Ethiopia: Horn of Africa - Mixed Signals On Border Conflict - AfricaFocus

The Security Council has called on Ethiopia and Eritrea to implement without delays or preconditions a 2002 border ruling, But observers warn that the conditions are ripe for a return to war. The U.S. voted for the resolution. But many critics say that the chances for war have been significantly increased by U.S. officials who have labeled Eritrea as a supporter of terrorism and failed to pressure ...

Author: GerrieLijam

Dear Editor, AGAIN, for the second time in just 50 years the UN, the US and it's allies are betraying and backstabbing Eritreans, by allowing Ethiopia to violate the Ethio-Eritrean "final & binding" Algiers's agreement and refusing to demarcate the Ethio-Eritrean national borders as the UN and US signed and agreed to uphold. Besides shedding crocodile tears to manipulate global public opinion to foreword their own strategic agenda, the false prophets of the UN and US would like the world to believe that they stand for "freedom, democracy, Justice, human rights, territorial integrity, peace and economic development", while depriving the Eritrean people's right for self determination by declaring that, "From the point of view of justice, the opinion of the Eritrean people must receive consideration. Nevertheless, the strategic interests of the United States in the Red Sea Basin and world peace make it necessary that the country be linked with our ally Ethiopia." (U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, 1952). For Eritreans, after 50 years of betrayal and debilitating lonely war, the high price every Eritrean family had to pay to liberate and defend Eritrea, the very credibility, integrity and motivation of the UN and the US is very questionable. As for Ethiopia, due to 50 years of war with Eritrea and Somalia, Ethiopia has been in huge mess with it's own constant extrajudicial and illegal political prosecutions, economic nightmares, persistent famines, uncontrolled AIDS, Malaria, TB and other public health scrooge, internal political strife and ethnic civil wars in Ogadinia, Oromia, Afar, Somali and Amara provinces. If Ethiopia has never been able to clean up it's won dirty laundry at home, how is it possible that Ethiopia will remotely be able to dust off internal strife and stabilize Somalia? Ethiopia should attend to it's own internal strife, economic nightmare and ethnic civil wars. After 50 years of war against Eritreans, one would hope, the UN, the US and Ethiopians have learned bitter lessons already, After all, what's there more to gain for Ethiopia from waging another 50 years of war against Eritrea or Somalia? But, if the UN, US and the Ethiopian "governments" continue in insisting on waging wars against Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopian armed ethnic movements in Ogadinia, Oromia, Afar, Somali and Amara provinces, the war could back fire and break Ethiopia apart just like the ethnic civil wars of former Yugoslavia. Therefore, the Ethiopian xenophobic tribal "politicians" need to be careful on what they pray for, because they might as well get it, bringing more misery to themselves and to the Ethiopian people, more than what Ethiopia and Ethiopians has been going through for the last "3000" years, as Ethiopians claim. As for the incompetent mafia hierarchy of the United Nations and it's masters in New York, they need to remember the UN Resolution 390a/v of 1952, forcibly federating Eritrea with Ethiopia against the Eritrean people's free will and allowing Ethiopia to annex and occupy Eritrea has caused Eritreans much more Ethiopian wars, holocaust, death and destruction that Eritreans would never had to go through, if Eritreans have been allowed to stay free with out the US or UN's approval seal of betrayal, as declared by John Foster Dulles in 1952. Ultimately, the UN is responsible for all the 50 years of Ethio-Eritrean bloodshed, for it was the UN who forced the Ethio-Eritrean federation up on Eritreans and the annexation and occupation of Eritrea and consequent bloodshed that has been spilling to this day. In the end, against all powerful odds and despite all excruciating painful challenges, the Ethiopian and Eritrean peace loving harmonious brotherly people will prevail, defeating their mortal internal and foreign enemies, over coming all man made and natural calamities to cordially live side by side in peace, as they had lived for centuries before. Thank you Gerrie Lijam San Jose, Ca. USA



Make allAfrica.com your home page | RSS Feed

Top | Site Français | Site Guide | Who We Are | Advertising | Search | Subscribe

Copyright © 2008 AllAfrica Global Media.

Questions or Comments? Contact us. Read our Privacy Statement.

HOME
allAfrica.com


Regions