Ato Sileshi Tilahun, a senior official of the Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF), has arrived in Asmara over the weekend to hold discussions with Ato Meazaw Getu, the chairman, and other leaders of the resistance group. During his two-week stay in the region, Ato Sileshi will also visit the EPPF fighters in the field.
The working visit to Eritrea by Ato Sileshi includes meetings with high-level officials of Eritrea’s Government. The meeting is hoped to pave the way for other Ethiopian political, civic, and religious leaders, as well as artists and journalists to visit Eritrea in the near future in order to solidify the increasingly improving relations between the peoples of Eritrea and Ethiopia.
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This is good news in the troubled horn of Africa and bad news for those who want to sow discord and hatred between the people of Eritrea and Ethiopia, yes we are brothers and sisters with deep cultural ties, we have always been neighbors and lived in peace for the most part, our brotherly people have no other choice but to live in peace together, friendships forged in times of hardship last forever, this time it is different, in the 1990s the treacherous Woyanne leadership abused the hand of friendship given to them by the people of Eritrea, turned around and stabbed the Eritrean people in the back, the very people who helped them at their darkest hour and helped them restore their dignity. Unlike the Woyanne EPPF and the other Ethiopian opposition groups don’t have a hidden agenda and are genuine in their desire for friendship with the people and government of Eritrea, the people and government of Eritrea are extending an olive branch to the people of Ethiopia and the wise leadership of the EPPF and their allies in Ethiopia are responding with genuine desire for peace and prosperity of our people. Viva EPPF.
Great move by the EPPF! Enemies of Ethiopia – eat your hearts out. It would have been just silly for those “ወይአነ!” diehards and chauvinists to decry any relationship with Eritrea had it not been a damaging situation for both of our long suffering peoples. For the life of me, I could not understand what could be wrong to have the Eritrean and Ethiopian people cooperate in any filed of opportunity! I personally would have dismissed all the meaningless bravado that many of our Diaspora Ethiopians talk against Eritrea; and simply say “OK, if you do not want any relationship with the only country that is our natural ally and is willing to work with us – so be it”. But, I can’t say taht. I don’t want to say that for I know that would be an emotionally driven but IRRESPONSIBLE stand on any Ethiopian or Eritrean. I wouldn’t do that also because any misunderstanding between out two countries effects primarily the peasants, farmers, shepherds and those otherwise have nothing to do with the cyberspace warriors like Ethiomedia and his cronies. No, I will not be party to any hardship that my people would suffer because of any stand that I am associated with.
ኣይዟቹ በርቱ አርበኞች! We are all with you and incidentally, I want to thank the Eritrean government for standing with our fighting force.
Ato Sileshi Tilahun, I think you and your organisation are on the right track. The EPPF and other liberation fronts needs to carry out friendly cooperation with Eritrea and other friendly countries to develop themselves. Lets face it, the TPLF is a despotic regime whose actions is bringing down unimaginable catastrophe on Ethiopia and its neighbours. I wish you,Ato Sileshi Tilahun, good luck and I’m sure our freedom fighters will be able to get rid of Meles Zenawi and free Ethiopia and the region of his evil regime. Viva Ethiopia and Eritrea.
This is wonderful news. It is inevitable for the people of the two sisterly nations to come together and strenghten their ties. With a solidified cooperation in the making there is no more room for maneuvering for the tribalist woyane junta regime.
woyane’s final days of tyranical rule is coming to its final chapter and i am so glad to witness it.
Go EPPF! GO Eritrea!
Well, it is about time that some reasonable individual
follows the political and diplomatic steps of grand fathers
who had good relations with several European leaders in order
defend and protect our nation from several enemies.
Is Shaebia willing to help Ethiopian who are fighting the
woyane, should be well come by all of us who are against
the tyrant Meles.
As far as the EPPF is concerned, their strategy is the
only way to destroy the oppressive regime in our country.
Mamo
There are many things to say about Eritrea. There are also many questions to be raised and be answered by Eritrean ruling group. Since the minds of Eritreans are set and directed by the former front and present government, one can not distinguish the mentality of Eritrean people from their government.
I am a concerned Ethiopian who used to believe the former province of Eritrea was part and parcel of Ethiopia due to historical, cultural,geographical and also common belief and common suffering.
I am not advocater of war. our past history since 1961 has not been rosy and harmonious.
After the wartime was over there was no debate among Eritreans and Ethiopians how to shape our future relations
mutually. There was a notion of denying those binding features by scholars and alphabeted Eritreans.
There was no clear demarcation of thought how to normalise the relationship.
