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07/28/11

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Eritrea behind AU summit attack plot - U.N. report

Eritrea behind AU summit attack plot - U.N. report

By David Clarke

NAIROBI (Reuters)
- Eritrea was behind a plot to attack an African Union summit in Ethiopia in January and is bankrolling al Qaeda-linked Somali rebels through its embassy in Kenya, according to a U.N. report.

A U.N. Monitoring Group report on Somalia and Eritrea said the Red Sea state's intelligence personnel were active in Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya and Somalia, and that the country's actions posed a threat to security and peace in the region.

"Whereas Eritrean support to foreign armed opposition groups has in the past been limited to conventional military operations, the plot to disrupt the African Union summit in Addis Ababa in January 2011, which envisaged mass casualty attacks against civilian targets and the strategic use of explosives to create a climate of fear, represents a qualitative shift in Eritrean tactics," the report obtained by Reuters said.

The plan was to attack the AU headquarters with a car bomb as African leaders took breaks, to blow up Africa's largest market to "kill many people" and attack the area between the Prime Minister's office and the Sheraton Hotel -- where most heads of state stay during AU summits.

The U.N. said while past Eritrean support for rebel groups in both Somalia and Ethiopia had to be seen in the context of an unresolved border dispute with Addis Ababa, the new approach was a threat to the whole of the Horn and east Africa.


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Eritrea planned massive bomb attack on African Union summit, UN says

'Baghdad-style' car bomb attack planned in Addis Ababa, capital of neighbour and foe Ethiopia, which hosted 30 heads of state

Eritrea planned massive bomb attack on African Union summit, UN says

'Baghdad-style' car bomb attack planned in Addis Ababa, capital of neighbour and foe Ethiopia, which hosted 30 heads of state

Bombs were to be placed between the Ethiopian PM's office and a hotel where heads of state were staying in Addis Ababa Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

Eritrea planned a massive attack on an African Union summit in Ethiopia in January this year that was designed to "make Addis Ababa like Baghdad", according to a new UN report.

At the time, Ethiopia claimed it had foiled the large bomb plot by its tiny neighbour and foe, the latest in a series of accusations and counter-accusations by the two governments. Now an investigation by the UN Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea suggests that the plot was genuine, and says it represented "a qualitative shift in Eritrean tactics" in the Horn of Africa.

According to the report, Eritrean intelligence services planned an operation to detonate a car bomb at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa at the end of January this year, when 30 of the continent's leaders were meeting there. Separate bombs were to be placed between the Ethiopian prime minister's office and the Sheraton Hotel, where most of the heads of state were staying, as well as in a giant open-air market in the hope of "kill[ing] many people".

"If executed as planned, the operation would almost certainly have caused mass civilian casualties, damaged the Ethiopian economy and disrupted the African Union summit," the report said.


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87 comments

Comment from: ASHU [Visitor]
Wow...what is going on?? Weyane have send troops to somalia when the islamic court threat to attack Ethiopia and Eretria almost attacked Ethiopia and nothing is done!! Why Meles is so tollerant when it comes to Shabia?? Seyie was right to say Meles is shabia.
07/28/11 @ 23:43
Comment from: GEBRU [Visitor]
Invading Eretria is the next weyane agenda to attract public attention when the Hedase project fails. Otherwise why weyane is being so tolerant when it comes to Eritrea??
07/28/11 @ 23:46
Comment from: negasi [Visitor]
Did the UN converted the ETV documentary directly into a UN report, or what?
ADDIS ZEMEN and all his moron friends, where the hell are you? Come out and bash your crazy zemed and ex-friend Isayas.
07/28/11 @ 23:47
Comment from: Halafi Mengedi [Visitor]
The enemy of Ethiopia is Meles Zenawi more than anyone in East Africa.

Every Ethiopian should read what Eritreans saying to Meles Zenawi now.

Eritrea-Ethiopia: The Algiers Peace Agreement and its Aftermath*


Semere1 2011-07-24 16:18
#13 Hagherawi

War does not end political problems between neighbors. It's naive to think Eritreans will live under occupation because Iseyas made them to "hate themselves and their country".

1. Didn't war end the political problems of Nazi Germany and the rest of Europe? Isn't Isaias the Hitler of the Horn? War will surely be messy and harrowing, but it can solve the Isaias problem.

2. Eritreans are very capable of living under occupation as they proved in the past. They lived under Turkish, Italian and British occupation. It is the Ethiopians who can't live under foreign occupation.

3. The collapse of Eritrean nationalism wasn't caused by Isaias alone, the extreme and unreasonable nationalism of the past has a lot to do with it


+5 #17 Semere1 2011-07-24 16:14
#10 Sele Haqi

The explosion of Eritreans en masse from Ethiopia was a wrong decision that was taken by Ethiopian gov't.

From the humanitarian point of view, mass expulsion is wrong. But from the military point of view it has a lot of precedent. Remember the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. When war starts the worst side of human nature emerges, that's why a totally unnecessary war like Badme shouldn't have been started. When you have a mentally ill leader, the whole nation suffers the consequences of his illness.


+3 #16 Semere1 2011-07-24 16:13
#8 Gebrewahid 2011-07-24 05:44

Meles is on his way out. More and more his government's official business is being carried out by Hailemariam Desalegn (his deputy) As you said, if Isayas don't talk to him now, Eritrea will be toast after the next Ethiopian Election..

Gebrewahid, you made a good point. Meles is the key to the future of Eritrea, as long as he stays Eritrean independence is guarded, but if he goes then the free ride is over for Eritrea.

Here also lies the danger, Meles is exhausted from the heavy responsibility, he wants out. So he will be tempted to solve the Isaias problem to safe-guard Eritrean independence, that's why he might start the war to eliminate the Isaias regime. If Meles fails to solve the Isaias problem, Ethiopia will likely get a nationalist leader who will surely liberate Assab for the benefit of Ethiopia. He might even liberate and assimilate the rest of Eritrea.

Amiche 2011-07-24 08:26
Paulos Tesfagiorgis seems well informed and has a realistic approach to the whole issue...The root cause of Eritrea's problems is It's exaggerated sense of self importance and it's perception of others...here is an example of why smart Eritrea will always be outsmarted unless it realises it's true worth. Self reliant Eritrea a few years in to the so called independence drew an economic plan that would 90% rely on Ethiopia and invited the then Ethiopian official Gebru Asrat to outline it's plan. I for once thought Gedlhi's one and only vision of banking on Ethiopian naivety is about to be materialised..The irony was, Knowing that Meles Zenawi is more Eritrean than many Eritreans, why we invited Gebru Asrat is mind boggling....perhaps we are not as clever as we think.

Gebrewahid 2011-07-24 05:44
".. Meles doesn't want that kind of war, because his whole career was about Eritrea. ...Meles is a far greater Eritrean patriot than Isaias ever was..." #6 Semere1

Semere,

Eritrea is also Meles' Achilles hill. The only reason why Meles is not popular among Ethiopians is because of Eritrea. If it weren't for Eritrean issue, he would have enjoyed a vast support of all corners of Ethiopia. He really sacrificed his political capital for Eritrea, Yet, what did Isayas and PFDJ do? They spit on his face. Regrettably, now as it appears, Meles is on his way out. More and more his government's official business is being carried out by Hailemariam Desalegn (his deputy) As you said, if Isayas don't talk to him now, Eritrea will be toast after the next Ethiopian Election..

Semere1 2011-07-24 02:39
#1 Tsahaye

Ethiopian had opted to war rather than dialogue during the border war, and now demarcation is a prerequisite to dialogue and to lasting peace.

You don't get it, Meles is begging to talk to Isaias because he wants to save Eritrea. Eritrea can not survive another devastating war, and Meles doesn't want that kind of war, because his whole career was about Eritrea. Strictly speaking the people of Tigray had no real reason to fight against their own country, if you understand that you will know Meles is a far greater Eritrean patriot than Isaias ever was. So don't push this issue, talk to him and resolve this amicably, otherwise war could mean the end of independent Eritrea.



07/29/11 @ 00:10
Comment from: Bekele [Visitor]
What surprises me most is that Some Ethiopians don't learn from the past.

This is just another drama prepared by Meles who is the puppet of the US, Editted by the US and the presented by US dictated called " monitoring group".

-Some time ago, we heard there were 2000 Eritrean soldiers in somalia which has never been proved.

- Terrorists attacked the railway between Ethiopia and Djibouti which was exposed by wikileak that it was done by Meles.

- Ethiopian Elections are fair when hundreds of people were killed and thousands were jailed.

I must be foolish to give credibility to this report.

Wakeup Wakeup Ethiopians. Of course most Ethiopian people know as this is a drama.

