By Amanuel Biedemariam
On May 20, 2009 US Senate Committee on Foreign Relation conducted a hearing regarding the Situation in Somalia on a setting and process that resembled a courtroom. The case could likely be termed as, The State against the State of Eritrea. The process seemed eerily familiar and déjà vu to the previous administration. The victim is the New Transitional Government (TNG) in Somalia. Eritrea is the accused and predetermined-guilty-party to crimes committed in Somalia, and awaits sentencing by a panel of Senators.
While the hearing appeared to be a knee jerk reaction to the fast developing situation in Somalia, it is coordinated and timed to coincide with the new-furious campaign being waged against Eritrea. It is not a coincidence that IGAD called for sanctions and blockade against Eritrea the same day the hearing was being conducted at the US Capitol. Better yet, the AU repeated the same calls, and condemned Eritrea giving Eritreans an early Independence-Day-gift, a day ahead of the main celebration was to be held!
The Senate panel led by Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin held identical hearings during the Bush Presidency. The principal actors are different as a result of the election, but the messages and the types of witnesses come from similar backgrounds; which means there is no infusion of new information. So the process seems to have continued with the Assistant Secretary Carson acting as the chief prosecutor, while Shannon Scribner from OXFAM and Dr. Ken Menkhaus sat as expert witnesses. Assistant Secretary Carson’s “testimony” can be summed up as follows: US can attain her strategic objectives with TNG/TFG led by Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. And for undetermined strategic positioning Mr. Carson decided to make Eritrea the principal defendant as an accomplice to all the mayhem that is taking place in Somalia. In other words, it is predetermined that Eritrea will be the Whipping-Boy!
However, this assertion undermines the truth and fails to answer fundamental questions. It is also a sad commentary to see a Senate panel conducting a hearing on a setting that can be considered lackadaisical. How is it possible to conduct a hearing about an issue of great magnitude which affects the lives of millions in this manner and in a process that took less than two hours? Why did Senator Russ Feingold fail to have a comprehensive and serious hearing that involved all the stake holders? Why did he conduct the hearing for a policy in the process of being formulated and in a manner that fails to educate the general public in a balanced fashion? Who are the principal actors? What is the intended role of the US and its track record? What is the desired outcome? Why is the US repeating the same process over and over? Why the inconsistencies? Why is the US supporting a leader US and Ethiopian forces dethroned and captured as a terrorist? Senator Feingold knows the actors and the issues very well, but why did he limit the process?
The US supported and financed Ethiopian soldiers to invade Somalia. Ethiopian left Mogadishu in disgrace and in defeat. Ethiopia failed to achieve any measurable success. There is no single functioning standing institution Ethiopia built. And if security is a measuring stick, Ethiopia widened the conflict and made it borderless. Because, in violation of international laws Ethiopian soldiers entered Somalia and occupied a country that harbored historic enmity claiming security concerns and invitation from the previous transitional government, TFG.
Ethiopia received all the diplomatic cover it needed from the US. It was a regular act to see Dr. Janday Frazer defend Meles Zenawi and Ethiopian authorities from their crimes. Dr. Frazer established the Somali Contact Group. She used IGAD and AU to give legitimacy for her policies. She used the UNSC and UN as tools to achieve outlined objectives. Her failed policies created hell on earth while she avoided taking responsibility by blaming others.
Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson seems to have embraced the same approach and actors to deal with the issues in the Horn of Africa. Mr. Carson stated the National Security Council (NSC) is formulating a comprehensive strategy in this regard. It involves the State Department, Department of Defense, USAID, the Intelligence Community, EU, AU, IGAD, the “Contact Group” and many others. The question here is, if policy is being formulated, why the rush for the hearing? Why legitimize a failed process that went through many TFG/TNG leadership changes in a span of two years? Why not wait to develop a comprehensive, coherent, transparent and reasonable policy?
What is missing? Change! Change we can believe in! President Obama was elected to bring change. Change in policies, approach and fundamental change in the way this country relates to other countries. President Obama said we will listen, engage and we will not dictate. What Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson did contradicts all that. Mr. Carson has not listened to Eritrea, engaged Eritrea and did not explore how Eritrea can play a positive role. To the contrary he is building unnecessary wall with the people of Eritrea during a spirited independence celebration moments.
