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SPOTLIGHT – General Bacha: Spurious Pretexts to Justify War

By Shabait Staff

https://shabait.com/2025/11/07/spotligh ... stify-war/

Nov 7, 2025



After beating the drums of war incessantly, for almost two years, in its delusional quest for acquiring

sovereign access to the Sea through negotiations if possible and military force, if necessary,

the Potemkin Party’s latest gimmick is to “play victim”; portray Eritrea as a “regional destabilizer”; and, pursue its war agenda under the mantle and ruse of “self-defense”.

Indeed, the Potemkin Party is these days changing tack to flaunt its transparent and residual ploy precisely because its deplorable and illicit scheme of overtly unleashing a war of aggression for “sovereign access to the sea” has been roundly, even if discretely, rejected by the international community in no uncertain terms.

This is the real backdrop of General Bacha Debele’s article – there are credible reports that this was actually written by others higher up in PP’s power echelon – under the title

The Red Sea: The Imperative of Pragmatic Cooperation between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

The article was duly disseminated by the mouthpieces of PP’s National Security and Foreign Affairs establishments.

Let us now revert to the main arguments peddled in the article:

1. Alternating between supplication, moralization, and character assassination, Bacha’s nostalgic rhetoric merely regurgitates the Ethiopian regime’s long-defunct and baseless claim of

once being a coastal nation.

His narrative is steeped in inflammatory language, name-calling, exaggeration, and misrepresentation—all aimed at manipulating public opinion against Eritrea and casting it as a “destabilizer” and “subservient” actor in the region.

2. In this vein, Bacha unabashedly alleges:

The history of Eritrea’s separation from Ethiopia warrants sober and continuous reflection, particularly in light of evolving regional realities.

He goes on to say:

the manner and context of the secession, shaped by internal conflict and external pressures, remain a matter of unresolved legal and moral scrutiny.

The General peevishly parrots the ludicrous and shameful diatribes of the Prime Minister’s address to the House of People’s Representatives on October 28 last month, on the

absence of any legal documentation

on Eritrea’s independence.

To desecrate and question the legitimacy of Eritrea’s independence is an inexcusable act of political blasphemy. By all standards, Eritrea should have been independent in the 1940s, in accordance with international law and the prevalent norms and political trajectories of decolonization that unfolded all over the African continent in that period. The tragic historical anomaly in the case of Eritrea occurred because the US decided, in the context of the emerging contours of the Cold War, to sacrifice Eritrea’s national rights on the altar of its overarching geopolitical interests. Ethiopia’s subordinate role in this historical folly was that of a pliable pawn and local surrogate in the implementation of the illicit scheme.

This historical folly has exacted the sacrifice of over 60,000 freedom fighters, much physical distraction and an irreparable damage of development costs and missed opportunities. In the event, Ethiopia had no, and could not have, any legal or moral basis to question or endorse Eritrea’s independence in 1991 as insinuated these days by PP’s leaders. For General Bacha – who was a Prisoner of War during the last decade of the liberation struggle and eventually released, together with over 130,000 Ethiopian POWs, in 1991- to parrot the misplaced diatribes of his Prime Minister only accentuates his despicable moral standard.

3. General Bacha repeats the fallacious mythology peddled by segments of the Ethiopian political elite to justify their covetous ambitions on Eritrea. In this vein, he repeats the obsolete refrain:

for Ethiopia, historically a coastal nation unjustly deprived of its maritime access in 1993, the Red Sea represents not a nostalgic pursuit but an existential imperative.

For reasons of space, we will not delve into the ancient and medieval history of the Horn and Northern Africa regions. The simple fact is there is no historical and political continuum or geographical congruence between the various civilizations – Land of Punt; Adulite Civilization (which flourished mainly in the Eritrean coastal lands) that predates but which later continued concurrently with, and mostly in juxtaposition to, the Axumite Empire; as well as the disparate Fiefdoms with varying epicenters and geographic outreach that emerged in the landmass in these disconnected regions. Indeed, Ethiopia’s political presence in the Eritrean coastal lands are essentially confined to the bogus Federation and Annexation periods spanning from 1952 until 1991. Invoking fabricated mythology to rationalize encroachment on, and invasion of, a sovereign neighbouring country accordingly constitutes a grave and unequivocal violation of international law, the UN Charter and the AU Constitutive Act.

