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Isayas Blames the
United States
Department of
Information and Culture
Eritrean People’s
Party
Sep 20, 2008
Dictators seek to hold
onto power by perpetuating fear and terror among their own people. They
concoct crisis where none exist. Their mindset presses them to create
chaos and urgency to rally the people they oppress, while making
democracy to disappear from the people’s agenda. This is how dictators
like Isayas routinely toil to hoodwink the people into their destructive
and deceptive political maneuvers.
For the greatest part of
the last five years, the dictator in Asmara has been branding United
States of America as the main source of crisis and lack of democracy in
Eritrea. If one reads the editorial of Sept. 6, 2008 on (http://www.shabait.com/staging/publish/article_008764.html),
one would understand how hard the yes-men and their dictator are blaming
the United States for the plight and suffering of Eritrean people. The
goal of Isayas and his ruling clique is to keep Eritrean people under
the illusion that United States is a threat to Eritrea. No one but
Isayas is the enemy of Eritrean people.
For example, the editorial
talks about the United States adventurism, whilst the dictatorship in
Eritrea denies its own people the fundamental human and democratic
rights. What could be more adventurism than terrorizing your own people
under the name of enemy threat that does not exist? The editorial
conveniently scorns at the United States monopoly, whilst the
dictatorship regime keeps Eritrean people under the military
dictatorship, making the entire country die under its concocted lies and
illusions. Again, the objective of the dictator is to keep Eritrean
people under constant denial of their rights by masterfully screaming at
the United States as a cry wolf. This is the only road dictators know.
This is one way how Isayas shields his crime against Eritrean people.
But the editorial of Sept
6 failed to capture the rise and fall of dictators like Isayas when it
referred to the fall and rise of empires. Does Isayas know the rise and
fall of many dictators like him: such as Mengistu Halilemariam of
Ethiopia, Idi Amin of Uganda, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, Augustino
Pinochet of Chile, Hussein Habre of Chad, Charles Taylor of Liberia to
name a few. In addition, does he know all these dictators eventually
fell, ran away, or forced out of power because of the horrendous crimes
they committed against their own people? Does Isayas know he is
committing the same atrocities that brought other dictators to their
knees? Does he know the same fate will dawn on him? Eritrean people will
disgrace Isayas because Eritrean people are not different from others
who took the courage to depose their dictators. Freedom is freedom.
The editorial also accuses
the United States of America of “attempting
to deepen ethnic and religious difference among people in the name of
religious freedom and democracy… exporting democracy…” What is the
dictatorial regime trying to justify here? There is no democracy in
Eritrea either exported or home grown. The religious persecution in
Eritrea is wide spread to the extent that the regime goes house to house
and rounds up Eritrean believers. Those who made it to the United States
of America practice their religious belief in America something the
dictator denied them to do. This is like the Amharic adage “the
mud laughs at the flour” thing. This political
machination is nothing but a sign of an ailing and isolated dictator
that waits for its ultimate demise.
Do we also
remember when the frantic Wodi Afom made a mockery of Indian democracy
in an interview he gave to Aljazeera last year? India is a country that
is striving for social and economic justice. But here we go again;
Isayas’ hypocrisy and absurd way of understanding of democracy goes on.
Isayas has to blame everything that has to do with freedom. Isayas
thinks he has his own version of democracy or at least he tries to give
the impression that he has something good in store for the country by
ridiculing United States or other democracies.
Do we also
remember in the same interview when Isayas blamed CIA for the influx of
Eritrean youth to neighboring countries and other parts of the world? In
the dictator’s eye, the media and CIA are collaborating in the creation
of enemy out of Eritrea. Isayas is doing what all other dictators have
done to stay in power: controlling Eritrean people by means of fears and
describing United States as the enemy of Eritrean people. The truth is
Eritrean people are not worried about the United States; United States
is not denying them their freedoms and democracy; United States is not
terrorizing and arresting Eritrean people. Their enemy is within. It is
the dictatorial rule of Isayas that is unmistakably denying Eritrean
people their freedoms, that is arresting and executing Eritrean people
without trial, that is expropriating Eritrean people’s property, and
that is holding total and unlimited power over every Eritrean citizen.
Isayas does not have the moral or political prerogative to claim
democracy or patriotism.
We cannot
continue to be the losers as well as the victim of Isayas’ political
machination. There is no threat or subversive activities coming from
outside as the dictatorial regime and its cohorts would like us to
believe. The threat to our country is from the dictatorial regime, which
is designed to cause fear and to make Eritreans believe that they have
no option but to support the dictatorial regime. Remember that when the
dictator arrested the G-15 he claimed Eritrea had fallen in victim to
the external conspiracy, in which any reform or dissention was viewed as
treason. Guess what! The people bought it because they believed Eritrea
was unsafe. Now, we know it was not true; it was the work of the
dictator. This is a pattern of dictators; this is the hallmark of
Isayas. Isayas is using every moment to blame others for the dire
situation of Eritrea his regime has created and uses it as a
justification for his own dictatorial rule. We must break this; we must
not fall into it; we know it is far from truth.
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