Comments on: Where is Eritrea headed?

By: Bored

Bored — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:02:04 +0000

Dave you’re an Ethiopian talk about crisis of identity that’s not your real name is it. who ask for your opinion anyway if its not constructive criticism go talk to your own president Meles Zenawi and ask him why some 4.5 million Ethiopians are on the verge of dying .Elias at least your blunt and straightforward and admit your Ethiopian even no your comment is unhelpful and not true. Addis your blunt as well since Addis abbes is the Ethiopian capital I now your interest lie and therefore your statement reflects your opinions and interest which are bias

By: dave

dave — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:50:39 +0000

Isayas governs eritrea the way he does for the simple reason that there is no other way to govern eritrean society. Eritrean society has time and again proved ungovernable since the time of Atman. they have always been a curse to ethiopia through which all external enemies tried to penetrate and the society seems to suffer from Identity crisis as a result. in fact Isayas should stay until eritreans get a real test of empty patriotism.

By: elias

elias — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:36:39 +0000

is isayas god or bad, bad for eritreans, good for ethiopians. meaning, the over inflated eritrean ego had to be deflated by all means and he managed to do just that by treating them the way they wanted him to treat them. In the only way they know, which is the Italian legacy “like slaves” and I like him for that….

By: Stefano Pettini

Stefano Pettini — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:38:11 +0000

Addis says: “…but if the country called Eritrea (a fascist given name) want to be viable…”, must be recalled that the name Eritrea was given on gen. the 1st. 1890 under the Crispi government much earlier than fascism.

By: abdi

abdi — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:47:27 +0000

Before we turn to the pain and disasters that america has brought to the world, let us take a brief look at its history.vietnam,iraq,afganistan,somalia, ereteria and know hole horn of africa.According to america, the weak, poor, sick, must be eliminated, and done away without mercy.these people believe that this is necessary for their well-being.

By: eritrea

eritrea — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:39:45 +0000

He is very very good to Eritrea & Eritrean people. May God help him & be with him in his daily life. God bless you our president. We will see later when every thing is changed like in 24th May 1991, then that the time to see who is bad & who is good. Let’s live for tomorrow not for today.

By: Abdi

Abdi — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:26:06 +0000

“It has to seat down and draw the map with aspiration of the inhabitant of the country not with the desire of a rogue group”

So by the same token you agree Ogaden should be given back to Somalia, as it is the was part of the Somalia before the colonialist and even after, when it was swindled by Hailesellasie.

By: Addis

Addis — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:00:11 +0000

The problem of Eritrea is more than the president and his present behavior. It is the product of identity crises, coupled with bravado of a collection of misguided intellectuals who are brainwashed by colonial fascist given identity, followed by resentment of re-joining their poor motherland with no viable political institution to share power and express their desire, followed by the adoption of Marxism for lack of viable alternative ideology in the “struggle” for “liberation”, followed by self dilution righteousness for winning a war of independence and losing sight of the responsibility of being the world citizen and the constant patronage of the Arab dictators of using them to their own agenda confused the hell out of the population and paranoid the ruling party.

There is something the ruling party should understand that it does not live in isolated island but with many potential friends and enemies around it, much bigger and potent than what it thinks. The false bravado it feed the population to maintain power is coming back to hunt him. It is wise to tell the truth to the inhabitant of the area it consider his territory how they came about and if possible draw a common goal to go forward.

The reality is, the territory called Eretria on paper has noting to do with the reality on the ground. What the ruling party and his enablers curved out of the colonial map may be good for the colonialist and the ruling party if it wants to play as an extension of the colonialist, but if the country called Eritrea (a fascist given name) want to be viable, it has to seat down and draw the map with aspiration of the inhabitant of the country not with the desire of a rogue group. The way things are done now is inviting endless conflict of clans who feel they have enough gun to take it from one or another clan.

Reason must prevail

By: eden zeriun

eden zeriun — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:54:12 +0000

dealing with eritrea’s situation, i believe there is more to it than taking sides or treating the situationby categorizing it in black or white.i believe there are more facts that aren’t of pubblic domain and might be the key to solving this delama.The question isn’t if Isais is a dictator or not the question is how reliable are information the world knows?

By: Amanuel

Amanuel — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:37:54 +0000

Thankyou Isaias and the whole Eritrean leadership for your dedicated and ethical representation of the Eritrean people at large. The work you’re doing now will bear fruit in the near future and we will be looking back at these times as another one of countless hurdles we’ve had to jump over.

Keep doing what you’re doing for the majority of the Eritrean people stand by you!