Assena well done! I love when Eritreans speak the TRUTH!

By – z’Quartet.amichewoch – Dec 26th, 2011

If … only, we mean ONLY, Ato Elias Kifle -ኤልያስ ክፍሌ – the Owner & editor-in-chief of the online cyber site EthiopianReview.com, HAD extracted & beautified his OUTCRY of “Justice for Ethiopia & Ethiopians “

out of humane gesture, compassion & Human activism that DOES NOT Justify-Rationalize other humans’ (the people of Eritrea) Oppression of a day-in day-out Injustice & humiliation, then, ONLY then, we, the outsiders to Eritreans’ & Ethiopians’ political mess, would have said, YES, brother, we are 110% behind YOUR CRY OF Justice and freedom.

::Because, we believe, Injustice anywhere is Injustice Everywhere !



But, BUT, the man, that man you see in picture, in pure day-light alongside the deadliest dictator of Eritrea, Ato Elias Kifle ኤልያስ ክፍሌ ,and his calculated, contradictive ጦብሎቅሎቅ – ዘባርቄነት that truly reflects a diluted Justice-Cry.



From Ethiopia’s Ultra-nationalists eye & also from those benefit-married Eritreans’ eye, Ato Elias Kifle’s & Co. bedding with Eritrea’s rulers is immaculate and is a reflection of exquisite skill of a political scientist student or Harare military academy grad. But, for the oppressed people of Eritrea, it is a reflection of a tramp & a drifter that replicates evil politicians’ & oppressors’ tokenism and a prostituaized conscience!

Ato Elias demands “Justice for Ethiopia & Ethiopians ” from the current rulers of Ethiopia the “weyane” while He & Co. condone, support a most cruel regime in Eritrea that is committing extraordinary injustice and crime against the people of Eritrea. What Do U say this?

As is always the case with bed-fellows, new events of Eritrea & its rulers’ Dureyenet have been haunting Elias Kifle and his team of Qinjit, and Ginbot 7. The Eritrean rulers have appeared to bogging themselves down in a messier political pool that could shorten their life if the people of Eritrea are that lucky. Susan Rice, after a decade, has surely come back to haunt them for sure.

The world’s political dynamism seems to catch up with them and playing tit-for-tat with their arrogance. If Italian ex-prime Capo Silvio Berlusconi, had to turn against buddy Gadaffi in no time, then for the sake-of-the people of Eritrea, perhaps a divine intervention is at work that may send Capo Isaias Afewerki to the hands of those who may terrorize his last minutes.

As is typical for them, the Eritrean rulers’ way of conducting business, hatching politics appears to begin & end in a space & speed that doesn’t even allow normal political prostitution to blossom with their collaborators, such as the Ethiopians Qinijit & Ginbot7.

The epitome of what they hatch always appears to end up giving birth to a lifeless political chick. And now these, Ato Elias Kifle & Co, who had thought of themselves as the Aradochu with the knack found their Aradnet being instead knocked down to the floor and axed and unaccounted for in the landscapes of Eritrea. They have ended up as victims as the Eritrean people themselves.

No one can boldly tell us that the political romance of Elias Kifle and the Eritrean regime is still well & swell.

But, as History taught the Emperor & Dergue, Ato Elias & Co surely are to unwrap it all over once more, as Saif al Islam Gadaffi, and Uday and Qusay Saddam Hussein’s sons, inevitably & eventually unwrapped it all !

We will see below some intriguing events. In this picture you see the Ethiopian “patriotic” Ato Elias strolling in Asmara, Asmara –a city- that has fallen to hoist many contradictions. It simultaneously & strangely hosts humans & evils: http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/9754

Only just on January 01, 2009 new year day, he, Ato Elias Kifle ኤልያስ ክፍሌ and his team of የፖለቲካው አቀንቃኞች -OR- is it እርጥቦች- elucidated political analysts generously blessed the Eritrean president as their pick of their previous year’s milestone i.e. 2008, because Ato Elias & Co believed, the dictator, Quote, “…contributed the most to the betterment of Ethiopia in the past 12 months. “ http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/8056



And now zoom almost 2 years later and on December 03, 2011, Ato Elias Kifle revealing it all – the sequential incidents “disappearances, liquidation..” of members of the Ethiopian opposition military wing based in Asmara by the heavy-handedness of Eritrea’s Colonels.

