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[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

Potemkin Party (PP) senior officials seem to have contracted a severe case of historical amnesia.

In a bizarre and rather amusing announcement to the "House of Representatives" this week, the PP's leader stated that "he had scoured every archive in Addis Abeba - the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cabinet minutes, and parliamentary records - yet found no official record or institutional decision how Ethiopia lost access to the Red Sea".

Hopefully, this debilitating disease is at its incipient or early phase.

* Indeed, only seven years ago, on 9 July 2018 and accompanied by senior officials of his regime including the then Foreign Minister and now Secretary General of IGAD, he had signed in Asmara the Joint Declaration of Peace and Friendship between Eritrea and Ethiopia. The kernel and cardinal content of this Agreement revolved on the "implementation of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC) decision", which affirmed Eritrea's internationally recognized boundary for more than a century in accordance with the Treaties of 1900, 1902 and 1908.

* In another moment of truth in those times, Ethiopia's Army Chief of Staff confessed that "he and his colleagues were embarrassed in May 1998 when the incumbent government publicly accused Eritrea of aggression while it was the Ethiopian army which actually unleashed the war in the first place ". Today, he seems to be infected by this collective amnesia as he tries to justify his incessant saber-rattling and agenda of war on spurious pretexts in contravention of international law and Eritrea's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

*Similarly, another PP General, Bacha Debele, confessed, three years ago, about the disastrous defeat that the Ethiopian army contingent had suffered - in his graphic words "ተጨፈጨፍን/we were completely annihilated " - on the Bure Front when it attempted to occupy Assab in June 2000. Apparently infected by the same historical amnesia, this retired General has joined the chorus to clamour for another cycle of irredentist war of aggression against Eritrea in order to occupy Assab.

The incipient, even if already severe, disease of collective amnesia that has gripped the tight circle of senior Potemkin Party officials will need proper therapy: History 101. Link below is the Introductory Chapter I.

The whole syllabus will of course consist of: the denial of Eritrea's right to decolonization in the 1940s; annexation and the armed struggle; all the way back to medieval and ancient history with objective archeological findings and interpretations.

*Warning: the disease may be incurable if it is a pure case of deliberate deception and/or reflexive/pathological lying.
https://t.co/u3297ObXt5

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

In their delusional pursuit of "sovereign access to the sea", Potemkin Party (PP) activists and pseudo-analysts (Horn Review et al) are these days immersed in increasingly shallow distortion of hard facts to denigrate Eritrea's epic and heroic, thirty-year long, war of liberation.

The new and preposterous chorus revolves on depicting it as "instigated and sponsored by foreign countries".

Yesterday's history cannot be erased through sheer and outrageous lies.

Eritrea triumphed - Alone Against the Mighty - by paying precious and inordinately huge sacrifices of its best sons and daughters in an arduous war against an occupationist regime that was propped up, at different times, by both the US and the USSR and their respective allies in the context of the Cold War.

First off, the people of Eritrea should not have suffered this extraordinary ordeal. Their inalienable right of decolonization should have been guaranteed in the 1940's, in accordance with international law and as it was indeed broadly the case, with the fate of similar colonized nations in Africa.

Secondly, moral decency demands that the very forces who perpetrated much pain and tribulation on the people of Eritrea for decades apologize and atone for their historical crimes; not add insult to injury by rubbing old wounds!

https://t.co/ksQFRYh1Xj

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

PP's obsession (yesterday's speech in "House of People's Representatives") with the "Two Waters" - Blue Nile and Red Sea - is bizarre and mind-boggling by all standards.

There is no palpable geographical overlap, intersection or confluence; legal analogy; geopolitical symmetry or other shared attributes between these two divergent themes that one can invoke by any stretch of imagination.

Historically, forces of aggression and domination have always conjured-up some deceitful palliative to rationalize and justify their abominable agendas of coveting and usurping inalienable people's rights, and/or national wealth and endowment, of their victim countries.

In this perspective, the Potemkin Party's gimmick is too crass and pathetic "to sell" even by these historical and decadent ploys.

Indeed, it could have been shrugged off as inconsequential/comical delusion if it were not fraught with stoking and igniting yet another unnecessary and avoidable bout of conflict in a region bedevilled by perennial upheavals and attendant suffering. This is the quagmire that the Potemkin Party and its ilk seem to be incubating without let-up almost on a daily basis.

