Human Rights Watch Attempts to Terrorizes the People
of Eritrea
Amanuel Biedemariam
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is a political organization
manipulating human rights agendas to further Western and US hegemony globally.
The international community is yet to wake up to the reach, penetration,
funding, ability and, all the activities HRW conducts globally.
HRW is funded by sources that pursue global US and Western
agendas. The leadership, based in the US, runs offices around the world and has
affiliation to think tank groups and lobbying services in key strategic areas
to further Western hegemony.
In the US, HRW's leaders are individuals that bounce
in-and-out of government circles, intelligence agencies, diplomatic missions
etc.. HRW funds mainstream media organizations and individuals, radio stations,
print, NGO's and major think-tank groups with connections to US government
circles.
To connect the dots between US political circles, the White
House spanning many presidents including President Barack Obama to HRW, we can
look at the leadership and funding sources.
In 2011, George Soros donated over $100 Million to HRW. Soros also
contributed over $100 million in the 2012 election for campaign purposes. Soros
runs and funds The Open Society Foundation and the Human Rights Watch largely.
The Council on Foreign Relations is one of THE most powerful organizations in the US. Many consider CFR
to be the preeminent mind and power of the US. According to sources, the
primary foreign policy directives and directions of the US emanates from CFR.
Moreover, this is where everything colludes; HRW's, CFR's and The
Open Society Foundation's goals are essentially the same; global domination.
According to the mission statement of The Open Society Foundation:
"The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and
tolerant societies whose governments are accountable and open to the
participation of all people. We seek to strengthen the rule of law; respect for
human rights, minorities, and a diversity of opinions; democratically elected
governments; and a civil society that helps keep government power in check. We
help to shape public policies that assure greater fairness in political, legal,
and economic systems and safeguard fundamental rights. We implement initiatives
to advance justice, education, public health, and independent media. We build
alliances across borders and continents on issues such as corruption and
freedom of information. Working in every part of the world, the Open Society
Foundations place a high priority on protecting and improving the lives of
people in marginalized communities".
At a glance, the mission sounds noble but, as always, the
devil is on the details. The mission statements raise many questions, the most
critical being sovereignty. The mission statements assail sovereignty but
worse, there is no legal mechanism to hold to account HRW, CSF, OSF and others
for illegal or questionable practices on their part.
It is however by design that there is no international legal
mechanism to check the array of tools, means, human and other resources
utilized in pursuit of their agendas.
According to Reality Bites, the agenda of CFR, quoting Admiral Chester Ward who claimed that the
ultimate goal of the Council on Foreign relation was the:
"Submergence of US
sovereignty and national independence into an all-powerful one-world government."
The CFR's penetration
into the power circles of the US is deep. To underscore the significance; the
names of some of the current and past board members of the organization include
President Bush 41, Joe Biden, Dick Chaney, Former Secretary of State James
Baker, Colin Powell, Senators Howard Baker, Lieberman, McCain and Olivia Snow
to name few. It includes major mainstream media personalities such as George
Stephanopoulos, Charlie Rose and Fareed Zakaria. Hollywood is represented amply
by the likes of Angelina Jolie. Powerhouse personalities like Zbigniew
Brzezinski, NBA Commissioner David Stern and others are the mainstay. In short,
who and who of US power is participant-representing cross-section of US social
fabric from defense, to banking, entertainment, sports etc..
To draw more connection between Washington's power circles
and, to further examine how these entanglements mesh, we can look at Peter
Osnos, one of the long tenured leaders of HRW and his relations to mainstream
media, publishing and communication-means in the US and globally. According to
the Atlantic,
"Peter Osnos is a journalist turned book editor/publisher.
He spent 18 years at the Washington Post, where he was variously Indochina
bureau chief, Moscow correspondent, foreign editor, national editor and London
bureau chief. He was publisher of Random
House's Times Books Division from 1991 to 1996, and was also vice president and
associate publisher of the Random House imprint. Authors he has worked with
include President Bill Clinton, former President Jimmy Carter, Rosalyn Carter,
Nancy Reagan, former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, Barack Obama," et al.
