Fetsum: Eritrean opposition forces under examination

In this topic, I tend to discuss the opposition forces with the very limited information I came across the media. I apologize ahead for my ignorance and please make sure you understand that this is only my subjective input based on a limited knowledge as good as yours is. The reason for this being the weakness of the opposition forces in the areas of effective communication with the people through the INTERNET if not through direct contact. I feel like I am imagining their existence and substance for we have not seen them around in person to consider them reality, nor could we get enough information about in the Net to confidently discuss them.

The fact remains, however, that while the confused opposition forces keep on worthlessly sitting everywhere, Tesfamichael Kidane statistically argues; “Even now, look at how the well planned work-in-progress of slowly de-populating Eritrea. According to the UNHCR, Eritrea is hemorrhaging of its youth at alarming rate of 1500 per month” and asks; “At this rate, what is going to happen in two or three years time? Who is the dictator preparing an empty Eritrea for?” and concludes;”This is what an enemy does. It is so appalling that we don’t even have a plan to reverse this dangerous trend.”

It is said that we have over 30 groups in the opposition camp out of which 13 of them belong to EDA. The rest should be everywhere, I guess! The extent of distance between the people and the forces does not allow one to figure out anything about them. The atmosphere has been very dull and motionless: they don’t tell out anything worthy about what they do in the name of the people nor has there been any visible action that justifies their value vis-à-vis what they claim they represent. In short, they “represent” us without contacting us and we feel their presence in our imagination.

I don’t think anyone can confidently tell the number and the names of the opposition groups: EDA, however, appears to be a collection of the most influential groups to my understanding, (with a little reservation here to be clarified in the go) although it also suffers from ineffective communication/creativity induced isolation from its people and the universe at large. We have not seen EDA’s leaders in person nor is there adequate information about it in the media. EDA has so far drastically failed to impact the society and to impress international politicians for reasons I can only guess: at least lack of leadership and intellectual capacity. There may be highly educated Eritreans in EDA that I respect for their academic achievements; but they could not intellectually impress the people and the world yet to get attention from international politicians sitting all these years in Ethiopia, the best US ally in the continent, in Addis, the capital city of Africa or the home of African politicians (may be with the most powerful US and European Ambassadors) as well.

Let me start from the EDA (Eritrean Democratic Alliance) and probably move one more step ahead. That is as far as I can go in this subject because of nothing else but ignorance.

“The Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA) is an Eritrean opposition umbrella composing of 13 political Organizations. It uses all the available means of struggle to topple the current Eritrean regime. The names of its member organizations are as follows [and] The EDA Charte also states that the EDA respects the autonomy of the member organizations which occasionally results in dynamic tension among them.”

Good luck with your efforts but you cannot effectively communicate with the people this way. We have a problem understanding you because of your information censorship, weak, narrow and unconventional style of communication. The least you could do was writing your messages in the standard universal language English but you cannot even do this to reach out your few pages worth of messages. I found these latest EDA activities important to discuss the topic that will progress in time and see you soon.