Diary of the Eritreans independence (where are those proud (or empty)Eritreans now? Can they talk about Ethiopia the same way? well I don't think so this what they use to say)

Dear
After reading your response to my article I can conclude only that you
are one of those who are moaning because of Eritrean Independence.
Regardless who you are, that is whether you are an Eritrean or an Ethiopian
masquerading as an Eritrean the epoch verdict of Eritrea's 30 years struggle
is bound to inflict a permanent sadness on many people. Read the Eritrean
National Anthem. I have no sympathy whatsoever toward these people. They got
what they deserved.

As to your assertion that midget Meles has deprived Eritrea from exporting
its goods to the Ethiopian market...is laughable. By the time Meles arrived
in the picture, there was no manufacturing Industry to speak of. All the
manufacturing industry was uprooted and transported to Ethiopia to the point
that Eritrea was reduced to exporting its talented people to Addis to fill
the labor demand of Ethiopia. Your incredible assertion the Eritrea can
benefit by being under Ethiopia, the second poorest country in the world,
( World Bank report...Dec,2001) contradicts not only logic but also common
sense.Whatever problems you see in Eritrea are inevitable problems that
naturally encounters an infant and developing country such as Eritrea,
however, I believe and am very confident that this difficulty are better
solved by Eritreans as they are directly affected by it. These problems by
themselves are not and will never be an indicators for nostalgic savoring of
Ethiopia's annexation.

Eritrea will endure and prosper despite people like you. Just follow the
drama as it unfolds.

Daniel Haile


> Dawit!
> I read your short note to respond to my fellow
> brother, I was just amazed when you telling us,
> Eritrea independence was a nightmare for Adam and
> Ethiopians, and what you should ask yourself, is that
> What Adam lost because Eritrea got independence? Or
> what Ethiopians lost because Eritrea got independence
> frankly speaking nothing! Or whether we admit it or
> not we are the one we lost, and will continue losing.
> Is that Ethiopians night mare, my advise to you is
> that don't listen to some hard liner Ethiopian about
> Assab port and etc. the fact is because they lost
> Assab they didn't lose anything they use port Sudan
> Djibouti and Somalia and Kenya.
>
> The fact is Melese became our nightmare when he grants
> us our independence struggle with out resistance. He
> continued to deny us access for Ethiopian market,
> closed the border no trade between those brotherly
> countries; there is no communication with Eritrea in
> Air or ground, when he deported us from Ethiopia.
> so don't fool around it is a reality, so be smart,
> Adam he questioning our independence because of the
> dictator controlling the country right now, and expect
> more blood shed in Eritrea there is Afar issue Kunams
> issues and Muslims issues and etc. what are you going
> to do? So Hamasin or what ever your background we need
> to resolve all this issues, if we don't our nightmare
> is continue to chase us.
>
Dear
Thank you for your long letter. Over 90% of Eritreans
prefer to remain Eritreans, a UN supervised referendum
proves that. Despite the dismal situation that the
failed state of Somalia finds itself in, Somalis feel
that anything is better than Ethiopia. Just as many of
your fellow Ethiopians would also chose independence
over unity with Ethiopia if they were given the same
chance as Eritrea.

Unity, democracy and development are great things, but
it only works if you have civilized neighbours. All of
Ethiopias maritime neighbours agree that Ethiopia is a
landlocked, barbaric nation on the verge of total
anarchy, frankly a pest to live next door to.

In fact the most important regional cooperation we
(the neighbours of Ethiopia) would participate in, is
the containment of Ethiopia's internal problems...
within Ethiopia. Your cultural, political and
economical problems as well as your landlockedness are
the greatest sources of instablity to the Horn of
Africa region. To the broader international community,
you symbolize chronic poverty, continuous economical
and political disaster. Let alone a confederacy based
in Addis Ababa, the best thing for the world would be
if Ethiopia ceased to exist, just like Yugoslavia and
the former USSR (your first and foremost ally and arms
supplier).

Best Regards
Zeru Isaac

Dear
You try to lecture an Eritrean about the principles of
self-determination. Although I realize that "dignity"
is very hard for you Ethiopians to understand, try not
to sink so low that you pretend to be something you
are not...You're not fooling anybody. Even if a hyena
wears sheeps skin, it still smells like hyena.

The Eritrean people, be they Afar, Kunama or Tigrigna,
are the only people in the Horn of Africa who have
practiced the right of self-determination. If you
refuse to accept what they chose (to divorce from
Ethiopia), that is your problem. Sooner or later you
will learn to live with the bitter truth. The sooner
the better. In the mean time the UN and the rest of
the REAL world have testified and accepted the voice
of ALL Eritreans so your self dellusional rantings
really don't matter.

You said:

"...whether you admitted or not Ethiopia is a great
country with a great resource..."

What is Ethiopia's great resource? 60 million donkeys?
Prophet Mohamed lived over 1300 years ago. Whatever he
said about Ethiopia's future then, we are still
waiting to see it happen. Ethiopians have waited over
3000 uncolonised, proud years of "freedom" to see
Ethiopias "great protential" develope. 3000 years from
now, dumb fandiyas like yourself will still be talking
about Ethiopia's great protential. Meanwhile we will
only see one year after the other with famine and war
replacing eachother or coming together at once...to
the hopeless land of Ethiopia. Like I said it would be
better if Ethiopia did not exist.

