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> From: Mosin Puccino <puccino@JUNO.COM>
> To: asa909@dircon.co.uk
> Cc: dehai@primenet.com
> Subject: Re: [DEHAI] The 2% is not the issue
> Date: sabato 15 marzo 1997 18.00
>
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> Selam Dehai,
>
> I admit, I don't belong to any Eritrean party nor do I plan to. I have
> no sense of loyalty to any group of
> politicians. I am just a plain Eritrean who is obedient to my official
> government. With that said
> I have never been as saddened as when I read this :
>
> On Sat, 15 Mar 1997 01:58:09 -0000 A ANDEGO <asa909@dircon.co.uk> writes:
>
> >1- There is no National ID card, the ID card people talking about is =
> >EPLF ID card (read carefully what is written on it) that is why some =
> >Eritrean refuse to hold it.
> >
> (deleted for brevity)
>
> >Abdullah
> >
>
> People actually refuse to hold a card that identifies them as Eritreans
> because of something
> as trivial as having 4 letters printed on it?
> Did these very same people refuse to accept that Eritrea was free
> because , let's face it,
> EPLF freed it. I don't think so. Actually, I hope not. After reading the
> above statement I can't be sure.
> Perhaps it is with the luxury of freedom at hand that we now think that
> we are strong
> enough to boycott elections and refuse identity cards. It has only been
> 6 years! The nation
> building process is delicate and prone to go through growing pains.
> Things will be done wrong,
> some people might get the short end of the stick, but that's the whole
> point of being involved and making
> your voice heard if you have constructive criticism. Criticism for the
> sake of criticism is frivolous.
>
> Please spare me the replies telling me of my naivete in assuming that we
> could all hold hands
> and sing kumbbaya. I realize there is bad blood between different
> parties. but when all is said and done
> we are not EPLFians or ELFians. We are all ERITREANS.
>
> never lose sight of that.
> =Mosin
>
>
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