Eritrean Dictator suspends Eritrea's Football team fearing disappearance, I thought he is broke!

By Blogger Addis


Eritrea’s dictator Isaias Afeworki is famous for his shoot to kill policy if any Eritrean is found crossing the country’s border with Sudan or Ethiopia. Even if thousands of Eritreans still manage to cross the borders every month, hundreds of innocent Eritreans have died over the years under the dictator’s rule. Their crime was just for trying to escape the ongoing dictatorship and famine in Eritrea.

Now the dictator has even banned the Eritrean National Football team from leaving the country.

According to Kenyan media, the dictator Isaias regime has suspended his country’s participation in the CECAFA tournament. There are many possible reasons given. One reason was that the Isaias government does not have money for the team. But that is ironic, because the Isaias government has been pretending like there is no famine. The Eritrean dictator was saying his regime has plenty of revenue from recent investment on natural resources in the country. He was boasting about his economic success. Now he is saying his government has no money for a small football tournament in Tanzania?

Maybe the dictator is playing games again. Recently Kenya accused him of financing terrorists in Somalia. So maybe He wants to prove to Kenya that his regime has no money to pay for a football team let alone to finance the al Shabaab terrorists in Somalia.

Another possible reason is that the Eritrean football team is terrible…even worse than the worst teams like Somalia.

But the most likely reason is that the dictator knows that all Eritreans hate him, even the national football team. In 2009, the whole Eritrean national team disappeared and applied for asylum in Kenya. Again recently in July, more Eritrean footballers fled to Tanzania. Historically in 2006 and before, many Eritrean athletes and footballers have disappeared. Unlike other African refugees, it is the elite and top Eritrean sportsmen that disappear and seek political asylum. This shows that there is no more country pride left in Eritrea. The small country never had anything to be proud of other than some colonial buildings and architectures built by Italian colonialists. The mainly desert Eritrea does not have any significant natural resources, historical heritages or unique achievements. The only pride for the country was “the war of independence” against Ethiopia but even that has become useless today, thanks to the dictator Isaias Afewerki. Most Eritreans feel they had more freedom under Ethiopian rule than under the Isaias rule. This explains why tens of thousands of Eritreans have risked being killed to escape back to Ethiopia every day. More than Tens of thousands of Eritreans have left Eritrea and live in Ethiopian refugee camps and even more thousands of Eritreans have left Asmara and have begun new lives in Addis Ababa and other Ethiopian cities.

As of now, the Eritrean dictator has also banned cyclists and other athletes from leaving the country for any international competition.

Thanks for the honor Prime Minister By Abebe Gellaw

Dear Prime Minister Ashebir Zenawi,
First of all, I would like to thank you profusely for including me in the latest roll call of patriots and freedom fighters. I am extremely humbled for the honor. Though I have not done enough to deserve one of your highest medals of good citizenship and patriotism in Ethiopia, I assure you that the honor will inspire me to do even more to accomplish what is expected of me more effectively and efficiently.

I must also thank you for the free global promotion you have given me and others. I am pleased to report back to you that I have received not condolences, but numerous congratulatory messages from across the world.

Prime Minister Ashebir, I should, however, suggest that the list of honorees be expanded to include more deserving patriots and the criteria be more logical. People like me have not done enough to be in this prestigious roll call of freedom fighters.

I am not complaining Prime Minister, but I would like to point out that the coveted list should not be compiled by corrupt thugs, drug addicts, drunkards and sycophants like Shimelis Kemal, Bereket Simon, Getachew Assefa, Genenew Assefa, Birhan Hailu, Tewodros Beharu and Million Assefa…, people who are held in great contempt as they have sold out their souls and conscience for a few dinars. In spite of the fact that these low-life thugs will do whatever you tell them to do, I believe that for the sake of the integrity of the honor list, these people should not be allowed to arbitrarily pick unrelated honorees while they are high on drugs, khat and alcohol. These vultures of yours have been undermining your wisdom and credibility by advising you to correct your mistakes with screaming blunders.

