Isssias Girl Sophia Tesfamariam strike again

The other day, I was talking to an Ethiopian friend of mine
who found himself apologizing for the minority regime’s latest diplomatic faux
pas. He was referring to the latest
Ethiopian “diplomatic” charade at the UN Security Council. He was having a hard
time understanding how any Ethiopian would stop so low as to deprive Eritreans
of the right to development. No apologies necessary. I told him that Eritreans
know full well that the people of Ethiopia
never harbored such evil and willful thoughts about Eritrea or Eritreans. I explained
to him that the “crab mentality” was unique to the minority regime in Ethiopia and
its ignominious leaders.

For those who don’t know about “crab mentality” is, it’s an
attitude that afflicts those, such as the regime in Ethiopia and its Tigrayan leaders, who
suffer from inferiority complex. The
term “crab mentality” is used to describe a kind of selfish, short-sighted
thinking which runs along the lines of “if I can't have it, neither can you.”
This term refers to people who pull other people down, denigrating them rather
than letting them get ahead or pursue their dreams. The regime’s delusions of
grandeur prevent it from facing the facts on the ground and for facing its own
inadequacies.

This concept references an interesting phenomenon which
occurs in buckets of crabs. If one crab attempts to escape from a
bucket of live crabs, the other crabs will pull it back down, rather than
allowing it to get free. Sometimes, the crabs seem almost malicious, waiting
until the crab has almost escaped before yanking it back into the
pot. All of the crabs are undoubtedly aware of the fact that their fate is
probably not going to be very pleasurable, so people are led to wonder why they
pull each other back into the bucket, instead of congratulating the clever
escape artist.

For the last 10 years, the minority regime in Ethiopia and its mercenaries have undermined Eritrea’s
development and food security policies. It ridiculed Eritrea’s National Service program,
the Warsay Yikaalo program for development and labeled it “slavery”. Today,
instead of learning from Eritrea, which has managed to develop its war torn
economic infrastructures using its own human and material resources, built
hospitals, clinics and schools to improve the quality of life for its citizens,
and built the necessary agricultural infrastructures to ensure food security
for its people, the regime, in what has to be the ugliest forms of jealousy, is
now trying to strangulate Eritrea’s economy and prevent it from reaching its
potentials. Inflicted with this “crab mentality”, the minority regime is hell
bent on destroying Eritrea
and if need be, taking all of the Horn of Africa down with it.

As an Ethiopian, he was embarrassed by the regime’s attitude
towards Eritrea
and its people. He recounted the time in 1998-2000, when the bigoted minority
regime expelled over 80,000 Eritreans and Ethiopians of Eritrean origin because
Meles Zenawi did not like the “color of their eyes”. He mentioned the terror
experienced by Eritrean fathers, mothers and children when they were awoken by
security officers in the wee hours of the morning, yanked out of their beds and
thrown out of their homes, to be rounded up and deported across mine filled
borders. He recounted the agony and fear experienced by Eritrean children who
were left to fend for themselves, breastfeeding infants abandoned in empty
homes. Some Ethiopians tried to help their neighbors, but many watched
helplessly as the ruthless genocidal regime abused and tortured Eritreans
living in Ethiopia.

Today, Ethiopians are once again watching helplessly as the
ruling junta in Ethiopia
commits genocides in the Gambela, Ogaden and Oromia regions of Ethiopia.
They watch helplessly as their fellow Ethiopians starve as Ethiopia’s fertile lands are
“rented out” to feed populations in other countries, and as the regime begs for
food aid on the hand while buying weapons with the other. Ethiopians watch
helplessly as young Ethiopian men are used as cannon fodder and minesweepers in
the regime’s destructive and deadly wars of aggression and invasion of
neighboring states and beyond. Ethiopians watch helplessly as US lawmakers send billions of dollars of US tax
monies to the regime through various schemes, and watch as the regime diverts
aid to buy deadly arsenal to be used against its own people, to suppress their
voices and cower them into submission. Meles Zenawi might very well be the
darling of the West, but he is the cancer that is bleeding Ethiopia and the Horn.

Having failed to convince African leaders to sanction Eritrea
at its behest, the minority regime sent its cadres to the Security Council to
try to convince Africans on the Council to sponsor an anti-Eritrea Resolution
on its behalf. After getting US support to pass a sanction Resolution against Eritrea in 2009 which included an arms embargo,
the regime is now seeking economic sanctions against Eritrea. It also wants to sanction
the Eritrean Diaspora and prevent it from supporting development programs in Eritrea, and also wants to kill Eritrea’s
budding mining industry. In short, it wants the diplomatic, financial, military
and political isolation and crippling of Eritrea. It wants to use the UN
system to advance its regime change policy for Eritrea.