The question then becomes, is the new Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Johnnie Carson rolling-on to failed Bush policies? Is he falling on the traps set by the most undiplomatic diplomat, Dr. Janday Frazer who contributed mightily to the unnecessary bloodshed in Somalia? What is the US policy seeking to achieve? Is it stability? The pattern doesn’t seem to indicate that to be the focus; in fact, the opposite could be argued successfully. Why? Because, for the simple fact that the US is supporting Ethiopia, a historic enemy of the Somalis to invade their country Somalia repeatedly!
As Dr. Ken Menkhaus testified, there is a great deal of suspicion and mistrust to US policies in the region. That mistrust will not let up until the US changes her approach. The US needs to give the people in the region a respite they need, seek and deserve. For decades foreign interventions have created a great deal of damage to the people in the region and they are beginning to fight it successfully. The more outsiders try to influence the final outcome the more resistance they will help create thus diminishing US influence in the region as it appears to be the case.
Considering the current economic hardships in the US and other equally pressing and overlapping issues, it is easy to conclude that President Obama will not have the time he needs to explore his policy options thoroughly. It will be at least another year for the President to evaluate the policy options and come up with a comprehensive approach. The president needs to address the continent in a new and meaningful manner with the same vigor he is addressing Moslems around the globe. We need to have faith in a President that came to power seeking to make a meaningful change.
The concern: too many players with interests that want to see the continuation of the statues quo overtaking the process to the point of no return. The US has unparalleled clout and uncontested ability to use regional and international organizations to advance agendas at will with impunity. Organizations like The African Union and IGAD are the tools at the disposal of US leaders to manipulate agendas. That is the process by which US agents legitimize and internationalize decisions they seek.
That means there must be a concerted effort by interested parties to stop the failed Bush and Frazer policies from regenerating. Because if the virus takes over; by the time the President takes over the issue all he can do is try to kill the virus. That will be a huge setback to the region’s hope-for-change! The people in the region understand it is a FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO LIVE IN PEACE and they will seek and work to achieve it! So it is up to the people representing the people in the Horn to make sure those who are responsible, like Senator Feingold, to be held to account for their actions and decisions.
And it is my sincere hope and wishes to see Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson do well for the people of the Horn and to establish a legacy of stature by charting a new way in the direction of legitimate peace with balanced, equal and a fair approach.
(The writer can be reached at [email protected])
NEW YORK (UN NEWS CENTER) – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has informed the Security Council of his intention to appoint Sahle-Work Zewde of Ethiopia as the top United Nations official in the Central African Republic (CAR).
Ms. Zewde, who would replace François Fall of Guinea, would be the second woman serving as a Special Representative of the Secretary-General under the current Secretary-General.
As the new Special Representative, she would head the UN Peacebuilding Support Office in CAR (BONUCA), which is to be succeeded by the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office, to be known as BINUCA.
Ms. Zewde is currently the Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the African Union and the UN Economic Commission for Africa.
“Ms. Zewde brings to this position years of experience in the African Union’s initiatives in conflict prevention and peacebuilding,” UN spokesperson Marie Okabe told reporters in New York.
“As a representative of her country to the African Union Peace and Security Council, she has been involved in deliberations on the situation in the Central African Republic. She has deep understanding of the close partnership of the United Nations and the African Union in resolving conflicts as well as in peacebuilding efforts in Africa.”
By Neamin Zeleke
Several Ethiopian scholars and political commentators alike have argued in the past that the TPLF regime in Ethiopia has been promoting the domination of a minority ethnic elite, i.e., the Tigreans, in all spheres of the nation’s life — economy, military, intelligence and security services, foreign affairs, etc. Much has been said and many have commented upon the blatant nature of the drive to ensure the domination of Tigrayan elites who claim to represent only 6% of close to 80 million Ethiopians.
Dr. Berhanu Balcha, a member of the Network of Ethiopian Scholars in Scandinavia (NES), wrote an article under the title “Minority domination and Ethnic Federalism.” In the article published by many of the Ethiopain Websites, Dr. Berhanu aptly argued:
…according to the principles of its own ideology of fair and equal representation of ethic groups, the TPLF, which represents the Tigray province with its 6 percent of the Ethiopian population, should have assumed a minority role, if its intention has not been a minority ethnic hegemony via ethnic federalism. Because it has operated contrary to the rule of its own game, the TPLF is operating as an instrument of coercion and domination rather than equality and freedom.”