And Ato Elias has been expressing his anger & frustration with the Eritrean rulers & the colonels. After he has seen NO fruit for his plea, he tactfully approached another corner, AGAIN, and lamented on Dec 03, 2011 http://www.ethiopianreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33765&p=181342#p181342 - Prescribing 7 diplomatic steps.

“ Eritreans are not good at diplomacy” – EliasKiflerants by elias » Sat Dec 03, 2011 11:53 am

Even though they have the truth on their side regarding the U.N. resolution that is threatening them with sanctions, Eritreans are failing to win the argument mainly due to their lack of diplomatic skill. There is a large Eritrean community in the United States that supports the GoE. Why did they fail to convince enough senators and congressmen to put the leash on Susan Rice, a paid agent for the Woyanne regime? If Woyannes succeed in bringing down the Isaias government through such sanction, it will be a major blow to the Ethiopian anti-Woyanne camp, not to mention the devastating effect it will have on the people of Eritrea. My unsolicited suggestion to the GoE:

1) Mobilize Eritreans in the U.S. to lobby the U.S. Congress. Forget the State Department. It is filled with corrupt officials.
2) Reduce the rhetoric against the U.S. Gov’t. You cannot afford to make the U.S. an enemy.
3) Invite U.S. senators and congressmen to visit Eritrea.
4) Hire powerful former senators and congressmen as lobbyist. Learn from Microsoft.
5) Allow U.S. companies to open businesses in Eritrea and give them tax shelter. “The business of the United States is business.”
6) The GoE is infiltrated with Woyanne spies. Clean up house.
7) And most important of all, do not underestimate your enemy, in this case Woyanne hyenas.

/..E.N.D./ ~ 7 “unsolicited” advisory points ~

so what happens? -Who has betrayed whom? Is TRUST now blossomed enough and arrived in hatching the mistrust, already? Is the –collateral-damage- of that short-lived political love affair over? Has that disturbed enough Ato Elias & Co that has forced them to cry foul and accusing Eritrean Colonels and pleading to the EthiopianReview.com “Hall-of-famer” President, a president that doesn’t even listen to his own intuitive when his nation is at risk?

Fact !- The fact the Eritrean rulers, as one expects and with full knowledge of GoE, pulled the red-carpet off Elias Kifle & Co, and a lot of damage is being “done” to Ethiopia’s opposition based in Eritrea according to Ato Elias Kifle articles. And his call that the Eritrean president do something has gone to deaf ears, thus far. Elias’ decision to throw the towel and accusing the Eritrean colonels last year and still (few days off 2012) awaiting an outcome from the Eritrean President!

Now, the outrage, accusation of Eritrea’s Colonels (Does it sync wih the proverb of Amharic – በሠፈሩት ቁና – ሆነና ነገሩ ! )

Elias wrote … “ December 17th, 2010 http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/30707 …our response to his article …የነቶሎ ቶሎ ቤት ግርግዳው ሠንበሌጥ – አሉ አበው የሳቸው ተረት ነገር እንደው‘ኮ !

…ኣባወራው Ato ኤልያስ - አቅሞትን እንዲገመግሙ ምናለ ሒሡን ብናሽግዎ ! as we care – እርሥዎ የኛ Homeboy እንዳው ነውኮ’ዎ !

If you, Ato Elias Kifle & Co. are endowed with the slightest, rarest commodity of common-sense then let alone you, even Eritreans who struggled with the Eritrean rulers for more than 4 decades have failed in excelling to hack off the Eritrean strongman’s exceptional deceptive next moves and intricate mind. He has comfortably fooled, outsmarted countless extraordinary Eritrean minds. The man in his own evil world is a genius. So know your shoes’ size our Ethiopian brother/s.

