Mereja Forum

[Kuasmeda]

Press Release: Eritrea Rejects US State Department Allegations; Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 21 March 2023

https://shabait.com/2023/03/21/eritrea- ... legations/

[sesame]

This is how you respond to US lies not the way the Ethiopian government has done. This statement, for example, reveals that the TPLF thugs massacred 3,000 Ethiopian soldiers when they initiated the war.

In a Press Statement yesterday (20th March), US Secretary of State yet again raised unsubstantiated and defamatory accusations against the Eritrean Defense Forces in relation to the two-year conflict in north Ethiopia triggered by the TPLF’s deplorable War of Insurrection and choice.

The allegation, which is not new, does not stem from factual and incontrovertible evidence. Indeed, it constitutes an embodiment and continuation of unwarranted hostility and demonization that US Administrations have pursued against Eritrea since 2009 to advance their ulterior political agendas.

The illicit and unilateral sanctions imposed against Eritrea and Washington’s untenable conduct in the past two years – primarily geared to absolve and salvage the TPLF – only accentuate its complicity and accountability for the tragic consequences that have unfolded.

As it happens, the current cheap demonization campaign is designed to blackmail and intimidate Eritrea and the Federal Ethiopian government through fallacious accusations and keep them hostage while bolstering the TPLF to create further chaos. The ensuing mayhem would then create the pretexts and conditions for illicit and continued meddling and intervention.

The timing of this announcement is also telling, occurring as it does, when US misguided policy is being challenged globally; and especially so in the African continent.

The facts of the matter in this particular and sordid episode are otherwise too evident to merit much elaboration.

The devastating war occurred because the TPLF launched premeditated, extensive and coordinated military assaults against Ethiopia’s Northern Command, killing more than 3000 soldiers in its initial blitzkrieg. TPLF’s war plans included massive long-range missile attacks against Eritrea in its initial phase alone, in violation of fundamental tenets of international law.

Furthermore, the litany of TPLF’s crimes, including massive and forcible recruitment of tens of thousands of children in its human wave assaults in the Afar and Amhara Regions of Ethiopia, are too many to be recounted here. But they were deliberately downplayed and glossed over as US overarching objective remained salvaging the TPLF under all circumstances.

In the event, moral and legal accountability should not be eviscerated, once again, on the altar of US overriding geopolitical priorities. After all, it must be recalled that the Biden Administration has invoked the full force of law to indict and take draconian legal measures against what it calls “Insurrectionists” and who breached the Capitol Building on 6 January, 2021.

Washington must thus extricate itself from duplicitous and cynical acts as well as illicit meddling. The peoples of Eritrea, Ethiopia and the region as a whole are endowed with, and entitled to, inalienable rights to find enduring solutions to their own problems. And above all, the US has no moral or legal right to act as the prosecutor and judge in these matters.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Asmara
21 March 2023

[quindibu]

"And above all, the US has no moral or legal right to act as the prosecutor and judge in these matters."

That is actually the crux of the matter. Leaving aside their duplicity and hypocrisy, where do these people derive their moral superiority from?

[Abdisa]

I'm switching to the Republican Party.

[Temt]

I'm switching to the Republican Party.

I don't know about that, brother Abdissa. I have been a loyal voter of the Republican Party ever since I voted for the criminal Obama in his first election. But the way these so-called "representatives" have been calling for an out war against Russia makes me wonder if they are any different from the equally fake Democratic Party. But if Trump wins the nomination, there is some hope that the warmongers would be silenced for their stupidity. Remember, what makes Trump different than the rest of them is an equal opportunity abuser of power unlike the fake Democrats while preaching "political correctness", it is just as racist as the republicans.

[Dark Energy]

Self hating nig….gars….

Trump wants you barefooted without cloth roaming in your sh——Ty African countries. He loves dictators for they keep you hungry and naked. You know his advice to the Egyptians in their water dispute with Ethiopia was, …. idiots. fu—-ckers.

[sarcasm]

Ethiopian Human Rights Council and the Federal Government's Attorney General believe Eritrea committed war crimes in Tigray. The Attorney General የኢፌዲሪ ጠቅላይ ዐቃቤ ሕግ file is still open.

"Eritrean troops killed 40 civilians in Axum in home to home raids" FDRE Attorney General የኢፌዲሪ ጠቅላይ ዐቃቤ ሕግ

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https://www.facebook.com/MOJEthiopia/po ... 0836404970

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[Zmeselo]

[quindibu]

"And above all, the US has no moral or legal right to act as the prosecutor and judge in these matters."

That is actually the crux of the matter. Leaving aside their duplicity and hypocrisy, where do these people derive their moral superiority from?

Modelled after the US's law against non-whites, the Nuremberg Law was enacted by the Nazis in the 1930s to discriminate and disenfranchise the Jews in Germany. With its 'one-drop' rule, US's miscegenation law was considered even by the nazis standard too harsh. Rather the nazis law stipulated a jew with THREE JEWISH GRANDPARENTS, not with a drop of blood, would be considered a non-Aryan.

So how did the US end up being the voice of Africans?

[Temt]

ኤርትራ ንውንጀላ ክፍሊ ጉዳያት ወጻኢ ኣሜሪካ ትነጽግ | ERi-TV, MoFA Press Release: