላ ዜና ደግሞ የኢትዮጵያ እስልምና ጉዳዮች ጠቅላይ ምክር ቤት መቋቋሙን የመንግስት የመገናኛ ብዙሀን ይፋ አድርገዋል።
ሼክ ኪያር መሃመድ አማን የምክር ቤቱ ፕሬዝዳንት፣ ሼክ ከድር መሃመድ፣ ምክትል ፕሬዝዳንት
አቶ መሃመድ አሊ ደግሞ ጸሃፊ ሆነው ተመርጠዋል።
አወዛጋቢ የሆነው የሙስሊሞች ጥያቄ በውል ባልተቋጨበት በዚህ ጊዜ አዲስ የእሰልምና ምክር ቤት ምርጫ መደረጉ ውዝግቡ እንዲቀጥል የሚያደርገው መሆኑን ታዛቢዎች ይናገራሉ።
በአዲስ አበባና በክልል ከተሞች ሙስሊሞች ከሚያነሱዋቸው ጥያቄዎች መካከል አንዱ የሀይማኖት መሪዎቻችንን ያለመንግስት ታልቃ ገብነት በዲሞክራሲያዊ መንገድ እንምረጥ የሚል ነው
Petition to the Italian Embassy in Washington DC
Richard Pankhurst and Rita Pankhurst
Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa
We would like to add our names to the thousands of Italians, Ethiopians and others who have protested against the public honouring of one of Fascist Italy’s principal War Criminals.
We would emphasize that this is not an anti-Italian protest. On the contrary, we pay homage to Italians who resisted Mussolini, often at great cost, such as Professor Carlo Rosselli editor of Giustizia e Liberta, who was assassinated for opposing fascism. We also honour historians such as Professor Angelo del Boca, who exposed many Italian War Crimes in Libya and Ethiopia, which were assiduously concealed from the Italian public.
It is well known that, already in the 1920s Rodolfo Graziani, committed atrocities in Italian-occupied Libya, earning him the title of Hyena of Libya and Butcher of Fezzan.
He subsequently played a major role in 1935-6 as commander of the Fascist armies which invaded Ethiopia from the South. As such he was responsible for the use of Poison Gas, banned by international convention, as well as for a policy of terrorism against the so-called “native” population. He also ordered the execution without trial of Ethiopian Prisoners of War. For these and other crimes he was later to be officially listed by the Ethiopian Government as a War Criminal.
After the Fascist occupation of Addis Ababa in 1935 Graziani was appointed Italian Viceroy of Ethiopia. Two years later, following the attempt on his life on 19 February 1937, he was responsible for the infamous three-day Addis Ababa Massacre forever associated with his name.
In this Massacre innumerable innocent Ethiopian citizens including women and children, were mercilessly gunned down, beaten to death, or prevented from escaping from their homes which were then torched. In the absence of any official count, estimates of those killed varied greatly, but certainly comprised many thousands. The British Legation alone was reported to “know the names of over 2,000 Ethiopian victims”. The contemporary historian, Ian Campell, who has carried out considerable research on the matter, estimates that 10,000 citizens lost their lives in Addis Ababa during the three day Massacre.
Graziani also ordered reprisals at the Monastery of Debra Libanos, where, on 20 May, all the 297 monks and 129 deacons were murdered.
Shortly after these events Graziani gave instructions that Ethiopian nobles and army officers, who had surrendered “be shot immediately. … A better opportunity could not be found to get rid of them”. If these were not crimes, what are crimes?
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At the close of World War II the United Nations set up a War Crimes Commission, of which Ethiopia was a member. The Ethiopian Government officially listed Graziani, as well as Pietro Badoglio, the Fascist Commander of the Ethiopian Northern Front, as Fascist Italy’s principal War Criminals. Among other crimes, they had sanctioned the use of Poison Gas during the invasion and occupation.
The voice of Ethiopia was however ignored. The British Government wanted to see Badoglio as Prime Minister of post-war Italy, while racists in various parts of the British Empire, notably South Africa, were reluctant to see Graziani – a White Man – punished for crimes committed against Natives, or Blacks. The United Nations War Crimes Commission was therefore deliberately sabotaged – with the result that not a single Italian Fascist was ever tried for the many crimes committed in Ethiopia. Graziani was indicted only for crimes committed in collaboration with the Germans in Italy.
And now, in 2012, the Mayor of Affile, the place where Graziani was born, has dedicated a mausoleum and park to his memory.
The honouring of Graziani, against which we protest, may conceivably have been carried out by persons who knew little of his actual role in history; however, the Vatican, whose representative attended the ceremony, should have known better, which makes these events all the more alarming.