As shown from Elias’ January 3rd, 2011 http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/30854 . He is in a lot of pain and he is being advised by the supporters of GoE “oh the GOE is slow so be patient” “Our GOE handles things meticulously and slowly as it has no correction-plan once is done. so walk with us in a snail’s pace. Our Isaias AfewerQi, we can assure you, slowly but surely is gonna bite the Colonels, the Generals. His moves of liquidation, incarceration among other things are slow, but measured, decisive, merciless and inevitable.”



And it has been a year since Ato Elias pleaded to the Eritrean strongman. And NOW Elias came out earlier this month albeit a subdued tone telling Eritreans that they lack diplomacy! Only, after he has witnessed the UN re-imposed a renewed sanction.

So the EthiopianReview.com editor-in-chief implicitly is saying –I have been told so! The crimes the Eritrean people are enduring is undeniably deeper than what my countrymen the –Dergue system and its executors the likes of ShaleQa Dawit WoldeGiorgis did!

Admitting and telling those who toy Eritrea around that they, the Eritreans, LACK-DIPLOMACY, humility, political finesse is bitter truth! (Eritrea’s Amb. To UN Araya Desta one example of a failure of Eritrea’s ruler as the man have shown his inability in articulately communicating. PFDJ should have considered his Diaspora Die-hards for that post. But again, PFDJ’s core problem? Trust, among other things! It trusts no one except its old-guards. The old-guards won’t let it down as they, themselves, are part of the blood-crime-drenched hands of countless Eritreans. So, in protecting it (PFDJ), they protect themselves.

There is NO illusion that the Eritrean rulers are now letting even their hardcore supporters down. Forget Eritrea as a whole and their longtime supporters and believers who they thought were “sincere idealists”. Even their hardcore benefit-bound supporters are now running out of steam. You Gotta give them credit. They have been the pace-setters thus far! I wonder what 2012 has in its bags for Eritrea and them? የትም ፍጭው ዱቄቱን አምጭው አሉት አበው …! ታዲያ ምን ተሻለ!? …. ገና ምኑ ታዬና !

Ato Elias, is not stating it explicitly but implicitly admitting, after all, it is “Weyane”:
■That in just 20 long years of governing Ethiopia that has undeniably elevated its political know-how well.

The Eritrean president, as the world has come to know as the worst dictator on earth, that Ato Elias Kifle & Co. lavishly, generously praised, hailed as the “President of Year 2008” considering (dunno what these fellas consideration of his achievement) all the Qualities that a Statesman and a leader would be expected to possess and lead with example and humility, and for that, Matter-Of-Fact, even being the VERY first TRANSITIONAL President (the stakes even Higher) after Eritrea paid so dearly to victoriously, beautifully concluded the war with Ethiopia in May 24, 1991 and the world had expected for the Transitional government:
■(a) In ensuring to establish: ■A Constitution that Citizens are introduced to and understands and abide by
■rule-of-law that Citizens are introduced to and Understands and abide by its civilians Justice systems.
■Law & Order that Citizens are introduced to and understands and respect & honor its Security & armed forces
■Moral-compass that Citizens strengthen, display in reflecting the beautiful Eritrean cultural norms


so the few corrupt in & out (the diaspora) don’t mesh it up with their already decayed amoral gravy and Junk it up.

Who needs the ugliness, sexualized world of BET, MTV and the likes when A people, culture is endowed frugally with profound beauty such as the Eritrean accompanied by a timeless and artistic depth of the man and the one and only one that Eritrea can never breed a man like him once more. This was a man that filled Eritreans’ soul with his EXCEPTIONAL voice of hope, and patriotic & love songs. His voices were echoing the inevitable victory as though it was almost touchable: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xg88bI3vN0&feature=related

His return and roaming Asmara summed it all up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KiId_dfMvU&feature=related
■(b) In ensuring to establish: ■ Higher Institutions: colleges, Universities that Prepare the inheritors so they understand, respect, abide by, and communicate International law, Diplomacy, leadership and what not. But, alas. It ain’t happen until Eritrea’s Capo intersects Colonel Gaddaffi’s fate. Eritreans need to just taste bitter reality and start drilling for the Golden bullet.