07/29/11 @ 00:29
Comment from: hagos [Visitor]
Well, now the world knows the truth. It took long, but, finally bad behaviour is exposed. I am proud of the men and women of Ethiopian military and leadership for neutralizing and exposing this evil act. Now, the pay back will definitely follow and it will be a leason of our century.....
07/29/11 @ 00:31
Comment from: atnafseged wesen [Visitor]
meles is eritrian any kiss ass woyane is mad about thios go to hell and kiss my proud ethiopian ass
any time people comment about meles there is komata woyane banda out there get mad i'm femail i'm ready to do any thing to my ethiopia start here in washington
07/29/11 @ 00:55
Comment from: Halafi Mengedi [Visitor]
If truly there was God, God himself could have sent some kind punishment to Tigray people specially the Cadre and the Generals their betrayal for the Tegadelti like Tewelde.
The people who warned us like Aregach were condemned by Tigray people for telling the truth out of love their people and the pride of their ancestral heroism to hand us proud Tigray and Ethiopia.
The people who armed in short order and galvanized from North to South and from East to West from all walk of life volunteered to die like their grand fathers and evicted and Ethiopia was on the march to capture Asmara and Assab had the Ethiopian heroes were given few days to finish their missions like Seye Abrha was put in prison and like General Berhe Shaebia (name?) was called from the war zone by Meles and assassinated over night with his wife in Addis. The man who was responsible the eviction of shaebia put in prison, the man who stopped Shaebia looting spree Gebru Asrat was evicted from his job to the street the most honest human being Tegedalay.
Tigray do you have any sense of shame to betray your heroes and did everything to defend you from humiliation by BANDA-LANDERS ASKARIS???
How do you sleep with Mercenary Meles who is playing you like toy day in day out for the last 35 years???

Tigrayans how do you sleep with Meles and Sebhat the mother of devils working day in and day out to play you like toy and using your name and looting the country like Ethiopia is not their country, what is wrong with you to bend your head and pretend everything is okay???


07/29/11 @ 01:41
Comment from: Moges [Visitor]
It is unfortunate having such sort of neighbor. Ethiopia’s thrives can’t be hinder by this sort of conspiracy. The past years, Esayase had been demonstrated his evil ambition against to the region. Through his affiliates groups, he has been trying to destabilizing the country. Ethiopia has a duty to defense its sovereign from foreign invasion and plots so the government should take appropriative action against to the regime.
07/29/11 @ 02:12
Comment from: still Amiche [Visitor]
The end is coming...you can now see where that devious Eritrean advance request to explain itself to the UN came from? of course it was a desperate bid to reverse the irreversible, cos they knew they got caught red handed.. if you can not see the end of Shabia now you will never see it even when it happens..believe me, history is repeating itself and Ethiopians have once again proved how diplomatically far superior they are as opposed to our so called leaders who have no clue of how the world functions...It seems there is little the rest of us can do now other than just hold our breath and wait for a slow death of Shabia hoping they will not take Eritrea down with them...but I hope we have at least learnt some thing from this, our jungle mentality will not get us anywhere and the sooner we know our shoe size, the faster we will walk and get out of our misery.
07/29/11 @ 03:10
Comment from: C'moi senait [Visitor]
The enemy of ethiopia are bothe shabia and weyannes. To see these devils kill each other is what i am looking forward.

By the way. Addis Zemen is not here incase you are woundering , he is now in that dusty refugees camp quing with his family for UN!! REDCROSS! OXFAM?USAIDS food .

Let's sing a song for him (we are the world).

These chiggarams weyaanes have distroying oue ethiopian name.
07/29/11 @ 03:51
Comment from: Imperial Body Guard [Visitor]
"The Federation instituted between the people of Eritrea and the rest of Ethiopia has tended to slow the speed of the economic and social progress of the entire nation, including Eritrea.
The Federation has increasingly been manipulated as a ready-made tool through which the enemies of Ethiopian and Eritrean progress and solidarity have endeavoured to further their evil designs.
The Federation contains the inherent danger of creating misunderstandings among people who have, for centuries past, experienced no problems in living together.
The Federation, by duplicating administrative apparatuses, has occasioned waste of both human and material resources which could have been otherwise utilized for development purposes.
One is accordingly fully justified in concluding that the unfortunate consequences of this particular form of federation and the needs of the age, and not any conscious effort on the part of the people concerned, have brought about its demise.
Any responsible person who has deliberated upon and examined carefully the unfortunate consequences flowing from the federal system under consideration will feel no surprise that the people of Eritrea, who have had the misfortune of being directly subjected to its adverse consequences, have urged and pleaded that it be eliminated and replaced by a unitary form of administration." Selected Speeches of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, page 474-5

"It is not necessary to enumerate countries where the people and entire country having lost unity, spiritual or otherwise, have become playgrounds and laughing stocks of outsiders. The historical events of certain countries bear witness to this fact. In our own times, there are those expansionists who by shedding blood, desire to achieve their ambition and by dismembering themselves they are seen as tools for alien interests. Our people from Ethiopia shed blood, to save them from disintegration. Those personalities who believe in freeing a country by secession are selfish and prey to outsiders. We will not accept their motives." Selected Speeches of HIM Negus Haile Selassie I, page 426

"The wealth of Eritrea is the wealth of Ethiopia and the wealth of Ethiopia is the wealth of Eritrea." Selected Speeches of HIM Negus Haile Selassie I ,page 429

"Man can only begin an enterprise it is for God to dispose of it to a good end." HIM Negus Haile Selassie,

Long Live the Constitutional Monarchy!
Long Live the Kebra Negast!
Long Live Ethio-Eritrean oneness!
Fire burn down the neo-colonial witchcraft star of secession
Rise with the Lion of Judah!
Long Live Independent Ethiopia!
07/29/11 @ 04:20
Comment from: still amiche [Visitor]
362. [b][i]An Eritrean source, who claims to have long been engaged in people smuggling activities on behalf of General Teklai Kifle “Manjus” told the Monitoring Group that he was first deployed into Egypt in a convoy carrying weapons in 2008. According to the source, his contacts confirm that Eritrean agents based in Egypt were continuing to coordinate routine trafficking of people and arms via Sinai in 2011[/i][/b].

and we call this a government?
07/29/11 @ 04:32
Comment from: eyaasu [Visitor]
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Crime minister Meles almost killed by Esayas Afowerki. What is wrong with that? They want to kill each other, anyway. The rest of the African leaders are also a bunch of monkeys who are oppressing their own people. They deserve death. Civilians? Well there is always some victims in the middle of a war, but both sides should try to minimize civilian causality.
07/29/11 @ 05:35
Comment from: Teadi [Visitor]
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This is UN report not Meles or some one. The report pointed out some bad doings from Ethiopian goverment as well. But, If the planned attack was successfull it would have killed childern, mothers and others who doesn't know shit. Now this is too much from Eritrean goverment for real. People of Eritrea shouldn't pay for such act.
07/29/11 @ 05:39
Comment from: afarman [Visitor]
No one is going to save eritrea these time, those of you who commented above couldnt be able to save the mad dog of eastern africa Isaias Afeworki.

Ethiopia can and will respond in kind to Eritrea, its just a question of time, Ethiopia is now trying to exhaust all non violent measures to change the behaviour of the regime. Political and diplomatic efforts are being pursued by IGADD and UN. The independent group which investigated the matter has proven that Eritrea has plotted to bomb the AU meeting and heavily populated business destricts in Addis Ababa. There will be further sanction by the UN, if thats not going to change the behaviour of the regime the EThiopia defence forces will make another incursion to Tesenay and Barentu.

This time there will be no one stopping us from pursuing the enemy, the Eritrean regime will definetly be ousted by our forces. During the 1998-2000 conflict, Ethiopian forces chased those ragtag eritrean fighters from Bademe downwards deep into Eritrean mainland up to Barentu. Shaebiya got scared and expressed their readiness for a ceasefire. Ehiopian army then stopped.

Now things are different, whatever the eritrean regime may say, Ethiopia wont stop till it fully ousts the eritrean regime from power, these will be humiliating to most eritreans but there is no other option, if eritreans cant control their wild leader some one has to control him. No alshabab, no OLF,no ONLF,no G7 will save shaebiya.
07/29/11 @ 05:49
Comment from: fikre [Visitor]
Can someone please tell me that this is a joke. kkkk LOL! Now I know that Isayas is a brutal dictator and somehow mad but I cannot imagine that he is behind the AU plot. Why?

Because you have to have some really good reasons and motives behind planing such an action. What is the motive of Isayas in plotting this? What would he get by bombing the AU in Addis? I mean he knows he will be anyways blamed for every evil in the horn of Africa and it simply doesn't make any sense to bomb Addis.

Besides, what if this is used as a pretext by Ethiopians to start a war against him? One thing he can not dare to risk is another war with Ethiopia. But a huge bomb explosion in Addis with great damage could be seen as a declaration of war and could be used as a pretext for a new round of war.

So all in all the AU plot gimmick strongly smells like an orchestrated stunt by the Authorities in Addis themselves and the west. Only they and the west will benefit from such an orchestration as we are seeing it unfolding now and giving the west a pretext to tighten sanctions on Eritria. Especially targeting the mining company which is expected to boost the foreign currency revenues of Ertria considerably.

