Waiting to Exhale…
… oh look the Eritrean Resistance is waiting to exhale again!… and we are all waiting with the same anticipation that one applies to watching paint dry…reelaax…it is not as boring as it sounds… many people specialise in providing the alternative entertainment and break the tedium of watching paint dry.
True to nature our young people are the first to get a tad bored and likely to go off in search of alternative engagements… but I will come back to that in a bit…
I haven’t followed the latest saga with EPDP… because the divisions have now officially stopped adding up… (thinking mathematically here!)…ok first there was DP… which divided into DP1 and DP2… then DP2 divided into… ummm I forgot the part that became Ambasador Adhanom’s share of the pie that then divided into the bit that joined DP1 when DP1 joined EPP to make up EPDP (are you still with me?)… now EPDP survived one more division and when Ambasador Adhanom (and his share of the original DP) divided from EPDP, but didn’t join the other half that stayed off EPDP! And a year later there is another split in EPDP and another group has now left…If an organisation is made up of people and as we all know there is a very small pool of people in the Eritrean Resistance and every time the divisions happen this represents a reduction in the pool of people under the respective acronyms… surely divisibility (mathematics speaking again!) becomes impossible at some point...! the next time I read that EPDP had a successful congress, I am going to take that with pinch of salt… and if that is the case for EPDP proper, then the splinters must be in an even unenviable position when it comes to real people making up the organisation (and when you put… committed people, resourceful people, even plain old nice to be around with people…the picture looks hopeless!) … oh yeah I remember now… I did read some of the reason for the splinter (apart from the usual… we are not told… we are not consulted… etc… which is probably true… knowing what I know about how Eritrean men conduct business!) there was a complaint about lack of mobilisation and grassroots appeal… so the splinter group have cleared the deck and have started a fresh mobilisation on paltalk probably!
….Paltalk for those uninitiated in politika Eritra is where it all happens… pfdj have been wiped clean a thousand times over… look at their ‘empty rooms!’ never mind the fact that they are all sitting in our ‘rooms’ to enjoy our undisciplined squabbles and our empty rhetoric! Not to mention revisionist lectures from hitherto unheard of historian pilots!
Which brings me to my favourite people in the entire eritrosphere… despite the fact that they threw me out of their paltalk room for asking the above mentioned historian his name… even after I told him mine… I still like the folk at simerr room for shattering the silence and pushing the Eritrean resistance to the realms of near mainstream… they have the makings of a real revolution starters… I am sure of that…granted they need to learn to rebel properly! Which is where they started back in the days… ‘the opposition organisations have failed and failed big time and PFDJ is vile to the core and we reject both!’. By this point in time I consider myself a parcel of the ‘traditional opposition’ and that message was difficult to hear but it was true…! It therefore saddens me to watch the Simerrr folk morph into their older predecessors down to the division lines they adopt (luckily the numbers involved are such that divisibility by two and then continued viability is still possible!). But morph they have… I will give you one example…there is the attempt to start a squabble between EYSC and EYNSC… you got to love the acronyms… does that make two examples of morphdom already? But the squabbles is one example that if I wasn’t chickening in, I would have I wanted to hone in on …but even I wouldn’t dream of going there…! Why? Because… well because I still subscribe to the adage: ‘neger ya deytsegebes gual waTa yimirO!’…
The ‘safer’ example is where everyone bickers about mode of struggle (yes that old chestnut) … remember EDA? Remember project minimum agenda and miniscule effort? … these debates on pal and FB go on and on and on until one asks ‘what is your role as an individual or even as an organisation based thousands of miles away from anywhere near ground zero…?’ And then everyone talks about: ‘agreements in principle and moral support and financial support’…if you ask…’but who carries the guns that would be bought by the financial support, we would collect say by organising ‘dirar tegadalay’?’... after a pause people would tell you ‘EMDJ, ENSF….etc etc…etc’ I will ignore the etc and ENSF for based on viable divisibility discussed above I have a feeling there are about 7 and 3/4 people in the ENSF ‘army’ (this is a guesstimate so don’t all do a monkey impression all at once!)…
But EMDJ, I want to talk about… EMDJ were so cute at one point… they came to pal and very articulately talked about what they wanted to do… they stood up to the WaEla Commission on the issue of youth involvement everyone was impressed… then things began to emerge and some of what was written from both sides of the feuding circles sounded like a excerpt from what we would one day write about pfdj gang leaders… people trafficking, womanising, alcohol abuse, corruption, espionage, money laundering… tribalism etc etc murky allegations… that left a really bad taste… we are going to overthrow pfdj there? I know some friends including some really dear ones that are as dear to me as my own siblings are going to be upset… but this is what I see and all I see… besides I have yet to see any evidence of their engagement… so for people in a hurry to depose pfdj… creating (or recreating), recruiting, training, arming and deploying EMDJ doesn’t somehow fall into the time frame that many talk about…. and give as a reason for why the alternative approach won’t work…
If the slogan really is: ‘National Salvation as a Matter of Priority’…Priority one should be coming to terms with the fact that there is dire shortage of people to carry guns… Priority two should be recognising that even after we have mobilised people there aren’t any guns to give them… then there is munitions, gear, food, medicine…. The list goes on!… sloganeering off a mic in paltalk and saying Segud! (that word have no translation in modern day English!) Is an insult on injury to the Resistance movement (especially coming from the more matured political figures who should bloody well know better!)
People who know how high emotions around this subject tend to rise would by now fear a lynch mob… but I should be ok for a good few days… the traffic of information from the written media to paltalk is rather slow!
But before I go and to deflect what I just said above (damage limitation my style!)… let me tell you what else was a good interval as we wait to exhale… a squabble between SGJ and my friend Qernelious… apparently QO and his outfit (sorry I can’t be bothered to go check the acronym) said something about Idriss Awate that is not to the liking of people who got offended and then drew more attention to what was said when no one was watching, reading or listening… (the tree in the desert….)… the funny thing is SGJ was concerned about the desecration of an Eritrean icon when us lot over at EYSC FB were declaring ‘We are All Awate!’ (bless our cotton socks…! Especially given the fact that all we had to do to be the iconic Awate was change our profile pictures on FB… I don’t know maybe it is all those lovely images that probably drove Qernelious over the cliff!?)…. The really funny thing is how SGJ was demanding that Qernelious and his group to apologise to the ENCDC and EDA… if he was clever QO should have responded I tried to phone them but there was a strange answer phone message… the person you have tried is unavailable… please try tomorrow when 1/8th of him might be available to take your call… they have divided infinitly and ended up in multiples none able to effect anything! … where it currently stands: Defeating pfdj= ENCDC +/- EDA - EPDP/2 x EYSNC+/- EYSC+ many more acronyms and fragments of acronyms….
Pheeeewwww!
