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Asmara, 5 March 2010 – President Omar Hassen Al-Beshir of Sudan,
who conducted a one-day working visit to Eritrea today, said
that the people and Government of Sudan reject the unjust
sanctions Resolution 1907 against Eritrea.
Australia
implements UNSC sanctions against Eritrea
On 23 December 2009 the United Nations Security
Council (UNSC) adopted resolution 1907, imposing sanctions against
Eritrea in response to the ongoing border dispute between Djibouti and
Eritrea, as well as Eritrea’s support to armed groups destabilising and
undermining peace and reconciliation in Somalia, which the UNSC
determined constituted a threat to international peace and security.
State Department
reacts to the massive world-wide demonstrations against the UN sanctions
and the role of US in
forcing the sanction through the security council by issuing a...
03-02-2010
"..anti-UN sanction demonstrations
against the United States have occurred." ( in Eritrea?)
"heightened tensions along Eritrea's borders with Ethiopia and Djibouti"
"Skirmishes between troops of both countries resulted in fatalities in
January and February of 2010"
"The call of our homeland far outweighs our
differences with the Government of Eritrea."
ሕጂ’ውን ቅድም ቀዳድም ሃገራዊ ድሕነት!
The sanction and the protest against the sanction
reignited our unity.
(slogan sent to meskerem from DuPont Circle in DC)
The Aljazeera interview,
the deliberate posting and airing of the interview when the protests
were in full swing to dampen the protest and the justified public anger
at the whole event and at those involved.
Time to think this
through, objectively and seriously.
The Aljazeera interview was posted on their
website on February 22, 2010 18:07 GMT; that is
1:07 PM DC time Monday February 22, 2010
On Monday February 22, 2010 around the same time,
the protests in three continents were in full swing some had ended
successfully. Around the same time, in DC, the
protesters were in the State Department preparing to meet with
officials of the department and submit over 107, 000 signed
petitions.
Is posting of the interview on the website and
airing it, a coincidence or deliberate move to deny exposure and
media coverage by injecting "sensational" interview into the cyber
space?
Was this a plan to derail the
Diaspora Protest? Was it such a threat? Who should have known or
suspected such intent?
Why give Aljazeera the opportunity to "throw
cold water" at the effort and success of the Protest?
Who is to blame?
Did the interview
take the sting/ limelight out of the protest?
Why was the
interview allowed ? Why so many interviews anyway?
ገበታ ዘረባ ምዕሮ ይሞልቆ!! ይብሉ
አቦታት።
The Office of
Communication within the Office of the President ( if there is one), the
gotcha reporter of Aljzeeraa, the Head of the State of the Nation of
Eritrea and the interview that almost derailed the effort and
campaign of the Historical Protest against the illegal and unjust
sanctions against the Eritrea nation and its people.
On Sunday, Feb 28, 2010 @ 2:00 PM EST
Naz of Radio Voice of Eritrea presented
Journalist
Mr. Habtom Yohannes of Holland and Drs. Tsegezab
Gebregergis of International Task Force on Eritrea
to
discuss the historic world-wide anti-sanctions
protest ,
the results and where we go from here
The recorded broadcast was interrupted because of
technical problems with the station's servers.
Demonstration
is the Festival of the Oppressed!
Feb 27, 2010
By The International Taskforce on Eritrea
It is one of the top priorities of the ITFE to
bring the issue of the unlawful sanctions against
Eritrea and its people to the attention of
international opinion makers in the West, and in so
doing create an awareness of how the UNSC is
violating its own charter in order to punish
countries that refuse to accept the aggressive
foreign policy of the US Government.
JUST FACTS.
CORROBORATED FACTS.
Thousands of Eritreans
protested in front of the White House and State
Department on UN sanctions against their government.
Handed
over to State Department officials a petition they said
contained 107,000 signatures.
US
Embassy in Eritrea, in its
websites,
joins meskerem in defending the right of Eritrean-Americans,
other Eritreans and others to protest against the US
government without being intimidated or threatened.
See below.
