Alche Fsehaye Kidane

Date:25/01/2012

Dear – family and  friend

It was with a great sense of loss when I heard Alche Fsehaye Kidane of  death.

I wanted to let you know that you have my greatest sympathy, and my heart is truly saddened.

Alche Fsehaye Kidane was more than just a wonderful person; she was always so kind and considerate to us that we always welcomed seeing her at every opportunity.

And, we know that her passing will not only leave a void in our lives Eritrean citizen, but in the hearts of all those who knew her.

Alche Fsehaye Kidane will always remain within our hearts, and in our daily prayers. May God give you strength.

With our deepest sympathy,

Aklilu Abraham

Adal Voice fo Eritreans

Mr. Osman Saleh

In its letter of 18 January to the UN Security Council, the Government of Ethiopia misconstrues the tragic events of the deplorable killing of five foreign tourists in northern Ethiopia by armed gunmen to falsely accuse Eritrea of “direct involvement”. Furthermore, the Ethiopian regime ratchets these trumped up charges to goad the UN Security Council to take punitive measures against Eritrea and warns that “it will, (otherwise), be obliged to take whatever action is necessary to stop the activities of the Eritrea regime once and for all”.

Eritrea will not dwell much, in this letter, on the utterly groundless accusations deliberately peddled by the Ethiopian regime to serve other ulterior motives and objectives as it has already pronounced its position through its press statement earlier last week. However, Eritrea wishes to underline that the cynical posturing of the Addis Abeba regime that it has every right to invoke Article 51 of the UN Charter “In self-defense” and launch another war of aggression against Eritrea is not only legally hollow but carries the potential seeds of grave regional destabilization and conflagration. In the event, Eritrea wishes to emphasize and bring to the attention of the UN Security Council the following cogent points:

Read more – Letter from H.E. Osman Saleh, Foreign Minister, to H.E. MR. Baso Sangqu, President of the United Nation’s Security Council

Ethiopian rebels said German tourists they seized last week were safe and blamed the government for the incident in which five Europeans were also killed on the slopes of a famed volcano.

Addis Ababa had blamed the region’s worst attack on tourists in years on gunmen armed by arch-foe Eritrea but a rebel group claiming to fight for the Afar region and its people said the bloodshed occurred when government soldiers attacked one of its patrols.

The rebel Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (ARDUF) also said its fighters had killed 16 Ethiopian troops, and wounded or captured others, in a statement received Monday.

“Those German nationals who were taken together with the Ethiopian soldiers are safe and (in) good health,” ARDUF said.

The German foreign ministry has said two of its nationals are missing after gunmen attacked a group of tourists in Ethiopia’s remote Afar region last week, but the rebels did not specify how many people it was holding.

At least five people were killed in the fighting: two Germans, two Hungarians and one Austrian. Ethiopia says the rebels attacked the tourist convoy, but the ARDUF said fighting broke out when Ethiopian troops fired on one of its patrols.

“Our forces killed 16 Ethiopian soldiers and wounded a dozen of them in a battle when the Ethiopian forces opened fire,” ARDUF added in the statement dated January 21 and posted on several opposition websites.

“We regret the death of those innocent civilians. ARDUF would like to convey its sincere condolence and sympathy to the families and relatives of dead peaceful tourists,” the statement read.

Ethiopia has made no mention of losing any of its troops in the attack, which took place near the famed Erta Ale volcano in Ethiopia’s sparsely populated Danakil desert, close to the tense border with Eritrea.

The area, which boasts spectacular moon-like landscapes and is famed to be the hottest place on earth, is popular among adventure travellers.

The rebels also warned Ethiopia “not to engage in another adventure that can endanger the lives” of the hostages.

“We can ensure that their peaceful release will be granted through peaceful negotiation” with Afar elders, ARDUF added.

Addis Ababa has said the Germans have been taken to neighbouring Eritrea, which it accuses of sponsoring the attack, claims dismissed by arch-rival Asmara as “ludicrous” and which the rebels also said was a lie.

“We assert that the government of Eritrea has nothing to do with incident,” the rebels said, adding that claims Eritrea was arming and training the rebels were “baseless and unfounded.”

In Berlin foreign ministry spokesman Andreas Peschke said the German government was aware of ARDUF’s claim to be holding two German nationals but was unable to confirm it.

“It’s a very complicated matter for us,” Peschke admitted at a regular press briefing, adding that the German embassy in Addis Ababa and a ministry crisis cell were working on it and hoped for more clarification soon.