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

2nd Letter of Ethiopia's Foreign Minister, (2 October last week), to the UNSG is astounding in its audacity and constitutes an act of duplicity in its extreme!

As the local proverb goes: "ጭጉራፍ'ሲ ሃሪማ ተእዊ!" , which roughly translates into: "A sling emits a shrill cry as it hits its target".

Day-in and day-out for the last two years, the PP's policy mantra has revolved on acquiring "sovereign access to the sea through legal means if possible, and military force if necessary". The intense propaganda campaign aimed at whipping up irredentist ambitions has been accompanied by reckless and provocative saber-rattling.

In the circumstances, the latest letter is a deceitful charade; an insult to the intelligence of the Ethiopian people and the international community at large.

For its part, Eritrea has explicitly stated from the outset, that "it will not, as ever, be drawn into such alleys and platforms" urging all concerned "not to be provoked by these events"; MOI Press Release, 16 October 2023.

In this vein, President Isaias Afwerki further underlined, in his interview with the local press in July last year: "We have no appetite for war... We have no territorial claims or ambitions against our neighbours. But as history attests, we know how to defend our country when and if attacked. The PP is bragging about Drones and long-range missiles, tanks, etc. it has purchased, and the massive wave of attacks that it will unleash against Eritrea. This is mind-boggling and can only be entertained by those who do not know history. Our response is: do not plunge the people of Ethiopia into a futile war: focus on solving your real problems...ዓዲ ወዓሉ! (Stay put)".

https://t.co/dkidqtYCZX

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

Potomkin Party (PP) sponsored/affiliated pundits - Horn Review et el - are indeed a strange breed who can float, with a straight face, outlandish and ludicrous assertions cloaked in "academic" garb.

The latest version dwells on "prospects" for Ethiopia to "rescind its Mother State's Permission" and recognition of Eritrea!

In the first place, Eritrea's independence was not granted on a "silver platter" by Ethiopia or any other power on earth.

Indeed, Eritrea's process of decolonization and inalienable right of independence should have been accomplished in the 1940's in accordance with international law and established norms and practices. But this inalienable right was suppressed to give primacy for, and mollify the "overriding geopolitical interests" of, the US and other powers. In the event, the Eritrean people were compelled to pay a huge sacrifice in Africa's longest war of national liberation to achieve their independence.

These are the indelible facts. And for their own sanity, apologists of occupation and colonial rule better grapple with their emotional/moral crises instead of wasting time in an elusive quest for untenable legal conjectures.

Eritrea’s Red Sea Sovereignty: An Irrevocable Reality https://t.co/tcAT2BHB37 via @Red Sea Beacon

[Samuel Tku'e✌🏿🇪🇷 @Samuel_Tkue]

The West has been considering
Ethiopia (a country that has never been at peace with itself) as a strategic partner and has been pumping in billions of dollars to stitch this fragile nation because it is 'too big to fail'. The West has been supporting when Ethiopia's regimes invaded their neighbors. And now, Abiy continues the same path as his predecessors, and God forbid, our region cannot afford another catastrophic crises that is looming due to Ethiopia's continuous war rhetoric against Eritrea.

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

The obsession/political frenzy of PP (aka Potemkin Party) officials to manufacture a non-existent regional crisis in pursuit of toxic and illicit "sovereign access to the sea" is perhaps at its zenith these days.

The barrage of daily disinformation/provocation whose hallmarks are:
i) stale revision and distortion of Eritrea's history (statements at Ceremony on "Promotion" of the regime's top military brass on Saturday);
ii) willful intent to tamper with cardinal principles of international law, including the sanctity of colonial boundaries; and,
iii) reckless saber-rattling;
belie the misguided priorities of a regime bent on incubating regional crises to deflect attention from its multiple domestic challenges.