(Meskerem wrote)
Report threats to the U.S. Constitution. (Click
here) U.S. Constitution is under threat by the
Jihado-Taliban and secessionist dominated Eritrean Opposition...
Any form of threat to those
preparing to flood Washington to have their voices heard and, on
the 22nd February 2010, jam the downtown streets to protest the
sanctions is considered a direct challenge and violation of the First
Amendment.
(Meskerem Wrote)
U.S. Constitution - Amendment 1(Click
here)
Congress shall make no law ..prohibiting
the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the
press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the Government for a redress of grievances.
Updated 01.27.10
The First Amendment guarantees us freedom of expression, including:
The right to associate with whom we choose.
The right to protest and dissent.
The freedom to read what we choose without censorship or
intimidation.
The right to express ourselves artistically.
Freedom of the press.
The right to a redress of grievances.
Religious liberty and the separation of church and state
( Meskerem wrote,
click here) The Addis
-based Jihadst and Taliban dominated opposition is about to
commit Federal Crime by violating the constitutional rights
of the protesters. ACLU need to get involved and has been
approached.
Is the Eritrean opposition violating the US Constitution by
harassing, intimidating and blackmailing those
Eritrean-Americans and others who, through peaceful
assembly, want to petition the US government for redress of
the grievances they have against the UN Security Council
sanction?
It time for us, in the nationalist opposition, to stand
against this flagrant violation of the freedom of speech.
The opposition has now replaced the PFDJ thugs. The
PFDJ thugs are now acting and behaving much more civilized.
The way we used to be...how times change.
We are witnesses to the harassment and intimidation by the
PFDJ thugs when ,as members of the nationalist opposition,
we organized rallies and staged peaceful demonstrations in
front of the Eritrean embassy and the State Department for
redress of our grievances. Some of thugs even threw bottles
and spat on us. The opposition is now doing this.
The roles are now reversed. Members of the opposition have
now become the thugs. These cyber thugs are attempting to
intimidate Eritreans. Some even have gone as far as
threatening the new refugees with deportation. Those
Eritrean who, in expressing their right to assemble and
petition, will be flooding Washington, DC on Feb 22, 2010.
All the talk about democratic rights, including the
rights to hold rallies and demonstrations ...fake.
Sudan's largest opposition group has signed a peace deal with the government
that could end the conflict in Darfur.
Preliminary documents setting out the terms of the deal, signed in Qatar on
Tuesday, appeared to offer government positions for the Justice and Equality
Movement (Jem).
The documents were the first concrete sign that Khartoum is prepared to share
power with the group.
وفي صبيحة الثاني والعشرون من
فبراير كانت كانبيرا على موعد مع جماهير غفيرة
كان اكثر ما أغضبها ليس لأن قرار "مجلس الخيبة
" كان يحمل البند السابع او الرابع او التاسع،
بل المهم في الأمر انه جاء غير منطقيا
وظالما وغير مبررا وأنجلت فيه روح الأزدواجية
.
وفي صبيحة الثاني والعشرون من
فبراير كانت كانبيرا على موعد مع جماهير غفيرة
كان اكثر ما أغضبها ليس لأن قرار "مجلس الخيبة
" كان يحمل البند السابع او الرابع او التاسع،
بل المهم في الأمر انه جاء غير منطقيا
وظالما وغير مبررا وأنجلت فيه روح الأزدواجية
والكيل بالمكيالين الذين أصبحا من سمات "مجلس
الخيبة"..
إذ كيف يحلو لـ"مجلس الخيبة"
الحديث عن التدخل في الصومال في وقت انه يكافئ
من يبعثون في ارض الصومال فسادا وإبادة
وتشريدا..
بل وبأي منطق يمكن أن يتحدث
هذا "المجلس المنكوب" عن سيادة جيبوتي
(جمهورية الملح – اليس الملح المورد
الوحيد الذي يجلب لها العملة الصعبة؟ ) ..وهي
الدولة التي ومنذ نعومة اظافرها قد قدمت - على
طبق من ذهب – سيادة اراضيها وشرف شعبها لدولة
اوروبية التي اضحت في الواقع تتحكم على كل شبر
من اراضي "جمهورية الملح" ولو فرضنا جدلا بأن
ارتريا فعلا تحتل شبرا من اراضي جيبوتي لكانت
فرنسا اول المعترضين
State media: Sudan peace
accord to be signed
Tuesday
February
23, 2010 -- Updated 1441
GMT (2241 HKT
(CNN) -- Sudan will
sign a peace accord
Tuesday with rebels from
the nation's volatile
Darfur region, state
media said.