4. General Bacha gratuitously insults Eritrea’s development policy and its considerable achievements. These were realized against the backdrop of relentless hostility and pronounced agenda of “regime change” by successive Ethiopian regimes for almost three decades which were invariably bolstered by illicit sanctions by the latter’s patrons. Indeed, few countries could have summoned the resilience, national cohesion, and internal strength to withstand the remitting hostilities and stand on their two feet. Eritrea has not only achieved remarkable progress in key pillars of public services – education, health etc. – but its prospects are promising in view of its rich natural endowments, industrious people, and educated and skilled human capital.

Furthermore, PP’s regime is not in any position to lecture and proselytize about

economic growth or good governance

to Eritrea.

In spite of over 84 billion US dollars of international development assistance in the last twenty-five years; periodic IMF financial bailouts; and cyclical rounds of intensive care (food safety net etc.), Ethiopia’s economy is still overstressed and burdened by debilitating poverty. The latest WB figures indicate that, among other calamities, 21.4 million Ethiopians are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance; while 68.7% are multidimensionally poor. Ethiopia is also seething under spiraling internal conflicts that mostly emanate from misguided governance structures, that polarize society along entrenched and centripetal ethnic cleavages.

And in any case, economic hardships are not yardsticks, and cannot be invoked to invade or violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a neighboring or other nation.

5. The General also alludes to Eritrea’s interference in Ethiopia’s internal affairs, as well as its

habitual role as a proxy instrument for Ethiopia’s adversaries

to justify a war of aggression against Eritrea.

This reckless agenda that the Potemkin Party has been mulling, for almost two years now, is in fact the gist and central purpose of the whole article.

The presumptuous allegations, are widely at variance with the facts on the ground. Eritrea’s political independence and its firm conviction on ownership of its own development policies and programmes are well-known to merit elaboration. In contrast, Ethiopia’s modern history is marked by chronic dependency on foreign powers; by its avowed policy choice of acting as proxy and anchor especially in all its repetitive attempts to dominate Eritrea. In addition to soliciting US support in its initial agendas against Eritrea in the 1940s, successive Ethiopian regimes were dependent on US and Israeli military and technical succor to confront Eritrea’s liberation struggle during the first decade and on massive USSR support in the subsequent decades until the country’s final liberation of 1991. Furthermore, the current regime is heavily dependent on the UAE and other external forces for all its adventurist military schemes in the region. Ethiopia’s sponsorship and dogged support for various armed opposition movements, even if inconsequential, for almost three decades now in pursuit of its publicly pronounced agendas of “regime change” is also a matter of record.

In conclusion, the international community is fully aware of which party continues to threaten peace and stability in the region. Eritrea has never entertained expansionist and irredentist agendas against Ethiopia or any another neighboring country. Eritrea knows full well the human losses and economic devastations, that war invariably inculcates. Its agenda is fully focused on promotion of peace, stability and cooperation within its greater neighborhood on the basis of mutual respect and adherence to fundamental pillars of international law on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations and peoples.





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Careful what you wish for, PP chihuahuas!!!

[Zmeselo]

The desperation, is limitless! They made a fake business called አሰብ ኢትዮዽያ on Google Maps to make it look like that’s the city name. Besides, Eritreans use the letter ዓ for Assab not አ.






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[Naga Tuma]

centripetal

In my view, this mechanical term used for making a political statement alone defines the saga of what you call the independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia.

I am not a proponent of war. I have not been with the POW.

I have written several times on this forum about my independent thinking regarding Eritrea’s tragedy starting the day I learned about Adwa in my freshman history class in college in Ethiopia.