The naming of a War Criminal as a Cultural Hero must not be allowed to pass unchallenged. Let us make no bones about it: Graziani is not simply to be numbered as one of the Fascist invaders who committed war crimes in Africa, not even as one of the principal ones: he was, without a doubt, the most criminal one. Those who, for one reason or another, condone his deeds, are all the more guilty.
Is it too much to demand that the Italian government and the Vatican disassociate themselves publicly from the Mayor of Affile’s preposterous action?
Richard Pankhurst and Rita Pankhurst
Ethiopian Americans Gotta Vote in 2012!
In September, I expressed my support for President Barack Obama’s re-election. I told my readers that I enthusiastically
supported candidate Obama in 2008 but was disappointed by his Administration’s policy in Ethiopia and Africa following his election:
Did President Obama deliver on the promises he made for Africa to promote good governance, democracy and human rights? Did he deliver on human rights in Ethiopia? No. Are Ethiopian Americans disappointed over the unfulfilled promises President Obama made in Accra, Ghana in 2009 and his Administration’s support for a dictatorship in Ethiopia? Yes. We remember when President Obama talked about the need to develop robust democratic institutions, uphold the rule of law and the necessity of maintaining open political space and protecting human rights in Africa. We all remember what he said: “Africa does not need strong men but strong institutions.” “Development depends on good governance.” “No nation will create wealth if its leaders exploit the economy.” Was he just saying these words or did he truly believe them?
I also argued that in all fairness there is plenty of blame to go around. I cautioned those of us who are quick to point an accusatory index finger at President Obama for what he has not done in Ethiopia and Africa to beware that three fingers are pointing directly at them.
Truth be told, what the President has done or not done to promote good governance, democracy and human rights in Ethiopia is no different than what we, the vast majority of Ethiopian Americans, have done or not done to promote the same values in Ethiopia. That is the painful truth we must face. The President’s actions or lack of actions mirror our own. Just like the President, we profess our belief in democracy, good governance and human rights in Ethiopia and elsewhere in Africa. But we have also failed to put our values in action. President Obama was constrained in his actions by factors of U.S. national security and national interest. We were constrained by factors of personal interest and personal security…
But there are other hard questions we should ask ourselves: What did we do to bring pressure on the Obama Administration to promote human rights, good governance and democracy in Africa over the past 4 years? Did we organize to have our voices heard by the Administration? Did we exercise our constitutional rights to hold the Administration accountable?
But I also gave President Obama high marks for many accomplishments over the past four years. Under his watch, over 5 million private sector jobs were created. The U.S. auto industry came roaring back even though some had urged, “Let Detroit go bankrupt!”. President Obama put his presidency on the line by spending all of his political capital in enacting the Affordable Health Care Act which offered health insurance to some 40 million Americans who had none. He established a Consumer Financial and Protection Bureau to oversee crooked financial institutions who had been ripping off consumers for years. He signed a law that secured the rights of women to equal pay for equal work. President Obama ended the war in Iraq. He has promised to end the war in Afghanistan in 2014. He has pursued Al Qaeda relentlessly and ended the criminal career of the most infamous terrorist in a risky military operation, which had it failed, could have doomed his presidency. Last week, Republican Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey described President Obama’s response to “Hurricane Sandy’s” devastation of the east coast of the United States as “outstanding” and his Administration’s handling of the relief operation as “excellent”.
President Obama has proven himself to be a resolute commander in chief and a president open, ready, willing and able to engage in bipartisanship, collaboration and cooperation to get the nation’s business done. But the road he has travelled over the past 4 years has been a hard one. He has faced stiff opposition at every turn. He has been obstructed, blocked, thwarted, vilified and demonized by those who loath him personally than disagree with his policies. The top leader of the Republicans in the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell, vowed, “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president. That’s my single most important political goal, along with every active Republican in the country.” President Obama knows his work is not finished and he has a lot more to do in improving the economy. He needs another term to complete his work. He needs the support and vote of every Ethiopian American.
It is Really About the Right to Vote in America
I write this column not so much to reiterate my support for President Obama but to underscore the enormous importance of the right to vote in America. Perhaps no one knew the importance of the right to vote than the hundreds of our brothers and sisters who were mowed down in cold blood by by troops loyal to the ruling regime in Ethiopia in 2005, and the tens of thousands who were imprisoned for peacefully protesting their stolen votes. While I would urge Ethiopian Americans to vote for President Obama, I believe it is far more important for them to exercise their right to vote for the candidate and issues of their choice.
Those who are not students of American politics and constitutional law may not be aware of the history of struggle and the untold sacrifices and and the high price paid in lost lives to secure, protect and defend this precious of all rights. When the American republic was forged in 1787, only white male property owners had the right to vote. When the first census was taken in 1790, there were 3,893,635 persons in the thirteen colonies and the four other districts and territories which later became states. There were 807,094 free white males, of which 10-16 percent met the property requirement to have the right to vote! The 1,541,263 free white females did not have the right to vote. The 694,280 “persons” (slaves) did not have the right to vote. The 791,850 free white males did not have the right to vote.