He continues:
…as a result, the ethnic federal arrangement in Ethiopia has been characterized by economic monopoly, militaristic domination, and brutal suppression of the rights of the majority of the Ethiopian people, by the TPLF. In a nutshell, the ethnic federal project in Ethiopia has become a device for the implementation and protection of the hegemonic position of the tiny minority Tigrayan elites who have been aiming to have a dominant control of resources that the Ethiopian state controls and generates…”
In the name of a ridiculous notion of “organizational solidarity,” almost all of the ethnically drawn regions under the TPLF ethnic federal arrangement are controlled by Tigrayans running the show. In fact, the pattern has been dubbed in Amharic as “tako”. There are Amharas, Oromos, Southern, and individuals from the plethora of ethnic groups of Ethiopia holding formal positions, yet the real decision makers, movers, and shakers are Tigrayans deemed loyal to the ruling party, the Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne).
It is important to note what is written in a recent statement released by AFAR MOVEMENT (AM) – QAFAR UGUGUMO. The statement mentions a UN Report 2002 that indicates that about 98% of directorial, managerial, adviser, technician and engineering positions in the State of Afar are all occupied by non-Afar speaking people. The statement discloses quoting an ex-cabinet member of the Afar state that “All advisers and expertise are all Tigreans.”
So much for the so-called “equality of nations and nationalities” under the TPLF ethnic federal arrangement that purports to ensure the devolution of power and self-government to the ethnically drawn regions.
Ginbot 7‘s latest statement provides a comprehensive list of the key and commanding positions held by Tigrayns in the military. By any stretch of imagination, it is not possible that 6% of the population have the unique capacity to command and control 95% of the command posts in the military. It is not possible by any kind of qualitative measurement for promotion — merit, experience, education and other criteria — that a single and minority ethnic group would have what it takes to hold 57 out of the 61 key and mission critical positions within the national military. Nothing can be further from the truth; the only thing that they have is their ethnicity and political loyalty to be able to totally dominate the military in such grossly disproportional ratio. This is the penultimate and most central point that comes out very loud and clear indeed.
If one is curious enough to examine the military composition during both Emperor HaileSelassie and the Derg regimes, dubbed as “Amhara ” regimes by the TPLF, it is extremely doubtful such a blatant phenomena where 95 percent of the command posts in the military of both regimes were held by Amharas. In fact, the best and ablest, and also the most powerful generals hailed from all ethnic groups of Ethiopia. Gen. Mulugeta Buli, Gen. Jagama Kelo, Gen. Aman Andom, Maj. General Demissie Bulto, Maj. General Regassa Jima, Gen. Woldeselassie Berka, Maj. General Merid Negussie, Gen. Tesfaye HabteMariam, Gen. Teferi Benti and scores of others who come from various ethnic backgrounds come to mind.
Here, the reader should be cognizant that we are not talking about the rebel army the TPLF was back in the days when it was in the Dedebit desert, but 18 years later and right now — and claiming to rule Ethiopia, telling us that there is a national “Ethiopian Army,” or the so-called “Ethiopian Defense Forces”! Only the tribalist regime and its mindless mouthpieces abroad would have the shameless audacity to argue to the contrary — that what we have in Ethiopia is an equal and proportional representation of the major and minor ethnic groups in the military. Therefore, they have been claiming “equality among nations and nationalities hitherto absent…” assured and ascertained, as they deafen us with their endless mantra, day in and day out.
But the facts and figures in the table below and many hitherto scattered data speak otherwise. Thus vindicating what has been known for so many years, i.e., the grossly blatant and far reaching drive for ethnic hegemony of a minority Tigrayan elites over the rest of the Ethiopian people. Of course, for those who are quick to show a handful of non Tigrayans with rank of a Lt. General, Brg. General, etc, yes there are coteries of yes men from other ethnic groups all around the Tigrayans. The nominal and feeble so-called generals, the likes of Kassa Deme, Bacha Debele, and others from Amhara, Oromo, and other ethnic groups — who have lost or do not have any sense of self respect — do exist. They go through the motion of sheepishly scavenging crumbs from their masters table. These puppets do not wield any real power in addition to the often encountered humiliation of being scolded by not only Tigreans with much lower ranks, as many have exposed, including the latest by Tesfaye Gerbeab’s “The Journalist’s Memoir” who laid bare the extent of this phenomena.
