Tag: PFDJ
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Enough To the Politics of Pacification (ፖለቲካ ቺቸቶ)
If you thought Eritrea joining the Human Rights Council would improve its government’s ability to package its lies better–never mind to stop lying, never mind to eliminate the reasons for its lies–you will be sorely disappointed. It is determined to pursue the path of giving political pacifiers (ፖለቲካ ቺቸቶ) to its own people and bald-faced…
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Geography Foils Government of Eritrea
The Government of Eritrea, which has a long history of exhausting every bad idea before grudgingly accepting the good one, is on to its next bad idea: making peace with Ethiopia by bypassing the Ethiopia that borders it: Tigray Region. But this time, geography is conspiring against it. Whether an Eritrean’s motivation is family reunion,…
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Eritrea: Promises of More of the Same
Eritrea’s Charge d’Affaires to the United States is Berhane G Solomon. A protege of Yemane Gebreab, the ruling party’s Director of Political Affairs, Berhane even has Yemane’s body language: the exaggerated hand movements, the awkward smile and, of course, flashes of brilliance. In short, he is very good at his job, a job that requires…
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Eritrea: Betrayals and Pyrrhic Victories
What was the war about? And what is this peace about? And why did peace happen in June 2018 and not, for example, in November 2004? Why was there a “border war” in May 1998 to begin with? What is our peace dividend? It was not about borders or demarcation. If it was, 7 weeks…
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Alamin M Seid PFsplains History Unity & Diversity
In theory, governance in Eritrea is modeled after the Chinese: a political party births the ideas, a government executes them. Thus, in every governmental office–from the nation’s capital down to the sub-zone–there is a party representative. There is a hierarchy in both institutions: in the political party, it is the Secretariat composed of the Secretary…
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Overdue Eritrea Visits ACHPR
“The State of Eritrea presents its initial and combined reports that encompass eight periodic reports overdue since its accession to the Charter.” So begins the first sentence of a 100-page report provided by the State of Eritrea to the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR). “Overdue” may be the one word that describes…
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Yamamoto’s Visit To Eritrea
Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Ambassador Donald Y. Yamamoto is scheduled to visit Eritrea, as part of his swing in the Horn between April 22nd and April 26. The itinerary, according to a press release from the State Department, is: Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Ambassador Donald Y. Yamamoto will travel to…
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Educating PFDJ On Its Own Law
Copied: Wide-eyed part-time YPFDJ cadres, misty-eyed perfervid patriots, new atheists who speak in feverish secular fundamentalist tongues, epigones of modernity, Western ‘experts’ who are so incurably orientalist that they think we should squat in the waiting room of history until such time that we mature enough to deserve civil and political rights, & co. Subject:…
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PFDJ’s Trial in the Streets of Geneva
For the second year in a row, a large gathering of Eritreans congregated in Geneva to voice their opinion on the issue of whether senior government and party officials in Eritrea are guilty of egregious crimes against the Eritrean people. The occasion is the ordinary session of the UN’s Human Rights Council whose Commission of…