Elias Kifle has condemned our Eritrean ordinary people to injustice of PFDJ, to death squad of PFDJ, while he is crying for his “subjugated” Ethiopia.

Call Ato Elias & Co whatever you like, but if they are NOT a mouth of –SELECTIVE JUSTICE Lovers…not sure what then!

.. to be Cont’d …

Observations from 'the Motherland': A day at the ER in Ethiopia

Hello blogosphere,

Last week I shared my early general observations of life in Ethiopia and promised to elaborate on a disturbing experience I had in the ER in my next entry. In this second installment, I will walk you through the ER at Black Lion Hospital and share the heartbreaking story of a young girl from Gelemso. Please be warned that some of the details of her story are very graphic.

My first shift in the ER began with a tour of the facilities. As I approached the main door, I quickly noticed the overcrowded waiting area and instantly felt weighed down with expectations as about thirty pairs of eyes watched me walk into the department. “Here is our triage area,” the chief ER resident said pointing toward a wooden desk with a sign above it that read, “Vital signs are as important as the patient’s life.” As we moved further into the ER and farther away from the fresh air outside, I was overcome by the smell which was a mixture of bodily excretions, blood, sweat and stagnant air.

There are fourteen beds on the medical side of the ER, ten beds on the trauma side, and anywhere from seven to ten beds in a hallway which serves as a makeshift holding area for admitted patients awaiting beds on the wards. At the end of a dimly lit back hallway there is a small room with four beds where the most critical patients in the department are monitored. “Umm, okay…that’s pretty much it,” he said gesturing back toward the front. “Let’s get to work.”

Before even seeing one patient, I felt complete and utter hopelessness. There were so many truly ill people, so few doctors and forget about the resources. I couldn’t help but think of the ERs I am used to in the U.S. Trauma bays that convert to ORs, supplies stocked to the brim, MR and CT scanners in the department, O negative blood within reach for emergency transfusions. “This is going to be a heartbreaking, gut-wrenching experience” I thought. I already knew I would watch helplessly as patients die from injuries or ailments that are not fatal in better equipped parts of the world.

I put my bag down at the nurses station and pretended to bend down to tie my shoe. “God, help me be strong. Use me to help who I can.” I prayed the quickest prayer and stood up to face the day.

As we walked through the holding area hallway, I locked eyes with a young girl on a stretcher. She was extremely thin, sitting up with her legs bent at the knees and had an IV of normal saline going into her right forearm. There were two men with her and from the look of their garb I could tell they came from the countryside. At first glance it just looked like a typical case of malnourishment. Young child, poor family from the countryside, emaciated features, thinning hair, open and shut case. In a million years I could never have been prepared for what happened next.

One of the men called us over to her bed complaining, as many patients do, that a doctor hasn’t been by in a while to see her. She was admitted a few days back and apparently awaiting an orthopedic procedure. I was confused. Why would she possibly need an orthopedic procedure for treatment of malnourishment? The man was speaking in a frenzy then quickly got up and lifted the blanket that was covering the girl’s legs. What we saw was nothing short of horrific. The skin and soft tissue around the girl’s ankles had completely necrosed (died due to lack of circulation) the whole way down to her bones which were visible with a naked eye. Her feet were completely dead, black and hanging by the ligaments which connect the leg bones with those of the ankle joint. Before I could stop myself, I let out a gasp and covered my mouth.

The history from both the girl and her caretakers repeatedly declared no foul play had taken place. However, as medical professionals, we are trained to look beyond the apparent, acting a lot like detectives to solve a puzzle that only contains half the pieces. Just as the girl fit the prototype for risk of malnutrition, sadly she also fits another one for victim of abuse. The pattern of her injury raised concern in all of us that this is unfortunately exactly what happened to her. Being that her wounds were symmetric, at the same level on the legs and of equal age the most likely cause was that she was bound by her ankles so tightly and for so long that the circulation of blood to her feet was stopped. Corporal punishment, especially in rural parts of the country is some of the harshest anywhere in the world.