Ginbot 7’s latest statement recounts the thousands of high ranking officers, line officers, NCOs and privates from Amhara and Oromo ethnic groups purged by the TPLF mafia in the thousands in recent years. In effect, an ethnic cleansing within the military enclave. On a related story, the purge carried out by the Tigrayan gang is characterized by inhuman torture and suffering the victims are subjected to. Tesfaye Gebreab, in his rent article about Ginbot, mentions the brutality of a woman torturer named Col. Biraa, a former TPLF commissar and now in charge of prison, where military officers are held incommunicado and tortured, some until they are disabled for life. For the latest purges and repression carried out against officers and privates alike in the military one can also refer to a recent report by Finote Democracy [pdf].
Captain Teshome Tenkolu’s story, one of the ablest air force pilots and trainers subjected to inhuman torture is a yet another case among perhaps the untold thousands of others subjected to cruelty and inhumanity carried out by the Tigrayan mafia within the military establishment. The stories told about Capt. Teshome and his late friend, Maj. Daniel say much about the brutal and inhuman ways used by the tribal mafia regime and its henchmen to punish members of the armed forces suspected of any “wrongdoing”. Both were forced to spend two years in underground dungeon under extremely gruesome conditions, forced to sleep and live literally on human remains until they were released after being told by the shameless Woyanne that their country needs them to fight their war with Eritrea — to save their skin in that war with Eritrea which consumed 70,000 Ethiopian lives with no relevance whatsoever for Ethiopia.
The two were asked to return to the air force as pilots. It gave Capt. Teshome the chance to escape to Eritrea with an air force plane. He is now living in Canada. While his friend Maj. Daniel who stayed behind was less fortunate. Several years later, just barely two years ago, he was found dead in Ethiopia under extremely dubious circumstances. Who else could have killed him except the usual suspect, now that he has done his “service,” he could be disposed off.
According to Capt. Teshome’s account of the extreme suffering and inhuman conditions he was forced to endure, the captors who took him from his office at the air force base were Tigrayan officers (former TPLF cadres mentioned by name); the interrogators torturing him, for reasons that he has yet find out even today, were also Tigrayans. It is yet another story of the judge, the jury, the police, were all being played out by individuals belonging to the same ethnic group — Tigrayans — at the service of the TPLF mafia. The full story of Capt. Teshome could be found here.
The minority ethnic domination has far reaching implications for Ethiopia’s future peace and harmony that must exist among the various ethnic groups, including the people of Tigray region. Such facts and figures must come out to show the world the bankruptcy and total recklessness of the TPLF regime and the cabal controlling it.
Below one can find partial list of the names, positions, and ethnic compositions that exist in the current so-called national military in Ethiopia. For a full list of names by rank, ethnic composition and key positions held, one can check the six page report in Amharic release here.
Senior Command Posts
1. Chief of Staff, General, Samora Yunus, Tigre
2. Training Department, Lt. General Tadesse Worede, Tigre
3. Logistics Department, Lt. General Geazi Abera, Tigre
4. Military Intelligence Department, Brg. General Gebredela, Tigre
5. Operations Department, Lt. General Gebre Egziabiher, Tigre
6. Engineering Department, Lt. General Berhane Negash, Tigre
7. Air force, Brg. General Mola Haile Mariam, Tigre
Heads of the four commands
1. Central Command, Lt. General AbebawTadesse, Agew
2. Northern Command, Lt. General Seare Mekonnen, Tigre
3. South Eastern Command, Maj. General Abraha W. Gabriel, Tigre
4. Western Command, Brg. General Siyoum Hagos, Tigre
Division Commands
1. 31st Division Commander, Colonel Tsegaye Marx, Tigre
2. 33rd Division Commander, Colonel Kidane, Tigre
3. 35th Division Commander, Colonel Misganaw Alemu, Tigre
4. 24th Division Commander, Colonel Work Aieynu, Tigre
5. 22nd Division Commander, Colonel Dikul, Tigre
6. 14th Division Commander, Colonel Woedi Antieru, Tigre
7. 21st Divison Commander, Colonel Gueshi Gebre, Tigre
8. 11th Division Commander, Colonel Workidu, Tigre
9. 25th Division Commander, Colonel Tesfai Sahel, Tigre
10. 20th Division Commander, Colonel, Teklai Klashin, Tigre
11. 8th Mechanized Division, Colonel Jemal Mohamed, Tigre
12. 4th Mechanized Division, Colonel Hintsaw Giorgis, Tigre
Here is another well-presented argument in support of an Ethiopian Transitional Government in Exile.
