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Date: Fri Jul 01 2011 - 14:31:11 EDT
Horn of Africa: Victim of U.S. Conspiratorial Policies
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In 1991, a year during which Eritrea won its sovereignty after three decades
of bloody war, as well as when both the peoples of Eritrea and Ethiopia
entered a new historic chapter following the regime change in Addis,
virtually all well-wishers were optimistic of the good prospects in the Horn
of Africa-a region that had purportedly bade farewell to the dark age.
Indeed, a number of positive initiatives that could have laid optimal
environment for regional political and economic integration were already in
effect. In light of the then verging good prospects, had the region been
allowed to prosper all on its own, it would be no wonder to tell how the
region could by now have thrived. However, the new chapter, of which the
peoples of the Horn of Africa were quite optimistic, did not take long to
assume new direction as a result of the strategy the U.S. Administration
pursued during the post-Cold War era.
Meanwhile, Washington's interventionist posture in internal affairs of the
peoples of the Horn region became manifest no sooner than the political
vacuum in Somalia supervened the overthrow of Siad Barre's rule. A
religion-centered extremist movement that at the same time transpired in the
Sudan also permeated for external interference through wide political
fissure. Once the TPLF took the reins in Ethiopia, the clique did not only
fail to live up to its pledge but also began to exercise power for parochial
partisan interests. On top of satellite regimes in Djibouti, Kenya and
Uganda that have long been in the habit of economic and political
dependency, the U.S. Administration added the TPLF clique to its list of
puppet regimes. The aforementioned internal and regional factors have thus
become breeding ground for conspiratorial policies of this same
administration.
If there had been a single force in the Horn of Africa that challenged the
U.S. arising from its cogent stance and unwavering principle, it was the
Government of Eritrea. In view of this fact, Washington entangled the
subservient clique in 1998 into a quandary through inducing the regime to
resort to blatant invasion over Eritrea's sovereignty. As the invasion was
dealt a blowing defeat by stern popular rebuff and the puppet regime lost
the case in an adversarial proceeding in April 2002, Washington, pursuant to
its obstructionist policy and subversion of the rule of law, has for the
past well over a decade hindered implementation of the EEBC's ruling to
which the administration itself is a signatory mediator, while at the same
time blowing the crisis in this region out of proportion.
Invariably, when the TPLF clique rigged the election of May 2005, United
States opted to provide political nurturing for the much abominated regime
in lieu of commiserating with the resulting strong popular uprising. At a
time when excesses were committed by the TPLF regime over its own people,
this same administration simply preferred to avert the situation. But
rather, the role it played to dividing rebelling Ethiopian groups through
pressure and with financial assistance was a disgraceful proof that revealed
the country's multiple standards on democracy and human rights. Washington's
intensive political nurturing, nevertheless, has failed to protect the TPLF
clique from collapse. Mired in grave political and economic quagmire,
Ethiopia is currently faced with a time bomb on the horizon. Likewise, the
puppet regime itself is well aware more than ever of its twilight moments
laying ahead.
By the time the Somali people took a domestic move geared towards the
reconstitution and unification of Somalia in 2006, painting the initiative
extraneously, Washington employed the TPLF to carry out brazen invasion in
Somalia, thereby exacerbating the existing crisis in the Horn region.
Further than complicating Somalia's problem, the heavy-handed assault taken
with a view to stifling the choice of the Somalis has now spawned serious
global security as well as humanitarian crisis. Consequently, the country's
instability, transcending the hinterland, has thus posed grave global
concern to the international community by leading to piracy that affects
from Somalia's coastlines deep into the Indian Ocean. Furthermore, the U.S.
Administration has also encouraged satellite states of Kenya, Djibouti,
Uganda and Burundi to interfere in internal affairs of neighboring country
with scanty financial support, and thus, getting involved in vendetta. Such
a vendetta will no doubt bear hard feelings in the future. It is to be noted
that Somali militants have been expressing antipathy towards those satellite
states. The tragic incident that took place in Kampala, Uganda, is but a
result of erroneous U.S. policy, which has led states of the Horn of Africa
into mayhem.
Apart from internal factors, the contemporary state of affairs that has of
late divided the brotherly peoples of Sudan, as well as the sensitive
scenario currently flaring up strife in many parts of the country is chiefly
ascribed to scheming intervention of the U.S. Administration. Washington's
policy in the Sudan has been imposing externally prescribed remedy. It is to
be recalled that Eritrea, in the face of such erroneous policies, has time
and again been urging the handling of matters by the respective parties. The
U.S. Administration, however, is intensifying its conspiratorial policies of
dividing up in other parts of the Sudan in a futile bid to prey on crisis.
Surprisingly, the U.S. Administration endorses these vicious acts of
conspiracy dubbing a mission for peace, democratization, anti-terrorism, as
well as promoting economic development and human resources. It is quite
apparent that Washington's destructive and terrorist policies are phenomenal
throughout the world. Accordingly, the prime accountable for the instability
of the Horn of Africa and the resulting political and humanitarian crisis is
but the Administration in Washington.
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