I don't see any reasonable motive for Eritria to be behind the AU plot. May be some of you think it is because Isayas wanted to trigger the Arab style revolution in Ethiopia. But this kind of revolution in Ethiopia would only be a very bad example for him right before his nose. The Eritrean media was silent about the Arab revolution because it is something that Isayas would like to see end as soon as possible.

So, for me it doesn't make any sense for Eritrea to be behind the AU plot.

My conclusion is rather that this plot is PR stunt orchestrated by Ethiopia and the west just to put more sanctions on Eritrea. This is the only plausible explanation that make sense to me.

07/29/11 @ 06:12
Comment from: Tenkir Cochran [Visitor]
We should appreicate the maturity of the Ethiopian government. However, WHAT ELSE CAN BE CONSIDERED A DECLARATION OF WAR BUT THIS KIND OF ACT..WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN FINISHED IN 1998 MUST BE FINISHED IN 2011..
07/29/11 @ 06:14
Comment from: Gerado [Visitor]
Eritreans are barking here pretending to be Ethiopians. The Ethiopian governemnt has disabled the eritrean governemnt without going to war.
Eritrea as a nation is discreated for some time to come in the eyes of the world.
Well done to the Ethiopian government
07/29/11 @ 07:02
Comment from: Mola Maru [Visitor]

We Ethiopians are smarter than you may think. This is the most stupidest and dumb report from UN I have ever seen. This is pure lie and shift the blame tactics from Woyane -Ethiopian government to shift the attention from internal problem. I have lost my trust for Woyanes long time ago and now I lost my trust for UN.
07/29/11 @ 07:34
Comment from: addis zemen [Visitor]
Negasi,..the asshole shabian,

You are so stupid, you put a quarter in each of your ears, and think you're listening Fifty cent.
07/29/11 @ 07:38
Comment from: Chala [Visitor]
Eritrean Diaspora Vs Extremist eth. Diaspora.
1. Eritrean Diaspora they don't know the different b/n the gov. and there country and the support all Issayas did.
2.They even convince the extremist eth Diaspora to demonstrate with them against sanction on Eritrean leaders.
3.even thou they hate there gov. they help there country every time needed.
4.however eth. Diaspora demonstrate against Ethiopia interest even for lend or Aid of food or money to Ethiopia.
5. the support shabia and Alshebab even thou they know it hurts the country.
6. they don't know the difference b/n the gov and the country and they hate every thing good to Ethiopia thinking they hurt the gov.
as we see on the top erit. Diaspora are against not only the country's interest they are against a sanction on issayas.
So guys which one of them you think right?
07/29/11 @ 07:59
Comment from: woldeyesus [Visitor]
*****
Personally, I am an understanding and tolerating individual with respect to the Eritrean people and their government of choice until they see the light and come back to the mother land, Ethiopia.

But, trying to do harm Ethiopia, in Addis Abebaye, is repulsive and nauseating! It is a work of an enemy that deeply hates Ethiopians; not of a brotherly act at all.

If your issues with your former partners in crime is still simmering, try another round in Zal Anbessa, not in Addu genet!



May God keep and bless Ethiopia!


07/29/11 @ 08:54
Comment from: Amhara Princess [Visitor]
... next step? I agree with Halafi Mengedi in a sense that war will most definitely solve the Ethio/Eritrean issue once and for all just like it solved the Hitler/Europe issue. Eritreans are not fighting gorilla warfare no more. They have a lot to lose now. So what is stopping Meles from bombing the shit out of that tiny hell hole? Noting except Meles's Eritrean citizenship! Simple

Mr Zenawi, you either command your troops to get rid of your evil cousin or shut the f*** up and take his bullshit. Your choice.
07/29/11 @ 08:59
Comment from: addis zemen [Visitor]
----WONDE ATAWQIM GELBEW KALASAYUSH---

We Ethiopians live always with the old mantra and adage of MUYA BE LIB NEW. And our govt EPRDF was opprating in that princple, not bragging and offending anybody, but always minding their own business of building Ethiopia towards our main aim of elimneting poverty. Meanwhile the failed state of eritrea lead by shabiia and isayass never gave up their dream of destroying Ethiopia. Not for a single moment had they slept or lived in peacful mind. Always wishing and hoping our destruction.
Their hope grew and embolden when some traitors the likes of almaria, elias kifle, birhanu nega, etc...,who went as far as to asmara and signed alegiance and solidarity treaty, by kissing isayass' ass.
There is a limit for everything. Enough is enough. they have asked for it. We have to show them who we are.
As the old adage says it "wonde atawqim gelbew kalasyush". They need to be shown what we got. Let's fry their ass.
07/29/11 @ 09:16
Comment from: mekdela [Visitor]
*****
Atnafseged please you don't have to use such words simply to make a point about being an Ethiopian. We are not rude and vulgar but patient and firm. The Eritrean accusation is not by the woyane instead by UN which makes the charge very serious. I think, this days Issass after having putted majority of the Eritreans and shot as many as he can, he wanted to engage himself in disturbing the region. He is a Phsico and unstable who spends his nights without proper sleep. Such people are dangerious. Some one has to bit his ass and shut his mouse. He is a shame to the eritreans themselves who cried behind him for NATSNET and got only a piece of rugged cloth BANDIRA. Eritrea is hell 2nd class and the chief devil is himself.

07/29/11 @ 09:24
Comment from: kul [Visitor]
*****
Both woyane and shabia are terrorists!!!!
07/29/11 @ 09:26
Comment from: BPR [Visitor]
Eritrian government is waging a war that it can not win. As a result is is sufering and is on the watch out for opportnities to make others suffer by sponsoring terrorism. Government fund contribution by its citizens is irrisponsible and at most criminal. The ethiopian forces have done great job in eliminating the threat, however the government needs to do more and decisively
07/29/11 @ 09:33
Comment from: samson [Visitor]
All these allegations are so bizarre that they defy any logic. Most of the allegations are what the
Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi said in Parliament a few months ago. It looks like the
UN Monitoring Group takes at face value what the Ethiopian government functionaries have to
report. There is no doubt that Ethiopia will continue the campaign of Eritrean bashing and
stigmatization as long as it serves its purposes and the interest of its allies.
It is a well known fact that the Somaliland government is lobbying many African governments
for its bid to be recognized as an independent country; and sympathizes with the Ethiopian
regime because of its proximity and the influence it has with the African Union. The Ethiopian
government has representatives in Somaliland and they have many bilateral agreements. It
doesn’t make any sense to say that Eritrea transported trained terrorists from Massawa
through Somaliland into Somalia or Ogaden.
As to the Kampala bombing, the terrorist group Al Shabab openly admitted and boasted about
it. Because of the reckless and ill conceived intervention of US and Ethiopia in Somalia, Al
Shabab was formed and attracted foreign jihadists, who are experts in suicide bombing.
President Museveini accused Al Shabab and pledged to stay undeterred in Somalia with the UN
peacekeeping force; and Ugandan securities managed to apprehend the collaborators in the
suicide bombings. But in the last few months the tone of the accusation has been changed; that
the Ethiopian government took advantage of the situation and started to spread rumors of
Eritrean involvement in the tragic incident of the Kampala bombings. It is to be recalled that
about eight Eritreans have died and many injured in that horrible terrorist act.The Monitoring Group should understand that Ethiopia will jump to accuse and blame Eritrea
on every opportunity it gets when incidents occur in the Horn of Africa. Anyone who follows the
politics of the Horn deeply, with good hearts and unbiased outlook, will attest to this. In the
2003 Gambela Massacre in Ethiopia, where near 400 civilian Agnuaks were killed by coldblooded vigilante weyane soldiers, the then Minister of regional affairs Barnabas
Gebreab was quick to accuse Eritrea of the incident; but investigations indicated that conflict of
Agnuak and Nuer, coupled with Ethiopia’s ethnic dived and rule, were the main trigger of tAll these developments, especially the mining boom gave very sleepless nights to US policy
makers, Ethiopian and the bigots at Awate.com. Transcripts from the US Embassy in Eritrea that
were leaked by Wikileaks attest to this. Ethiopian officials in local media and paltalks continued
to raise their concern on the mining boom and the trend in Eritrea’s economic growth. These
blind jealously coming out of Ethiopian officials are not new to the Eritrean people. Ethiopia
wants Eritrea to be economically deprived unable to sustain itself. To that end they use their diplomatic tentacles to make sure that Eritrea should not benefit from its natural resources.
One way of coming after that is to concoct a very dramatic allegation that will raise a hair
behind the neck of African Diplomats; that Eritrea plotted to sabotage an African Union Summit
in Addis Ababa by sending terrorists to plant mass killing bombs. As usual, the Ethiopian
Intelligence will claim they uncovered the plot, and bring the supposed terrorists to confess.
This kind of drama is not uncommon for anyone who follows the politics of the Horn. But the question remains, why are IGAD and the Monitoring Groups accept the allegations of
Ethiopia at face values? In most likelihood they are either manipulated or bullied by the US,
Ethiopia and their allies. I think investigating the investigator (the Monitoring Group) would
bring a whole host of political scum and intrigues.
unfortunate tragic event.
07/29/11 @ 09:50
Comment from: AAA [Visitor]
Below is part of the summary on Eritrea provided by the UN Monitoring Group. For the full report please click here: Report of the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea submitted in accordance with resolution 1916 (2010) We would like to instruct our readers that the part of report that concerns Eritrea is found on the pages 68-117. It is about fifity pages written in big letters, and worth reading it all.

