The international policies of nation are the direct reflections of its internal dynamics. A nation which is free, united, democratic, progressive, assertive, dynamic and self-reliant nation is certain to have its international policies firmly rooted in truth, mutual respect, mutual benefit, accountability, transparency, non-interference , sovereignty and national integrity. Thus lies, deceit, double talk, backstabbing and mundane diplomatic niceties have no place in the Eritrean diplomatic blue prints.

A proud people who fought against all odds and overcame insurmountable challenges to bring Eritrea into existence are NOT going to be involved in political prostitution a la the Tribal Junta in Ethiopia. Lies and deceit are the primary tools of governance in Ethiopia and are perfected into a state craft today. A closer look at the Ethiopian history proves the aforementioned statement as correct.

The "Lakebas" at the Menelik Palace are thus mere poodles of the British and coolies of the Americans or as a matter of fact bed partners with any low life with some cash and ulterior motives. Ethiopia is put on the chopping block -anything and everything in Ethiopia is for sale to the lowest bidder. Nothing seems to be sacred -women, children and virgin lands are auctioned in a deal of a century voodoo economics.

Eritrea is leading the way in showing the world that the old ways of doing business had failed. Eritrea isn't going to repeat the failed African nation making experiments. She is advocating that self-reliance, mutual partnerships and becoming master of your own destiny are the new ways of doing business. Above all, the IMF and World Bank financial war lords economic terrorism has to be a thing of the past.

For these to happen you need to have a leadership which has wisdom, experience,sophistication, gusto and guts made of steel. Eritrea has a leadership with an abundant amount of these qualities and more.

Contrast that with what this learned man says about the banana republic:

Eritrea may be world’s most repressive nation

By JOEL BRINKLEY
Tribune Media Services
Updated: 2012-04-27T21:35:38Z

It might seem a daunting challenge to determine which of the world’s repressive nations offers the least-free news media — Iran, North Korea, Belarus.
But you may be surprised by the unanimity among organizations that study such things, like Reporters Without Borders, a French group. The consensus choice is Eritrea.
Eritrea, a desperately poor desert state about the size of Pennsylvania, lives in an ugly neighborhood on the Horn of Africa, between Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia. Conditions in Eritrea are so bad that an estimated 25 percent of the population has fled in the last 20 years. The government classifies emigrants as “traitors,” and border guards are ordered to shoot them.
A secret slogan among Eritrea’s youth: “Leave to live.”
In fact, Eritrea may be the most repressive nation on earth. Many thousands of imprisoned journalists, former government officials, religious leaders and others are held indefinitely without charge in 314 detention centers — some with their hands and feet shackled, others tied to a cross or hung upside down, Human Rights Watch reported.
Among underground prisons, one is 229 feet below sea level, where temperatures are reported to reach 140 degrees. Dehydration and heat-stroke deaths are common. “Eritrea’s government is turning the state into a giant prison,” Human Rights Watch said.
Why don’t you know about this? In 2001, a few days after the 9/11 attacks, President Isaias Afewerki shut down all the nation’s independent media and sent scores of journalists to those secret underground jails.
There are only a handful of state-owned newspapers, TV and radio stations. The last 11 years there has been no way to know what’s happening. NGOs are forbidden to open offices, and foreign correspondents are banned.
For the last decade the Committee to Protect Journalists, African Press Organization and International Federation of Journalists have begged Western nations to “end the apathy of the international community,” as one of them put it. Still today, no one knows; no one cares.
The organizations recognize that the ill-treatment of the media is just the most public symptom of a larger problem — a national leader, like so many others, whose only aspiration is to cling to power no matter how barbaric he needs to be. But most other dictators, like North Korea’s Kim family, are largely passive, unresponsive to suffering — unless directly threatened. Not Afewerki.
As one Eritrean who fled told the BBC: “I realize there are problems everywhere, but Eritrea is unique. It’s like the Middle Ages. How can we live like this?”
Eritrea used to be an Italian colony. Later, Ethiopia annexed it. But after a 30-year civil war, the country won independence in 1991. Afewerki has been the nation’s leader ever since and remarked last year that he won’t hold elections “for three or four decades.” The State Department’s human rights report said his government continues “the practice of summary executions and shooting individuals on sight near mining camps and border regions."
Nonetheless, the world paid no attention. None at all, until finally Eritrea made a fateful error. In 2010, Afewerki began providing arms and supplies to the Al Shabab Islamist militants in Somalia, hoping they would attack their shared enemy, Ethiopia.
Finally the world did take notice. The United Nations Security Council voted without a dissenting voice to order an arms embargo and take other punitive measures intended to end that assistance for Al Shabab.
The European Union followed suit, while at the same time continuing to provide so-called developmental aid: $160 million over five years. A few months ago, Afewerki told Europe: Forget it. We don’t want your money anymore. Earlier, he told the United States the same thing. Washington had provided $65 million in aid each year.
As Afewerki put it: “We don’t want to be pushed around. Leave us alone.”
And the world seems all too happy to comply.
Joel Brinkley is a professor of journalism at Stanford University.

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The international policies of nation are the direct reflections of its internal dynamics. A nation which is free, united, democratic, progressive, assertive, dynamic and self-reliant nation is certain to have its international policies firmly rooted in truth, mutual respect, mutual benefit, accountability, transparency, non-interference , sovereignty and national integrity. Thus lies, deceit, double talk, backstabbing and mundane diplomatic niceties have no place in the Eritrean diplomatic blue prints.

A proud people who fought against all odds and overcame insurmountable challenges to bring Eritrea into existence are NOT going to be involved in political prostitution a la the Tribal Junta in Ethiopia. Lies and deceit are the primary tools of governance in Ethiopia and are perfected into a state craft today. A closer look at the Ethiopian history proves the aforementioned statement as correct.

The "Lakebas" at the Menelik Palace are thus mere poodles of the British and coolies of the Americans or as a matter of fact bed partners with any low life with some cash and ulterior motives. Ethiopia is put on the chopping block -anything and everything in Ethiopia is for sale to the lowest bidder. Nothing seems to be sacred -women, children and virgin lands are auctioned in a deal of a century voodoo economics.

Eritrea is leading the way in showing the world that the old ways of doing business had failed. Eritrea isn't going to repeat the failed African nation making experiments. She is advocating that self-reliance, mutual partnerships and becoming master of your own destiny are the new ways of doing business. Above all, the IMF and World Bank financial war lords economic terrorism has to be a thing of the past.

For these to happen you need to have a leadership which has wisdom, experience,sophistication, gusto and guts made of steel. Eritrea has a leadership with an abundant amount of these qualities and more.

Well said Sir! All I can say is let Weyanes and their handlers remain stuck in the quagmire they find themselves.

Well said Sir! All I can say is let shabo and their handlers remain stuck in the quagmire they find themselves.

Ditto shabo.
It's alive, it's alive...

Hillal tell the truth as it is. Well said brother!!