Contemplating our most important assets:  Resilience and Perseverance

 

Dr. Tesfay Aradom

April 8, 2008.

 

Motivated by greed and an obsessive desire for fame some senior bureaucrats unabashedly pursue unaccountable and socially irresponsible diplomatic and political objectives. Their callousness and lack of historical insight prevent them from considering the devastating political, economic and social consequences of their acts on nations and peoples struggling daily to fulfill their basic needs of food, shelter and health. Hence, it would not be far fetched to imagine that one of Dr. Frazer’s objectives would be to include the following statement in her resume:

 

2002-2008- In order to render the Horn of Africa a fertile ground for US economic and geopolitical interests I:

 

·          Worked indefatigably to bring about regime change in Eritrea and replace it with one that would be subservient to Meles and palatable to the US.  

·         Destroyed Somalia as a united political entity and tried to partition  it along ethnic lines;

·         Provided comprehensive support to a repressive and genocidal minority regime in Ethiopia.

 

Despite her obvious fiasco in the case of her Eritrea and failures in Somalia, for an outgoing Senior State Department official, the inclusion of such statements would translate into substantial monetary compensation from neoconservative institutions and significant professional advancement. For her, that is all that matters.

 

            If one looks closely at her behavior during the last several years, it becomes abundantly clear that she has been on a personal crusade to vilify, isolate and eventually destroy Eritrea, a perceived threat to her superpower agenda, and appease Meles to help him realize his duplicitous diplomatic and political maneuvers:

 

  • Illegal visit to Badme in 2006, a sovereign Eritrean territory currently occupied by Ethiopia.

 

  • Continual unfounded vitriolic diatribes against Eritrea regarding Somalia

 

  • Unsuccessful effort to have Eritrea designated as a State sponsoring terrorism

 

  • Her futile attempt to alter the EEBC decisions in favor of Meles as revealed in John Bolton’s book. Mr. Bolton is a former US representative to the UN.

 

  • As ludicrous as it may sound, her obsessive desire to overthrow the Government of Eritrea as revealed recently by a member of an Eritrean “opposition” movement

 

Her increasingly outrageous behavior is a reflection of her frustration over the futility of her illegal actions. Blinded by her arrogance and pseudo-confidence, it is obvious that Dr. Frazer is neither interested in learning about nor capable of appreciating the long history of resilience and perseverance of the people of Eritrea, a country which due to her strategic geographic location has been the quintessential victim of superpower greed.

 

To bring to her attention just a few salient historical events:

 

·         The 1949 UN Bevin-Sforza plan which was intended to destroy Eritrea as a political entity by partitioning it between Ethiopia and the Sudan.

 

·         British attempt during 1940s to wreck a vibrant Eritrean economy and foster discord among Eritreans on religious grounds with the malicious intent of compromising Eritrea’s  political and economic viability

 

·         US policy to quash the Eritrean Independence Movement through a “Mutual Defense Pact” with Ethiopia. Between 1953 and 1974, more than half of the military aid ear-marked for Africa was given to Ethiopia.

 

 

·         Following the rejection of the “Pax Sovietica” by the EPLF in 1976, the Soviet Union decided to undertake a massive transfer of military weapons and hardware to Ethiopia. This transfer, perhaps hitherto unprecedented in Soviet history since World War II, was aimed primarily at crushing the Eritrean Independence Movement.

 

·         Between 1976 and 1985, the Soviets with the cooperation of Cuba, South Yemen and East Germany helped Ethiopia unleash eight military offensives each of which was single-handedly contained and frustrated by the EPLF.

 

·         Between 1998 and 2000, Meles was the beneficiary of  military intelligence and diplomatic cover by the West as he waged three unsuccessful military offensives against Eritrea under the pretext of a border conflict

 

Despite the above stated military and diplomatic challenges, the Eritrean people organized under the leadership of Eritrean political icons during the 1940s, the EPLF and the GOE have consistently demonstrated their determination and ability to overcome serious obstacles and achieve their military, diplomatic, political, economic and social objectives.

 

Our skepticism of Western political and economic policies and intellectual vigilance might be misconstrued as subversive. However, within the context of the above historical experience, it is a reflection of our steadfast determination to rely on our own human and material resources and an adaptive psychological mechanism that will shield us from dire political, economic and diplomatic consequences.

 

 

 

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