Summary

It would be hard to conceive of two States that offer greater contrasts than Somalia and Eritrea: the former, a collapsed State for over two decades, with no functional national institutions; the latter, possessing the most highly centralized, militarized and authoritarian system of government on the African continent. From a sanctions monitoring perspective, however, the two countries present very similar challenges: in both cases, power is concentrated in the hands of individuals rather than institutions and is exercised through largely informal and often illicit networks of political and financial control. Leaders in both countries often depend more heavily on political and economic support from foreign Governments and diaspora networks than from the populations within their own borders. And both countries — in very different ways — serve as platforms for foreign armed groups that represent a grave and increasingly urgent threat to peace and security in the Horn and East Africa region. ….

Eritrean involvement in Somalia continues to represent a small but troubling part of the overall equation. Asmara’s continuing relationship with Al-Shabaab, for example, appears designed to legitimize and embolden the group rather than to curb its extremist orientation or encourage its participation in a political process. Moreover, Eritrean involvement in Somalia reflects a broader pattern of intelligence and special operations activity, including training, financial and logistical support to armed opposition groups in Djibouti, Ethiopia, the Sudan and possibly Uganda in violation of Security Council resolution 1907 (2009).

Eritrea’s support for such groups can only be understood in the context of its unresolved border dispute with Ethiopia. It is also symptomatic, however, of the systematic subversion of the Government of Eritrea and party institutions by a relatively small number of political, military and intelligence officials, who instead choose to conduct the affairs of state via informal and often illicit mechanisms, including people smuggling, arms trafficking, money-laundering and extortion. Such irregular financial practices, combined with direct financial contributions from ruling party supporters and some foreign States, as well as the imposition of a “diaspora tax” on Eritreans and foreign nationals of Eritrean origin living abroad, help to explain how a country as poor as Eritrea manages to sustain support for a variety of armed opposition groups across the region. From 2011 onwards, however, Eritrea’s newly emerging mining sector — especially gold — is likely to become the country’s principal source of hard currency.

During the course of the mandate, it is the Monitoring Group’s assessment that the Eritrean leadership committed multiple violations of Security Council resolutions 1844 (2008) and 1907 (2009). Most significantly, in January 2011, the Government of Eritrea conceived, planned, organized and directed a failed plot to disrupt the African Union summit in Addis Ababa by bombing a variety of civilian and governmental targets. Although many Eritreans harbour profound and arguably legitimate grievances against Ethiopia for failing to implement the boundary decision that formally ended the 1998-2000 border war between the two countries, the means by which the leadership in Asmara apparently intends to pursue its objectives are no longer proportional or rational. Moreover, since the Eritrean intelligence apparatus responsible for the African Union summit plot is also active in Kenya, Somalia, the Sudan and Uganda, the level of threat it poses to these other countries must be re-evaluated.
07/29/11 @ 10:05
Comment from: Yemisserach [Visitor]
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Come on folks! This so called UN keeps losing its already fast diminishing status and tattered nominal image.

What a shame that it is becoming a cheap low level mouth piece for the minority brutal Wayane tyrant who on several occasions invaded Eritrea, Somalia and mass massacred lots of innocent Ethiopians and is still keeping them starved to death while renting their fertile farm lands to spineless foreign Mafia land grabbers.

This UN better convert itself in to the multicolor wide umbrella of all the inhuman tyrants massacring innocent citizens.

After all the UN has been just sitting like fat ducks and peacefully watching when the most gruesome genocides in Rwanda in which hundreds and thousands of poor innocent citizens were being butchered en mass.

What is the UN currently doing in the troubled but resource rich African country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
other than permanently sustaining and upholding permanent violence and permanent resource robbery as well as raping and fornicating under aged virgin girls as their pleasurable pass time.

And then again if we are not being necessarily and blindly partisan and if justice is suppose to be for all this so called UN is suppose to be a neutral world body meant to uphold justice impartially for all,say, the big and the small, then why it does not actively advocate the handing over of a border territory internally demarcated and adjudicated in favor of Eritrea, or is it so that the BIG Fish mast Eat the smaller Fish even in the human world and go free, or is it some sort of hidden conspiracy for sustaining permanent conflicts and permanent direct and indirect physical and psychological violence between the neighboring countries so that it may become much more easier for external and distant greedy exploiters to intervene, exploit and rob all the strategic, human and natural resources just like in the democratic Republic of the Congo? Refurbished and hidden 21st century cunning fox colonialism?

Imagine if the Ethiopian, Eritrean, Djiboutians, Somalis and the entire Horn of African countries form unities within their own unique diversities, combine their strategic, human and natural resources and freely go on the open highways of sustained and democratic mutually supportive and benefiting 21st century forwards march. I guarantee you that we will have a vibrant a vibrant economy and a vibrant superior civilization like that of the ancient Kush and ancient Egyptian civilizations.

It is already there. What is needed is to be conscious and build on the foundations that are deep in our genes as well as in the physical world. IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING! :)
07/29/11 @ 10:14
Comment from: Dude [Visitor]
Wow...Eritrea must have been the culprit behind the terror attack during a FIFA cup seeing in Uganda.No wonder they have deliberately targeted Ethiopian restaurant.

After the war,they were shipped out and it was a sigh of relief. Now it is hard to weed them out,since Meles allowed them to roam Eritrean free even at the expense of other Ethiopians-competing for business venture with other Ethiopians-I even heard affirmative action for Eritreans in Ethiopia.

I saw many Eritrean businessmen and refugee during my recent trip to Addis.Ethiopian government is so Pathetic

07/29/11 @ 10:37
Comment from: MONDAY [Visitor]
It's amazing there is not fair Justice!
I don't know why UN even exist. America is biased to countries they can have advantage. Now UN just copy & past Melese's report and target Eritrea. That is sad !! Shame on you UN useless organization
07/29/11 @ 10:44
Comment from: Tesfalidet [Visitor]
Scores of Shaebia supporters are coming to this website and fomenting a massive hateful and misleading campaign. How do I know? Because I am Eritrean, who understand of the way PFDJ (Shaebia). I know the way they talk, I know certain phrases that exclusivley being used and their style of spewing venom. ENOUGH. Our country is dying, and in denger of disintegrating, because there will be no one that will take over once HIGDEF is burried in a grave that it dug for itself. The sad fact is not that Isayas' and PFDJ well deserved demise, what is heart breaking is he cut us off every one and burnt all of our bridges, especially that connected us with our brothers on Southern border of our country. My point is the venom that is being spewed here on these websites, are not typical opinion of average Eritrean. It's PFDJ dogs, pretending to be Ethiopians in hopes to create ethnic animosity among Ethiopians. They are trained with uses of certain phrases and expressions to pretend to be Ethiopians. It's an age old tactic. I beg of you not to take every Eritrean based on their bitter venom. I am writting this, because I am very frustrated by these horrible individuals..
07/29/11 @ 11:42
Comment from: ፊታውራሪ Free [Member]
How can we Ethiopians end the cancerous existence of Shabea and Artera? By winning the battle against the pro Artera Ethiopian wannabes such as the lunatic Elias Kiflom and the most patriotic Arteran alive Ayite Meles Zenawi. Artera has lost every single qualities of nationhood and successfully become the biggest prison camp on earth ruled by bandits and terrorists that are responsible for the death of thousands of Ethiopians.
07/29/11 @ 12:04
Comment from: anti-eritrean [Visitor]
Tesfalidet,

let them come, they have no valid argument to make. the whole world knows that eritrea is jeoulous of ethiopian success. they were suppose to be the singapoor of east africa, they were suppose to be the power broker of east africa, they were suppose to be the economic power house of east africa, but when reality hit and all did not come true they became spoilers of east africa. jeoulousy and envy is a female trait. eritreans are pure haters and dispicable people. melese is protecting them once melese leaves we ethiopians will destroy the whole race.
07/29/11 @ 12:42
Comment from: addis zemen [Visitor]
Free,..firifari,

