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Toronto – A day after former Ethiopian President Teshome Mulatu published an Op-Ed piece on Al Jazeera, accusing the Eritrean government of making “war a business” and stirring further conflict, Eritrea has responded to the allegations.
Mulatu, who also serves as a special envoy for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s administration, warned of another war brewing in the region. He claimed that such a conflict could have repercussions beyond the Horn of Africa and accused Eritrea of actively working to trigger the war.
Eritrea, however, has dismissed these allegations, labeling them as “war-mongering” instead.
Yemane Gebremeske, Eritrea’s Minister of Information, shared his government’s response on his X (formerly Twitter) page. The full content of his statement is featured below:
“The Pancea does not Lie in Externalizing the Conflict or Scapegoating Eritrea
In classical fashion, Ethiopia’s former figure-head President, Mr. Mulatu Teshome, raises a false-flag alarm to accuse Eritrea for stoking a “new conflict in the Horn of Africa”. Audacious claim is precisely intended to conceal and rationalize a war-mongering agenda. The facts are otherwise crystal-clear:
1. Contrary to distorted historical accounts that Mr. Mulatua [Mulatu] attempts to project, Eritrea and Ethiopia went to war in 1998 precisely because the TPLF-led Ethiopian regime occupied sovereign Eritrean territories – including Badme, Adi Murug and other places – in flagrant violation of international law and the OAU cardinal principle on the sanctity of colonial boundaries.
2. Even after the costly war, Ethiopia continued to defy international law and occupy sovereign Eritrean territories in breach of the Arbitral EEBC Award for twenty long years. Mulatua [Mulatu] endorsed – even if his authority was arguably nominal – the violation of international law as well as the “regime change” agendas of regional destabilization of the Melles regime during his Presidency in those times (2013-2018).
3. Eritrea normalized ties with Ethiopia in 2018 when the Abiy Government publicly announced its readiness for the full and unequivocal acceptance and implementation of the EEBC Award of 2002. Eritrea reciprocated in good-faith and worked in earnest to foster and nurture good-neighbourly ties with Ethiopia on the basis of full respect of each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
4. But soon, Ethiopia was embroiled in a deadly conflict with its Tigray region when the latter unleashed what was widely termed as a War of Insurrection on the night of 3 November 2020. Eritrea gave sanctuary to the contingent of the Ethiopian Northern Command who escaped from coordinated and massive assaults in the TPLF “blitzkrieg”. The TPLF’s war plans also included massive and phased attacks on Eritrea.
5. Eritrea’s involvement in the imposed war was dictated by these circumstances as well as the request of the Ethiopian Government. Shameful and unconscionable acts of backstabbing aside, the Ethiopian Government and its Defense establishments officially and publicly paid tribute to Eritrea’s indispensable role during Ethiopia’s dark days.
6. As underlined in previous occasions, the Pretoria Agreement is an exclusive matter for the Ethiopian Government and its internal protagonists. Eritrea has neither the interest nor the appetite to obstruct or tamper with a purely internal Ethiopian affair.
7. Indeed, Eritrea duly re-deployed its troops within its internationally recognized sovereign borders. Still, those who never accepted the EEBC Arbitral Award in good-faith, or harbour some intent in fomenting conflict, have and continue to peddle false allegations of Eritrean troop presence in “the border areas”— apparent euphemisms/references to Badme and other similar territories.
8. The ill-intent and provocations have not been confined to these acts only. For reasons that are difficult to fathom, the Ethiopian Federal Government has unleashed, in the past months, an intensive and unwarranted campaign of provocation against Eritrea through its “thinly-veiled” agenda of acquiring ports and maritime land “legally if possible and militarily if necessary”.
9. The commotion and disquiet precipitated by Ethiopia’s opaque MOU with “Somaliland” remains another element of regional tension. Ethiopia is also embroiled in another vicious internal war in the Amhara Region.
10. In a nutshell, the myriad problems besetting the region stem and find their fulcrum in Ethiopia; not elsewhere. And the panacea does not lie in externalizing the conflict or scapegoating Eritrea.”
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First of all, you need to stop calling this man an Eritrean. Are you blind? Where can you see a black race in him? He is pure, 100% an adulterated Abruzzi. He and his other Abruzzi buddy are the ones who discovered the current geopolitical order that they saw switching from multi-polar to uni-polar ‘domination’. Their IQ has topped the scale at 180 when the rest of the black race is anchored at 46. That is what they attend the AU Summit as observers. They enjoy watching those ‘niggers’ talking half naked. They are also very crafty in buying off space on any Ethiopian Diaspora website. Now, I’m beginning to know.
Hey Abruzzi! I heard you have re-invented the lasagna. How about posting your secret recipe on this website? Forget about those niggers south of you who they owe you more than $250 billion in US dollars for invading you in 1941 at Keren and in 1952 at Asmara killing 6 million of you Abruzzis. Please?
Aba Farda , the sorriest thing is you don’t know you are sick. Eritrea has nothing to do with all the blood business our “ethnic federalism” (sic) has immersed into. But one thin is imminent – Ethiopia will never ever fall. All its prostitute governments fail, but Ethiopia will never fall! Its roots are much deeper than your narrow ethnic eyes can see.
Peace: Eritrea should return to its pre-1991 border → return all annexed Ethiopian land! Accords signed between 1991 & 2018 between EPLF & TPLF should be NULL/VOID!
Aseb Port: Aseb was the capital of Ethiopia’s Affars. ‘Eritrean Affar’ & ‘Ethiopian Affar’ crap was concocted in 1991 by the anti-Ethiopia Egypt’s Mercenaries [EPLF & TPLF].
EPLF & Bullying Ethiopia: What has the EPLF been counting on for bullying Ethiopia? Well, here are some of the strengths EPLF has been counting on and the likely solutions:
1). Egypt’s aid: Eritrea uses it to fund Traitor Proxies to wreak havoc & drain Ethiopia’s economy. So, targeting Egypt’s economy [like the Red Sea Shipping Route] is fair game.
2). EPLF Businesses in Ethiopia run by Proxies: Traditional clothes [on Internet too], furniture enterprises, rentals [buildings/hotels/motels], gas stations, fuel tracks, illegal forex, etc.
3). EPLF Sleeper Cells: How did over 300,000 Eritreans enter Addis? Why do ‘NGOs’, embassies, foreign agencies, etc. hire Eritreans? Do they have work permits? They roam freely!
4). Access to Telex & Teleprinters: When I was living in Ethiopia, EPLF & TPLF agents were using them to forward info from Ethiopian enterprises and international institutions.
Make that: That is why they attend the AU Summit as observers just like their cousins in the EU.
Here goes the neighborhood! Them niggers are itching for a turf war. You think the Bloods and Cribs live only in Compton and South Side Chicago? You won’t be surprised to find the real originals in Asmara, Mogadishu and Addis/Finfinne. The only difference is the hardware on their laps. These days their show-off on their own citizens has been carpet bombing drones. I’ve told you a million times that those niggers were born for violence and live on violence. They don’t even feel it. They are totally numb. For them, it seems human blood is like fresh red roses, budding. So, the grim reality continues.