To repeat, I said on that day: እዉነታቸዉን ነዉ የሚታገሉት።

These three words at a young age are testament to my independent and objective thinking about the saga.

In the same vein of independent thinking, it is my view that compounding a tragedy with another tragedy is an unenlightened centripetal illusion.

Prudence suggests that after the invading forces of Italy left East Africa, the disoriented entities in Eritrea would join their organic roots.

As a leader, Atse Haile Selassie tried to do the prudent thing to do.

He wasn’t alone. There were prudent people in Eritrea that were not only happy with his prudent labor to have the disoriented entities in Eritrea join the motherland but also labored to effectuate it.

Some of the disoriented entities in Eritrea chose to go centripetal about it.

During that time, there were alternative voices from none other than Eritrea.

The leader of Ethiopia after Atse Haile Selassie was removed from power through the so called revolution was an Ethiopian from the former Ethiopian province of Eritrea.

He wasn’t among the disoriented centripetal entities in Eritrea. He was rather prudent in thinking to negotiate with them on behalf of Ethiopia.

In the process, he tragically lost his life. You can’t blame Ethiopia for his prudent judgment about going against the disoriented centripetal entities in Eritrea.

There were prudent men and women from the former Ethiopian province of Eritrea who believed in the motherland and fought against the disoriented centripetal entities on behalf of the motherland.

I don’t think it would take a genius or benevolence to make the ጀበና looking land of age old history a Republic of Administrative States for a lasting peace and progress for all.

Countless people, including from Eritrea, believed in that and honorably struggled for it. The cost of the struggle was on both sides. Yet, the centripetal entities in Eritrea try to lecture us indefinitely that the cost was theirs alone. Their indifference for the tears of Ethiopian mothers because of their unenlightened centripetal illusion is baffling.

In a time of one generation or so, the alternative voices against the centripetal entities have drowned and official statements have become testaments for invariably oppressed faculties.

The disorientation began when a local Afar lord sold the coast around Asab to an Italian merchant who showed up at the shore.

The mere fact that the deal between a local Afar lord and an Italian merchant who showed up at the shore long enough before Italy got a foothold in a wider area in its vicinity makes the notion that Eritrea existed as a State before then hollow.

The writing that you post uses a lousy excuse of saving space and time about going into the age old history of the region. In a peer review, such are the excuses that get rejected at a moment’s notice.

You will never escape the wrath of history that you did not know that Moses was the Pharaoh par excellence.

There are now two of us from Ethiopia who have unlocked the mystery. An unlocked mystery is a mystery no more.

It will transcend ages and look down on man made barbed wires on our good planet behind which men and women of this era endeavor to hide for selfish and unenlightened legacies on the same planet.

There is no point in continuing a debate that you have lost.

It befits Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity.

[Zmeselo]

centripetal

In my view, this mechanical term used for making a political statement alone defines the saga of what you call the independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia.

I am not a proponent of war. I have not been with the POW.

I have written several times on this forum about my independent thinking regarding Eritrea’s tragedy starting the day I learned about Adwa in my freshman history class in college in Ethiopia.

To repeat, I said on that day: እዉነታቸዉን ነዉ የሚታገሉት።

These three words at a young age are testament to my independent and objective thinking about the saga.

In the same vein of independent thinking, it is my view that compounding a tragedy with another tragedy is an unenlightened centripetal illusion.

Prudence suggests that after the invading forces of Italy left East Africa, the disoriented entities in Eritrea would join their organic roots.

As a leader, Atse Haile Selassie tried to do the prudent thing to do.

He wasn’t alone. There were prudent people in Eritrea that were not only happy with his prudent labor to have the disoriented entities in Eritrea join the motherland but also labored to effectuate it.

Some of the disoriented entities in Eritrea chose to go centripetal about it.

During that time, there were alternative voices from none other than Eritrea.

The leader of Ethiopia after Atse Haile Selassie was removed from power through the so called revolution was an Ethiopian from the former Ethiopian province of Eritrea.