Well come back. I read your scribble about your stay in Ethiopia. Well, I agree with most of your observation. And one thing I noticed with you and the rest of diaspora ney saying oppos to our govt is, that you guys have started a new campain of isolating our PM. Woyane this and woyane that, has become the old song. Now instead every anti EPRDF individual who come back from a recent visit in Ethiopia is saying, that the PM is doing and deciding everything by himself. In other ways to make him look like a dictator "felach qorach".
As a spokesperson to the govt and as a PM, he is obliged to represent the govt and the country, meanwhile as a leader he suggests and instructs certain measures to be taken, which passes through parlamental vote. You cannot blame him for his genius outlook and great leadership. That is a rare finding, which we are lucky enough to have him in Ethiopia, where our country is in need of such a brilliant leader more than ever.
Stop the jealousy and hatred towards PM Meles Zenawi. And accept the reality. The old song , woyane this woyane that didn't work. The new rap music of isolating the PM will never work too.
07/29/11 @ 12:59
Comment from: dd [Visitor]
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Hey "Bekele" that is cheap shot. I think you are Shabian supporter. This is about the interest of Ethiopia. The UN report finding is with concrite evidence. whether we are against Meles or not does not matter. What we have learned from the finding is that there is a cancer in horn of Africa called Shabia. Betbach(Shabia) kalle Man Besellam Yitetal.
07/29/11 @ 13:20
Comment from: WaEro [Visitor]
Ayiii ye Woyane usual sad drama! Nothing new there!! we have seen the drama on ETV, as directed and produced by Crime Minster himself who helped write the script and produced it on ETV to be seen by the gulliable people of Ethiopia. and now the woyane hired so called monitoring group copied/pasted from Crime Minister's movie archives! we knew this was coming! But the ironic thing is that you Ethiopians, and I don't mean all of you, there are level headed Ethios out there who can separate the chaff from the wheat and aren't ashamed to tell it the way it is! but ignorant hateful ones, as mush as you loathe your Crime minister, when he accuses Eritrea of such hineous crimes, you will side by him, eventhough deep down you know that Eritreans are no terrorists and these accusations are NOT true! it's sad that you are willing to do this at the expense of giving in and giving up your own fight against the Woyane, and compromising your own conscious. SHAME ON YOU! regardless of whether or not you side with the Eritrean people or not, the steadfast government and people of Eritrea will be vinidicated once again of these charges. Eritreans achieved the impossible without having the support of anybody in the world but themselves and continue to do so. and today, unjust sanctions or not, Eritrea will continue to march forward no matter what conspiracies aimed at thwarting the hard won independence and the ever hopeful momentum achieved through a diciplined hard work and sweat, but all will once again be to no avail. The questions is, will you speak the truth, stand for the truth as you know it or you will wallow in your hateful self and continue to contradict yourself while the poisonous, cunning Woyane continue to laugh and spit at you!
07/29/11 @ 13:46
Comment from: omo [Visitor]
anti-eritrean [Visitor]
.....we ethiopians will destroy the whole race.

Grow up man, be serious!
Tesfalidet is saying what most Eritreans have come to understand.
07/29/11 @ 14:09
Comment from: Yosief [Visitor]
Those of you who think war can solve the problem between Eritrea and Ethiopia are ignorant. If so the problem could have been solved during the long war between the two sisterly countries. Derg and Haileslasie had been trying to solve it through war. Even if the Weyane tries to invade Eritrea. There will be bombing and killing both in Ethio and Eritrea untill Eritrea is freed. So please stop fooling yourself and others. The only solution is when the two countries respect each other, have peace and grow together.
07/29/11 @ 14:35
Comment from: Awget [Visitor]
Who are the so called UN monitoring group , they are from Tigray,Somalia,Uganda, Kenya and US which all this are the number one sworn enemy of Eritrea, so their assertion is fabricated, baseless made up crab and un admissible in a World of fairness in any shape or form . This allegation was heard 100 times from meles since three years ago , it is made fresh now just to guard meles to make sure his regime is intact .
07/29/11 @ 14:55
Comment from: Goshu [Visitor]
Guys whether you like it or not, there is no peace for you if you have eritrea as neighbour. War with eritrea is the only option whenever eritrea contemplates attacking ethiopia, a deterrent war, not a proprtionate response but rather a response so that eritrea feels the fire of agression burns its fingers. I have met a lot of eritrean friends before and after the so called eritrean independence. They are always aloof and over estimate themselves too much. they think that they are something else. It is a blessing from God not to have eritreans by our side. They are trouble makers. One friend of mine told me that the word hamssien of eritrea is derived from the word "Hamassian" (trouble makers-ametsegnoch). I am appaled how one eritrean who was very friendly and devout religuous man before eritrean cecessation now in Boston preaches that eritreans are special people smarter than their big neighbours ethiopia, mentally superior etc. he corruputs eritrean boys and girls with this sense of self over estimation which eritreans are obsessed with. I am amazed how the human mind can go mad like that.
07/29/11 @ 15:41
Comment from: Gogol [Visitor]
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ፊታውራሪ Free,

Absolutely of others on which you have no control at all whether Eritreans or some one else but the sure way of escaping from such torment of yours is to end your own evil self on which you have direct control. I mean if you can not wish good and positive existence both for the Ethiopians, the Eritreans and through that for humanity too.

How can you keep peeing in your trouser and wetting your stinky pants for fear of some 5 million remote societies minding their own business while we Ethiopians of some 90 million are divided disorganized and dictated by a tiny minority of looters, shooter and robbers manipulating, bribing and forcing the UN to lie on its behalf? SHAME!

The single most lethal killer enemy of Ethiopians is the tyrannical tplf dictatorship starving the wretched Ethiopians to sure death.

So, please don't try to divert attention.
07/29/11 @ 15:44
Comment from: Belay [Visitor]
fikre

can you point to us in the report where it says eritrea plots to bomb the AU. i know you cant because its not there. what the report says is the Government of Eritrea plot to disrupt the African Union summit in Addis Ababa by bombing a variety of civilian and governmental targets which by the way includes merkato. i dont know if it is true but i believe the UN more than the pathological lier luny isayas. on the other hand had the bombing been successful as they were in the past you will come here and lecture us how it is meles that did it..
07/29/11 @ 16:21
Comment from: Heny [Visitor]
ASHU,
Did you, scum, read what the article is all about?
yigermal eko sewoch.
07/29/11 @ 16:26
Comment from: Maru Molla [Visitor]
I have been using this name quite for sometime to express my views on issues concerning Ethiopia. Consistently, I opposed ideas that I believed were dangerous to our national security and economic progress so far achieved or to be achieved under the leadership of the current government. I will maintain the same position because of my strong belief that our country is going in the right direction under the leadership of EPRDF and as a result gaining respect internationally. I am a believer in a healthy and competitive democratic culture. On the other hand, I despise negative and destructive political agenda which is engaged in name-calling with the only aim of political power. I am against any type of call for North-African style movement in Ethiopia. People who experienced the red terror, white terror and the cruelty of military rule, for no one's sake should be subjected to civil unrest, therefore I strongly oppose intellectuals who make such calls. I am believer in a evolutionary change which is making Ethiopia more stable and peaceful country. Today, EPRDF is not the same liberation army from 20 or 30 years ago, instead it is an organization which successfully evolved into a peacetime political powerhouse guided by democratic ideals. I know many would like to dispute, and therefore are entitled for it, however the fact remains that the alternative being suggested by the so-called diaspora opposition is too risky.

Regarding the UN report on Eritrean government's involvement in other countries by planting bombs and planning mass killings, one can only say that there must a stricter measure to be taken against the leaders. At the same time, the people of Eritrea should take the news seriously and question its government's role in the affairs of other countries. The Eritrean people do not benefit from strained relationships, therefore they are the ones to discipline their government and change it if necessary by paying the sacrifices. I appeal to all Eritreans to seriously think about what is best for all of us as human beings, and therefore stop being taken by unnecessary feelings. Ethiopia and Eritrea shall live in peace!
07/29/11 @ 16:37
Comment from: Thomas [Visitor]
thumbs up to Tesfalidet...I wish there are afew more Eritreans out there, Eritrea might definatly be spared from being the next Somalia..
07/29/11 @ 17:41
Comment from: myka [Visitor]
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Is this really a surprise? Anyone who knows Isayas' methods and tactics knows his one track mind is always focused on Ethiopia's image on the world stage. It is his greatest obsession. He has done this exact thing numerous times and bragged about it afterwards. Nothing new here.

What is more shocking is Meles stopping the patriotic Ethiopian troops from getting rid of this scum Afwerki once and for all. Hopefully he has made a change for the better this year. We need to see action!
07/29/11 @ 17:44
Comment from: fire [Visitor]
I am not pro Woyane or pro Shabia. I stand just for the truth. After reading so much of the comments, I could not find a single comment which can really give me an idea about WHY the Eritrean government want to bomb Addis? WHAT will Isayas benefit by bombing civilians in Addis. Say 50 or 100 or 1000 people may die or may be more, but what would Isayas benefit from this.

Even as guerilla fighter, bombing civilians in cities was almost unknown in either Ethiopia or Eritrea. If any group whether that be OLF or ONLF or the Eritrean government actually bombs civilians in Ethiopia, it will only destroy its image and the public anger may be used by the government to get the support of the population for another round of war.

So I see no plausible reason which may benefit any group by bombing civilians in Addis. The Ethiopian population is not like pakistan or afghanistan where the bombers of civilians are seen as heros. Hell no! Any group which will do this kind of thing will be absolutely hated by the overwhelming majority of the population and I must yet to meet any Ethiopian who approves such an action. So no political benefit is gained by any group.

