Isayas’ Government Warns;

 It Will Kill Citizens Sited in the Environs of Mid Mereb-basin

Department of Information and Culture

Eritrean People’s Party

February 14, 2009

The political cadres of the ruling party in Eritrea warned residents of Khuli Zibi that the government would shoot and kill citizens sited in the environs of Mid Mereb-basin. The residents received the warning in a meeting held on February 5, 2009.  

The ruling party in Asmara issued such warning mainly to rationalize the killing it committed on four innocent teenager Eritreans on December 31, 2008 in the Mid Mereb-basin http://www.nharnet.com/February_2009/EPP_News_109E_Feb1309.htm. The meeting had also two folds: On the one hand, the regime wanted to vindicate itself from the crimes it had previously committed on citizens by justifying its warning. On the other, it declared to carry out further killings and inflicting harms on fleeing Eritrean youths even though it is unable to stop them.

The shoot-to-kill policy of the dictatorial regime is not new to Eritreans. Such policy has already claimed many young Eritrean lives.  Yet, Eritrean youth continues to flee the country by risking death and danger across the deserts and oceans. The youth can no longer accept subjugation to the control of the repressive government of Isayas.  It is also unlikely that the killings and shootings of the repressive government will stop Eritrean youth from going into exile.

In other news, Eritrean People’s Party sources tell that 16 Eritrean soldiers deserted the regime on February 11 & 12 and sought political asylum in Ethiopia.

The shoot-to-kill policy of the regime could not stop the hundreds of Eritreans from fleeing the country into neighboring countries. If it did, we would not have seen 550 new arrivals in the Sudanese refugee camp of Shegraib in the past 14 days of this month.