Source: Ethiopian Current Affairs Discussion Forum
Click here for PDF version
ትንቢተ ኤልያስ፡ የስደት መንግስት የኛም ፍካሬ ነው
የሚሳፈር ይሳፈር፡ የማይሳፈር ይቅር፡ ቀኑ ሲደርስ ግን ሁሉም ይሳፈራል
አገሬ መግባት አፈልጋለሁ!!
“አገሬ መግባት እፈልጋለሁ!! እኔ ሌላ ምንም ዓላማ የለኝም። ወያኔ አትገባም ብሎ ከሶኛል። ወያኔ ከተሰቀለበት የትእቢትና እብሪት ሰቀላ ተፈጥፍጦ ወርዶ ማየትና በአገሬ በነጻነት መኖር እፈልጋለሁ።” አለኝ ኤልያስ ክፍሌ፡ ከኤርትራ መልስ አንዳንድ ነገሮችን ስናወጋ። ይኸው ነው ይሄንን ልጅ እንቅልፍ አሳጥቶ ሰላም ነስቶ ከዲሲ አስመራ፡ ከዚህ እዚያ የሚያንከራትተው። ኤልያስ፡ አንዳንድ ግዜ ያበሳጭ ይሆናል። “ኤልያስ፡ ተው ሰው አትንካ፡ የትጥቅ ትግልን ለማራመድ የግድ ብርቱካንን ማውገዝ የለብንም። የለም ሰላማዊ ትግል አያዋጣም፡ የቀረን ትጥቅ ትግል ብቻ ነው ብለህ መከራከር ትችላለህ። ያንተን ክርክር አሳማኝ ለማድረግ ግን እነ ብርቱካን ሚደቅሳን መዘልዘል፡ እነ ዶ/ር ሀይሉን ማዋረድ የለብንም። እነ ዶ/ር መራራን ማበሻቀጥ አያስፈልገንም። እንደዚያ አይነቱ ነገር ትክክል ስላልሆነ ብቻ ሳይሆን፡ ይንን ባደረግክ ቁጥር ፍጥጫው በኛና በኢህአዴግ መሀከል መሆኑ ይቀርና፡ የትጥቅ ትግል በሚያራምዱ ወገኖችና በሰላማዊ ትግሉ አራማጆች፡ በተለይም ደግሞ በአንድነት ደጋፊዎች መካከል ይሆናል። ተው ሰው አትንካ።
የኢህአዴግ ስራ ይበቃል፡ የሕወሐት ጥፋት
ሰዉን የትጥቅ ትግልን እንዲቀበል፡ ኢህአዴግ የሚሰራው ስራ በቂ ነው። ኢህአዴግ የሰላማዊውን ትግል ምህዳር እያጠበበ እያጠበበ፡ ሲመጣ፡ በአራት ዓመት ውስጥ አንድ ሰላማዊ ሰልፍ ሲከለከል፡ በአራት አመት ውስጥ ሁለት ሕዝባዊ ስብሰባ ሲነፈግ፡ በአምስት ዓመት ውስጥ፡ አንድ የቴሌቪዥም ማስታወቂያ ማሰማት ሳይቻል ሲቀር፡ የሰማኒያ ዓመት አዛውንት ያለፍርድ ሲታሰሩ፡ የአስራሰባት ዓመት ወጣቶች በግንባራቸው ተመትተው