The
signing of the
cease-fire agreement
with the rebel Justice
and Equality Movement
will coincide with a
four-way summit in Doha,
Qatar, the state-run
SUNA news agency said.
The
summit will include the
emir of Qatar, Sheikh
Hamad bin Khalifa
Al-Thani; Sudanese
President Omar
al-Bashir; the president
of Chad, Idris Deby; and
Eritrean President
Assais Afwerki, SUNA
reported.
Participants at the
meeting will discuss
means of achieving peace
in the region, welcoming
the steps for realizing
peace in Darfur,
progress of the
relations between Qatar,
Sudan, Chad and Eritrea
and other issues of
mutual concern, SUNA
said.
DOHA, Feb 23 (NNN-SUNA)
— A quartet summit is
due to begin Tuesday in
the Qatari capital,
Doha, involving the Emir
of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad
bin Khalifa Al-Thani,
Sudanese President Omer
Al-Bashir, Chad’s
President Idris Deby and
Eritrean President
Assais Afwerki.
SUNA
has learned that the
summit will synchronize
with a ceremony for the
signing of a peace
agreement between the
Sudanese government and
the rebel Justice and
Equality Movement (JEM)
in Doha.
The summit will
discuss ways of
achieving peace in the
region, welcoming the
steps for realizing
peace in Darfur in
western Sudan, the
progress of relations
between Qatar, Sudan,
Chad and Eritrea and
other issues of mutual
concern.
5,000 Eritreans rally against UN
sanctions
Agence France-PresseFebruary 22, 2010
GENEVA - Some 5,000 Eritreans from around Europe rallied on Monday in
front of the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva to protest
against UN Security Council sanctions on Eritrea, police said. The
demonstrators waved Eritrean flags and carried banners such as "No to
sanctions based on lies," and "Eritrea will never go on its knees". Read
more
BBC found with its pants down! (
It even rhymes)
BBC's biased reporting of the historical protests that included the
submission of almost a quarter of a million collected protest signatures
to Geneva and DC was shamefully exposed by Agence France-Press ( see
report on left side). Instead of photo of the protest, the topic of the
report, it chose to put a photo of an insurgent. We know. You just hate
Eritrea. Eritreans
rally against UN sanctions.
Page last updated at 10:53 GMT, Monday, 22
February 2010 BBC Hundreds of Eritreans have launched protests against UN
sanctions on their country in co-ordinated rallies in Australia,
Switzerland and the US...
..UK-based Eritreans told the BBC that the sanctions were illegal and an
insult to their nation. Government critics accused Eritrean officials of
coercing people to take part in the demonstrations
In reaction to the UNSC sanctions imposed against Eritrea, I wrote an
article on January 14, 2010, titled "The UNSC Sanctions against Eritrea:
Based on Hard Evidence or Utter Lies?" In response to my article, many
Eritreans from many parts of the world have written to me and genuinely
asked me to provide them with explanations as to how these sanctions
will harm the Eritrean people. Many other Eritreans have also written to
express their active support and solidarity. Having said this, I shall
now attempt address the issues raised by my compatriots.
U.S. condemns Eritrea for "destabilizing" role AlertNet
Mon, 22 Feb
2010 04:14 AM PST
Source: Reuters * Says
Eritrea threatens international security * Pro-Eritrea
protests held in Western capitals By Jeremy Clarke ASMARA, Feb 22
(Reuters) - The United States accused Eritrea on Monday of ...
RReport
threats to the U.S. Constitution. U.S. Constitution is under threat by the
Jihado-Taliban and secessionist dominated Eritrean Opposition...