I felt particularly saddened by this case for many obvious reasons but most strongly because this did not have to happen. This was not an unavoidable accident or illness. It was, most likely, an unnatural, provoked event. I remember thinking that if the caretakers had just a little bit of understanding of the morbid consequences, maybe, they would have tied the rope less tightly or removed it sooner. I know, that’s not a sound solution by any strech but you have to understand just how desperate I was at that moment.

I will never forget the look in her eyes as we locked gaze with one another from across the room. This young, beautiful, little girl will now live her life as a double amputee. She was scheduled for bilateral below the knee amputation which is still pending because before going into surgery, patients must secure their own supplies including blood that will surely be needed for transfusion in such a procedure.

Thank you for reading this post through to the end. I understand it may leave many of you feeling very disheartened and uneasy. Please keep this young girl and all victims of abuse in your thoughts and prayers.

In my next blog, I will share with you a very interesting conversation I had with a surgical resident at Black Lion Hospital about the state of the healthcare in Ethiopia. With his permission I will include some of the findings from a thirty page report he wrote for the Ministry of Health about restructuring the system to a more European style of healthcare delivery....with a few curve balls of course.

Until then, take good care of your Self.

Observations from 'the Motherland': A day at the ER in Ethiopia

Hello blogosphere,

Last week I shared my early general observations of life in Ethiopia and promised to elaborate on a disturbing experience I had in the ER in my next entry. In this second installment, I will walk you through the ER at Black Lion Hospital and share the heartbreaking story of a young girl from Gelemso. Please be warned that some of the details of her story are very graphic.

My first shift in the ER began with a tour of the facilities. As I approached the main door, I quickly noticed the overcrowded waiting area and instantly felt weighed down with expectations as about thirty pairs of eyes watched me walk into the department. “Here is our triage area,” the chief ER resident said pointing toward a wooden desk with a sign above it that read, “Vital signs are as important as the patient’s life.” As we moved further into the ER and farther away from the fresh air outside, I was overcome by the smell which was a mixture of bodily excretions, blood, sweat and stagnant air.
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There are fourteen beds on the medical side of the ER, ten beds on the trauma side, and anywhere from seven to ten beds in a hallway which serves as a makeshift holding area for admitted patients awaiting beds on the wards. At the end of a dimly lit back hallway there is a small room with four beds where the most critical patients in the department are monitored. “Umm, okay…that’s pretty much it,” he said gesturing back toward the front. “Let’s get to work.”

Before even seeing one patient, I felt complete and utter hopelessness. There were so many truly ill people, so few doctors and forget about the resources. I couldn’t help but think of the ERs I am used to in the U.S. Trauma bays that convert to ORs, supplies stocked to the brim, MR and CT scanners in the department, O negative blood within reach for emergency transfusions. “This is going to be a heartbreaking, gut-wrenching experience” I thought. I already knew I would watch helplessly as patients die from injuries or ailments that are not fatal in better equipped parts of the world.

I put my bag down at the nurses station and pretended to bend down to tie my shoe. “God, help me be strong. Use me to help who I can.” I prayed the quickest prayer and stood up to face the day.

As we walked through the holding area hallway, I locked eyes with a young girl on a stretcher. She was extremely thin, sitting up with her legs bent at the knees and had an IV of normal saline going into her right forearm. There were two men with her and from the look of their garb I could tell they came from the countryside. At first glance it just looked like a typical case of malnourishment. Young child, poor family from the countryside, emaciated features, thinning hair, open and shut case. In a million years I could never have been prepared for what happened next.

