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ELF-RC Office
for Youth Affairs
Holds General
Meeting in Khartoum
By
ELF-RC Office for Information and Culture
The ELF-RC Office for Youth and Women’s Affairs on 11
May 2007 held a general meeting for youth residing in the Sudanese
capital of Khartoum and briefed them on the important developments in
the Eritrean arena, latest developments in the opposition camp and
outlined to them the much expected role of youth in the struggle for
change and democratization in Eritrea.
The briefings were made by the head of the office,
Mohammed Adem Artaa, and his deputy, the youthful Tsegai Mezghebe who is
also an RC (leadership) member. In his opening statement, Mohammed Adem
Artaa described as “depressive and totally unbearable” the situation
inside the homeland that was created by the oppressive PFDJ clique.
Artaa also underlined the importance of engaging in continuous dialogue
in the opposition camp with the aim of mending fences and arranging a
working formula that can promote coordination of tasks in the currently
existing two blocs of the national alliance.
Speaking about the role of youth in political changes in
Eritrea, the speakers presented in detail the importance of the
participation of youth in the struggle for change because this is an
important segment of the Eritrean population with enormous energies and
capacities that can be unleashed to accomplish successes in various
endeavors at national level.
The speakers stressed that youth are the reserve force
and as such their involvement in building a better Eritrea is decisive.
They stated that the ELF-RC sees Eritrea’s future in the organized
participation of youth in building a brighter future and that the ELF-RC
Office for Youth and Women’s Affairs will go and knock on the doors of
youth if the latter show reluctance in coming to it and to the rest of
the opposition camp. The further explained as follows: the State tries
to use them to run its machinery; the political parties see their future
in mobilizing the youth; civil society groupings work to win the hearts
and minds of youth to promote their aims, and therefore, youth are the
basic force of the nation.
The meeting was concluded following a fruitful and a
constructive exchange of ideas. Participants recommended that similar
meetings and training courses be organized in order to help in the
involvement of the young generation in the politics of the opposition
camp for change and democratization in Eritrea presently under an
absolutist regime. |