I am not complaining Prime Minister Ashebir because I still feel greatly privileged to be on your list of honorees. But I need to tell you that the latest list includes people who have already received the highest honor your government, i.e. TPLF, confers on any patriot. We were already told, via your Kangaroo court, that Dr. Birhanu Nega, Andargachew Tsigie and Mesfin Aman had already received martyrdom status. They were supposed to have been sent to report back to Almighty God. Why was it necessary to bring them back to life to award them another honor? How many times can they face your respected Kangaroo Court? It is neither fair nor logical. There are also those who were given lifetime fellowship like Fasil Yenealem, Ephrem Madebo and Andualem Andargie. I think fresh undergraduate honorees like me should not have been placed in a class of highly experienced senior honorees without even being given an orientation.

Another thing that I need to point out is that the list of deeds appeared to be copied from the previous honor sheets. Terrorism, espionage, treason, conspiracy and the other deeds listed publicly appeared to be on one menu directly copied from another one. How could your fertile imagination fail you and recycle the same thing again and again? I am not complaining but you guys appear to be suffering from brain freeze.

I have to be honest with you Prime Minister Ashebir that of all the things you listed down in the file, I am not amused with your effort to link me and other Ethiopians with Al Shabab or Shabia, your former mentor. How can you be so ungrateful to the people that trained and armed you to fight against Ethiopia and its people? By the way, you are more related to Eritrea than anyone of the people you put in the honor list. Isn’t Eritrea the land you claim to have freed from Ethiopian colonialism and made it a land of abundant liberty and freedom? Isn’t it your mother’s country? It is absurd to relate anyone in the streets to your motherland that you should keep to yourself. I, for one, seek neither assistance nor citizenship from your Eritrean cousins.

Let me also tell you that I am not a member of any political parties. If I decide to join a political group, rest assured that I will apply to become a member of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front because unlike the puppets it is the only organized political group in Ethiopia that has real power, fortune and leverage. But as you know, I don’t qualify to be a member of the TPLF because I do not pass the required genetic and blood test. That means I will never be a member of any political group until the ethnic apartheid you have been building is dismantled for good.

I am not complaining, but during the 2005 election turmoil, your roll call of honorees was ridiculed globally. You might have forgotten but those, who were in the honor list for “treason” and “genocide”, were five VOA broadcasters, aged university professors including Prof. Getachew Haile, journalists, activists and lawyers. Many of them are still in exile but whatever they say and write seems to haunt you and give you constant nightmares. We must feel sorry for you because your paranoia has reached an unprecedented level.

Prime Minister Ashebir Zenawi! William Gaddis once said: “Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.” I do not understand how a man of your caliber is so predictable all the time that you repeat the same mistake time and again. You have been toiling hard to make yourself an object of ridicule. You may remember that famous character called Mamo Kilo.

Because of his unforgettable acts, there is no character as enduring as Mamo Kilo, a dim-witted country boy. His endless creativity, quick thinking and most of all absurdities, have made him widely popular. Mamo Kilo gets everything wrong and never learns from his mistakes. In fact, his way of correcting mistakes is making more absurd blunders that make him a laughingstock.

By all account, there is only one man that has been overtaking Mamo Kilo’s place as a master of absurdities. Despite your best efforts to appear smart, erudite and serious, not to mention mingling with famous leaders, your ridiculous actions have made you the uncontested king of absurdity in Ethiopia. Your place is history is not just for being an evil dictator, From your courts to parliament, from your cabinet to electoral board, your endless absurdities have ensured your infamy not only locally but across the globe.
Mr. Prime Minister, as you have honored so many patriots, Ethiopians will permanently honor you in their history as a terrible dictator in par with Mussolini and the adult version of Mamo Kilo.

Mr. Prime Misery, you are a shame to humanity, a shame to Ethiopia and more specifically to the people of Tigray. Your fictitious charge sheets don’t scare anyone except having the usual effect of degrading yourself, your “parliament”, kangaroo courts and the very concept of law and order…. Your moronic injustice and outrageous lies will only bring your downfall ever closer… Your downfall will inevitably be as resounding as Gaddafi’s. This must be terrorizing and terrifying to you and Azeb.

