Mosin Puccino wrote:
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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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Salam Mosin, Dehai
First of all I would like to know that I have an ID card despite I
don’t like the(4 letters), and I did my duty in referendum despite I
haven’t agreed with the Idea, also I don’t belong any party at the
moment, so I am not defending my self or my party as you my though,
just I wanted to mention that there are Eritreans who have a point been
ignored.
It is true I don’t belong any political party, but I can’t be just an
obedient citizen to whoever rule Asmara as a robot, I believe I have a
role in my country through my political views.
I hate the way handle my post, you’ve selected a point out of context
and deleted the rest, which may lead to misunderstanding , any way, of
course I didn’t meant the 4 letters it self , but what it means
politically, economically. Socially and culturally. Now assuming that
this is (something trivia) as you said wasn’t wise that EPLF as ruling
party to ignore any thing my irritate some Eritreans and keep all hold
hands, isn’t fair to blame both side .
You mentioned that "Some Eritrean refuse to accept that Eritrea was
free because EPLF freed’ I hard even I faced some people who argue this
statement, but never saw single Eritrean who prove that, people oppose
EPLF because they don’t agree the way they handle the country, not
because Eritrea is not free. EPLF doesn’t appeared out of the blue, they
emerged through Eritrean people pains and hope now if they denied that
pains and ignored that hope, they have to expect opposition as simple as
that, because Eritrea is for all Eritreans.
Abdu
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