ሲገደሉ፡ በየዓመቱ በረሀብ የሚቀጠፍ ሰው ቁጥር ሲጨምር፡ በየዓመቱ የሚሰደድ ሰው ሲያሻቅብ፡ የአገሪቱ መሬት ለአረብና ሱዳን ሲቸበቸብ፡ የአንድ ብሄር ልጆች እንደ እንቧይ እስኪያብጡ ሲፈነጨብንና ሲወቅጡን፡ ይሄ ሁሉ ሕዝቡን ወደለየለትና ወደባሰበት የትጥቅ ትግል ያመጣል። ከኢህአዴግ በኩል የሚሰራው ስራ በቂ ነዉና፡ ከኛ በኩል ሕዝቡን ወይንም ድርጅቶችን የትጥቅ ትግል እንዲመርጡ የሚያስገድድ ማስፈራሪያና ስድብ፡ አታካራና ጭቅጭቅ አያስፈልግም። ኢህአዴግ ያንን ስራ በሚገባ እየሰራ ነው። የኛ ስራ ሌላ ነው።
አብዮተኛው ኤልያስ፡ አብዮታዊ ሀሳቦች
ኤልያስ ዘወትር የሚያነሳቸው ሀሳቦች አብዮታዊ፡ ከዘመናቸው የቀደሙ፡ ደፋርና ሰው ለመግባትና ለማንሳት የሚፈራቸው ናቸው። ለምሳሌ አንድ ግዜ ኤልያስ በሌሊት ተነሳና፡ “የግዞት መንግስት ማቋቋም ያስፈልገናል አለ”። ብዙዎች ተንጫጩ። ይሄ ሰው ምንድነው የሚያወራው? ምነስ ነው የሚናገረው? ብለው ተሳለቁበት። ጥቂቶቻችን ግን አስደነቀን። አስፈነደቀንም። ወዳጄ ተክሌ የሻው፡ ሰሞኑን “ኢትዮጵያ የምትባለው አገር የለችም” የሚል አስደንጋጭ ክርክር አምጥቷል። የክርክሩን ሙሉ ቃል አልሰማሁትም። ግን ኢትዮጵያን ኢህአዴግ አፍርሷታል ነው የሚለው። ወይም ኢትዮጵያ መሆን እንደሚገባትና እንደነበረችው የለችም ነው የሚለው። ያ ለጊዜው ይቅር። ኢትዮጵያ ግን አሁን ትክክለኛና ሕጋዊ መንግስት የላትም። አጼ ሀይለስላሴ፡ በዚያም በዚህም ብለው በመለኮታዊ መቀባት ስልጣኔን አገኘሁ ብለው ለዓመታት ሕዝቡን አሳምነውት ሕዝቡም ጸሀዩ ንጉሳችን እያላቸው ኖሩ። ኢህአዴግ ግን፡ የሽፍታ ጭምብሉንና ኮንጎ ጫማውን በሲቪል ልብስ ለውጦ ስልጣን ላይ ያለ ምንም ህጋዊ መሰረት በጡንቻውና በዓለም አቀፉ መንግስታት ችሮታ ብቻ ስልጣን ላይ የቆየ አገዛዝ ነው። ስለዚህ ኢትዮጵያን የሚወክል የግዞት መንግስት ለማቋቋም መብቱም ችሎታውም አለን። የኤልያስ ሀሳብ ትክክል ነው።
የግዞት መንግስተ ለምን? ከነማንስ ጋር?
