It is so childish and beyond mankind's reasoning for the UN to be engaged in yet another sabotage to punish the ONLY self-reliant and NGO-free nation in Africa.
As if it is not embarrassing enough for the UN to impose two illegal and unjust sanctions on this poor nation in the past 3 years, the UN is now posturing itself once again to punish Eritrea for some alleged human rights violations "against the Eritrean people."
The Special Rapporteur, who parroted in Geneva on June 5, 2013 the same old nonsense reports of NGO-spy agents such as HRW, Amnesty International and news media outlet agents like Al-Jazeera, accused Eritrea for "incommunicado detentions" "mass round-up and indefinite National Service," as well a ridiculous allegation of "shoot-to-kill" policy.
Just for the record, this is the same old diatribe that has been crafted and disseminated by the West and also by the enemies of the Eritrea to server a specific agenda. Unfortunately, it is sad to note that the UN is also pushing this agenda and it appears to be on the verge of embarrassing itself should it take another unjust and illegal action against Eritrea based on some false and fabricated reports. It is worth mentioning that even the Special Rapporteur admitted inadvertently that all her information on her report is based not from eyewitnesses inside Eritrea but from "refugees in Ethiopia and Djibouti" and also from some "opposition figures." She claimed that since she was denied entry to the country, she decided to travel to the two sworn-enemies neighbors of Eritrea to gather her so-called "reliable information" about Eritrea's human rights violations. How ironic and convenient is this? Furthermore, how ironic and convenient was it to invite Ethiopian delegates so speak at the Councils hearing in Geneva about human rights violation in Eritrea when Ethiopia itself is the main violator of human rights in the region?
The Special Rapporteur should not have used the entry denial to Eritrea as an excuse to go to Ethiopia , one of the region's top human rights abusers, to gather human rights violations against Eritrea. It is to be recalled that Eritrea denied entry to the Special Rapporteur based only on legal grounds. Eritrea had no choice but deny access to the Special Rapporteur because if Eritrea granted entry to the Special Rapporteur, it can be conceived that there is an admission by Eritrea that a grave human right violation already exists in Eritrea. Thus any ensuing report by the Special Rapporteur would not have been challenged by Eritrea.
Eritrea is challenging the legality of designating a Special Rapporteur to investigate any human rights violation in Eritrea, and only in Eritrea becuase the UN has broken the tenet that "Everyone is innocent before proven guilty." Thus the UN can not presume Eritrea is guilty of any human rights violation without fairly and inpartially investigating all allegations.
If human rights violation is of a grave concern to the UN, why not also investigate human right violations in Ethiopia as well as in Djibouti? What's the purpose of singling out Eritrea, when the main culprit for all human sufferings in the regions is none other than Ethiopia? Another ridiculous allegations mentioned by the Special Rapporteur is her claim that the Eritrean authorities have "a-shoot-to-kill" policy on anyone who is caught fleeing the country. Yet in her report, she mentioned that today there are "305,808 Eritrean refugees" and that about "4,000 Eritrean flee the country every month." Well, this raises a question of credibility and reliability on the Special Rapporteur's work ethics.
If the government has a "shoot-to-kill" policy, how come is that about 4,000 Eritreans cross the boarder with no gunshot wounds to their back? Or, how come the Special Rapporteur has no statistics of those who had been shot while trying to flee? As far as the number of Eritrean refugees is concerned, why is the Special Rapporteur hiding the fact that a great number of those refugees include Ethiopians, Somalis and Sudanese, and that the Ethiopian government has created a refugee market to inflate the number of Eritrean refugees as well as to gain monetary benefits?
Haile A.
Received on Mon Jun 10 2013 - 18:03:25 EDT