Shame on you Mr.Prime Terrorist Ashebir Zenawi! Please don’t forget to add my words to the charge sheet because I am telling the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth…. Keep on lying in the name of justice. Your fate is quite predictable.
Free all the innocent men and women you have taken hostage.
Victory to Ethiopia!

Issias Demand To Be Heard Reveals Corruption of UNSC and UN Charter With 17 comments Ok so what??? why UN waste time to listen to this idiotic and heartless despot? Issias followers are try to justify his stupidity

by Sam B.

November 6, 2011

With every passing day it is becoming more apparent that the United Nations and more exactly the United Nations Security Council has been reduced to an American foreign policy apparatuses or is usurped “by the American authorities”. At most inopportune times the founding Charter, The Charter of The United Nations, is deliberately ignored and relegated to an ineffectual instrument as opposed to being the sacrosanct document that laid down the rules for international cooperation, international law and engagement. Such derogation of the UN Charter has been long in coming as some insights gleaned from the former UN Secretary General, Boutrous Boutros-Ghali, attest.

According to a March 2004 statement to the French newspaper Liberation, the former UN Secretary General Boutrous Boutros-Ghali states “that a major problem at the UN was that the Department of Peacekeeping Operations was very infiltrated by the American authorities”. Boutros-Ghali further elaborated:

“The US authorities have taken control of the UN system through financial administration and the appointment of officers and staff who are paid directly by the United States. The UN doesn’t have the means to appoint senior officers and specialist staff. When these people are selected and paid by a foreign government, they are obviously more loyal to that government than to the UN. As a result, reports presented to the Secretary General and to the Security Council are purged and modified.” (Boutrous Boutros-Ghali)

Boutros Boutros-Ghali opinion quoted above is inline with many well-respected social and political commentators. Mr. Ghali has also stated “the United Nations is just an instrument at the service of American policy.” (Boutros Boutros Ghali, 2003). That the UN is basically “a reliable instrument of U.S. foreign policy” (N. Chomsky) is a commonly held view now.

So the reply by Martin Nesirky, Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, comes as no shock when Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press asked what Ban ki-moon’s thoughts are “as the UN system’s top official, that a head of state, when he or she asks to address an organ like the Security Council, should be allowed to: if talking is better that not talking.”

Ban’s spokesman Nesirky reply was, “It’s for the Security Council to decide.”

It is shameful for a spokes person of the UNSG or anybody of the UN to relegate such rights, as enshrined on The Charter of The United Nations, to a decision of a politically charged Security Council. He ought to have stated what the UN Charters requires and stood by it. It is for a reason the UN Charter under Chapter V, titled “the Security Council”, explicitly states in Article 31:

“Any Member of the United Nations which is not a member of the Security Council may participate, without vote, in the discussion of any question brought before the Security Council whenever the latter considers that the interests of that Member are specially affected.”

Article 32 adds:

“Any Member of the United Nations which is not a member of the Security Council or any state which is not a Member of the United Nations, if it is a party to a dispute under consideration by the Security Council, shall be invited to participate, without vote, in the discussion relating to the dispute. The Security Council shall lay down such conditions as it deems just for the participation of a state which is not a Member of the United Nations.”

Let alone Eritrea asking to address the Security Council, in accordance with the procedures laid down by the Charter, Eritrea should have been “invited to participate,” by the Security Council “in the discussion relating to the dispute” or “in the discussion of any question brought before the Security Council whenever the latter considers that the interests of that Member are specially affected.”

That Eritrea’s interest are “specially affected” is a forgone conclusion, and that ONLY Eritrea’s interest are “specially affected” by the discussions and actions of the resolution considered is also in little doubt. In short the dispute of whether the President of Eritrea addressing the Security Council is a reflection of both the dysfunction at the UN and the complete contempt for the Charter that exists.

Neither Ban Ki-moon, his spokes person, Susan Rice and her government ought to have the right or privilege to trample upon The Charter of The United Nations. Nobody is conferring on the President of Eritrea the right to address the Security Council, the Charter does. America’s opposition via Susan Rice for the President of Eritrea to address the Security Council only yet again reveals their complete disregard of the rules of law and engagement that they so profusely declare to support .