Mereja Forum

Dear Eripoblikan: Eritrea has a common border with the country of Etiyopiyan Oromo Oromiyya is not yet a sovereign and independent nation. Oromiyya is, so far, part of Etiyopiya. Therefore, the Oromo are Etiyopiyans, and their country (Etiyopiya) has a common border with Eritrea. That is a fact, unl...

Dear Eden: Are you saying that Etiyopiya should have ownership of an Eritrean port ? Could you explain what you mean? Eritrean ports are under the ownership of Eritrea because they are within the territory of Eritrea. I hope you know what you are talking about. What type of arrangement are you think...

Dear Kerenite: ፍዅሰት ተቃወምቲ ህግደፍ Get the facts and have courage to re-adjust The guy that you and others (tsere-HGDeF) assume was HGDeF (and was sent out by the Eritrean Embassy) is different than you all thought he were. He seems to be known as Nugusse Letebrhan Sultan or Nugusse wedi Elfu, or Nuguss...

Dear Aurora: Are you trying to unjustify the justifiable? All Etiyopiyan guns were against Eritrea when Etiyopiya was under TPLF's dominant rule. Now the two countries have signed a peace deal. Etiyopiya's Federal Government is a peace partner with Eritrea's Government. No major group in Etiyopiya h...

Dear Awash: Etiyopiya and Eritrea need lasting peace Ethnic tensions and anxiety seem to be very high right now in Etiyopiya, especially in Oromiyya and Tigraiy. Money and political opportunity hunters are also trying to gain the most out of it. Examples that you posted are not different. People lik...

Dear Aurora: Something is missing in your post: alternative solutions to Eritrea's problems Let me go into the details of some of what you said. 1. "There is a good reason why Eritrea finds itself where it is." What would that good reason be? 2. "Poor and depopulating fast since independence 29 year...

Hi Awash: Do you mean private or free media ? If you consider Ethio360 (a media entity outside Etiyopiya) as Etiyopiya's free/private media, by the same logic, Eritrea has private/free media, too. But that is not what meant to say, I assume. What did you want to say exactly? I would tell you what my...

Dear Axumezana: Let the people of Tigraiy determine their destiny with a referendum Abiy has repeatedly said that the people of Tigraiy are Etiyopiyans. Some Tigrawian elites suggest that Tigraiy should be a sovereign nation politically independent of Etiyopiya. Some TPLF leaders (Getachew Redda, Al...

Dear Aurora: Intervention by consent or invitation or alliance is never prohibited by the UN Charter Thank you for sharing your opinion, showing that we are far apart in several ways. Article 2(4) of the UN Charter prohibits foreign intervention (such as invasion, conquest, aggression, etc.). That i...

Dear Awash: The discussion is about the security of the peoples of both nations Securing the freedoms of the Eritrean people and the Etiyopiyan people is working for their safety and peaceful operation of their institutions. The people of Eritrea are supported for their basic needs by the Government...

Dear Fed-Up: Agreed, Ginbar Weyyane Tigrai must go, but who should be on our side? What I was trying to answer was the question: does Eritrea have the right to intervene in Etiyopiya? The answer is YES with the consent, invitation or approval of the Federal Government of Etiyopiya. I want Eritrea to...

Dear Sesame: No, I don't, because Badumma is already determined Eritrean Badumma and other areas have already been ruled to be Eritrean. But with my eyes directed at consolidating peace between the two nations for long-term, I prefer to have the borderlines be demarcated on the ground by the UN Cart...

Could Eritrea intervene in Etiyopiya (Ethiopia)? It depends on what one means by intervention: going between antagonists to facilitate talks so that they could peacefully resolve their differences, or military involvement? Does Eritrea have the legal right to intervene in Etiyopiya? Or should it st...

Dear Abdel Qael: Hard to take this guy as an honest or trustworthy man Sorry to have an opinion different than yours. An honest person is a person who presents events as they are. This guy presents facts as interpreted by his viewpoint. He states that PM Abiy's Government is Unitary while it is stil...

Dear Eripoblikan: Your opinion is not a blunt truth related to "CPJ condemns Ethiopian internet shutdown..." I respect your right to give your opinion on Issaias Afwerki, President of Eritrea, or Abiy Ahmed Ali, Prime Minister of Etyopiya. I also thank you for offering your opinion. However, an opin...

Hello Ethioash: My method/reasoning regarding CPJ, etc. reports is consistent I assume that by "when Golden run the show," you mean when TPLF was the dominant group ruling Etyopiya. I also presume that you are saying that 'if you support CPJ against TPLF, you cannot stop (or wiggle out of) supportin...

Dear Eripoblikan: What is blunt truth to you in this regard? I am not using any "wiggling acrobatics to stay out of blunt truth". I am exchanging my perspective/views with you about what CPJ said about Etyopiyan "internet shutdown" and OMN "raid". And you implied that CPJ's condemnation should be ac...

Dear Eripoblikan: So what? CPJ is not the ultimate judge of the best national interests CPJ sub-Saharan Africa Representative Muthoki Mumo is the one who said that in the name of CPJ. He fails to express the fact that freedom of expression is not an absolute right. It is rather a right that could be...

Dear Axumezana: Who is "us"? You find your right partner You asked what rule TMH might have broken, and I gave you a response. Deal with ESAT if you believe you have a case; and others might deal with TMH if they believe they have a case. There is no first-come first-serve here, and there is no "so ...

Dear Axumezana: Every one is treated equally under the law Every body is either protected or punished equally under the law. Any one---regardless of nationality, ethnicity, faith, wealth, status at birth, whether the name is TMH, ESAT, or otherwise, etc.--- who transgresses the law and is found guil...