That is why you see no group taking responsibility in all those years in which the Ethiopian government accused OLF or Eritrea of bombing civilians. No one takes responsibility unlike that of Afghanistan or the bombings in kampala. Unlike Alshaba and Taliban all that are accused by the government of Ethiopia always reject this kind of accusations because they know they will benefit nothing from this kind of action.

So I still see no plausible reason for any of the opposition groups be it OLF or others or for the Eritrean government to try to bomb civilians in Addis.

Now there is one and only beneficiary from this kind of claims and that is the Ethiopian government. That is why it is blowing the whistle everywhere. If anyone of you think logically and is not driven by nationalist sensations, you will see that in all those years where the Ethiopian government cries about terrorist actions in Addis, it is the only entity that is crying and also at the same time benefiting.

I mean if you believe this propaganda stunt, then you are an absolute naive person with no brain to analyse and scrutinize the motives, the causes and the effects of all this drama.

But there is a danger for Meles playing too much this kind of game. If the Ethiopians are really believing his story this could lead to a nationalist feelings and greater pressure on Meles to act and get rid of Shaebia which Meles want to avoid by any means. If this nationalist feeling is left uncontrolled, Meles will be seen as too soft on Eritrea again and this is what Meles by any means want to avoid. So Meles is playing really a very dangerous game and is walking on a very fine path. Meles may end up being ousted by nationalist Ethiopians if he continues this blame game on Eritrea and at the same time taking no action. I can only say watch out Meles!
07/29/11 @ 17:47
Comment from: addis zemen [Visitor]
Eritrean regime is acting like a trpped mouse. "Wuha wist yegabach ayitt".
All of a sudden they request to enroll in the membership of IGAD, imidiatlly.
They are such a shamless creatures who think they can have it which ever way they want.
I wonder what the response would be from the IGAD members. It will be a disappointment even if one member nation sympathaize with these dogs.
They've been tolerated for a long time. As a matter of fact they were treated as a spoiled child, who also wets its own bed.
This is the turning point where we can resolve the whole problem in the horn of Africa.
The cancereous shabians must be eleminated now!!
If it wasn't for the precise inteligent work of our govt, one can imagine how many innocent people would die. How Ethiopia would suffer the biggest crisiss ever in our history. They never slept since their inception, wishing Ethiopians' demise. Let's do it right now even if it means occupying the barren land for a few years.
We are capable of doing so, because our port Assab will start its function ASAP, paying our expense.
07/29/11 @ 18:53
Comment from: Mulatu [Visitor]
"Tesfalidet" brother of Meles

We Ethiopians don’t consider you as an Eritrean. You are actually Tigrian who grew up in Eritrea. I think you have the most awful hatred of Isayas or Shabia. We don’t take you serious. You are also Shabia. Get out of our website.

The super majority of Eritreans support their government except some dogs like you. By the way, did you read the news that Eritrea is not in the list of beggars and more importantly they are not puppets of the US and other western countries. No one can deny this.

But the super majority of Ethiopians don't support Crime Meles because we know all his drama here in Ethiopia and about Eritrea.

Of course we don't take the so called "UN monitoring group" report seriously since we have not read any thing about how worse situation in Ethiopia is where we are the witnesses.

We believe either you are half Tigrian or fully Tigrian who grew up begging in the streets of Asmara.
07/29/11 @ 18:57
Comment from: fact [Visitor]
This is a vert disturbing situation to both Ethiopia and Eritrea people. Specially for Eritrea. If Isayas did that kind of plot, he will be done without any war. I do not wish to have a war for the sake of the people. If UN really have good evidence, then they should have a strong sanction not the fake one. If they really did this kind of bombing in Ethiopia, and if UN do not have a very good solution; I thing there will be a very ugly war against Eritrea. I wish there is a peaceful way to resolve this thing for once and for all. War is a terrible thing for both countries. Human life is precious. However, Isayas care less. He do not even care when his people kidney sold in sanai desert. He knows his people will never abandon him and think they love him and die for him. I do not think that is the truth why they defend him. The truth is the empty pride and fear of failure of Eritrea after their separation from Ethiopia. They just think "Ethiopians will be happy" kind of very childish and arrogant perception. Any how let's cross our fingers that there will not be a war between these two countries. If there is one, it will be ugly. To me, Meles is just bluffing. May be they will come up with something to win this. What is cooking, we don't know. Usually woyanes are very secretive and don't like to brag about what they going to do and are very calculative.
07/29/11 @ 19:39
Comment from: issu [Visitor]
True will prevail. woyaniee/agame will be buried soon.
Ethiopians and Eritreans know this shameful allegation. As government it is graceful playing like prostitution. Yet UN is another state of department entity used as tool to play this dirty game. We all know this game. Just it is a matter of time. When woyanie collapse we will make sure that any one of trgrians wont be live in any part of ethiopia except barren land Tigray and in any responsible leadership forever because they show us how they are heinous people by lying and lying over and over to stay in power.
07/29/11 @ 21:34
07/29/11 @ 22:42
Comment from: john john [Visitor]
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This is no new news to me the sick old toothless dog created to terrorize this part of Africa to please his master objective what a west.
07/30/11 @ 00:01
Comment from: Wedisagin [Visitor]
Ethiopian people when are you going to be wise and understand the tactics used by your rulers to elongate their staying in power by manipulating your ignorant mind raising hate against Eritrea.Please thing about your own people dying on the street of Addis from starvation.Do not worry about Eritrea leave the concern about Eritrea for Eritreans just take care of your own people. It is shame Ethiopia a rich country in natural resources to be known by hunger all over the world for decades and still continuing to leave fro handouts. When is this going to stop.
07/30/11 @ 00:02
Comment from: Tesfalidet [Visitor]
Thank you Thomas and Omo for your kind words..

Thomas,

Actually, I recommend to you, to go and visit Eritrean websites of asmarino.com or assenna.com to see what Eritreans really think. If you don’t speak tigrigna, they do have English pages. That gives you a real picture of what Eritreans think these days. Trust me, what we talk amongst ourselves is totally different these days than the façade we put out for others. The crippling “hade libi hade hizbi” mantra has been muzzled us for too long. ..

Mulatu and "anti-Eritrean"

You just you just proved my point. You exposed who you are so easily.

because, as the commenter "anti-Eritrean" happens to believe, no Ethiopian would say "..we distroy..the whole race.." That's just not in the make up abd style of the Ethiopian culture. That kind of talk is a mind set of HIDEFites think the way Ethiopians talk. Mulatu seems he is upset that I came to Ethiopian websites and expressed what many Eritreans think these days. However, he slipped and came out with his true self by repeating the empty bravado of PFDJ and Isayas by saying that "...Eritrea is not in the list of beggars and more importantly they are not puppets of the US and other western countries. No one can deny this.."

"Mulatu"
My answer to you is your bravado has been left naked, when it is shown to the world that countless Eritrean youth jump of bombs and dared sniper fire to get to Ethiopia, a country that they were told was an enemy. We have had enough of the your "hade libi hade hizbi" crap. NO MORE. In the euphoria of independence, you thugs exploited our emotions and cut us off with the closest people we have ever relations to. Today an average Eritrean youth is left without no prospect and future learning how to march and dance for HIGDEF. The small number of lucky ones escaped to Sudan and Ethiopia. The very few that have the best luck are out of refugee camps and attended universities and colleges in Ethiopia, in a country they were told all their lives that was their enemy, yet Ethiopians gave them an opportunity that they were denied in their own country. You closed down the only university the country had, so they can be enslaved for you at Bisha gold mine. No. I will not go away.

To readers, usually, when you see phrases repeated so many times like "..Crime Minister.." "...Tigre.."..."..Agame..".."Western agent..western puppet...begging on the street of Asmara..." or extremely violent rhetoric targeted a specific ethnic group or individuals, you should know where its coming from. It's a handy work of PFDJ.
07/30/11 @ 01:14
Comment from: serawit [Visitor]
This is another BS by the weyane mafia to divert attention from the real issue the country is facing.
07/30/11 @ 01:27
Comment from: Belachew [Visitor]
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the report looks a story telling. Please check the truth of the information before posting on the web. I can not trust this info which has no referance and evidenc. Please go back proof to your readers to be credable.
07/30/11 @ 02:44
Comment from: wechewu gooooood [Visitor]
ምነዉ Mulatu? ካስመሰልክ አይቀር ትንሽ እንክዋ ኢትዮጵያዊ ለመምሰል ጥረት አታደርግም? የሻቢያን trade mark ስድብ እየተሳደብክ we Ethiopians ትላለህ? ማፈሪያ...you need more training man.
07/30/11 @ 02:53
Comment from: Yemane T. [Visitor]
OH PLEASE !
THERE WE GO AGAIN , MELES TRYING TO SHIFT ANOTHER BLAME ON ERITREA . SINCE AFETR MELES ZENAWI'S POWER HAS GOTTEN TO BE SO FAR REACHED TO THE EXTENT WHERE HE CAN GET THE AMHARIC VOICE OF AMERICA PROGRAM GET SHUTDOWN I AM NO LONGER SURPRISED WHEN HE INITIATED THIS BASELESS BLAME ON ERITREA EVENTHOUGH ERITREA IS A VIOLENT FREE COUNTRY . ERITREANS HAS EVOLVED OUT OF THAT BARBARIC AFRICAN MENTALITY OF DESTRUCTION . THERE HAS NOT BEEN A SINGLE MURDER IN ASMARA IN A DECADE NOW . BOTTOM LINE IS THE ETHIOPIANS THEMSELVES (MELES'S PEOPLE) ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS BARBARIC PLOT THAT WAS DIRECTED AT THE AU SUMMIT, NOT ERITREANS .
07/30/11 @ 03:25
Comment from: osman [Visitor]
fabricated force evidence by woyane,
07/30/11 @ 03:36
Comment from: belete [Visitor]
mulatu, for an ethiopian man you worry too much for isayas and his toilet eritrea. by the way we know eritreans have a habit of denying (mekad) even their own brother eritreawinet if he is not to their liking and you proved it to us. what a national shame.
07/30/11 @ 11:25
Comment from: Yeha [Visitor]
I think Isiyas monkey is working day and night aganist his won country. I don't think the selfish Eritrean gorgena understand Isaias tactic at least for now.

