Justo,justo wrote: ↑21 May 2023, 03:29The woyane made repeated frontal assault on Eritrean national identity, and movements like the ag'azians, bruh met'sai, felsi democrasi sprouted like mushroom speaking language we never heard before, belittling Eritrea, its national identity, its martyrs, disparaging our brothers and sisters in the lowlands, inviting Tigray people to come and settle in our coastal lines.
We were dumbstruck by this, surprised by the language. Then a surprising turn of events came after the warming up of relations between Abiy and Isaias. And now it was Isaias turn to surprise us with language we never heard before, not been part of the Eritrean discourse.
Now he tells us we are one people, we are fools those who think otherwise, border demarcation is not our priority, that our coastline belongs to 200 million East Africans, that any Tigray person can come and settle anywhere in Eritrea.
Eritrea is at a cross road, important decisions are being made that will determine our future. We will closely watch if foreign investment is spent building high-speed railroads that link Ethiopia and Djibouti or on internal Eritrean infrastructure
Isaias has held hostage sand that is a building material in construction and our urban centres are in decline. And the few people who dared side-step this, we have seen their buildings raised to the ground and turned into pile of slobs right in the centre of the city, near our national bank.
I don't really know his motivation for this, but we will soon find out when watching him select which infrastructures to invest upon, high-speed railway connection between Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti, or building hospitals, universities, libraries, water supply, electricity supply for our people in our urban centres and rural areas.
We will closely watch
I always wondered what is it that makes you suspicious of whatever PIA or his administration does. I, like some Eritreans, do sometimes question the actions (or inactions) his administration takes for good reason. For example, we wonder when electricity was going to be available 24/7, the "on & off" water supply issue, the, practically, nonexistent Internet issue, and yes, as you said, the unavailability of sand for construction purposes. These are, in my opinion, valid concerns. But, considering the abuse the country has been receiving by the Western powers and the required prioritization of the supply status, I would have expected you, not only to understand but to sympathize with the myriad of problems the country has been facing. For example. whether you bye it or not, PIA's administration has prioritized to use of the available cement, sand, etc. for the construction of road bridges and construction of water dams over your's and mine requirements to build/fix homes.
I have even heard some Eritreans trying to justify the blame game on PIA - like stating that the "sanctions are only for military equipment, and not economic things". That is a very wrong assumption if it was not a malicious assertion. I personally know that they had kept us from acquiring earthmoving equipment (bulldozers, excavators, wheel loaders, backhoes, road graders, and rollers from Caterpillar. The flimsy reason they gave us was that any of those pieces of equipment could be "used for military purposes". Go figure! Is the Boeing commercial aircraft that the Americans have been keeping hostage for a long time also because it can be used for military purposes? LOL!
Finally, I would like to remind you, Justo, that Tigrinya is a working language of Eritrea. You seem to be freaking out when the word Tigrinya is used in some discussions. Please don't associate it with the "Agazian" crap some Agames dream about.
Happy 32nd Eritrean Independence to all of you!
