THE EEBC DECISION TEN YEARS LATER AND ETHIOPIA'S ILLEGAL OCCUPATION:
U TURN REQUEST TO DELIVER REAL JUSTICE FOR ERITREA AND ETHIOPIA
By Yacob
As an Eritrean I am approaching Friday the 13th April 2012 with
anger, shame and distrust of the powers of this world and great pride
understanding of the Eritrean spirit. Some non-Eritreans may not
understand the above statement and many not to even know the name
Eritrea, but sadly many journalists have written commissioned and
fabricated articles against Eritrea.
Coming back to the Friday the 13th of April 2012, it is the 10th
anniversary of when I thought the boarder issue between Eritrea and
Ethiopia would be resolved, as the final and binding decision was
delivered with Badme, the disputed territory, confirmed to be
Eritrean. My confidence and knowledge of the Eritrean government as
being on the right side of the law was strengthened.
Ten years ago I thought that if the Border between Eritrea and
Ethiopia is demarcated there would not be any more war between them;
my heart was filled with joy, my face with smile and my eyes with tears.
Sadly the possibility of no more war did click in the ears of US,
partner in crime of the minority regime in Ethiopia, who had endorsed
Ethiopia's illegal occupation of sovereign Eritrean land. The
involvement of US is confirmed by John Bolton in his book "Surrender
Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations and Abroad
" page 347; where he said: "...For reasons I never understood Frazer
reversed course, and asked in early February to reopen the 2002
decision, which she had concluded was wrong, and award a major piece
of disputed territory to Ethiopia. I was at a loss how to explain
that to the Security Council, so I didn't..."
Since 2002, while Ethiopia is labeled partner in anti-terrorism
campaign by US, together they have been causing more human suffering
in East Africa; particularly in Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea.
Ethiopia continues to get billions of Dollars from the West, yet and
unfortunately, Ethiopian children continue to be the signature
posters of hunger and famine of every NGO that wants to make money
out of their misery. For example in 2011 Ethiopia was one of the
countries that was badly affected by famine, on the other hand
Eritrea's situation was positively different. The country, despite
all the hostilities towards it is at the verge of achieving food
security. It was a pleasant surprise when Eritrea was predicted in
2011 to be the fastest growing economy in spite of previous reports
that Eritrea would be a failed state by some doomsayers. Currently
many journalists would like to label Eritrea as isolated state, but
there are more than 25 international companies working in mining
sector alone in Eritrea.
Eritrea continues to do well in many sectors such as Health, sports,
education, agriculture, mining etc. It is one of the very few
countries that have met most of the development millennium goals,
reported on numerous occasions even though major news agencies chose
to be quite about it. On the other hand Ethiopia continues to occupy
Eritrean land forcing Eritrean defense forces stationed on the border
away from their families. Moreover this has unfortunately created a
no war no peace situation holding the whole country as a hostage.
Furthermore Eritrea has been sanctioned twice with the pre-text of
Somalia, by the very forces who are actually committing crimes in
Somalia. Currently Eritrea is not allowed to buy weapons for self
defense. While Ethiopia, openly financed and armed by the US and UK,
is arming itself to the teeth and most of the US weapons that left
Iraq is being diverted to Ethiopia. As a show its contempt for
International law, Ethiopia recently attacked Eritrea twice. Perhaps
it was its way of celebrating the 10th anniversary of the border
commission's ruling between Eritrea and Ethiopia. Yet the only
country that condemned it was Italy and was harshly condemned by the
Ethiopian government. While the US, UN and UK made simple statements
that tried to put the neighborhood bully and the bullied in the same
light.
History shows it was the US who allowed Eritrea to be annexed by
Ethiopia, and on numerous occasions it had been on the wrong side of
Eritrean people's history. The US also has been the engineer of all
the disinformation, fabricated allegation and sanctions against Eritrea.
Directly or indirectly the three "U"s (the US, UN and the UK) are
responsible for allowing Ethiopia to continue occupying Eritrean
land. The citizens of this world need to ask the three U's to make a
U turn on their policies towards Eritrea and this I ask you to do for
the sake of the children in both Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Yacob
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