He wasn’t among the disoriented centripetal entities in Eritrea. He was rather prudent in thinking to negotiate with them on behalf of Ethiopia.

In the process, he tragically lost his life. You can’t blame Ethiopia for his prudent judgment about going against the disoriented centripetal entities in Eritrea.

There were prudent men and women from the former Ethiopian province of Eritrea who believed in the motherland and fought against the disoriented centripetal entities on behalf of the motherland.

I don’t think it would take a genius or benevolence to make the ጀበና looking land of age old history a Republic of Administrative States for a lasting peace and progress for all.

Countless people, including from Eritrea, believed in that and honorably struggled for it. The cost of the struggle was on both sides. Yet, the centripetal entities in Eritrea try to lecture us indefinitely that the cost was theirs alone. Their indifference for the tears of Ethiopian mothers because of their unenlightened centripetal illusion is baffling.

In a time of one generation or so, the alternative voices against the centripetal entities have drowned and official statements have become testaments for invariably oppressed faculties.

The disorientation began when a local Afar lord sold the coast around Asab to an Italian merchant who showed up at the shore.

The mere fact that the deal between a local Afar lord and an Italian merchant who showed up at the shore long enough before Italy got a foothold in a wider area in its vicinity makes the notion that Eritrea existed as a State before then hollow.

The writing that you post uses a lousy excuse of saving space and time about going into the age old history of the region. In a peer review, such are the excuses that get rejected at a moment’s notice.

You will never escape the wrath of history that you did not know that Moses was the Pharaoh par excellence.

There are now two of us from Ethiopia who have unlocked the mystery. An unlocked mystery is a mystery no more.

It will transcend ages and look down on man made barbed wires on our good planet behind which men and women of this era endeavor to hide for selfish and unenlightened legacies on the same planet.

There is no point in continuing a debate that you have lost.

It befits Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity.

You need to read a few history books, pal.

After Italy, we were under the British for 10 years. We should rather have been given independence right then, as all colonized African States. Italian Somalia and Libya, got it. So why not Eritrea?

After the British, it was decided through the UN (instead of outright Independence then too) to Federate the country with yours. After the 10 year federation period, the decision was Eritreans should be asked what they wish through a referendum. But your then master Haile Selassie decided to abrogate it using military force, before the end of the 10 years. The world, instead of condemnation decided for silence, hence forcing us to raise arms.

When Italy was making a deal with the Afar their area was previously under the Turks and the egyptians, for centuries. Your country (Abissinia- not Ethiopia) was in itself in the period of formation after centuries of conflagration (the era of the princes). It became Ethiopia under Menelik, at almost the same timeline as the Italians finished their colonization of Eritrea. He stopped their advances in Adwa but then decided to sign the treaty of Wuchale accepting Italian colonization of Eritrea with defined borders, instead.

[Naga Tuma]

Here is the history that I read and know. It is a far better and deeper history. I know because I have done my homework of reading.

There was a well established polity in our region during the era of Pharaoh Akhenaten.

He started a struggle to convert the people from polytheism to monotheism and succeeded.

Our unruly people of that era revolted against him, one of them under the leadership of an Ethiopian lady among the polity of that era.

He fled.

You came to know it all your life as The Exodus led by an Israelite named Moses. Historians have established that Moses was the Pharaoh par excellence.

I have asked you if you got it wrong all your life, how many other things you might have got right all along.

Be that as it may, there is a continuity of polity in our region during the time of the Queen of Sheba. I am sure that it rings a bell with you.

As we move with time, we come to learn about a polity under Atse Ezana.

It fell not long after accepting Christianity.

Let us keep going with time and you find Atse Yekuno Amlak who tried to restore the fallen polity and succeeded.

Atse Menelik was a continuity of a semblance of success in restoring the polity and partially succeeding at Adwa.

Atse Haile Selassie continued the laborious effort to stabilize it.

