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By Saleh AA Younis -
Jun 27, 2008
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We Eritreans never have wars. We may struggle (for 30 years), or have a crisis (Hanish Crisis!) or a conflict (Border Conflict) but never wars. Whatever is going on with Djibouti now--confusion? fabrication?--is also not war. Just don't call it a war: people may get ideas. People who come out of wars, specially wars that go badly, demand accountability. |
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Last Updated ( Jun 28, 2008 )
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By Saleh AA Younis -
Jun 03, 2008
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The problem with Eritrea is not that it retained all the vices of gedli; the problem is that it forgot all the virtues of the gedli era. If we can own it as ours—not ELF’s or EPLF’s but ours—and if we can practice a fraction of its virtues—beginning with genuine love and care (not sympathy or pity but love and care) for the people--then we will begin the journey to making ourselves whole again. I think this is what Daniel G. Mikael is inviting with his call to the Next Revolution. |
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Last Updated ( Jun 04, 2008 )
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By Saleh AA Younis -
May 12, 2008
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The elegance of the logic is so overpowering that you may feel light headed and fall. You may also weep uncontrollably at the compassion the alligator is showing to the antelope: it has swallowed it whole while it argues that although a carnivore, it really doesn’t chew, and is inflicting no harm. It is just saving the antelope from other predators. Remember the famous lie: “Michael Corleone, do you renounce Satan?” “I do renounce Satan.” |
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Last Updated ( May 14, 2008 )
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By Saleh AA Younis -
Apr 14, 2008
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As if having the Clintons back is not bad enough, now the late 1990s have come in the shape of a polemic between the author of Alnahda and Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). You are to blame because you keep sending me e-mails and asking me, “did you read it?” |
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Last Updated ( Apr 15, 2008 )
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By Saleh AA Younis -
Mar 18, 2008
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The genius of the Algiers Agreement was that it incorporated within itself another agreement that is usually negotiated after the fact—the Implementation Agreement. It was a tight, escape-proof document that left nothing to chance: it followed a linear process—from signing of document, to demarcation. The weakness of the Algiers Agreement was that it did not make both countries feel that they are equal stakeholders in the outcome. And it had no guarantees. |
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Last Updated ( Mar 18, 2008 )
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