As Thousands Flee Regime, Eritrea Goes It Alone -- Washington PostFacing the prospect of U.N. sanctions and increasing 'brain drain,' young nation's authoritarian president chooses defiance.
As thousands flee regime, Eritrea goes it alone
Facing the prospect of U.N. sanctions and increasing 'brain drain,' young nation's authoritarian president chooses defiance
"Leave us alone," said the commandingly tall former guerrilla leader who became Eritrea's first and only president in 1993, after a 30-year struggle for independence from Ethiopia. "We don't want to be pushed around."
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My Comment: Sighhh .... another typical paranoid African dictator, who installs a centrally controlled command economy that is regulated by his government on a micro level. To insure that he stays in power, a police state is then imposed on the population, and threats of war and/or supporting wars in neighboring countries becomes their central foreign policy initiative.
The only good thing that I can say of this situation .... is that this dictator is not asking the West for handouts .... yet.
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Yeah according to you, any one who complains when the boot is stomped in their face is a dictator.
Democratic countries always are moral guardians and abide by the international rule of law ?
www.slate.com/id/2178793/
tinyurl.com/yg4q5jh
amongst many
Thank you Simon for your comment.
I can write pages and pages on foreign intervention in African affairs .... and most (if not all of them) usually end up failing.
In the end, it is the Africans themselves who must solve their problems .... but this is not going to happen today .... or in my lifetime.
My critique is on the leadership of Africa, and on the policies and actions that they have implemented. One can blame the West (or anyone else) for their dismal conditions .... but in the end the buck stops at their desk, and unfortunately for them they have chosen a different and very violent path.
I tend to agree with most of what you said, but in the case of Eritrea, policy decision has been epic blunder after blunder.
Way before 9/11, Eritrea was successful in containing OBL and his Sudan sponsored menace from spreading in the Horn, what it got in return is a backstabbing, you can not blame them for losing faith, as it is not the first time.
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=42407
Some history from NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4729800
I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?
And you et an account on Twitter?
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