One of the men called us over to her bed complaining, as many patients do, that a doctor hasn’t been by in a while to see her. She was admitted a few days back and apparently awaiting an orthopedic procedure. I was confused. Why would she possibly need an orthopedic procedure for treatment of malnourishment? The man was speaking in a frenzy then quickly got up and lifted the blanket that was covering the girl’s legs. What we saw was nothing short of horrific. The skin and soft tissue around the girl’s ankles had completely necrosed (died due to lack of circulation) the whole way down to her bones which were visible with a naked eye. Her feet were completely dead, black and hanging by the ligaments which connect the leg bones with those of the ankle joint. Before I could stop myself, I let out a gasp and covered my mouth.

The history from both the girl and her caretakers repeatedly declared no foul play had taken place. However, as medical professionals, we are trained to look beyond the apparent, acting a lot like detectives to solve a puzzle that only contains half the pieces. Just as the girl fit the prototype for risk of malnutrition, sadly she also fits another one for victim of abuse. The pattern of her injury raised concern in all of us that this is unfortunately exactly what happened to her. Being that her wounds were symmetric, at the same level on the legs and of equal age the most likely cause was that she was bound by her ankles so tightly and for so long that the circulation of blood to her feet was stopped. Corporal punishment, especially in rural parts of the country is some of the harshest anywhere in the world.

I felt particularly saddened by this case for many obvious reasons but most strongly because this did not have to happen. This was not an unavoidable accident or illness. It was, most likely, an unnatural, provoked event. I remember thinking that if the caretakers had just a little bit of understanding of the morbid consequences, maybe, they would have tied the rope less tightly or removed it sooner. I know, that’s not a sound solution by any strech but you have to understand just how desperate I was at that moment.

I will never forget the look in her eyes as we locked gaze with one another from across the room. This young, beautiful, little girl will now live her life as a double amputee. She was scheduled for bilateral below the knee amputation which is still pending because before going into surgery, patients must secure their own supplies including blood that will surely be needed for transfusion in such a procedure.

Thank you for reading this post through to the end. I understand it may leave many of you feeling very disheartened and uneasy. Please keep this young girl and all victims of abuse in your thoughts and prayers.

In my next blog, I will share with you a very interesting conversation I had with a surgical resident at Black Lion Hospital about the state of the healthcare in Ethiopia. With his permission I will include some of the findings from a thirty page report he wrote for the Ministry of Health about restructuring the system to a more European style of healthcare delivery....with a few curve balls of course.

Until then, take good care of your Self.

Eritrean Despot Has the Nerve to Criticize USA! No Question Eritrean Leadership Deserve Sanction!! But instead of correcting their mistakes and join the world community tried to win Sympathy because they are so poor!! Issias is the most arrogant leader ever exist in the history of horn of Africa

Not many Americans are aware or have any idea that a very grave injustice is being committed in their name; as the USA has been working frantically and pulling strings aggressively to impose additional sanction on an African country, Eritrea, at the United Nation. This is being done without having to prove the allegations or provide any evidence.

The current injustice that is being committed on Eritrean people can not be viewed in isolation without looking at the role of the main players in the region, particularly the US and the Ethiopian regime - Why is Eritrea being punished? How is the US conducting itself in imposing additional sanction on Eritrea? Is Eritrea destabilizing force in the region as the US and Ethiopia allege? Who are the responsible parties for the untold suffering of the people of the region? How is the US viewed by the people of the region in relation to its role and possible consequences for future American generations?
For the Eritrean people and the people of the Horn Africa region at large, this act and the consequences of the policies of the US on the ground, are viewed as Americas declaration of war on their very existence. What is puzzling is that the fact these policies, are not only resulting in the suffering of the people of the region but also compromising the interest of the US itself. This raises very serious questions not only about the policies and the competence the US officials, but also the US political system.

The Horn of Africa region - one of the most troubled regions in the world- has exposed Americas double standards and contradictions in its values and policies to the maximum

The US, finds itself, engaged in imposing additional sanction on Eritrea; poor yet a very promising country that has been making rapid progress in education, basic health, life expectancy and economic growth according to international agencies and institutions. Why would then the US want to exterminate such progress?