So, here are the milestones of the history of the eras of polities of our region: Pharaoh Akhenaten, Queen of Sheba, Atse Ezana, Atse Yekuno Amlak, Atse Menelik, and Atse Haile Selassie.

What do we have to show for such a long time as an established polity and a thriving Republic except for some anecdotes of history here and there and fighting amongst ourselves like a headless herd? What is worse is our trigger happy fingers use guns that our brains never invented.

Is it not an unforgivable shame that we continue to fight to this day amongst ourselves?

centripetal

In my view, this mechanical term used for making a political statement alone defines the saga of what you call the independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia.

I am not a proponent of war. I have not been with the POW.

I have written several times on this forum about my independent thinking regarding Eritrea’s tragedy starting the day I learned about Adwa in my freshman history class in college in Ethiopia.

To repeat, I said on that day: እዉነታቸዉን ነዉ የሚታገሉት።

These three words at a young age are testament to my independent and objective thinking about the saga.

In the same vein of independent thinking, it is my view that compounding a tragedy with another tragedy is an unenlightened centripetal illusion.

Prudence suggests that after the invading forces of Italy left East Africa, the disoriented entities in Eritrea would join their organic roots.

As a leader, Atse Haile Selassie tried to do the prudent thing to do.

He wasn’t alone. There were prudent people in Eritrea that were not only happy with his prudent labor to have the disoriented entities in Eritrea join the motherland but also labored to effectuate it.

Some of the disoriented entities in Eritrea chose to go centripetal about it.

During that time, there were alternative voices from none other than Eritrea.

The leader of Ethiopia after Atse Haile Selassie was removed from power through the so called revolution was an Ethiopian from the former Ethiopian province of Eritrea.

He wasn’t among the disoriented centripetal entities in Eritrea. He was rather prudent in thinking to negotiate with them on behalf of Ethiopia.

In the process, he tragically lost his life. You can’t blame Ethiopia for his prudent judgment about going against the disoriented centripetal entities in Eritrea.

There were prudent men and women from the former Ethiopian province of Eritrea who believed in the motherland and fought against the disoriented centripetal entities on behalf of the motherland.

I don’t think it would take a genius or benevolence to make the ጀበና looking land of age old history a Republic of Administrative States for a lasting peace and progress for all.

Countless people, including from Eritrea, believed in that and honorably struggled for it. The cost of the struggle was on both sides. Yet, the centripetal entities in Eritrea try to lecture us indefinitely that the cost was theirs alone. Their indifference for the tears of Ethiopian mothers because of their unenlightened centripetal illusion is baffling.

In a time of one generation or so, the alternative voices against the centripetal entities have drowned and official statements have become testaments for invariably oppressed faculties.

The disorientation began when a local Afar lord sold the coast around Asab to an Italian merchant who showed up at the shore.

The mere fact that the deal between a local Afar lord and an Italian merchant who showed up at the shore long enough before Italy got a foothold in a wider area in its vicinity makes the notion that Eritrea existed as a State before then hollow.

The writing that you post uses a lousy excuse of saving space and time about going into the age old history of the region. In a peer review, such are the excuses that get rejected at a moment’s notice.

You will never escape the wrath of history that you did not know that Moses was the Pharaoh par excellence.

There are now two of us from Ethiopia who have unlocked the mystery. An unlocked mystery is a mystery no more.

It will transcend ages and look down on man made barbed wires on our good planet behind which men and women of this era endeavor to hide for selfish and unenlightened legacies on the same planet.

There is no point in continuing a debate that you have lost.

It befits Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity.

You need to read a few history books, pal.

After Italy, we were under the British for 10 years. We should rather have been given independence right then, as all colonized African States. Italian Somalia and Libya, got it. So why not Eritrea?

After the British, it was decided through the UN (instead of outright Independence then too) to Federate the country with yours. After the 10 year federation period, the decision was Eritreans should be asked what they wish through a referendum. But your then master Haile Selassie decided to abrogate it using military force, before the end of the 10 years. The world, instead of condemnation decided for silence, hence forcing us to raise arms.

