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Eritrea: Festival in Holland Opens With Patriotic Zeal
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Shabait.com (Asmara)
6 July 2008
Posted to the web 7 July 2008
Asmara
The 2008 Festival Eritrea Holland was officially opened on July 5 2008 by His Excellency Abdellah Jabir, Head of Organisational Affairs of the Peoples Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ). This three-day festival is being held at the usual venue of the Maresca Party and Congres Centrum in the city of Utrecht. The occasion was witnessed by His Excellency Mohamed Suleiman, Eritrea's Ambassador in Netherlands, and His Excellency Girma Asmerom, Eritrea's Ambassador in Brussels and European Union.
In keeping with its now firmly established tradition, the three-day festival is packed with program activities to meet for every taste and interest.
Earlier Mr. Solomon Mehari, Consulate general of the Eritrean Embassy in the Netherlands welcomed all those who came to partake. In his speech Mr. Solomon stated that the 7th Festival Eritrea Holland is being held at a time during which we can take stock with satisfaction of the positive and commendable progress made during the past 17 years of the country's history. In this regard he highlighted the underpinning and everlasting significance of this national event in respect of the strengthening of our community's unity and its role in the socioeconomic transformation efforts and the motherland. He further took the occasion to thank all those who have worked hard to make this occasion a success and urged community members to contribute to the Warsay Yekealo development campaign as they have usually have been doing. Finally he expressed his best wishes to every partaker to have a good time and enjoy the three-day festival packed with activities program activities made to meet for every taste and interest.
I, too, wonder how a European country that is peaceful, liberal, and free allows messengers of dictatorial regime in Eritrea to play their game and extort money from Eritreans living in Europe. This is just strange.
Any PFDJ or whatever official who dares to talk about prosperity in Eritrea deserves to be challenged by asking what prosperity he/she is talking about having put under tight grip virtually all its people young and old, men and women, urban and rural....
What makes things even worse is why Eritreans in diaspora allow such things to happen. If the festival is all about... [Read Full Text]
Being a extremely proud Dutch / Eritrean Canadian, I pains me to see ANY representative do anything at any festival outside of Eritrea on behalf of the PFDJ! This regime enjoys the freedom of international movement in other countries that it wouldn't dream of giving its own citizens. It's a shame the liberal Dutch, whom have dropped the ball on calling Tyranny what it is for a veeeeeeeeeeeery long time now, allow this display of propaganda! It's time to get back to its Calvinist roots and not allow this amoral regime any forum for it's lies and call into its... [Read Full Text]
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