The power circle in Washington is small. The direction is
provided by CFR and the forceful implantation of HRW's open society agenda is
carried out using any resources, means and tactics available. The reach and
sophistry applied in pursuit of these agendas is complicated and not readily
apparent by the unsuspecting public.
The key here is how does the agenda manifest in Africa? The
foundations of African nations are stripped methodically or by force to the
point that there exists no nation in Africa that can be considered independent
to date. From coast to coast, east, west, south, north and center, Africa is
full of dictators implanted by the West. These tyrants sell the rights of the
mines and resources to the West without the consent of the people. As a result,
Africa is stripped of its resources. It is therefore, inconceivable to consider
African nations able to extract their wealth and resources for the use and
benefit of the people.
There exist no sovereignty in resource rich countries like
Libya, Tunis, Algeria, Nigeria, Somalia, Congo, Ivory Coast and Iraq in the
Mid-East amongst many. The whole idea is to dissolve these nations, strip them
from their national identities, render them powerless, control them using
greedy, and power hungry servants to control the majority. These countries may
have an African face in the presidential palaces but the West runs them! And
when and if any country fails to follow the path; the wrath of these
destabilization forces will reign upon it. Currently, the State of Eritrea fit
the bill.
The government of Eritrea has taken an independent path and
that has made it a target of HRW and others that want to destabilize the
nation. The people and government of Eritrea pose no threat to Western
interests anywhere in the world. The people of Eritrea do not fit the profiles
of any of the global enemies of the West.
Historically, the West has denied justice to the people of
Eritrea. The government and people of Eritrea as one have been demanding
justice from the international community and the US for decades and,
denied. When all African countries were
handed their "independence," Eritrea was denied. As a result, Eritrea was
forced to wage armed struggle that lasted 30 years.
During the struggle for independence, when villages were torched
and families tortured by Ethiopian forces, the Human Rights Watch was not
interested on the people of Eritrea. When Eritrean farm-land was torched
turning industrious farmers into desperate wonderers, villages burned
displacing millions, when they cried for help to anyone that can, the HRW was
nowhere; Eritrea's plea fell on deaf ears. The only way Eritrea became free and
charted her own destiny was by believing in self-reliance. Eritrea nurtured a
successful culture of self-reliance and that separates her from the rest.
Eritrea, by carefully positioning her strengths i.e. by
building roads, bridges, dams, hospitals, educational facilities and the
infrastructures necessary that can facilitate trade; by creating a stable and
peaceful environment, is able to attract foreign investments in mining and
other ventures. Furthermore, Eritrea has educated workforce, great weather,
strategic location and other positive factors that give her strong bargaining
position in dealing with mining companies that traditionally paid African
countries nothing for decades. Eritrea's foresight and ingenuity was able to
change that trend.
Eritrea's focus is social justice. As such, Eritrea was able
to chart a methodical approach to deal with the massive social challenge that it
faced after independence. Eritrea dealt with it brilliantly. If left alone
Eritrea will soar. That however, is not what the West wants to see. They want
to tame it sooner than later and to that end, they have so far been able to
place illegal arms embargo denying Eritrea the inalienable right to
self-defense. They tried to place a sanction measure that targeted the budding
mining industry, and failed. Thence, the Human Rights Watch targeting Eritrea's
mining has nothing to do with Humanity or, Rights. It is sheer greed-based
attempt to cripple an African nation that found ways to overcome traditional
hurdles that paralyzed African nations for centuries.
The recent HRW report on Eritrea was compiled by Daniel
Bekele HRW Africa desk. Daniel Bekele, archenemy of the Eritrean people is an
Ethiopian that supports the regime in Ethiopia, a nation that is illegally
occupying sovereign Eritrea territories in violation of international laws and
treaties that HRW ignores. Daniel Bekele, in pursuit of Ethiopia's agenda
presented fabricated stories that target the mining industry. HRW is banned
organization in many parts of the world precisely because of its fabrications.
