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From: Haile Abraham (haileab99@msn.com)
Date: Tue Feb 02 2010 - 17:22:09 EST
Selam All,
It is no secret that Eritrean communities around the world are currently rallying together to oppose the recent UN resolution, which was imposed on Eritrea on December 23, 2009. Here in America, Eritreans from small towns in North Carolina to big cities in Washington, D.C, are gathering under the banner of “Hizbawi MeKete” in a display of unity, solidarity and National Defense.
I was lucky enough to attend the Hizbawi Mekete session in the Washington, D.C area this past Sunday. And I am sure that, despite the huge crowd at the DC Mekete, the enthusiasm and the solidarity, as well as the determination to defend the Mother Land displayed there, is no different than those being displayed in more than one hundred town hall Meketes around the world. And if I am allowed to use the DC Mekete as my vantage point, it will be clear that each and every one of these Hizbawi Mekets are part of our historic symbol of nationalism that have been rooted in our many generations.
In the DC Mekete, Freweini Tekeste alluded to the above fact and saluted the large crowd for standing up for our nation when it is under attack. Further more, she called on those Eritrean who don’t feel the pain when our nation is attacked, and on those who cozy up with the enemy while others are defending the nation, by saying that this Mekete “IS NOT YOUR STAGE!” And for those who doubt that Eritrea did not do enough to avert this ILLEGAL and UNJUST reaction, Ambassador Ghirmay Ghebreamriam explained that Eritrea’s tireless effort to create amicalbe and bilateral relations with the US and other Western Nations were systematically and intentionally ignored.
This brings us to one of the best speakers during the DC Mekete, as well as other Meketes around the world, Dr. Ghidewon Abbay Asmerom, who brilliantly explained the “Framing” scenario in which one can incriminate an innocent person through the use of false evidence or information.
For his example, Dr. Ghidwon used an example that occurred in December 1982, when an all-white jury in Hanover, Virginia, convicted Marvin Lamont Anderson, an eighteen-year-old African American, of kidnapping and raping a twenty-four-year-old white woman five months earlier. In this case, certain racist quarters with access to the criminal justice system, managed to frame an innocent individual as the criminal who committed the crime despite the huge amount of evidence that suggested his innocent. The poor guy, whose only crime was being the only black man in the area known to have a white girlfriend, was locked up for 15 years before the real criminal could be found through some DNA testing.
Dr. Ghidewon brought this analogy to the public to draw a parallel between what happened to Mr. Anderson and what is happening to Eritrea unfairly and without any justification. Both are innocent and both have been framed by some evil scheme and both have been accused of crimes that they haven’t even a part of. And in Eritrea’s case, not only the so-called “arms supplied to the Somali insurgents” is a fabricate lie, but it has even embarrassed the UNSC to even mention it in its sanctions script. And to use Djibouti’s boarder conflict as the other accusation without even addressing the Ethio-Eritrean boarder dispute has exposed the UNSC what it actually is, a tool for the evil scheme.
In the final analysis, truth has prevailed over false allegations and justice has prevailed over injustice and Mr. Anderson was exonerated though an irrefutable evidence of the DNA. Likewise, Eritrea will also prevail over this ILLEGAL and UNJUST sanctions by its irrefutable support and determination of its people in their DNA, and one day history will judge the crooks who framed the innocent.
That is the MeKete and it is indeed a Hizbawi MeKete.
Awet NeHafash,
Haile A.
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