Any form of threat to those
preparing to flood Washington to have their voices heard and, on
the 22nd February 2010, jam the downtown streets to protest the
sanctions is considered a direct challenge and violation of the First
Amendment.
Eritrean Sanctions Must be Annulled
and Repealed Today!
Dear fellow Eritreans & Friends,
Add your voice to the February 22, 2010 March in Geneva
(Switzerland), San Francisco & Washington, DC (USA) as well as
Melbourne (Australia). Tell members of the UN Security Council,
the U.S. Government and the International Community you want an
immediate annulment and Repeal of the Unjust, reckless and
baseless sanctions imposed on Eritrea on December 23, 2009! .
If you want your name to be added to
the list of supporters please fill the form attached below.
(Change of Ambassador to
the State of Eritrea ) February 18, 2010 Thursday
Mrs Sandra Tyler-Haywood has been appointed Her Majesty's Ambassador to
the State of Eritrea in succession to Ms Andrea Reidy who will be
transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Mrs
Tyler-Haywood will take up her appointment during April 2010.
_____________________________________________________________
Wednesday 17 February 2010
\February 16, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – A Ukrainian weapons
company has been shipping arms to rebels fighting in Sudan’s Western
region of Darfur, according to a Russian newspaper.
The UN group monitoring the arms embargo on Somalia said in
a report a year ago that "as much as 80 per cent of the international
investment in building the TFG security forces has been diverted to
purposes other than those for which it was intended."
MOGADISHU — Islamist insurgents and fighters from
Somalia's government forces mingle peacefully at Mogadishu's main
weapons market, but both sides are stocking up ahead of a major
government offensive.
The following is a selection of news
reports from the 16 February 2010 edition of Hadas Eritrea (which means New
Eritrea in Tigrinya), the only state-owned Tigrinya-language newspaper in
Eritrea. It is published every day of the week apart from Monday and only
publishes an editorial on Tuesday. The Sunday publication does not carry
news; it only contains features on various economic and social issues,
advertisements and sports.
The normally 12-page publication is
reported to have a daily circulation of over 50,000 copies.
U.S. Constitution -
Amendment 1
Congress shall
make no law ..prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the
freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably
to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Updated 01.27.10
The First Amendment guarantees us freedom of expression, including:
The right to associate with whom we choose.
The right to protest and dissent.
The freedom to read what we choose without censorship or
intimidation.
The right to express ourselves artistically.
Freedom of the press.
The right to a redress of grievances.
Religious liberty and the separation of church and state
The
Addis -based Jihadst and Taliban -dominated opposition is about to
commit Federal Crime by violating the constitutional rights of the
protesters. ACLU need to get involved and has been approached.
Is the Eritrean opposition violating the US Constitution by harassing,
intimidating and blackmailing those Eritrean-Americans and others who,
through peaceful assembly, want to petition the US government for redress of
the grievances they have against the UN Security Council sanction?
It time for us, in the nationalist opposition, to stand against this
flagrant violation of the freedom of speech. The opposition has now replaced
the PFDJ thugs. The PFDJ thugs are now acting and behaving much more
civilized. The way we used to be...how times change.
We are witnesses
to the harassment and intimidation by the PFDJ thugs when ,as members of the
nationalist opposition, we organized rallies and staged peaceful
demonstrations in front of the Eritrean embassy and the State Department for
redress of our grievances. Some of thugs even threw bottles and spat on us.
The opposition is now doing this.
The roles are now reversed. Members
of the opposition have now become the thugs. These cyber thugs are
attempting to intimidate Eritreans. Some even have gone as far as
threatening the new refugees with deportation. Those Eritrean who, in
expressing their right to assemble and petition, will be flooding
Washington, DC on Feb 22, 2010.
All the talk about democratic rights, including the rights to hold
rallies and demonstrations ...fake...
Here is the Video @ 1:42 and a student
ask Mr. Memlkarios about sanctions 1907 Mr. Haile Menkarios, the newly assigned Head of the United
Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS), was asked in a meeting in Canada
about the sanctions imposed on the Eritrean people. His answer will
surprise you and you will wonder whether his assignment to Sudan is
just another assignment, transfer or...