The reality however, Human Rights Watch has mastered the art
of deception. To purse and legitimize interventionist agendas of the US and the
West, human rights have become a rallying cry against targeted nations such as
Eritrea. The methodology HRW applies against Eritrea is from the same blueprint
used in many countries.
The aim of the campaign is to delegitimize and cripple
governments. Assail sovereignty to the point that it is unrecognizable. Render
the public helpless to submission. The stages are: demonize, penalize and
rationalize on the grounds of humanitarian intervention.
The current HRW report places a great deal of emphasis on
the methodology applied in gathering the stories. However, if presented to a
judge it will be tossed out for hearsay, innuendo, conflict of interest,
jurisdiction and a whole host of reasons. For black
Africans however, justice does not matter in the eyes of HRW. And unfortunately, that is the modus
operandi. In fact, they take pride on the effectiveness of the strategy.
According to the Atlantic, quoting Osnos,
"Human Rights Watch calls its people in the field
"researchers," a term that can be misleading, indicating somehow that
they are deskbound. In fact, they are the opposite, positioned to move into
zones of trouble at the first signs of conflict. But to call them journalists
or reporters would be a misnomer also, because they are mission-driven to find
and record every violation of international standards. Their goal is to bring
perpetrators to account and end the abuses they uncover. Nonetheless, their
empirical precision with detail has earned the researchers and the HRW
communications and executive leadership that guide them confidence from across
the media spectrum. HRW is cited in countless news reports every day without
qualification by the most important independent news gatherers in print,
online, and broadcast."
The field researchers in this case are the Don Connells,
Paulos Tesfaghiorgis, et al; the mission driven journalists are the Awate's,
Asmarino and cohorts. Their empirical precision was exposed by the exaggerated
shady reporting of the racist South African apartheid era journalist Martin
Plaut of the BBC, and Leonard Vincent, RSF Africa desk, about events of January
21. The international community consumed the exaggerated accounts by CNN and
other networks without independent verification simply based on what Plaut and
Vincent reported. To consolidate the case, Al Jazeera brought people that do
not represent Eritrea in anyway shape and presented them as experts in a sense
misleading the world. In the meantime, terrorist partners vandalized Eritrean
embassy in London and elsewhere that Plaut declared peaceful.
One of the biggest problems the world faces today is the
monopoly of power, information and resources. African countries such as Eritrea
are at a great disadvantage. And the most important point any African can take
from the Eritrean example is how the demonization works. Once a target, the
fabricated accusations are bound layered upon the innocent victim. No one will
fact-check the criminal process that took place at the UN to push the illegal
sanctions on the people of Eritrea. Yet, they regurgitate the sanction over and
gain to pursue or make nonexistent cases against Eritrea.
And after the publication of HRW's report on Eritrea, the
report is will be recycled by these very organizations repeatedly. There is no
legal recourse, statute of limitation or process to stop the libel and
defamation on the State of Eritrea. This is the process The Human Rights Watch,
RSF and others use to terrorize the people of Eritrea to emasculate them to
submission. Once the public disengages out-of frustration; destabilization
takes place easily and, to keep it destabilized, perpetuating a divide and rule
mechanism is effective.
Conclusion
Destabilizing target countries is the cheapest way to
infiltrate and take over countries. All that is needed is the understanding of
the cultures, religious and ethnic weaknesses and exploit them. What HRW and
its agents fail to understand is that the people of Eritrea overcame these
divisions to become free from the chains the US and the West placed on the
people of Eritrea. The long struggle Eritrea endured is providing the inner
strength and experience necessary to stave off these malicious attempts. The
unity of Eritrean people, their resolve, confidence on each other and confidence
on the government is proving resilient. That is what is frustrating them to the
point that they have all taken the fight and made it theirs. Just imagine,
Martin Plaut, a product of apartheid South African fighting for the rights of
Eritreans based on lies, exaggeration, misinformation and deceit. Eritreans
will not allow it.
Awetnayu_at_hotmail.com
Received on Sun Feb 03 2013 - 16:48:40 EST