While a revised draft resolution on Eritrea has been circulated in the name of Gabon, which is said to have been watered down from an earlier draft that banned companies from investing in mineral resources and prohibited the payment of a remittances tax; the US has still managed to add references to both targets, which it will be able to exploit at later times.

Furthermore, the content of the draft still remains very strong and has widened its scope. What started out as Eritreas alleged support for Islamist rebels in Somalia and Eritrea-Djibouti border dispute - has now extended its focus to Eritreas alleged role in destabilizing the Horn of Africa region.

This has demonstrated the central objective of US-Ethiopia sponsored sanction on Eritrea is not about concern for terrorism or the stability of the region; but to defend and allow the Ethiopian regime, the closest US allay, to have the upper hand in the ongoing problem between Eritrea and Ethiopia.

The US has not only brought its morality as low as it can ever get, by these acts, but also in the very dangerous way it has sought to accomplish its current mission to impose additional sanctions on Eritrea violating the right of the country, using its influence, and breaching, exploiting and sidestepping regulations and procedures of the UN - thereby, reducing the United Nations to a tool for prosecuting nations without due process and fabrications in the name of the UN.

The different stages involved in the process of imposing the additional sanction has been riddled with lies, manipulation, bullying and denying Eritrea the chance to defend itself. The first stage was preparing the ground work the UN sanction monitoring group that is supposedly independent produced a report making allegations that include Eritrean plot to bomb the African Union Summit in Ethiopia and Eritreas alleged support for Islamist rebels in Somalia.

The main source for most of the allegations -in particular the alleged plot to attack the AU- solely came from Eritreas arch-enemy, Ethiopia. Hence the quality of the report is closer to fiction. Not only has the US brought itself to the level of the Ethiopian regime, but it has also brought the UN down to the same level.

After all the Ethiopian regime, according to the leaked cables from the American embassy in Ethiopia confirmed the Ethiopian regime planted three bombs in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa: An embassy source, as well as clandestine reporting, suggest that the bombing may have in fact been the work of the GoE security forces. The regime went on to blame Eritrea and Oromo Liberation Front, just as the monitoring group does about the plot of the AU.

This is the same group that produced several false allegations including the presence of 2000 fully equipped combat troops from Eritrea" in Somalia to justify the US backed invasion of Somalia by the Ethiopian regime. According to the wikileaks cables this information was also supplied by Ethiopia, yet, the group had not had to explain itself. On contrary, it has been allowed to make much wilder allegations with no evidence to support. Is this the justice the UN offers to the victims?

The next stages were getting a draft circulated in the name of African countries as the US did not want to be seeing committing injustice against a small African country and the final process for the voting to take place. However, in crucial periods in the process the US ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, has been playing a very aggressive game and leading from the front in getting the final draft and rushing the process without having Eritrea to defend itself and refusing to give enough time to experts.

One would hope Susan Rice would not take victimizing a small African country as heroic act or getting her own way as a big victory. This is no victory; it has only brought shame to the US in the eyes of the victims and people at large who are watching the historic injustice.

In the era of the information age, people of the region and the world at large are aware of who is doing what and the responsible bodies for the crisis, the region finds itself. Thus there is no need for any pretention or for the US to hide behind international organizations and name of African countries at its service.

Indeed, the US, as the most powerful country on earth as it has could impose sanctions on Eritrea; specially given Eritrea has no strong economic connections with the permanent members of Security Council that have the veto power. However, do the US current policies on the Horn region, benefit its national interest? Is Eritrea really the destabilizing force in the region?

The main focus of the US on the Horn of Africa region is said to be combating terrorism. The US has invested considerable amount of resources for this purpose. Somalia - a country that has not had a central government for two decades- has been the area where the greatest concerns are as far as terrorism is concerned.

However, a glimpse look into the development of the last six years shows that the US policies together with its closest allay Ethiopia, have been the main source of contributing factor for take over of the large part of the country by Somalia Islamist youth, Al-shabab. Therefore, Al-shabab is more or less a product of US policy.

