The ultimate objective of the bitter struggle waged by the people of Eritrea and the uncalculated human and material expenses. The ultimate aims for the struggle was to obtain national independence and participatorical democracy. This is an indisputable historical fact.  

***image1***After the independence the state power was to be solely and unilaterally confiscated by the EPLF/PFDJ. And in so doing, the EPLF/PFDJ has not only breached the historic pledge of handing power over to the people. It has, over and above that, committed an act of complete contempt for the very goals and people of Eritrea and its valiant sons and daughters have sacrificed so much.  

President Isaias and his small circle of underlings have consequently violated the democratic and human rights and thereby aborted the needed process leading to constitutional rule. By highjacking the people�s rights, they have resorted to all sorts of systematic acts of illegal detentions, disappearances, and other flagrant human rights abuses. One of the flagrant abuses of human rights were demonstrated clearly on July 31, 2001, when Semere Kesete was arrested. It was also demonstrated on August 12, 2001 when over 500 Asmara University Students demonstrated to demand the release of Semere. The government reacted by arresting the demonstrators, said Mussie Ephrem. 

Furthermore the regime in Asmara has again proved its brutish abuse of the fundamental rights on September 18 � 19, 2001 when eleven former senior Eritrea Government Officials, dozen Journalists, prominent businessmen and elderly mediators were arrested. Their whereabouts are still unknown, according to Mussie Ephrem. 

The political system of PFDJ and Mr. Isaias is a political system formed to suppress the fundamental democratic and human rights its citizens. The system has, as the result of its brutish acts been isolated within the international community, said Mussie Ephrem.