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From: Zeyhilel@aol.com
Date: Wed Feb 03 2010 - 07:09:39 EST
Selam Dehaiers,
But, one could argue saying that the Eritrean Ambassador to the
United Nations should have strongly advised (may be he did) the
Eritrean government to mobilize such a Hizbawi Mekete when he
sensed that the call for sanctions would pass in the UNSC. Not
that a Hizbawi Mekete held before 12/23/09 would have swayed
the voting mood of countries like China or Russia to block the
motion, but at least the concerned Eritreans would have had the
satisfaction of being there for their country when their voices needed
to be heard.
Of course, I am playing the devil's advocate here. Otherwise, I very
well know what the agenda of the United States and the Zionists is
in the Horn of Africa -- whether Eritrea is led by Isayas or Bezebdyos
or Ibrahamid or GebreTsadiq.
Zeyhilel
“Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's
opinion is the best proof of stupidity.”...
.............. Michel de Montaigne
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.