Mutilating Eritrea along its lines of cleavage:
Unfinished Business Action Group
for Eritrea Sun, 14 Feb 2010
The United Nations
Security Council imposed bizarre sanctions on Eritrea under Resolution
1907(2009) based on unfounded accusations that Eritrea is supporting
forces fighting the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia and that
Eritrea has failed to comply with Security Council requests to resolve a
border dispute with Djibouti. The United Nations has not made its
evidence public for a simple reason that it would not withstand
scrutiny. This is not the first time that Eritrea has been
subjected to gross injustice and Eritrea’s history is rife with examples
of the United Nations and others trying to wipe it off the face of the
earth.
“Eritrea is.......ethnically
disunited and economically non-viable, there is no good reason for
preserving it as an administrative unit under any form of administration, whether under Individual Trusteeship
or restored Italian rule. The right solution would seem to be to
dismember it along its natural lines of cleavage.”
Woldesus Amar accused of calling for future Eritrea without
a defense force. Two months into arms embargo, now this?
Public Diplomacy Series
Drs. Tsegezab Gebregergis, London, February 10,
2010 ..What is more shocking to the nationalist listener is that
Weldeyesus Ammar also told his Pal-Talk audience that the Eritrea which his
party is looking forward to administering will live with its neighbours in
peace and defend Eritrea without the need for a defense force.
Somalia's fabricated evidence rejected by UN Security
Council; Eritrean opposition rejects UN Security Council stating that the UN
"may not have evidence at all"
Meskerem 02-12-10: Somalia’s ambassador
to Kenya Mohamed Ali Nur confirmed the that fabricated evidence provided by
Somalia was rejected by the UN Security Council. In a
report
posted by a Kenyan media, Daily
Nation, the ambassador stated, said, “We have proved to
the African Union and the UN that they (Eritrea) have sent soldiers to
distabilise Somalia and have been giving support to al-Shabaab fighters.”
The ambassador seems to be oblivious that the UN Security council did not
level such accusation against Eritrea that it "sent soldiers" to
Somalia. The UN Security Council apparently accused Eritrea "of providing
political, financial and logistical support to armed groups engaged in
undermining peace and reconciliation in Somalia."
The government of
Eritrea vehemently denies the accusation and is challenging the UN Security
Council to make its findings public." Where is the beef!
Experts are expressing concerns as it is becoming clear
that the UN Security Council did not have evidence in imposing sanction
against Eritrea. This is now being shared and echoed by many in
the Eritrean opposition.
In
interview
conducted by Mr. Michael Abraha, Mr.Abdurahman Alsayed (UK) who is
Executive Member of London based CDRiE, Citizens for Democratic Rights
in Eritrea stated that UN Security "may not have any evidence at
all." The UN Sanction against Eritrea is facing stiff opposition not
only by the Eritrean government and its supporters but many in the
Eritrean opposition.
by Grégoire Lalieu and
Michel Colon February 11, 2010
....The problem is that today, this chaos
reached Ethiopia too, which is very weak since the 2007 aggression. A
nationalist resistance movement came to the light over there to fight
against the pro-imperialist government of Addis Ababa. With their chaos
theory, United States had in fact created troubles in the whole region.
And now, they took it out on Eritrea. Why?
This little country leads an independent national policy.
Eritrea also has a vision for the whole region: the Horn of Africa
(Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia) do not need foreign powers’
interference; its wealth should allow it to establish new economical
relationship on the basis of mutual respect. According to Eritrea, the
region must get it together and its members must be able to discuss
about their problems. Of course, this policy frightens United States
that fears that other countries follow that example. So they accuse
Eritrea of sending weapons to Somalia and instigating troubles in
Ethiopia.
Isn’t Eritrea sending weapons in Somalia?
Not even a bullet! This is a pure propaganda
as they did against Syria about the Iraqi resistance. Eritrea’s vision
catches up with the project of Indian Ocean revolution that we spoke
about before. The western powers do not want of that and wish to bring
Eritrea back to the circle of the neocolonial states under control, such
as Kenya, Ethiopia or Uganda. ..