Best Regards
Zeru Isaac


Dear
Every day, we hear and read about political and
economic misfortunes facing Ethiopia under the brutal
ethnic minority dictator and his comrades.
Increasingly, soldiers and students are voting with
their feet by running away to whichever country is
willing to take them; even an elderly woman is
reported to have walked all the way from Mekele, to
the Eritrean border. Crime is apparently on the rise,
poverty is spreading and deepening, and the government
is loudly and frequently appealing to the
international community for food donations to feed the
majority of the population. Some Ethiopians are even
asking whether the idea of war with Eritrea (for
"sovereignity" as they call it) was wise after all,
since they lost Badme and got no ports...Deported
Ethiopians are desperately trying to return back to
work as shoeshiners in Eritrea.

The British Broadcasting Corporation had reported
last week about coffee prices (Ethiopias #1 export)
being desperately low and famine threatening the
country again due to drought. Ethiopia is again asking
to be kept alive by international life support system
which it has been parasiting on for as long Ethiopians
can count their years of "independence".

Well for the emergency aid to reach starving
Ethiopians quickly they need accessible ports and the
one and only Djibouti will not do the trick alone. So
the government in Addis Ababa, despite its pretentious
bravado in the eyes of Ethiopians in the Diaspora and
the world community, has been desperately begging on
all fours behind the scenes to normalize its
relationships with Eritrea since it has no confidence
of surviving as a landlocked nation at the mercy of
surrounding Arab League member states:)

It has tried to use religious leaders, academicians in
American Universities, foreign embassies in Addis
Ababa, international non-governmental organization,
and anybody else to mediate with Eritrea.

The latest attempt at mediation would be attempted
during a conference on confederations of states in
the Horn of Africa. The University of South Florida
has organized a conference entitled "Prospects for a
Horn of Africa Confederation" to be held this coming
November 14 and 15. It is not clear yet as to who
might be behind the forthcoming conference...

There was another conference held at Stanford
University in April 1991 entitled "the Horn of Africa:
Prospects for Sustainable Peace, Regional
Cooperation, and Development", where the key panelists
were
Ethiopia's Ambassador to the United Nations, Eritrea's
Ambassador to the United States, and the man in charge
of African Affairs at the United States Department of
State in 1991 named Herman Cohen (a known enemy of
Eritrea and a temporary friend of the TPLF regime).

The conference was organised by powerfull friends of
Ethiopia who wanted to make sure that the security and
stability of their greatest ally in the region:
Ethiopia (or the remaining landlocked part of it),
would be preserved. Perhaps the same people organizing
the up and coming conference.


Confederation between Ethiopia and Djibouti makes a
lot of sense to landlocked Ethiopians, but not to
Djiboutians:) Of course Ethiopians have wet dreams
about their long lost province Eritrea as well as
Somalia and it's long seashore, even if they hate
admitting that they want something they lost
repeatedly at a great cost:) But unity with Djibouti
(and her port) seems more realistic to them (even
though it isn't):-) The relationship between Djibouti
and Ethiopia can be characterized into one
sentence: Djibouti sets the price: Ethiopia pays...
Tiny Djibouti has Ethiopia by the neck and they have
France to help them do it. While Ethiopia secretly
dreams of incorporating Djibouti and maybe the rest of
Somalia as well, Djibouti dreams of an independent
greater Somalia, secretly wishing Dire Dawa was part
of it:)

This in a nutshell why some Ethiopians are
apprehensive about a confederation with Somalia, their
fear of a unified Somalia, wanting to break loose
from Ethiopia:)


Although a re-unification with Eritrea is every
Ethiopians openly secret wet dream, many dellusional
ones will express false fears that Eritreans will:
"plunder Ethiopian resources" as if Ethiopia has
resources to plunder:) If they did, they would have
been colonised like the rest of Africa. Several more
Ethiopians say even dumber things like: "Eritrea
foolishly invaded Ethiopia". No nation in the world
would invest even a dime in invading Ethiopia. Because
they would end up with even less! Apart from having
the British fight off the Italians for them, and
Cubans fight back Somalias reconquest for them, the
only wars Ethiopia has engaged in, have ALL been wars
in which the dirt-poor country wanted to steal from
its neighbours or keep itself from falling apart:)

This is a real gem in the humor department:

"Ethiopia was their diamond mine"

Absolutely hilarious! This must come from the fountain
of all Eritrean jokes: a Tigrayan:) There is a saying
in Asmara: if you were to buy an Ethiopian for what he
is truly worth and sell him for what he THINKS he is
worth, you would make the biggest profit recorded in
human history:))

Creating a confederation with Ethiopia would be like
re-creating Yugoslavia. Ethiopia is a bad word to most
Ethiopians...who don't want to associate with that
name. They are fighting to go the same way as Eritrea,
towards freedom. Even Ethiopias government was once a
rebel movement called Tigray Peoples Lberation
Front:)) We are only proud to have served and continue
to serve as insipiration even though we regret that
some have come to prefer parasitism over independence
(TPLF).