Dear readers,
The following editorial from, http://www.shabait.com/staging/publish/article_008085.html is perfectly describing and listing the crimes and injustice committed by EPLF itself. All I have to do is replace the word Ethiopia with Eritrea and TPLF with EPLF and right there Shabait editorial effectively portrait the regime in Eritrea. Sorry for the plagiarism but I found it difficult to pass this kind of self confessions by the criminal regime enumerating its crime one by one.
The Eritrean People: Main Victims of EPLF Adventurism
By Abdel
Mar 31, 2008, 12:18
Seizing power through manipulating the Eritrean people’s struggle and martyrdom, the EPLF regime turned its back on their dreams and aspirations and plunged the country into a quagmire of political and economic crisis. What is more, the Eritrean people have had to deal with this tragic fate for the last 17 years.
The span of the years under the EPLF regime’s reign has been a period in which different conflicts erupted in different parts of Eritrea; the prevalence of poverty, backwardness and disease reached their peak; and where ethnic division has become the order of the day. The past 17 years has also been a period when the Eritrean authorities continuously provoked conflict with all the country’s neighbors while the prospect of peace, stability and development drifted further away from the grasp of the Eritrean people. In short, the EPLF regime has turned Eritrea into a hell on Earth. One of the main indicators of the competence of any government is its success in securing peace and development. Hence, we will look at the following few facts for a clearer understanding of the nature of the EPLF regime and the period of its stay in power.
1. Lack of peace and stability
The Eritrean people have suffered a great deal as a result of bad leaders, failed expansionist wars, and the last 17 years had been the worst in regards to poverty and the lack of peace and stability. Driven by its expansionist objectives, the EPLF regime launched a war of aggression against Ethiopia, in which a massive number of Eritrean youth had lost their lives. The Eritrean people’s plight does not end in being dragged around into wars and conflicts; they have also had to suffer domestic instability. Brutally suppressing a people who had legally and peacefully made their choice clear, the EPLF anti-people regime is terrorizing its people through mass arrests and torture so as to secure its sub-national objectives and autocratic control.
2. Democracy dubbed ethnic division
The EPLF regime never ratified a constitution that suited its sub-national politics and never had Eritrean people’s blessing and has been suppressing the different Eritrean nationalities under a so-called ‘Shabait’ administration. The only outcome of such a narrow-minded approach has so far been massive exodus of people from the country, ethnic conflicts and the eruption of violent armed oppositions against the regime.
3. Economic depression
For the past 17 years, the EPLF regime pursued an economic policy that secured the monopoly of a few illegal corporations administered by members of the clique, choked the private sector, denied opportunity to local investors, discouraged farmers and increased unemployment. Although the regime has been trying to deceive the people by flashing certificates that claim to ‘prove Eritrea’s developmental progress,’ the Eritrean people are living in extreme poverty as a result of the clique’s greed-driven and fraudulent economic policy.
4. Servitude as a culture and profession
Just as is the case with all regimes rebuffed by their own people, the EPLF regime had made itself available to be hired as an agent by anyone for any purpose. Being a discredited and illegal political force, the EPLF met all the criteria requirements for being an agent, and was thus hired as the number one agent in the Horn region. Bloated with pride for its status as a servant agent, the regime kept provoking conflicts with all neighboring countries and consequently degraded Eritrea’s image. Consequently, the main victims of the regime’s adventurism are the Eritrean people.
Having no clear national or political objective except its hunger for power and wealth, the EPLF regime played with the fate of the Eritrean people for the past 17 years. However, the conflicts the regime instigated with its neighbors or within Eritrea itself have back-fired, and thus put the regime in a very precarious position. Its anti-people policies have driven the EPLF towards a cliff and its desperate claims to save itself from ultimate downfall can no longer deceive anyone, for the Eritrean people cannot be fooled twice. As the saying goes, if fooled once, the same is on the EPLF regime, but if fooled twice, the same will be on the Eritrean people.
Thanks
Abdel