The Horn of Africa Region does not need or deserve another bout of unnecessary and avoidable conflict and turmoil; afflicted as it is by a plethora of other debilitating problems. This is the unequivocal message that should be conveyed - in no uncertain terms - by all those who harbour sincere wishes for the welfare of the peoples of the region.

https://t.co/SnNyZa3FgA

[Amb. Sophia Tesfamariam @AmbStesfamariam]

I too heard the latest remark from #Ethiopia|s leadership about not wanting to be “encapsulated.” Frankly, no one is encapsulating #Ethiopia. A country with a large population and six neighbors, #Eritrea, #Djibouti, #Somalia, #Kenya, #South Sudan, and #Sudan, cannot be “boxed in” unless it insists on drawing the box itself.

Let’s be honest: calling Ethiopia “encapsulated” is like calling the elephant in the room “trapped by the furniture.” Size is not the problem, and size does not entitle anyone to lean on their neighbors. #Africa doesn’t run on imperial nostalgia; it runs on #cooperation, #law, and #respect.

Glad to hear the Prime Minister’s reassurance that war is not on the table. That’s good news, because in our region, we’ve had more than enough of wars that start with slippery metaphors. Our people need jobs, schools, and roads, not lectures about geography.

Also note the Prime Minister’s dramatic warning that “if there is any Ethiopian who believes that Ethiopia will forever remain a geographic prisoner, that person is a dead one.” Such statements, while certainly attention-grabbing, are more suited to political theater than constructive regional dialogue. For neighboring states, they raise eyebrows and questions: is this metaphor meant to signal ambition, assert dominance, or intimidate? In any case, rhetoric that conjures death or confinement is far less useful than concrete agreements, transparent policies, and cooperative planning.

Our people, #Eritreans, #Somalis, #Djiboutians, #Sudanese, #South Sudanese, and #Kenyans, are focused on tangible priorities: jobs, schools, infrastructure, trade, and security. Metaphors about “geographic prisoners” or warnings about death do not feed families, build schools, or create roads. True leadership in the Horn of Africa will be measured not by dramatic pronouncements but by practical outcomes that benefit all citizens and neighbors alike.

It is worth setting the record straight on a point that seems to befuddle many: owning a sea outlet (የኢትዮጵያ የባሕር በር ባለቤትነት) and merely having access to the sea (የባሕር በር) are not the same thing. Owning a port means full sovereignty, control over the land, administration, security, and tariffs. That’s not something any of #Ethiopia|s neighbors can just hand over like a cup of water...

Access through a transit state, by contrast, is perfectly doable, entirely legal, and happens every day around the world: #Ethiopia uses Djibouti’s port, South Sudan relies on Port Sudan, Bolivia negotiates access through Chile. Ethiopia can do negotiate with its neighbors for a mutually agreeable arrangement with its neighbors, that can accommodate its needs.

Conflating the two only fuels delusions of being “trapped” or “encapsulated”, inflates expectations, and strains neighborly relations. The truth is far simpler and far more practical: Ethiopia doesn’t need to “own” a port to reach the sea, it simply needs agreements, cooperation, and a little common sense. Anyone claiming otherwise is busy spinning-tired fantasies, recycling old metaphors about being “trapped” or “encapsulated”

PP cadres must come to terms with this reality. It is an important education about #Ethiopia’s true circumstances, one that successive #Ethiopian leaders and elites have largely failed to impart to their citizens. The cost of this deliberate attempt to hoodwink their population has been high: false expectations, misallocated resources, and unnecessary tension and wars, with neighboring states. Misleading rhetoric does not advance #Ethiopia’s development; it only sows unnecessary confusion, frustration, and risk.

The future of the Horn of Africa will be built with roads, railways, ports, and trade corridors, not trial balloons, empty metaphors, or theatrical rhetoric. Real progress comes from connecting people to markets, students to schools, farmers to ports, and entrepreneurs to opportunity, not from spinning dramatic speeches about “encapsulation” or threatening neighbors with metaphors.

While PPs cadres are busy floating ideas in the air, the region is laying the physical and economic foundations that actually improve lives, foster cooperation, and create long-term prosperity.
Ports are for commerce, not coercion. If Ethiopia wants more access, more markets, more growth, the door is wide open, but it must be through lawful, cooperative arrangements, not rhetoric or claims over sovereignty that belongs to others.

So, let’s replace the word “encapsulated” with the word that really matters: integrated. That is the path forward, for #Ethiopia, and for all of us.

