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Toronto – Ethiopia, under the provisional government of the late Meles Zenawi, was the first country to recognize the independence of Eritrea in 1993.
As the tension between the two countries heightens, revisionist narratives have been taking center stages in Ethiopia as it relates to how the port of Assab was included within Eritrea. Some senior military officers in the Ethiopian Defense Force assert that Assab had an autonomy status at the time the Eritrean Referendum was organized to which Eritrea, through its minister for foreign affairs, responded.
The latest narrative was about the possibility that Ethiopia could rescind its recognition to Eritrea. This time the agenda is not by government officials or members of the Defense Force. It is “Horn Review” that framed it. The platform is allegedly supported by the Ethiopian government.
The argument from the latest narrative runs that the Ethiopian government under Meles Zenawi was not an elected one and that its status was provisional government with no mandate to recognize Eritrean Independence.
Proponents of this view are also arguing that Eritrea has been engaged in proxy wars against Ethiopia aiding and training rebel groups for nearly three decades.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed himself, whose government has already reorganized a naval force despite Ethiopia’s landlocked status, made another speech on Friday on the occasion of the inauguration of a natural gas production project in South East Ethiopia. “It is inevitable that we will be owners of sea access,” he stated.
Eritrea on Friday responded to the latest narrative about the possible reverse of its independent status.
The Minister for Information, Yemane Gebremeskel, responded to it by sharing content from Red Sea Beacon, apparently a site that was launched a few years ago.
“In the first place, Eritrea’s independence was not granted on a “silver platter” by Ethiopia or any other power on earth,” Yemane Gebremeskel wrote on his X page.
The argument that Eritrea’s Independence was “delayed” is reiterated, and Eritrea sees it as ” indelible facts.” According to the Eritrean Perspective, its status in the 1940’s was suppressed ‘due to the United States geopolitical interest in the region.
“Eritrea’s process of decolonization and inalienable right of independence should have been accomplished in the 1940’s in accordance with international law and established norms and practices. But this inalienable right was suppressed to give primacy for, and mollify the “overriding geopolitical interests” of, the US and other powers. In the event, the Eritrean people were compelled to pay a huge sacrifice in Africa’s longest war of national liberation to achieve their independence,” he added.
There have been views in Ethiopia that the United States supported the TPLF and Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) which changed its name to People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ) after independence.
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That’s my main man and longtime Black Italian homie Yemane. He, Al-Toweel Isu and I go way back to the 1960’s. I can tell them from the back of my hand. I know what they are thinking and going to do next. They know about me just the same. They are now mad beyond the pale cuz that thing called Ethiopia is thinking about to render Eritrea as non-existent. First of all, when and where Ethiopia ever existed? As my homeboy Al-Toweel told you a million times before, Ethiopia has never existed and its name was coined by the Tutsi colonizer Menelik after he was caught committing robbery in Tigray in 1896. Yemane and Isu have given me the copy of his arrest warrant. So Ethiopia exists in day dreamers heads only. It is a myth and a distorted creation and the people that live in it are all distorted. They don’t think and all the thinking is being done for them by my homeboys Yemane and Al-Toweel for centuries.
Now these same distorted people are thinking about rescinding the recognition of their master Eritrea? Are there serious? Guess what? This GERD thing is becoming a powder keg for the entire region and is going to trigger devastating wars that will compel the entire 135 million distorted people of Ethiopia to go on a move. That will devastate the booming economy of Eritrea. Look what the dam just did to Sudan. It flooded the entire eastern half of that country killing more than two hundred thousand citizens. So the dam should be deleted from the face of the earth and all it takes is one or two SU-35 Eritrean jets borrowed from the No.1 air force in the world of Egypt. Then you distorted people should start paying the 250 billion in US dollars you owe Eritrea. It is as simple as that. You Ethiopians don’t know how to fight anyway. All you do is hold your ‘think-less’ head and cry like a cranky toddler. Don’t start with my homeboys Yemane and Al-Toweel Isu cuz they’ve got your numbers. Boy, I hate those Amharas, Oromos, Afars, Somalis, Sidamas, Gambellas and Benis with a passion.