When Italy was making a deal with the Afar their area was previously under the Turks and the egyptians, for centuries. Your country (Abissinia- not Ethiopia) was in itself in the period of formation after centuries of conflagration (the era of the princes). It became Ethiopia under Menelik, at almost the same timeline as the Italians finished their colonization of Eritrea. He stopped their advances in Adwa but then decided to sign the treaty of Wuchale accepting Italian colonization of Eritrea with defined borders, instead.

[Fiyameta]

General
SPOTLIGHT – General Bacha: Spurious Pretexts to Justify War

By Shabait Staff

https://shabait.com/2025/11/07/spotligh ... stify-war/

Nov 7, 2025



After beating the drums of war incessantly, for almost two years, in its delusional quest for acquiring

sovereign access to the Sea through negotiations if possible and military force, if necessary,

the Potemkin Party’s latest gimmick is to “play victim”; portray Eritrea as a “regional destabilizer”; and, pursue its war agenda under the mantle and ruse of “self-defense”.

Indeed, the Potemkin Party is these days changing tack to flaunt its transparent and residual ploy precisely because its deplorable and illicit scheme of overtly unleashing a war of aggression for “sovereign access to the sea” has been roundly, even if discretely, rejected by the international community in no uncertain terms.

This is the real backdrop of General Bacha Debele’s article – there are credible reports that this was actually written by others higher up in PP’s power echelon – under the title

The Red Sea: The Imperative of Pragmatic Cooperation between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

The article was duly disseminated by the mouthpieces of PP’s National Security and Foreign Affairs establishments.

Let us now revert to the main arguments peddled in the article:

1. Alternating between supplication, moralization, and character assassination, Bacha’s nostalgic rhetoric merely regurgitates the Ethiopian regime’s long-defunct and baseless claim of

once being a coastal nation.

His narrative is steeped in inflammatory language, name-calling, exaggeration, and misrepresentation—all aimed at manipulating public opinion against Eritrea and casting it as a “destabilizer” and “subservient” actor in the region.

2. In this vein, Bacha unabashedly alleges:

The history of Eritrea’s separation from Ethiopia warrants sober and continuous reflection, particularly in light of evolving regional realities.

He goes on to say:

the manner and context of the secession, shaped by internal conflict and external pressures, remain a matter of unresolved legal and moral scrutiny.

The General peevishly parrots the ludicrous and shameful diatribes of the Prime Minister’s address to the House of People’s Representatives on October 28 last month, on the

absence of any legal documentation

on Eritrea’s independence.

To desecrate and question the legitimacy of Eritrea’s independence is an inexcusable act of political blasphemy. By all standards, Eritrea should have been independent in the 1940s, in accordance with international law and the prevalent norms and political trajectories of decolonization that unfolded all over the African continent in that period. The tragic historical anomaly in the case of Eritrea occurred because the US decided, in the context of the emerging contours of the Cold War, to sacrifice Eritrea’s national rights on the altar of its overarching geopolitical interests. Ethiopia’s subordinate role in this historical folly was that of a pliable pawn and local surrogate in the implementation of the illicit scheme.

This historical folly has exacted the sacrifice of over 60,000 freedom fighters, much physical distraction and an irreparable damage of development costs and missed opportunities. In the event, Ethiopia had no, and could not have, any legal or moral basis to question or endorse Eritrea’s independence in 1991 as insinuated these days by PP’s leaders. For General Bacha – who was a Prisoner of War during the last decade of the liberation struggle and eventually released, together with over 130,000 Ethiopian POWs, in 1991- to parrot the misplaced diatribes of his Prime Minister only accentuates his despicable moral standard.

3. General Bacha repeats the fallacious mythology peddled by segments of the Ethiopian political elite to justify their covetous ambitions on Eritrea. In this vein, he repeats the obsolete refrain:

for Ethiopia, historically a coastal nation unjustly deprived of its maritime access in 1993, the Red Sea represents not a nostalgic pursuit but an existential imperative.