He said six Germans who escaped the clash had returned home.

Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia and won independence in 1993 after a 30-year struggle.

The two Horn of Africa neighbours fought a devastating 1998-2000 border war which claimed at least 70,000 lives and their dispute remains unresolved, with Ethiopian soldiers on land ruled by international courts to belong to Eritrea.

ARDUF has been fighting a low-level insurgency in the remote region to end what it says is “political marginalisation and economic deprivation” by Addis Ababa.

In 2007, ARDUF rebels seized five European tourists and eight Ethiopians. The Europeans were released after 12 days to the Eritrean government, while the Ethiopians were freed almost two months later.

Sunday 22 - 01- 2012 Radio Show

From 10: 00 am to 11:00 am GMT

September 8, 2011

Source Foreign Policy Journal

The recently released and long awaited Wikileaks files on Ethiopia expose the lies used to justify UN inSecurity Council Sanctions in force against the little Horn of African country, Eritrea.

It has been over four years since the USA and its vassals at the UN began bellowing charges that Eritrea was supporting “Al Qaeda linked Al Shabab” fighters in Somalia. At the same time, the US Ambassador to Ethiopia was saying, stamped “Top Secret”, that “The role Eritrea plays in Somalia, for instance is probably insignificant” (Wikileaks file “Ogaden; Counterinsurgency Operations Hitting a Wall, Part 2. sect. 7).

For the UN Security Council to pass punitive sanctions against any country, especially such a small, underdeveloped country as Eritrea, one would think that some small modicum of truth would be presented in supporting evidence.

Now, thanks to Wikileaks, the so called “evidence” claiming to document a link between Eritrea and terrorism in Somalia all turns out to be bunkum, at least according to the secret testimony of the US Ambassador to Ethiopia.

From the voluminous charges made by the UN Eritrea Somalia Monitoring Group, to the US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, and including just about every western funded “think tank” ranging from the International Crisis Group to Chatham House, it was all bunkum. Or so says the empire’s senior man on the ground in the Horn of Africa, Ambassador to Ethiopia Donald Yamamoto. And that almost a year after all the bellowing began.

Ethiopia has provided most of the muscle for what passes for US foreign policy in East Africa. As Columbia does for the USA in South America, as Israel does in the middle east, and Nigeria in West Africa, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and his army and paramilitary death squads do the dirty work in East Africa so the USA and its western allies can hold up their hands and proclaim them clean for all the world to see.

Behind the scenes, U.S. Ambassador Donald Yamamoto is the man in charge,  the top gun on the ground in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia. Take it from an old “Africa Hand”, what he says in secret, especially when he disagrees with what the politicians in Washington D.C. are saying, is what is most credible.

So here we are, almost three years into the Obama regime, and the USA is once again proclaiming Eritrean ties to terror in Somalia. Only now, the sanctions being proposed are very serious and will harm the well-being of the Eritrean people by damaging the economy and preventing Eritreans abroad from supporting their country financially.

As for all the bunkum “evidence”, the arms that Eritrea is falsely accused of providing to the “Al Qaeda linked Al Shabab terrorists in Somalia”? It has been two years now since the UN General Assembly’s Special Committee on Somalia issued a report that said that at least 80% of the arms available in Somalia came from Ethiopia. Or were arms “donated” by the USA and other western countries to the so called “Somalia Transitional Government” and then sold on the black market, often times to the resistance. Recent reports continue to echo this fact on the ground, that the arms for sale in the arms bazaars throughout much of southern Somalia/Mogadishu come stamped Made in the USA, not Eritrea.

So thanks to Wikileaks, we can try to once and for all, using words marked “Top Secret” by a senior mercenary of the American Empire, put the “Eritrea supports terrorism in Somalia” lie to rest. And maybe, though I won’t hold my breath, the UN inSecurity Council won’t pass more, far worse, sanctions against Eritrea.

Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea

 Eritrea did not airlift arms to Islamist militants in the Somali town of Baidoa late last year, a preliminary UN report has found, pouring cold water on a charge that sparked a diplomatic row between the two countries.

Kenya accused Eritrea in November of delivering caches of weapons to al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda-linked group battling to overthrow the Western-backed government in Mogadishu and fighting Kenyan troops in the south of Somalia.

Eritrea has repeatedly denied the accusation and said it is no enemy of Kenya’s

“The monitoring group’s preliminary assessment is that these reports were incorrect and that the alleged deliveries to Baidoa probably did not take place,” The UN Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea said in its latest report for December.

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