የግዞት መንግስት ብናቋቋም የሚቀበሉን መንግስታት አናጣም። ኤርትራ በተማመን ከጎናችን ነች። ሌሎች ከኢህአዴግ ጋር የተጣሉ መንግስታትም ከጎናችን ናቸው። ኤርትራ ራሷ ልታመጣልን የምትችለው የወዳጅና የአቅም ብዛት የትየለሌ ነው። ብዙ ሰዎች ያለፈውን የጦርነትና የደም መፋሰስ አመታት በማሰብ ኤርትራን እንደ መንጸፈ ደይን ይፈሯታል። ብዙ ሰዎች እንደውም ከሀጢያት ይልቅ ኤርትራን ይፈራሉ። እዚህ ጋር ሲኦል እዚህ ጋር ኤርትራ አለች ቢባሉ፡ ወደሲኦል የሚመርጡም አሉ። ያ ስህተት ነው። ያለፈ አልፏል። ያለፈውን አንለውጠውም። ዘመን ይለወጣል። ከኤርትራ ጋር ለመስራትና ለመወዳጀት የሚያስፈልጉን ነገሮች በጣም ኢምንትና ጥቂት ናቸው። አንደኛ፡ ኤርትራ አገር መሆኗንና በምንም መልኩ የኤርትራን ሉአላዊነት እንደማናሰጋ ቃል መግባት። ቃል መስጠት። ሁለተኛ ኤርትራና ኢትዮጵያ እንደ ጎረቤት አገሮች አንዳቸው ባንዳቸው ላይ ኢኮኖሚያዊ ትስስር ፈጥረው በሰላምና በትብብር እንደሚኖሩ መስማማት። እነሱ ባህር አላቸው። እኛም ምጣኔ ሀብት። እነሱ ጨው አላቸው። እኛም በርበሬ። ሶስተኛ ታላላቅ ሰዎችና ድርጅቶች ግንባር ፈጥረው በቀጥታ ከኤርትራ መንግስት ጋር ልኡካን ልከው መነጋገርና መቀመጫችውን በአስመራ አድርገው የግዞት መንግስት መቋቋም። አለቀ። ለጊዜው ብዙዎች ወይንም የኢትዮጵያ ህዝብ ይሄንን ላይደግፈው ይችላል። ግን ራሱን አህአዴግንና ሻእቢያን ጨምሮ ማንም ሀያል ሕዝብ በደገፈው መንገድ አይደለም ስልጣን ላይ የመጣው ወይም የወጣው። ካሸነፍን ሕዝብ ሁልግዜም ካሸናፊ ወገን ነው። የአጼ ምኒሊክ እርግማንና ግዝት ልጅ ኢያሱን አልጠቀመም፡ የሀይለስላሴ ድል አድራጊነት ግን ስልጣን ላይ አቆያቸው። 50 ዓመታት ግድም። ግማሽ ክፍለዘመን። ስለዚህ የምንፈልገው ማሸነፍ ከሆነና በኤርትራ መጓዙ እንዲሁም የግዞት መንግስት መቋቋሙ ለማሸነፍ ከረዳን ሰዎች ደገፉትም ተቃወሙትም ያንን ለማድረግ ማመንታት የለብንም።
ግንቦት ሰባት፡ ግንቦት ሀያ፡ ግንቦት ሰባት
አሁን የወሬ ግዜ አብቅቷል ብሏል ዶ/ር ብርሀኑ ነጋ። አሁን የስራ ግዜ ነው። ኢህአዴግ ስራውን ሰርቷል። እየሰራም ነው። ከግንቦት ሀያ በፊትም በኋላም። የቀረው የኛ ክፍል ነው። የኛ ስራ። ኢህአዴግን ለመጣል ግንቦት ሰባት የሚጸየፋቸውና የሚያፍራቸው መንገደች ሊኖሩ አይገባም። ዶ/ር ብርሀኑ ጓደኞቹንና የስራ ባልደረቦቹን ሰብስቦ ወደ አስመራ ቢወርድ፡ አቶ ኢሳይያስ አፈወርቂ ለሙአመር ጋዳፊ የአደረጉትን ያህል ደማቅ አቀባበል ነው የሚያደርጉለት። ዝርዝሩን መነጋገር ነው። ካለመነጋገር ነው፡ ካለመጠየቅ ደጃዝማችነት ይቀራል። ኢህአዴግ የሰላምና የእፎይታ አገዛዝ መግዛት የለበትም። ሕወሀትም ይሁን ልጆቹ እንቅልፍ አጥተው፡ እንቅልፋቸውን እንግሊዝ እንዲተኙ ማድረግ አለብን። እስካሁን ለንደንና ዲሲ፡ ጀርመንና ሰዊዘርላንድ ሰርተናል። አሁን ደግሞ እዚያው ሜዳ ላይ መውጪያ ግዜ ነው። ከኤርትራ የተሻለ፡ ከኤርትራ የቀረበ፡ ከኤርትራ የተመቸ ሜዳና መንገድ እንደሌለ ደግሞ ከዚህ ቀደም ጽፈናል። ተራው የግንቦት 7 ነው። ከፍተኛ ልኡካን ልኮ ከኤርትራ መንግስት ጋር መነጋገርና ከኤርትራ ጋር መስራት፡ የስደት መንግስት ማቋቋምና ከዓለም መንግስታት ጋር መጻጻፍ ለብቸኝነት የቀረበ መንገድ ነው።
ልጅ ተክሌ ነኝ፡ ግንቦት 2009፡ ካናዳ
