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Dear Mrs.Yelich, As a Canadian I was dismayed to know that you participated in the PFDJ held Festival in western Canada. With all due respect you should be ashamed to be invited by the PFDJ, let alone deliver a speech and canonize the stand of the current unconstitutional government on foreign aid. By attending this festival you sent a clear message to the illegally jailed innocent Eritrean citizens that you unequivocally support the actions of this government. You communicated to them that peaceful dissent is futile and eloquently spoke to them that you support the government and not the Eritrean people. Simply put, you mocked the very principles of freedom, consensus and liberty that Canada values the most. Worse, yet the PFDJ will use your presence to misinform the international community. Documented Crimes of the Dictatorship in Eritrea Illegally detained 15 high-ranking government officials merely for speaking their minds and demanding the implementation of the ratified constitution. The whereabouts of these officials is unknown and they were never brought to a court of law. The nascent free judiciary of the country Vanished when Justice Teame Beyen was fired for delivering a speech and mildly criticizing the government for interfering in the affairs of the court. Closed the infant free press and detained its journalist without due process. Fortunately there is living witness of the horrendous treatment of the journalist. Two of them eluded the government and they are in the USA. They have a story to tell, a gruesome one. Initially some of the journalists Were detained in Asmara and after a year they demanded that they be brought to court of law and went on a hunger strike to tell the world that they deserve justice. Guess what happened: they were taken to undisclosed place; no one knows their where about. Some of the blunt critics were detained long ago and are in a labor camp called zara Detained senior citizens for attempting to mediate the rift between the government. For your information senior citizens in Eritrea are institution on their own right and as such there it was not an illegal practice to try to mediate. Actually it is one of the democratic natures of the Eritrean society that Eritreans consider a badge of honor Also, there is a place called Sawa, where people as young as 15 and 16 years olds military conscripts are trained and in slaved. The plight of the female youngsters is especially troubling to fathom: they are invariably raped and tortured by older married military commanders, who have no concept of NO means NO. If some of the courageous girls refuse to bow to their advances they are tortured. Literally young Eritrea girls who are supposed to flirt with their peers and attend colleges are becoming the sex slaves of the government officials. The outcome is that Eritrea is becoming fatherless as children out of wedlock is increasing by the day.
Dear Mr. Yelich, I tried to enlighten you on the situation in Eritrea and I hope this will help you on your learning odyssey about the suffering of the people Eritrea under the government whose Festival you attended and whose false policy on foreign aid your praised so blindly. The Festival that you attended was a festival of the oppressors, for the oppressors and by the oppressors. It was held to raise hard currency for the government to finance its security apparatus that is in existence to spy and torture its citizens and not to protect them from terrorist. I cannot help, but point out the mendacious information that you have been fed about the he PFDJ's policy on foreign aid: the government's adamant demand for control is a manifestation of its control freak nature. PFDJ wants to control not only aid but also thought. The money it raises by selling the foreign is not used to alleviate the indigenous problems, but to fill is coffers with hard currency. For your information, the reason the projects get completed on time is because of free labor that the government enjoys .The whole nation is under service The honorable thing to do The most honorable thing to do, to undo your colossal blunder for attending a Festival held by tyrant is to be more knowledgeable about the current suffering of the Eritrean people. A good place to start would be to talk to the CPJ, the journalists without borders and the Amnesty international. Read on the report card on Eritrea. Talk to the exiled journalist, who are enduring testament of the suffering of the Eritrean people. Arrange to talk to the exiled members of the dissidents who were fortunate to be outside the country during the crackdown of the peaceful dissidents. Visit, www.ehrag.org (The Eritrean Human right Advocacy group website), to see how Eritreas are documenting the human right violations in Eritrea. And then after your thirst of finding the truth is quelled publicly apologize to the Eritrea people and unambiguously tell them that you are with the Eritrean people and not on the side of their oppressor, the PFDJ Thank you Semer Andom |