The property requirement for the right to vote was gradually dropped; and by 1850 the vast majority of white males could vote without significant obstacles. But some states sought to exclude and suppress the voting rights of disfavored groups. Between 1855-57, Connecticut and Massachusetts adopted a “literacy test” (a test of one’s ability to read and write) to discriminate against Irish-Catholic immigrants. After the American Civil War ended in 1865 and slavery was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Congressional enactment of various civil rights laws, the former slaves formally gained the right to vote with the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870. “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
But the states were not prepared to allow the former slaves to become their political equals by exercising their ultimate citizenship right. Beginning with Florida in 1889, ten states in southern United States adopted poll taxes (in order to vote, a citizen has to pay a poll tax) to keep African Americans from voting. Large numbers of impoverished African Americans could not afford to pay the poll taxes and were disenfran- chised by this requirement. For decades, many southern states devised various means to keep African Americans from voting. Some used “white primaries” (political parties excluding African Americans from party membership and closing the primaries to everyone except party members). Others complicated the voter registration process by requiring frequent re-registration, long terms of residence in a district before voting, registration at inconvenient times such the planting season, providing inaccurate and misleading information about voting dates, etc. Still others used “gerrymandering” (creating electoral districts by manipulating geographic boundaries to dilute the electoral strength of minority groups and create protected districts) to deny African Americans representatives of their own choosing. Electoral fraud was rampant in the states which sought to restrict African American electoral participation. Ballot box stuffing, throwing out votes for disfavored candidates, deliberately miscounting votes, changing votes from one candidate to another were common. Violence, threats and intimidation of African Americans were also commonly used to keep African Americans from voting despite federal laws against such criminal acts.
Women were not considered worthy of voting rights until 1920 when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified guaranteeing women’s suffrage. “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” Native Americans did not acquire full citizenship rights including the right to vote in federal elections until Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Never Forget Campaign
A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists.
Graziani was notorious as Benito Mussolini’s commander in colonial wars in Ethiopia and Libya where he carried out massacres and used chemical weapons against the native populations.
In the 1920s, Graziani was commander of the Italian forces in Libya where he became known as ‘the Butcher of Fezzan’. He was directly responsible for suppressing the Senussi uprisings and the construction of concentration and labour camps. He was also directly responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Libyans including Omar Mukhtar in eastern Libya.
From 1935 to 1936, Graziani implemented the invasion of Ethiopia before becoming viceroy of Italian East Africa and governor-general of Addis Ababa in 1937. In an attempt to consolidate Italian control over the country, Graziani’s occupation army murdered up to 30,000 civilians in just three days in February 1937. Eyewitness accounts tell of how Italian soldiers doused houses with gasoline and set them on fire. Some even posed on the corpses of their victims to have their photographs taken. In the same month, Graziani ordered the massacre of the monks and pilgrims at the ancient monastery of Debre Libanos. In May, he was responsible for the assassination of up to 3,000 Ethiopian intellectuals. For these actions, Graziani earned his second title: ‘the Butcher of Ethiopia’.
As Mussolini’s minister of defence in 1943, Graziani was also responsible for putting down dissent in the Nazis’ puppet republic of Salo in Italy. He drafted a decree, which threatened any Italian who refused to serve in the army with execution and many were killed as a result.
Both the League of Nations and the United Nations failed to carry out trials against Graziani – even though the charges and evidence against him were presented to the UN War Crimes Commission, which agreed that there was a prima facie case against eight Italians including Graziani.
In 1950, an Italian military tribunal condemned Graziani to 19 years for collaborating with Nazis. He was never charged with specific war crimes. He served only four months. He was never prosecuted for specific war crimes. In the 1950s until his death, he was the head of the neo-Fascist Italian Social Movement party.
We, the undersigned, condemn unequivocally this atrocious use of public money to celebrate a war criminal and a Nazi collaborator.
Furthermore, we call upon the European Union and our own governments to use current European and international legislation to:
(1) Demand that the Italian government and the Mayor of Affile issue an apology for allowing the memory of Graziani’s victims to be desecrated in this way
(2) Demand that the Italian government and the Mayor of Affile remove all allusions to Graziani, both direct and indirect, from the memorial
(3) Demand that the Italian government and the Mayor of Affile dedicate the memorial to all those in Italy and around the world who gave their lives in the struggle against Fascism
(4) Demand that the Italian government and the Mayor of Affile install a specific memorial at the site which commemorates those Africans who died resisting Italian occupation of their countries
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Fooling Eritreans and Ethiopians
by Amanuel Biedemariam
The ethnic cleansing of Eritreans and Ethiopians of Eritrean origin was indication of the propensity to how low the apartheid regime of the TPLF can stoop to hold on to power. What they did then was try to create a non existent scar amongst the friendly peoples and, set a precedent that will ultimately come back to haunt them. Unfortunately, the TPLF cadres have embraced mischief, deceit, lies, hegemony, manipulations, ethnic cleansing, genocides, extrajudicial killings and creating mayhem as a mode of governance. They have demonstrated what true nature of governance based on the darkest inclinations of humanity looks like.
