Eritrea - Ministry of Information

Often, we Eritreans refer to times in which our country was made a victim of the hideous policies of American administrations to guarantee their global interest as ‘Ethiopian colonization’. Although in truth, the colonization of Eritrea for the past 40 years by Ethiopia has been United State’s colonialism by proxy.

The people of Eritrea in the past week colorfully commemorated the 20th anniversary of Operation Fenkil, one of the miraculous achievements of the struggle for independence that unsettled the foundations of colonization.

The US Administration has been attempting to extend its tentacles over the world in a task that is unfeasible and unrealistic. In fact, the task the US administration has at hand is so impractical that it has begun to resort to acts of futility. Nowadays, the US Administration has effectively turned the Security Council into its mouthpiece, with an utter disregard of the values upon which the council was formed. Hence the unjust Resolution 1907 reflects the defeatist state-of-mind of the US Administration.

Bequeathment for full emancipation is the theme of 20th anniversary of the Fenkil celebrations. It’s a theme that commemorates the grand heroic operations of that time which signaled the defi nite triumph of our struggle for independence. Bequeathment means legacy, a transfer of heritage, traditions, culture, costumes and history.