If indeed the best defence be a good offence, then the woyane foreign ministry seem to have discovered its gimmick quite recently, and they are playing it to the hilt, hoping it is not too late to try and resurrect their under cover surrogate, UNMEE. What they are trying to do, as usual, is not exactly clear, as they try to blame and transfer all their past intransigence on to Eritrea, hoping that the world community might have already forgotten their transgressions. They also seem to have captured the secret of repetition, as politicians who are running for office often do, in every speech they make at different rallies, with the hope of instilling false thoughts and obscuring the truth into and from voters' minds. And so, in the same manner, are the woyane out to confuse the world in their usual deceitful ways.

They seem to have armed themselves with new tricks and gimmicks, probably learned from Frazer, but the question is, after having held the EEBC, Eritrea, and to a certain extent UNMEE, hostage for six years, will they be able to convince anyone? Will their repeated sudden interest in international law and, semblance of concern and respect for signed treaties, especially the Algiers agreement which they had trampled upon from the beginning, and which at one time even disowned as null and void, absolve them from all the damages they have caused in the Horn of Africa?

Contrary to what they are disseminating today pretending to be the victims, why the woyane are still standing today is not because the world community did not know who the aggressor was in 1997, or who the intransigent is today, but it is because of the godfather that they had pledged to surrender to, selling their souls, their people, their country and all that any group of self respecting human beings should hold sacred. So, as a compensation, no matter what they did, it was overlooked under the umbrella that they were America's best ally in Africa, and supposedly their most faithful partners in belligerence and initiating wars and creating chaos and mayhem in the Horn of Africa under the guise of fighting terrorism, thus baptizing anyone or country that the USA have their sight on for their own interest, as "terrorists" betraying and selling out their region in Africa, deeds which of course, the rest of the world community has long given up on, and to which, despite themselves, had no choice but either to condone, or play blind, deaf and mute to.

Then why, under the circumstance, since they are so well protected under the umbrella of the United States of America, why would they try so hard to make things look like what they are not, and by so doing further embarrass themselves, since it is obvious that all what they say is full of lies, intrigues and all that is evil. Could it perhaps be that, in exchange for all the privileges which they enjoy, they have been ordered by their masters to help UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his face saving effort to have the peacekeepers return?

Otherwise, unless they had been given a lee-way, after all the free passes, protection, encouragement and funding that they have been getting for the past ten years, to accuse the UN of appeasing the Eritrean administration would be a sign of enormous ungratefulness. And to finally admit that there is after all a chapter VII mentioned in the agreement that they signed in Algiers, gives a hint of some duress having been exercised.

Therefore, after having dodged the question of chapter VII all these years, they turn the table around and demand that Chapter VII be visited on Eritrea.

By now the entire world is familiar with woyane tantrums and childishness, especially after the verdict came out from The Hague – how they panicked and started to disseminate all sorts of gibberish statements. Because of their wishy-washiness they kept everyone, the EEBC, UNMEE, and most of all the Eritrean people, waiting for five years while they shifted from one position to another. Initially they accepted the verdict only to immediately feign ignorance of any understanding, and therefore demand for clarifications. Then, from there, it was all downhill, where they sometimes accepted the verdict, while at other times refuting it; as they fought the judges, insulting them by calling their ruling unfair, unjust, and irresponsible, only to come back to accepting it with preconditions, and then, at other times disowning the whole agreement altogether as null and void, and finally making fun of their final decision to go ahead with virtual demarcation on the map, calling it legal nonsense and invalid; and so on, and so forth, while all along, all they had to do, to settle the matter quickly, was to be principled and men enough to adhere to the agreement, accepting the ruling as final and binding according to what was signed by both parties before witnesses and guarantors in Algiers.

True to their bizarre behavior they are now beating on a dead horse by asking the return of UNMEE. As it is too complex to understand what they want done at this stage, so as not to take the risk of misconstruing what they say, it is better to repeat verbatim and let the reader decipher and make some sense of it as he or she sees fit, as many people have been struggling to do for the past five or six years.

Eritrea increasingly infiltrated the Temporary Security Zone (TSZ). It has now taken over the whole of the TSZ.
"the viability of the Algiers Agreement lies in the full restoration of the integrity of the Temporary Security Zone, And all functions of UNMEE.

