BLAMING ERITREA (Part II)

An Open Letter to Mr. Yusuf Mohammed Ismail

Dear Mr. Yusuf

It is one thing to be a puppet of the disgraced TPLF regime in Ethiopia and a subservient of other foreign forces. But you are out of line when you falsely accuse the Eritrean government of things which it does not stand for. It seems it has become the style of the day for just about every foreigner wishes to be an expert on the domestic and foreign policy of Eritrea. Sir, if that gives you some peace of mind, I suppose you will continue to accuse the government of Eritrea of whatever evil your TPLF masters have instructed you to state like - the garbage statement that you stated in some “News conference” in Geneva the 19^th of August - that the Eritrean government treats Eritrean Muslims like second class citizens…That is an allegation that is not shared by the majority of our Eritrean Moslems and who is to know more on that subject than them? Incidentally, that reminds me during our armed struggle for independence from Ethiopia that we were sometimes described as “Moslem secessionists”. Obviously it was meant to portray our popular and genuine struggle for independence as an idea espoused only by Moslems and fighting against “Christian Ethiopia”. But, that notion did not stop the Christian members of the Eritrean population from fighting alongside their Moslem Eritrean brothers and sisters. One thing is for sure, though, the Eritrean government and indeed the entire Eritrean population are firmly against extremists and fundamentalists of any religion and I can assure you that we will continue to be that way. Because it is a matter of principle we dearly believe in. For one thing, you know or you should know, that those criminal elements who profess that kind of “Islam” fundamentalism or “Mujahidin” as you called them are financed and directed by foreign interests and, as far as I am concerned, their beliefs and doctrines have nothing to do with the faith of Islam. Nevertheless and obviously those sub nationals will utter just about anything their sponsors would like them to say and, for that matter, they would commit any heinous crimes at a direct order of some foreign agents who suffer from some inferiority complexes and who do not want to reconcile with themselves and who refuse to acknowledge the indent-able Eritrean peoples’ resolve for self defense and absolute intolerance to such decadent and garbage heaps of make-belief innuendos and hearsays.. The terrorists would rather do it behind the cover of darkness where they hope they would lay a bomb here and there and run-away to escape apprehension by the Eritrean peace officers. Their terrorist acts are not something that normal behaving citizens and any law-abiding country would celebrate. In fact, most Eritreans have long and unequivocally written these criminals of. And what ever criminal activity they may be contemplating, it would not come as a surprise and it would certainly not be some headline material. You see, Mr. Yosuf, our people have better things in their mind like – improving their daily lot - to worry about such highway bandits whose sole existence seems to be enjoying the killing and maiming of innocent civilian population who reside or happen to be in the remote corners of the country.

So, if you were truthful and courageous enough, Mr. Yosuf, the Eritrean government should have been the last target for you to finger point at. If you have to finger point at someone other than yourself, how about your Weyane masters who have invaded part of your country in broad daylight? That may give you some credence to statements you might make and may even earn you some sympathy from the International community for which you are a part of. Otherwise blaming the Eritrean government for all your follies and blunders is unjustifiable to say the least. It is a noble cause the Eritrean people cherish for supporting and standing by our Somali brothers and sisters in their hour of need. And, as far as I am concerned, if the Eritrean government is supporting our Somali brothers and sisters, then it is a course of action that we all should support and be proud of. After all, who can forget the Somali people’s sympathy and assistance they rendered to our long struggle for independence? I am certainly indebted to that.

Long live the friendship and cooperation of the peoples of the Horn of Africa!