This vagueness has led to the bloody war of 1998/2000.
A fact-finding task force has to be setup from both sides to study analyse the past relationship. Analyse its failures and problems. It has to be discussed thoroughly and must also involve the public.
Openess is the best remedy for building up trust among the population.
EPPF has not yet made clear to Ethiopians how it chose to be friend with Eritrea and under what circumstance, what to achieve.
Ethiopian people should not be a demonstration field of unknown intersts.
Here, clarity is needed from both sides.
Comment #6 above
Ayte Hezkiel,
Please stop the nonsense that had caused the marginalization and suffering our Eritrean cousins suffered in the first place and which I am convinced that lead to their quest to seek independence. But, that is history. There is no need to revisit some painful events in which most of us did not even to bother to express our sympathy to the Eritreans who took the brunt of Ethiopian regimes folly all alone without any resemblance of support to their cause. It is precisely of the mentality that you are ranting over here that we were unable to resolve all outstanding issues PEACEFULLY. Whether we like it or not, we are bound to live side by side in harmony! Now, unless you are some moron, the world knows that the so called “Badme” war of 1998 was instigated by your Weyane thugs. Never mind that the war “Had nothing to do with Badme”, they nevertheless used it as an excuse to aggrandize the so called “Tigray Abay” or whatever the hell they call it. So, please quit making a full of yourself and stop telling us that the so called “Senseless’ war was a byproduct of Eritrea’s status as apolitical entity. In case you were slumbering, the Eritreans paid dearly to get their independence in spite of all odds. In fact, as true Ethiopians we should compensate for all their suffering which they had not asked for because of their magnanimity and probably realizing that our country was too poor to be burdened with such reality. So I say, let bygones be bygones and let’s accept the Eritreans offer of working together for the betterment of our lots. It really is not up to Hezkiel or anybody else to tell the Eritreans what kind of government they have or ought to have. It is their business and there is nothing you and people like you can do to change that.
Hezkiel; I hope you are not intimating that the Eritrean people are zombies who follow the Government blindly, I think what you fail to understand is the history of Eritrea and specially the Eritrean liberation struggle. The reason the Eritrean people are so united is not a secret or because they belong to some kind of gang, it is because they forged the unity that the Eritrean people enjoy in the harshest of times. Unlike any other African liberation struggle or those countries who got their nominal flags the Eritrean people had to fight for their freedom by themselves and had no choice but to reject the natural and artificial differences that bedevil African and other third world countries. The EPLF played a key role in uniting the Eritrean people, despite having 9 ethnic groups, 7 languages and two main religions they forged an iron clad unity that is impossible to divide. That is the secret to the unity of the Eritrean people and the tremendous trust they have in their government, not the propaganda you read about from their enemies and those who don’t know the true history of the Eritrean peoples struggle for indpendence.
That is why without fear of the big powers Eritrea embarked on economic development primarily based on self sufficiency in all aspect of development, specially food self sufficiency as a short term goal. You might also wonder why over 90% of Eritreans in the diaspora pay voluntary tax to their government for the development of their nation and also sponsor families who lost their loved ones during the struggle for indpendence and in defense of Woyanne offensives between 1998 and 2000, it is not because they are afraid of their government, it is because every family in Eritrea has paid dearly with blood, here in lies the unity of the Eritrean people.
Ethiopia has an opportunity to forge that kind of iron clad unity with the emergence of genuine partriotic organizations like EPPF to start forging that kind of unity among the Ethiopian people, that will neither be easy or quick, it takes time and effort to forge that kind of unity in Ethiopia, organizations like the EPPF are going about it the right way, they are not beholden to any foreign manipulation and have started with determination to forge that kind of freedom based on genuine unity between the people of Ethiopia, the Ethiopians in the diaspora have to support them, visit them in the field and do all they can unite Ethiopians at home and in the diaspora.
HEZKIEL,HANG YOUR SELF..
Hezkiel…! What is vision regarding changing Ethiopia’s status quo? You stated:
“…EPPF has not yet made clear to Ethiopians how it chose to be friend with Eritrea and under what circumstance, what to achieve…” Well, are you following their platform? Several Interviews by their representative? They want to establish a united democratic state of Ethiopia! Period. What else do you want? Do want to want clame Port of Djibouti, Assab, Mombassa? Come on, wake up.
The only window to the world is Eritrea. For logistic, supply, in and out facilities for gallant combatants of EPPF is accommodated by the GoEritrea. What more do you need? Now share your effort with those who giving their life and their young age.
Long live Ethiopia