The rise of Al-shabab came about as the US rashly determined to get rid of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) fairly moderate coalition of Sharia courts that emerged and managed to bring a relative peace and sense of hope in the country in 2006. To make matter worst, it was Ethiopia, a traditional enemy of Somalia that invaded the country.

The elder leaders of the Islamic Courts Union escaped the invasion and made their way to different countries, while the youth fought the Ethiopian occupation until it withdrew its troops. The leaders, who escaped, lost their credibility, while the Al-shabab, expanded its power base- controlling much of the country. The irony is the US now finds itself trying to install a government lead by the same leader of the Islamic Courts Union that it helped overthrew.

The US further missed a big window of opportunity after the Ethiopian regime withdrew its army from much of Somalia. This was an opportunity to start an inclusive dialog amongst all Somalia factions and the traditional leaders. Yet again, the US rushed and quickly formed the present Transitional Federal Government (TFG).

What is the other major problem the US has in the region? The US's partners including the TFG, the AU troops, Djibouti and Ethiopia are in the partnership for different reasons. The TFG is incompetent and most of the people involved in the structure are more interested in sharing the funds the US and the other Western countries provide. According to the recent US congressional hearing on Somalia, much of the funds provided could not be accounted for.

Ethiopia has the most divergent interest from the US. Fighting terrorism is not its agenda. It views the legitimate struggle of the Ogden people as terrorism. In the last two decades Ethiopian regimes main effort and intention have been ensuring Somalia remains disintegrated through armed incursions and disrupting peace initiatives.

The consequences of flawed US policy on the Horn of Africa combined with several blunders and incompetence of US officials including the former US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Jendayi Frazer and the now US ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice - have allowed the Ethiopian regime to have a greater say on the way the US conducted itself in the region and freely allowing the regime to destabilize the region, commit untold atrocities on Ethiopian people and the region at large, and illegally occupying Eritrea territory.

These have put the US in direct conflict with the struggles and aspirations of the people of the region and in undermining and violating the rights of nations and international laws. Sadly the United Nations has also failed to live up to its obligation by allowing the organization to be used and manipulated by the US.

The US is one of the witnesses and guarantors of the Agreement between Eritrea and Ethiopia. The US has not only failed to live up to the agreement on its part, but it has also been one the main obstacles in resolving the problem.

The US has gone as far as encouraging the Ethiopian regime to withdraw from the legal ruling - it agreed to abide by. This was revealed by the wikileaks in conversation the Ethiopian prime Minster and Jendayi E. Frazer, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs.

When Ethiopias military adventure failed and legal concussion of the Eritrea-Ethiopia border problem was reached, the policy pursued, was to hold Eritrea hostage of the no-war-no-peace situation in a hope it would collapse from economic and political pressures. The US has not only favored Ethiopia, but it has actively been trying to weaken Eritrea for the last decade.

The US has worked tirelessly with the intention of speeding up the collapse the country - ensuring financial assistance for development from the western governments and institutions were withdrawn; discouraging any foreign investment, and efforts to isolate Eritrea diplomatically using its massive influence on many countries.

Hence, the current sanction and aggressions are only a continuation and are not new. Ethiopia and the US failed to defeat Eritrea through unilateral action and now have chosen to use the UN to achieve their objective.

Eritrea is not the destabilizing force in the region. On contrary, Eritrea has played a very constructive role in putting an end to armed conflict in Eastern Sudan, and the huge role it played in peace deal reached in South Sudan. Eritrea is being punished to give the Ethiopian regime an upper hand in the problem between the two countries and for advocating for the right and principled solution to the crisis in Somalia.

In concussion, US should evaluate its policies on the region at large. It must immediately stop pushing for additional sanction on Eritrea and review its relations with Ethiopia and correct the regime from the path of destruction. Sponsoring armed invasion and overthrowing governments or imposing one on countries in contradiction with the will of the people will only bring about short-term victories and tragic and devastating wars in the long-run. The US should seriously look at possible consequences of its current foreign policies on the future American generations.

Daniel Berhane