EPP: “A Qualitative Start”
For Success in Eritrean Struggle
For Democracy and Human Rights
Mr. Yaseen Mohammed Abdalla, one of the leading activists in the
field of human rights and democracy in Eritrea, said days before the
Eritrean People’s Party was born and given a name that the congress
and the party it establishes will “set a qualitative start in the
struggle of our people for democracy and the respect human rights”.
Head of the Khartoum-headquartered Suwera Center for Human Rights in
Eritrea, he made this statement in the message he sent to the party
congress while it was still in session on 27 July 2008.
Mr. Yaseen M. Abdalla was one of the invited independent observers
who could not make it to the congress venue as he intended. Together
with Mr. Mohammed Osman Mohamed Nur of the Horn of Africa Studies
Center also in Khartoum, Mr. Yaseen M. Abdalla played very
significant role in the proceedings of the unification congress of
the Eritrean Democratic Alliance last May. Because of their
demonstrated prominence in the struggle for change and
democratization in our country, the preparatory committee of the
Party Formation Commission wished to have both of them, among
others, at its congress although the head of the Suwera Center for
Human Rights could not attend as explained in his message of regret
sent to the party congress. Below in Arabic and in translated
versions is the message by Mr. Yaseen M. Abdalla to the EPP
congress. (For further information to our readers, Mr. Yaseen M.
Abdalla was one of the founders of the Eritrean opposition alliance
in 1999 whose meetings he chaired several times. At the end, he and
his colleague in the “Initiative Group”, Jeman Humed, who was an
observer at the EPP congress, dissolved their organization several
years ago to become media and human rights activists, which they are
to this day. The congress received many messages from different
parts of the world. Those valuable messages, which are kept in the
archives of the party, could not, however, be posted in the websites
on time due to pressure of work during and after the party congress.
Again EPP apologies to all well wishers whom we once again thank for
their political and moral support to the congress and the party it
established.)
Below is Mr. Yaseen Abdalla’s message received at the congress:
الأخوة رئيس وأعضاء المؤتمر التأسيس للحزب
تحية طيبة
أرجو ان تتقبلوا أيها الأخوة الأعزاء أمنياتي الطيبة لكم بنجاح أعمال
المؤتمر والتي أنا على ثقة إنها ستمثل نقلة نوعية في نضال شعبنا من أجل
الديمقراطية واحترام حقوق الإنسان.
وأنا على ثقة أيضا أن هذا الحزب سيجد في الإرث العظيم لجبهة التحرير
الإريترية- المجلس الثوري خير معين له في خوض غمار النضال الجبار من أجل
الديمقراطية.
وأرجو أن تتقبلوا اعتذاري لعدم قدرتي المشاركة بالحضور معكم كما أرجو أن
تتقبلوا اعتذاري في تأخر وصول هذه الرسالة لكم بسبب ظروف خاصة قاهرة.
مرة أخرى أمنياتي للمؤتمر وللحزب بالنجاح.
ياسين محمد عبد الله
رئيس مركز سويرا لحقوق الإنسان
27/7/2008
Dear Chairman and Members of the Party Congress,
Please receive my best wishes to you to have a successful party
congress. I have the full confidence that this congress will set a
qualitative start in the struggle of our people for democracy and the
respect of human rights. Likewise, I am of the conviction that his party
[under formation] will find in the remarkable legacies bequeathed from
the ELF-RC a secure ground to conduct successful struggle for achieving
democracy.
Please receive my regrets for not being able to be present at the
congress [as independent observer]. Let me also send my apologies for
not being able to send this message at the start of your congress for
technical problems from my side.
Again my best wishes for the congress and the party [under formation].
Yaseen Mohammed Abdalla
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