An Open
Letter to the US Ambassador to Eritrea, Mr. Scott H DeLISI
Dear Mr.
Ambassador,
I read
your "Farewell" statement posted on your website of June 2, 2007. I
can't say that I was totally surprised by your, frankly, incredible statements
at insulting the intelligence of the Eritrean people. I say I am not surprised,
for I know you are simply a messenger of your government. Nevertheless, you
have the audacity of claiming to be supportive of the Eritrean people for
freedom. Eritrea does not need enemies when she can count on fiends like you
Sir? Be as it may, however, it is prudent upon you to show some respect to the
people of Eritrea who have, and thanks in part to our (US) misguided policy,
continue to suffer some untold hardship to gain their independence and maintain
their sovereignty.
Sir, it is
our government, US, including the current administration that chose to disrupt
any peace process that could have easily developed between the two sovereign
states of Eritrea and Ethiopia for the mutual benefit of their respective
people. It is very apparent that the TPLF regime refused to respect the ruling
of the Eritrea Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC), because of the lack of
resoluteness on your part to force the implementation of that internationally recognized
ruling on the border issue as it was indeed spelled out to invoke chapter 7 of
the UN should there be a renegade party. Please recall, the discussion you and
I had a couple of years ago in our Embassy compound in Asmara in a meeting
called by you ostensibly to discuss, among other things, the
"Eritrea/US" relations where you tried to deny to my assertion that
you (US) were appeasing the rogue state of Ethiopia at the cost of a law
abiding Eritrea.
Your
Excellency, any sugar coating on your part cannot disguise the very overt and
covert actions our (US) government has been taking against the State and people
of Eritrea. Suffice is to say that, no amount of twisted logic or the threat of
big stick mentality would diminish the will and resolute of the Eritrean people
to keep their hard won independence and safeguard their territorial integrity
and sovereignty. One would have thought that the US, more than any other nation
on this good earth, should have been the one that understood this fact, a fact that
is dear to the hearts and minds of the Eritrean people.
Sir, enough
is enough; and God knows the Eritrean people have suffered, perhaps more so
than any other people on earth, partly, because of the successive US administration
policies that seem to talk with a forked tongue and in which, sadly enough,
applying “Double standard" has become the norm rather than the exception.
Is this the image of this United States you would like to see? As an Eritrean
American, I can only hope that the wisdom of "rational thinking"
would finally reign on the Administration’s “Modus Operandi” when handling
the many global issues at its disposal. Otherwise I am afraid, we may end
up to be one of the "pariah” states in the world, not the most democratic
country we all hope to be. That would be sad, very sad indeed!