So what is their complaint here? Was Eritrea supposed to abandon the place where the TSZ stood after the departure of the peacekeepers, or was she supposed to have asked permission from the UN to claim that portion of her territory? And to say that Eritrea infiltrated the TSZ, as though the land was foreign, is really preposterous. I guess when one stays too long in a place that does not belong to them, they start to sense ownership. This is exactly what happened in Badme. Rather it would have been more realistic if they withdrew peacefully from sovereign Eritrean territory which they have now been occupying illegally for the past ten years instead of hiding behind UNMEE heralding war in their absence.

What for are they pleading for the return of UNMEE? All the woyane have to do, believing that Eritrea has better things to do, and greater ambitions to fulfill than to revel in killings and wars like they and their masters are doing, is to mind their own business and concentrate on their responsibilities, which is not to please America, but to tend to their own people who are suffering with all sorts of ailments including famine. Therefore, unless their presence is required for further sinister dealings, the services of UNMEE, even if they change positions, will not be required, at least not as far as Eritrea is concerned. We have big projects ahead of us and are busy in nation building, and have no more time for all the bickering being raised, especially since now, the case of demarcating the border has also been settled. Nevertheless, Eritrea will continue to appeal for the return of her illegally occupied sovereign territory.

Lastly, although it has been written in detail for umpteen times, but just to put the record straight once again, it is good to remind the woyane that, according to what has been documented and recorded for posterity, the truth of the matter is that the woyane never had accepted Eritrea's independence from the beginning, and to add insult to their injury, they witnessed the Eritrean government's advancement, while their own government was still tackling with chronic famine. So, as Emperor Haile Selassie once said that the only way to deal with Eritrea was economically, the woyane too decided to seek of ways to weaken Eritrean economy and to stop the rate at which it was escalating. What better than a war to destroy and weaken the promising economy of a newly born nation? This is the crux of the matter!

It is also important to remember that, at the time they were cooking all these evil thoughts, they practically owned Assab and its seaport, and therefore there was no problem with their needing an outlet. Nevertheless, emboldened by outside forces and their jealousy having taken over them, they decided to create pretexts for starting a war, and as a starter first drew Eritrean blood in 1997, and later in 1998, as they are doing today, turned the table around, pretending to have been attacked, quickly declared war on Eritrea, stretching the fight to three rounds and prolonging it to two years hoping, in the interim, to occupy a seaport, with the assurance that they could keep it illegally for as long as they had America to back them as their godfather.

This was the plan that was never given a chance to succeed thanks to Eritrea's heroic and brave fighters and those who were martyred in the process of saving our beloved nation for a second time, to whom we are forever grateful and whose memories we will cherish forever.

I bring all this up as a response to the hypocritical woyane foreign affairs' press release where they blame the UN Security Council for having appeased Eritrea and by not stopping the war which they claim Eritrea was the initiator, a claim which, in both cases, was very far fetched and far from the truth – and they know it.

In May 1998, the UN Security Council, refusing to condemn Eritrea's invasion of Ethiopia, adopted a policy which Ethiopia felt amounted to appeasement. Subsequently, this approach continued in various forms. The Security Council made little effort to respond with any vigor to the continuous Eritrean efforts to undermine the Agreement on Cessation of Hostilities over the last four years.

Why, in heaven's name, are they repeatedly raising this ten years old case, after all that has taken place since? When people are ordered to write about things that they deep down know to be false, it is bound to turn out into a fiasco. Whatever they cook-up clandestinely under different camouflaged guises and umbrellas, be it accusations of harboring terrorists, or burying nuclear weapons, Eritreans will always be vigilant and will not be dictated to as where to place their army, as long as they are within their own legal boundary. Eritreans will also not be dictated to as to when to normalize relations with her southern neighbour, as that would be putting the cart before the horse. First things first.

And to end with just a few, among many, remarks that have been thrown back at the woyane from those fed up with their intransigence, and in response to their defensive false accusations, blaming others for what they themselves are guilty of:

"If there has been a destabilizing factor in the Horn of Africa, it has been the regime currently in power in Ethiopia,"
Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF)
"there is no crisis, terminal or otherwise, which cannot be cured by Ethiopia's compliance with its obligation under the Algiers Agreement, in particular its obligation to treat the Commission's delimitation determination as final and binding (Article 4.15) and to cooperate with Commission, its experts and other staff in all aspects during the process of demarcation"
Chairman of the Boundary Commission (EEBC) on 14 Oct 2003.
Ethiopia should implement now the final and binding decision, if not we need sanction against Ethiopia.
EU Vice President of the Committee on Human Right.- John Van Heck