Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:34:14 +0200
Eritrean Identity: The Gold Standard in the criminal underworld
By Hillal
18/06/2014
Illegal migration is a worldwide phenomenon. It's causes are multifaceted.
Eritrea can't be expected to be immune from it.
When it's comes to the Eritrean case, however, there are glaring
differences. There is a coalition of the willing consisting of certain
intelligence agencies, NGOs, international organizations and the treason
mafia facilitating the illegal and criminal enterprise.
In fact, human trafficking is one of the lucrative cash cows of the treason
mafia and the Dedebit Mafia. They are enriching themselves at the cost of
the misery and pain of the Eritrean people..
Eritrean refugees are given special privileges denied to the others in the
immigration offices of many countries. Eritrean identity/citizenship is the
hard currency and Gold standard in the human trafficking criminal
underworld.
Sadly, when it comes to Eritrean affairs, it has become fashionable for
human traffickers to be labelled as human right advocates and also common to
see human traffickers masquerading as padres and men of God. The mushrooming
cottage industries of the Estefanos, Kidane, Chirum Inc. and the devil
incarnate padre Zerai are typical examples.
It shouldn't come as a surprise than to see that most migrants in our region
are becoming Eritreans overnight. The evil plan was intended to bleed
Eritrea and deplete her of her youth. Today, it seems it had backfired and
illegal migration is out of control.
It was also intended to sow discord and havoc among the united Eritrean
masses. Failing to achieve their evil agendas, the Eritrean enemies were
focused like a laser beam to deceive and encourage Eritrean youth to flee
the nation. Their misguided agenda was to create strong anti-Eritrea terror
networks abroad.
Just recently, Tesfaye Ghebreab the Ethiopian ace reporter,
author/journalist revealed that the Tribal Junta believes that the number of
the Tigrayans in the diaspora is too small and wants it increased
drastically to counter the influences of the Eritrean and Ethiopian diaspora
communities.
Tigrayans had been filling their own refugee camps for years. They are
claiming to be Eritreans in the hope of getting the special privileges to go
abroad. In fact, most of the refugees that claim to be Eritreans are
Ethiopians. Manufacturing Eritrean fake IDs is a growth industry in Ethiopia
and the Sudan.
Who could forget the testimony of an Ethiopian journalist who migrated to
Italy when he said that once we are out of Ethiopia we are all Eritreans.
Today, we are in a situation where it is practically impossible to sort out
the migrant citizenships.
I was amazed to see a British newspaper article on a story of a body of a
dead Eritrean going to his home country Iran for burial. The western press
is in the habit of sexing its migrant stories with the name Eritrea somehow
conveniently put into them.
After independence the government declared that we have to forgive and
forget and start with a clean slate. Every Eritrean has a responsibility and
an obligation for all his/her actions. Forgiveness and redemption and second
chances are part of the Eritrean culture of tolerance.
We demonstrated this civilized culture of tolerance many times before. Even
in the darkest hours of our armed struggle for liberation the POWs were
treated in the most humane way possible in that tough environment.
200,000 Ethiopian colonial forces and civil servants were sent home in a
dignified and humane manners after their defeat and when Asmara was
captured. Our unrealistic desires for peace, good neighbourliness and
peaceful coexistence become our Achilles Heels after independence.
Most of the recent arrivals have joined the silent Eritrean majority of the
diaspora communities and are active participants in all the activities done
in defence of Eritrea and it's people. We don't want any Eritrean to be left
behind.
If history is our witness, those who abuse and misuse Eritrea's generosity
and goodwill are certainly going to live a life full of regret, misery and
finally leading to a slow agonizing death. Those who are in a mission to
demonize, discredit, defame, defame and vilify Eritrea, its people and
leadership are barking at the wrong tree.
Their actions are exercises in futility - too much sound and fury signifying
nothing. For, Eritrea to us isn't just geographical boundaries, but the sum
total of all our hopes and dreams, pride and dignity, trials and
tribulations, victories and defeats, successes and failures, ecstasies and
agonies and much more.
It's our collective history and experiences. It defines us who we are as a
people. It's our pride and glory. A sacred land where every square meter of
its land has a history to tell written in blood, sweat tears, sacrifice and
martyrdom.
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