[Ambassador Estifanos @AmbassadorEstif]

MSG TO UTUBERS: No political/military power local/international has the right/obligation to delete/negotiate/mediate the sovereignty/territorial integrity of 193UN member states which incudes&not exclude #Eritrea/#Ethiopia rights enshrined in UN Charter #UNSC エリトリア #TICAD9

[Farah Maalim EGH @FarahMaalimM]

Eritrea, Somalia, Djibouti & Sudan must sign a mutual defence pact to forestall the arrogant audacious adventurism of successive Ethiopian leaders. Ethiopia just like Israel is drunk with fake history and unfettered Western support. Past Ethiopian leaders exploited the so called threat of Muslims & savages on a Christian/ European civilization. From the look of things PM Abiy will accelerate the disintegration of this fake construct thru his careless expansionism.

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

ንዞባዊ ሰላምን ኣህጉራዊ ሕግን ንሓደጋ ዘቃልዕ ዕንደራ!

*...ንዘይሕጋዊ ተግባራት ምልሓቕ ዝግበር ወደሳ ድማ፡ ካብ ምርኻስ ፖለቲካ ሓሊፉ፡ ካልእ ትርጉም ክወሃቦ ዝከኣል ኣይኮነን። ንቅሉዕ ወራር ሕጋውነት ንምልባስ ዝደናደን፡ ንኢትዮጵያን ጎረባብታን ከቢድ ሳዕቤናት ዘለዎ – ክስገር ዘይብሉ ቀይሕ መ ብራህቲ’ዩ"።

*"...መራሕቲ ብልጽግና፡ ኣብ ክንዲ ብዋጋ ዞባዊ ሰላም ፖለቲካዊ ህላወኦም ንምርግጋጽ ምቁማር፡ ነቲ በብከባቢኡ ተወሊዑ ዘሎ ዘቤታዊ ግጭታትን ንሱ ዘስዓቦ ቅልውላዋትን ፍታሕ ብምንዳይ፡ ውሽጣዊ ርግኣትን ቁጠባዊ ሕውየትን ብምርግጋጽ ህዝባዊ እምነት ንምርካብ ክጽዕሩ’ዩ ዝግባእ። ንስለ ድሕነትን ሰላምን ዞባና እምበኣር፡ እዚ ዘይሓላፍነታዊ ዕንደራ ክንጸግን መግትኢ ክግበረሉን ይግባእ''።
https://t.co/FMiDagxIgs

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

The Midas and Lycaon Curses: A Fatal Ambition

PP's reckless/irredentist agenda and incessant saber-rattling have stirred up a real hornets' nest in #Eritrea and the Horn of Africa Region as a whole. Insightful article that drives home this poignant fact.
https://t.co/h3bw0lcZNk

[Simon K Hagos @tewerwari_1]

Inter’l community; @_AfricanUnion, @StateDept @EUCouncil @antonioguterres staying silent while gov in #Ethiopia is threatening to invade sovereign countries in HoA is alarming. It is time to put the pedal to the brake & condemn #Ethiopia to the fullest.
@mfa_russia @MFA_China #Eritrea #Somalia #Egypt #SaudiArabia

[Yemane G. Meskel 🇪🇷 @hawelti]

PP (aka Potemkin Party) political and military officials are in an overdrive mode these days; enveloped as they are in inordinate fanfares to "normalize" their delusional and reckless pursuit of "securing sovereign access to the sea".

They are even harking back to the dark chapter in the modern history of both countries to allude to, and lionize, the annexation period; unlawful and abominable as this is.

As underlined on various occasions before, this is of course a political blasphemy of the highest order; a red line that should not be contemplated or crossed.

PP is dangling this toxic, adventurist, agenda of war and conflict while presiding over an economy that requires intermittent financial injections from the IMF, the WB, and other assorted multilateral and bilateral "donors". The multiple internal wars that are raging in Ethiopia to exact avoidable losses of precious lives and the destruction of property is another quagmire that warrants judicious resolution for the sake and welfare of the Ethiopian people.

And yet, PP officials and their minions seem to indulge in extensive and elaborate gaslighting - hosting Summits on Climate Change; Afro-Caribbean Cooperation etc. - to deceive and hoodwink their domestic and international constituencies rather than seeking enduring solutions to their domestic woes and contributing to a regional climate of stability and cooperation on the basis of legality and common sense.

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