Why the hell when he works day and night destroying Ethiopia via his al shebab tube, Ethiopian government waiting for? Ethiopia should have started dismantled Eritrean cell for ever or destroys Eritrean EPLF system war loved ideology.
07/30/11 @ 13:06
Comment from: Eritrean [Visitor]
I am an Eritrean, and I donot agree with many of my goverment's policies. But I am really amazed to learn that still many Ethiopians believe war is a solution for the difference between the two countries. I know for sure those who are for war are those who are going to be the least effected by war. Not to mention the destruction and casuality of the 30 years of war, the 1998 border war has caused the death of more than 100,000 soldiers, and without any substance outcome. When is this for war going to end? We Eritreans, may not agree the policies of our government, but We Will Never Accept the Invasion of our Country. At this time, I can see that Ethiopia can easily invade Eritrea, and remove Issiais from power, but I can assure you this is not a solution for Ethiopia, This will be a great liability for Ethiopia and of course at a Big Price. I pray for Peace for both Ethopia and Eritrea
07/30/11 @ 13:17
Comment from: gud [Visitor]
eyaasu

what is the mater with your head? are you telling as terrorism is ok? is it ok if a few people die? this is not a war,this is terrorism. if you don't know the deference, please refer your dictionary.i bet you have no dictionary at home but ask people they will tell you.good buy abu eyaasu the taliban.
07/30/11 @ 13:30
Comment from: Lij Iyasu [Visitor]
'Qualitative shift in Eritrean tactics' will lead to qualitative shift in Ethiopian politics. The struggle for survival will bring Ethiopian forces together.

Opposition forces will have to consider working with EPRDF, and Meles has to give some political space to the oppostion including the OLF. Without such an alliance all will perish at the hands of the uncompromising Eritrean fascists.

Eritreans especially the EPLF have no respect for anyone else. They have special disrespect for those who helped them in the past. They have attacked all the neighbouring countries that helped them during their struggle for independence. They have attacked Meles who did everything he can to facilitate their independence. For goodness sake, Meles even refused the advice of his American friends to keep Asab for Ethiopia.

It is a folly of folies for Ethiopian opposition forces to work with Eritreans. Without survival there will not be any politics to argue about. Unfortunately the survival of the peoples of Ethiopia, requires the subjugation of Eritrea. Eritea must be subjugated until they realise that they are no better than Africans, Arabs, and other human beings. May be then they will be given their 'independence'.
07/30/11 @ 15:20
Comment from: Fact [Visitor]
Tesfalidet, Thank you. I wish many Eritreans think the way you see things. Eritreans are our brother and sisters, we look the same and everything. In my area where I am living, Ethiopians and Eritreans share the same value according to our culture. However, a few of them are still living in the shadow of hate, empty pride, and see Isayas as untouchable God. They do not know they are fooling themselves. They know the truth about Eritrean young people suffering and all that but deny everything like it is not happening and cheer Isayas as always. We Ethiopians fight any government of their wrong doings, we exile from our country even it cost our life. We did it but we never ashamed of it or hiding the governments repression. We still fight the current government, we still expose their repression, human right violation. One thing I do not understand is why Eritreans get out and fight the government while their leader is acting irresponsible when it comes to the international law instead of blaming the UN, westerns, and as well as Ethiopia? One or two countries ok and you might say they are jealous or hate Eritrea; but the whole world? Here I am not saying Ethiopia government is better than Eritrea. We have our own problems but terrorized people? it is not ok! If the UN have all the evidence that Isayas and his generals did this inhuman thing, he have to be punished and should be removed from his power. We the people of Ethiopians and Eritreans had enough of that killing each other, hunger and more. Now try to bomb our poor people? NO. I hope there will be no war between those people, not again and it is not a solution. Eritreans should denounce Isayas bombing and terrorizing is not the best for Eritrea. That kind of message will bring Ethiopians and Eritreans together to fight our common enemies in both countries for good.
07/30/11 @ 18:25
Comment from: Nob [Visitor]
it is one side story; I just couldn't even watch it for 10 minute of the one hour or so documentary. It is just pure drama. I can even tell from the eyes of those who were supposly arrested which were being interviewed that they were not telling the truth. You can blame the party (EPLF) for a lot of wrong doing, but when it comes to this sort of acts it is a no no. You are talking about the organization which has gone through thick and thin with a long and better war experience.... if the rational is to draw ethiopea to war then we all know that they don't need to participate on this kind of action at all. Both countries are helping and organizing each others oppositon groups; ethiopea is getting frustrated of course, because the eritrean opposition which it helps dont have no puplic support in and out side of eritrea; then instead what they should have done is find a better opposition group with nationl vision and interest at heart but off course that wont be acceptable to the TPLF neither. So I think I would take the GOeritrea assortion that all this is steaming out of pure frustration in part of ethiopea because with all the regional and internation effort by ethipea and its supporters, eritrea by now was supposed to be gone/disintgated but it is not only alive but.... It is high time for all of us to get out of the box and think that the region is larg enough for all of us to live side by side in peace. A county security or survival should never depand on defeating or destroying the other. It is a wast of lives, time/opportunity and resources....at the end will never happen at all.

Let's all the people of the region push for real change and democracy for the sake of our people and counties and for AFRICA at large.
07/30/11 @ 19:54
Comment from: emru negede [Visitor]
If this "AU bombing" non-sense had any credence, why did the UNSC did not bother to condemn Eritrea in its latest funfair. "30 heads of states" targeted, according to meles chenawi, and the UN wouldn't even glance anywhere near this nonsensical sh!t. Funny really...
07/30/11 @ 20:52
Comment from: Moges [Visitor]
To wedisagn:

I don’t think we Ethiopia have anymore interest for Eritrea. However, your leader has been attempting to destabilize the region for numerous times. The past years, there were ineffectual attempts to destabilize the regions. Yes Ethiopia has a duty to protect and defense its sovereignty from any sort attacks against to region. Thus far government shows its prudence by hoping solving the problem through dialogue. However this UN’s finding shows the irony of the fact.

People of Ethiopia are not only terrorized by Esaayse madness, but also Eritreans themselves are the one who suffer most. To bring peace through out the region, Eritreans also should work with Ethiopians colleagues who are struggling to bring peace for the region. By doing this we can form cohesive atmosphere for the regions.


07/31/11 @ 05:46
Comment from: Amhara Princess [Visitor]
For those who insist war will not solve Ethio/Eritrean situation by giving example of 30 years gorilla war fare, I say we are going to fight a country NOW, not hide and seek heroes who destroyed civilians and property hiding in the bushes and mountains i.e. Shabiya. Meles ordered his troops back in 1998 when they were about to capture Asmara after sacrificing many lives. All died in vain because of Meles and now these shabiya douche bags claim victory. No Credit to flip flop Zenawi!

It is not gorilla war fare any more. Eritrea has structure and rouge government which can be destroyed VERY EASILY.



07/31/11 @ 08:19
Comment from: Sam [Visitor]
*****
Kikikikii... :)

If world wide sport competition is organized in the form marathon regarding as to who can win in serial lies I am 100% sure that Wayane/tplf will be a winner and the World champion. Let us NOT envy them.

Instead, the UN(United Nations/Ban Ki Moon) needs to give MASTER LIAR Wayane tyrant a GOLD MEDAL for its endless habitual pathological LIES FOR 20 long years and still going strong.

Further more, that Gold Medal MUST have Satans photo printed on it as a mark of originality and certificate for experienced liars.