For reasons of space, we will not delve into the ancient and medieval history of the Horn and Northern Africa regions. The simple fact is there is no historical and political continuum or geographical congruence between the various civilizations – Land of Punt; Adulite Civilization (which flourished mainly in the Eritrean coastal lands) that predates but which later continued concurrently with, and mostly in juxtaposition to, the Axumite Empire; as well as the disparate Fiefdoms with varying epicenters and geographic outreach that emerged in the landmass in these disconnected regions. Indeed, Ethiopia’s political presence in the Eritrean coastal lands are essentially confined to the bogus Federation and Annexation periods spanning from 1952 until 1991. Invoking fabricated mythology to rationalize encroachment on, and invasion of, a sovereign neighbouring country accordingly constitutes a grave and unequivocal violation of international law, the UN Charter and the AU Constitutive Act.

4. General Bacha gratuitously insults Eritrea’s development policy and its considerable achievements. These were realized against the backdrop of relentless hostility and pronounced agenda of “regime change” by successive Ethiopian regimes for almost three decades which were invariably bolstered by illicit sanctions by the latter’s patrons. Indeed, few countries could have summoned the resilience, national cohesion, and internal strength to withstand the remitting hostilities and stand on their two feet. Eritrea has not only achieved remarkable progress in key pillars of public services – education, health etc. – but its prospects are promising in view of its rich natural endowments, industrious people, and educated and skilled human capital.

Furthermore, PP’s regime is not in any position to lecture and proselytize about

economic growth or good governance

to Eritrea.

In spite of over 84 billion US dollars of international development assistance in the last twenty-five years; periodic IMF financial bailouts; and cyclical rounds of intensive care (food safety net etc.), Ethiopia’s economy is still overstressed and burdened by debilitating poverty. The latest WB figures indicate that, among other calamities, 21.4 million Ethiopians are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance; while 68.7% are multidimensionally poor. Ethiopia is also seething under spiraling internal conflicts that mostly emanate from misguided governance structures, that polarize society along entrenched and centripetal ethnic cleavages.

And in any case, economic hardships are not yardsticks, and cannot be invoked to invade or violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a neighboring or other nation.

5. The General also alludes to Eritrea’s interference in Ethiopia’s internal affairs, as well as its

habitual role as a proxy instrument for Ethiopia’s adversaries

to justify a war of aggression against Eritrea.

This reckless agenda that the Potemkin Party has been mulling, for almost two years now, is in fact the gist and central purpose of the whole article.

The presumptuous allegations, are widely at variance with the facts on the ground. Eritrea’s political independence and its firm conviction on ownership of its own development policies and programmes are well-known to merit elaboration. In contrast, Ethiopia’s modern history is marked by chronic dependency on foreign powers; by its avowed policy choice of acting as proxy and anchor especially in all its repetitive attempts to dominate Eritrea. In addition to soliciting US support in its initial agendas against Eritrea in the 1940s, successive Ethiopian regimes were dependent on US and Israeli military and technical succor to confront Eritrea’s liberation struggle during the first decade and on massive USSR support in the subsequent decades until the country’s final liberation of 1991. Furthermore, the current regime is heavily dependent on the UAE and other external forces for all its adventurist military schemes in the region. Ethiopia’s sponsorship and dogged support for various armed opposition movements, even if inconsequential, for almost three decades now in pursuit of its publicly pronounced agendas of “regime change” is also a matter of record.

In conclusion, the international community is fully aware of which party continues to threaten peace and stability in the region. Eritrea has never entertained expansionist and irredentist agendas against Ethiopia or any another neighboring country. Eritrea knows full well the human losses and economic devastations, that war invariably inculcates. Its agenda is fully focused on promotion of peace, stability and cooperation within its greater neighborhood on the basis of mutual respect and adherence to fundamental pillars of international law on the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations and peoples.





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Careful what you wish for, PP chihuahuas!!!

[Fiyameta]

[Fiyameta]

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