Lately, a group of these criminals has been roaming around as a political party in the US calling themselves Medrek. While Medrek is an Ethiopian matter, since they have made Eritrea a platform and a focal part of their campaign, there is no choice but to react. And it is also opportunity to give another perspective to the unsuspecting Ethiopian and expose, that they are criminals that need to face justice, not messiahs that will save Ethiopia from darkness.
Their campaign started in Seattle Washington and met stiff resistance from Ethiopians that rejected the personalities and their messages outright. They then went to Washington DC, Atlanta and other places to conduct similar seminars. This time however, they slightly altered the messages and tweaked the delivery to appease the resisting parties.
The core of the Medrek is comprised of Gebru Asrat TPLF and chairman of Medrek, Seye Abraham TPLF and former Defense Minister of Ethiopia and, hodgepodge collection of TPLF subsidiary groups with familiar names to fill-in the blanks and, to legitimize the so-called Medrek.
Regardless of what they call themselves today, they are TPLF-Weyane cadres that were and remain affiliated to the group of Tigrayans that have been looting Ethiopia while wreaking havoc in the region afflicting untold suffering in Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea for over 20years. They are the core of TPLF-EPRDF, party to a group that committed and continues to commit major humanitarian crimes.
They base their platforms on two-core subjects; anti Meles Zenawi rhetoric and, Eritrea.
Anti Meles Zenawi Rhetoric
Their main aim is to appear moderate by demonizing their former boss Meles Zenawi, by denouncing his tenure as characterized by Temsgen Zewde,
“A leader of the most brutal and oppressive regime, characterized by massive human rights violations, arbitrary arrests of opposition members, suppression of free press, exorbitant cost of living and flagrant rigging of election results, as a ruler of the most oppressive system and one who strongly believed in ethnic division.”
Moreover, they are also trying to portray the current Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn as a puppet and a continuation of Meles Zenawi. And to that end, they are preaching how democratic, transparent, respectful of human rights, press freedoms and guardians of Ethiopia they will and can be when they assume power.
Eritrea, the Carrot
This subject reveals the true nature of the group and the conspiracies that they are weaving against the people of Ethiopia and Eritrea one more time. According to Mahebere Andinet, in the seminar in Atlanta Ghebru Asrat said that he,
“Denounced secessionism and strongly adhere to the territorial integrity of Ethiopia. He further expressed that all parties have agreed to revoke the Algiers accord that reached final and binding decision regarding delimitation of borders with Eritrea.”
Denounce ethnic division…? That must be a joke. After the TPLF assumed absolute power of Ethiopia in 1991, Ghebru Asrat was the President of Tigray for over a decade and a member of the politburo of TPLF/EPRDF when article 39 was drafted. The base of the minority apartheid TPLF regime of Ethiopia is Tigray. TPLF is the organization that drafted article 39, an article that states, “Every nation, nationality or people in Ethiopia shall have the unrestricted right to self determination up to secession.” This took place while Ghebru Asrat and Seye Abraha were key actors of the criminal entity.
Their campaigns have many goals. For those Ethiopians that believe in Andnet (Unity) and Ethiopia’s issues of access to sea, it is to dangle Eritrea as a carrot. In the process, they can distance from Meles’s previous comments about access to sea. This is also designed to create confusion and fissure within the Ethiopia’s Diaspora opposition parties. This effort is lead by Seye Abraham and Ghebru Asrat in North America.
Simultaneous Campaign Directed at Eritreans
While Seye and Ghebru campaign in North America, another core is focused on the Eritrean public in the Diaspora with a unique strategy of deception. This is led by Berekt Simon, Abay Tsehaye, Sebhat Nega etc…
In Awasa Ethiopia, Bereket Simon created, funded and organized a group called Smerr, another term for Unity. The main objective of this group is to dissolve the independence of Eritrea. To that end, Bereket Simon recently has been making rounds in Smerr paltak group claiming that Eritrea is “Not viable as a nation.” He stated how Eritrean minorities and religious groups are dying to be free while ignoring his own regional and religious issues.
Sebhat Nega and Abay Tsehaye are also making similar propaganda campaigns. On a recent interview, when asked about access to the sea, Sebhat Nega stated that they are focused not only on access to sea but the complete re-annexation of Eritrea because the people of Eritrea are demanding it.
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