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on." ~Winston Churchill
07/31/11 @ 08:57
Comment from: eritrawy [Visitor]
*----
Ethiopians will complain,cry but yet do nothing.we have taught to have a loud mouth but no action. Essayas is bending us over and doing the rears.
07/31/11 @ 17:28
Comment from: Anon [Visitor]
[hagos]

Weyane cadres such as you are really human rats.You guys came ,just barely twenty years ago,to Addis bare feet,with lice and KIMACH crawling all over your backs.Then all of asudden you becaome Multi millioers and billioners in a country where the overwhelming majority is destituet,hungry and homeless.
You the cadres of tplf come to this forums to confuse to lie and deceive the rest of us so that the plight of the Ethiopian people won't be told.Your illigtmate crime minister and I.A fought jointly to take control of Ethiopia.Now you turn aropund and want us believe your crime minister is honest and I.A is the bad guy.Wrong this is one way of the story.let me tell you the whole story.Both of them are dectators,both lie,both bow serv foreign interest.Melse has a contract with CIA,I.A's contract is with the Arab league.Above all both of them think they are beyond fault,never have admited wrong doing in all their carrer.Woe to you cadres of Legese;you will never learn accept the truth.There is no remedy for your typs.in any case I leave you with one of BoB Merley's lyrics to muse.

"Bad Boys ..Bad Boys ...Bad BOYS
WHAT YOU GON DO WHEN THEY COME FOR YOU"...;WHAT YOU GON DO WHEN THEY COME LOOKING FOR YOU;"WHAT YOU GON DO WHEN ETHIOPIANS COME TO HUNT YOU".

07/31/11 @ 18:17
Comment from: ፊታውራሪ Free [Member]
Oh ZxAmich, where art thou? ha ha haha

you ungrateful and backstabbing terrorists are going to pay big for this. Could this be a fabricated story from woyane's propaganda mill? Most probably. could this be full of lies? Most probably. But, does that all matter now? Hell no! "The truth will prevail" does not always work in politics. In politics, the truth comes out very very late, long after the damage is done. By then, no body will give a hoot about it especially when the subject at the center of it is an irrelevant small village like Artera.
08/01/11 @ 00:24
Comment from: Tact [Visitor]
Oh my God! All of you Ethiopian, Eritreans please open your eyes. Go and read the UN report and you will be amazed what you read and you will start to be surprised how those two shiftas"bandits" run our country. Woyane and Shabia have the same kind of principles. The Shabia have the Red sea financial organization which is owned and run by EPLF, Woyane have EFFORT run by TPLF. They control the economy of countries. They still money and deposited in foreign banks. AT least we Ethiopians in diaspora do not get ripped like Eritreans pay 2% tax. SThe difference is Shabia exposed while Woyane is on the waiting list to be exposed. I am confident that woyane do the same thing like Shabia something illegal. The other difference between them is 1. Woyane manipulates the nations around the world and follow the give and take principle 2. Ethiopians are not fond of Woyane from the very beginning while Eritreans have faith for shabia. People, one thing you have to understand is: Shabia train woyane how to make money illegally, military training, stilling, killing, and kidnaping like currently Shabia train OLF, ONLF and other opposition grops from Ethiopia. Here is what we Ethiopians have to think twice before we help all those opposition groups just for the sake of opposing Woyane and make them a government to our country. Think about it. After I read this UN report, I will never support any opposition group who aligns with Eritrea. I hope Ginbot 7 and other opposition groups learn from this and distant the group from Shabia. We already get Woyane that led our country in tribal politics. People who comes on this site please stop nonsense and stop helping those two shifta governments to stay on power. They play us people. Stop being arrogant and let's have a civil manner when we fight those animals who let both country people in misery. We need a genuine leaders and politicians other than Al Mariam and his fellows. Be aware of those kinds of hair splitting professors, Doctors and activists.
08/01/11 @ 02:15
Comment from: heny [Visitor]
Anon,
Just do some job and get rich. Do not envy the hard working people of Tigray. ከመቅናት እንደትግሬ መስራት::
08/01/11 @ 06:22
Comment from: Zeab [Visitor]
PM Melles Zenawi has done many good things for Ethiopia; we at this time too hope he would put the Ethio-Eritrea problem behind him. The people of Tigray and Eritrea are demanding peace and normal relations; they are the people who have been most affected by the conflict.

08/01/11 @ 11:06
Comment from: TEDDY [Visitor]
Hey TPLF thugs ,keep on your daily tears of crocodile for you and your leba master .Your problem with Shabya and your former master Issayas is only your own "FAMILY AFFAIR" not for the Ethiopian Peoples as the whole .You want to commit "HARAKIRI" with your SHABYAN masters ,bros and systs .So as said our dear elders "ENGIDEH MENGEDUN TCHIRK YADERGELATCHEW !!!!".
08/01/11 @ 11:16
Comment from: warder & kelafo [Visitor]
@ Tesfalidet,

I appreciate your sincerity vis-a-vis your brothers Ethiopians and your positive attitude towards our dear Ethiopia.

You are a humble good person. I thank you very much!
08/01/11 @ 15:14
Comment from: Tadeos anteneh [Visitor]
Those in denial of the independent report compiled by an international body and by non-partisan experts working on a clearly set framework...are most definitely Eritreans. Whether or not they support Isaias, Eritrean in general deny and deny whatever they see, hear or read about the evil actions of the mafia gang ruling their emaciated tiny enclave surviving on the proceeds of crime and Arab charity.
They make me sick every time I see them pretending to be Ethiopian here on Nazret or on any other Ethiopian website.
They have no sense of shame when they dismiss a report that exposes the evil intention they had for our city. God forbid, if as the report says their plot succeeded to slaughter our people in the streets of Addis , would we not be justified to behead each one of them in our midst ? I personally cannot think of anything else to do but chop the heads of as many of them as I can if they attacked my people and killed my family and friends.
20 years ago, they looted, harassed , mutilated and executed unarmed civilians and soldiers who had surrendered on the conclusion of their senseless war of independence. And yet they went on to enjoy living in our country doing what they liked with no one stopping them using and abusing our country. They deported our fellow Ethiopians en mass from their country.
And now they are invading us again crossing our borders as refugees. Eritreans have done Ethiopia the most damage no other foreigner has ever managed to do. We would be justified to banish them from our land in their droves and kick them hard where it hurts every time they misbehave towards us. But we won't be able to do that just yet thanks to the Eritrean in the seat of Menelik's Palace in Arat Kilo.
But let them make no mistake... the day of reckoning will come. They will suffer once again.
08/01/11 @ 18:31
Comment from: Ordofaa [Visitor]
This is a report about terrorists who are not real Oromos. Oromos do not harm innocent people. This is a conspiracy of two Tirgrayn, one ruling in Finfine and another one in Asmara to make my humane but fierce freedom lovers Oromos look bad. It does not matter now. Because Oromia is poised to set its free in less than few years.

To: atnafseged wesen:

The words that came out of your mouth best describes you and your likes that are garrisoned around TPLF led by this croc face cactus munching Meles and his slut. That is how you people are. You have no class and you are one replica of your kin and kits. You are a son of a thousand fathers. Dejected bastards like you are infected with what one Abyssinian told me before - Killet!!! You are typical killetam wedi adgi. You have no respect for others and sacred waterholes like this one website - Nazret. You had raised the name of the Almighty God in vain with your radical tenets of Marxism many times before and God in return has stopped talking to you and giving you lessons. When you wrote this filthy comment about me on this website, you must have been craving for your fix - cactus berries. I suggest that you go to a local chain grocery store and pick up one now.
Oromia is coming!!!! Oromia is coming free at last!!!! God Almighty!!! Free At Last My Home, Sweet Home Oromia!!!!
08/01/11 @ 19:59
Comment from: Abubaker [Visitor]
"What surprises me most is that Some Ethiopians don't learn from the past" I might add that many Eritreans don't learn from the past as well. Ethioipa should remove this evil dictator and replace him with an acceptable regime as the US did in Panama and other caribean islands during the Reagan and Bush adminstartions. Invade and install regimes acceptable not to the US but neighboring countries too. Both succeeded. I tell you, If it wasn't for this brutal Eritrean regime's interference most of somalia's problems could have been resolved peacfully! And believe me this Eritrean dictator, if not removed, will create havoc in the new nation of Southern Sudan and elsewhere in the neighborhood. By the way, it is not the innocent Somalis and Ethiopins that are starving- many more Eritreans are facing hunger and starvation by the minute!
08/01/11 @ 20:36
Comment from: Maregu [Visitor]
Is this photo chosen by the UN? What a photo, a curious one.
08/02/11 @ 03:13
Comment from: Goshu [Visitor]
The region Hamassien of Eritrea got its name from the Geez word "Hamassian" meaning trouble makers, Yemiamisu, amestegnoch. Remember when they were with Ethiopia a single Eritrean was enough to cause havoc to an entire organization. They are such unruly people. Isayas is right in ruling Eritreans with iron fist. There is no other way. Iron-fist the modes-operandi of governing violent, and unruly people.
08/02/11 @ 03:50
Comment from: BRITISH NORTH-AMeRICAN [Visitor]
You both shut up! Get united! Work hard! Soon you could forget trouble.
08/03/11 @ 10:42

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