Strategic politics

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THE POLITICIZATION OF ERITREAN MIGRATION

the politics behind the story.

According to U.S. diplomatic cables later published by WikiLeaks, a November 3, 2005 cable from American Chargé d’Affaires Vicki Huddleston in Addis Ababa described Ethiopia’s difficulty in accepting Badme as Eritrean territory.

The cable quoted UN peacekeeping officials as saying that Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s strategy was to isolate Eritrea and wait for its economy to implode.

The following day, another cable discussed a UN Security Council resolution concerning peaceful border demarcation. Huddleston wrote that the United States was pressing to delay or modify the resolution.

Then the story moves beyond borders.

A 2010 U.S. diplomatic cable discussed Ethiopia’s treatment of Eritrean refugees, while acknowledging the Ethiopian government’s continued hosting of refugees.

And perhaps most revealing was another cable, titled “Promoting Educational Opportunity for Anti-Regime Eritrean Youth.”

The cable described an American initiative to provide educational opportunities in the United States to Eritrean youth who opposed the Eritrean government.

Read together, these documents raise a larger question:

When migration becomes part of geopolitics, where does humanitarian policy end and political strategy begin?

This does not erase the individual experiences of Eritreans who leave.

It does not erase the hardships faced by migrants.

And it does not mean every Eritrean who migrates is part of anyone’s political project.

But it does remind us that migration does not happen in a vacuum.

There are wars.

There are borders.

There are sanctions.

There are refugee policies.

There are economic pressures.

And sometimes, as these diplomatic cables appear to show, there are governments pursuing strategic interests behind the scenes.

The history of Eritrean migration therefore cannot be told only through the question:

“Why are Eritreans leaving?”

We must also ask:

What political forces have shaped the environment in which they leave and how has that migration been used, interpreted, and politicized?

History is rarely a single road.

Sometimes, it is a map drawn by many hands.

And sometimes, the documents buried in diplomatic archives reveal the roads that headlines never showed.

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Yemane ⁠Gebremeskel, Eritrea's information minister, told Reuters that the sanctions had caused incalculable damage ​to the country.
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The US has finally removed the unilateral sanctions on Eritrea today.

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