Press Release/About the Sanctions Resolution passed by the Security Council’sOn the PFDJ Regime
Press Release
About the
Sanctions Resolution passed by the Security Council’s
On the PFDJ Regime
On its meeting No: 6254, held in December 23, 2009, the UN Security Council
passed Resolution1907 (2009) imposing sanctions on the Eritrean Regime. The
resolution was passed by
13-1 vote, with Libya opposed, and China abstaining. The resolution was
taken on the ground of previous resolutions about Somalia and the
Eritrean-Djibouti border conflict and the role of Asmara’s regime on
destabilizing the entire region.
On this
regard, The Eritrean Democratic Alliance, while expressing its strong
support for the Security Council’s Resolution1907 (2009), consider it as a
right, responsible and justified direction against the uncivilized,
destructive and arrogant regime of Eritrea. The late but effective
resolution has come in congruence with the demand of the Eritrean people,
who are suffering all type of atrocities and terror by the regime. It would
give a glimpse of hope at the end of the tunnel to our people and will see a
better prospect with out the rogue regime of PFDJ.
The sanction
has come very late after the regime has had eroded all the peace and
stability of the region and produced multi facet conflicts that will cost
the international community and the neighboring countries a lot to solve.
However, it is better late than never and we welcome it from heart.
The regime’s
destabilizing activity had never been limited to Somalia and Djibouti alone
but has been creating havoc in the internal affairs of several neighboring
countries, training and arming insurgent groups and sending them to those
countries. It has also been instigating a variety of wars in the region
since its inception; Somalia and Yemen are cases in point.
The crimes
committed against the neighboring countries and the whole region is better
not to mention compared to the colossal carnage and the reign of terror
engulfing the Eritrean people.The people are held hostage by the
most reckless and irresponsible regime of the time. The one man regime
harasses, intimidates, and destroys the lives of its nationals on daily
base. Void of any moral, human or legal room, the regime applies
indiscriminative punishment, detention incommunicado, extended forced labor
under the guise of a national service, rape of helpless young and innocent
girls and daughters of veteran fighters and esteemed nationals,
extrajudicial killings, disrespect for bare minimum human rights and human
dignity, absence of judicial system of any form or content, absence of the
rule of law, are the main features of the current Eritrean regime and is
well documented by many concerned international organizations.
Owing to brutality
of the Regime thousands Eritrean citizens, especially the youth, have been
forced to flee, regardless of the uncountable risks on their attempt to
leave the country.
However, once they cross the border they encounter the
question of how to secure refugee status and get recognition for their
cause. Some times, their fate is designed with a forcible repatriation where
they are pressed to face death and detention penalties in the camps the
regime has mended for such inhumane activities.
The Eritrean
Democratic Alliance believes that there won’t be a sustainable peace or
stability in the Horn of Africa without a stable and democratic Eritrea that
respects the rights and dignity of its citizens, at the first place. Since
the nature of Isayas’s regime is beyond the reforms any healthy human
expects, it will remain as a source of regional and international disorder.
Bringing about stable and democratic Eritrea requires an absolute regime
change. Hereby, we reiterate our call to the international community at
large, to positively contribute, through its established institutions,
parameters and mechanisms, to the struggle of the Eritrean people to foster
a democratic change, that will secure internal stability and peace and
security to the region.
The Eritrean
Democratic Alliance calls upon the UN to enforce and make serious follow ups
on the sanction endorsed so us to produce an effective out come on the
elements selectively targeted. It also appeals to the different UN
organizations to help the Eritrean victims that are suffering systematic
repression and danger of starvation imposed by the regime. The EDA also
appeals for a better solution and handling of the Eritrean refugees by
granting them protection and refugee status.
The Eritrean
Democratic Alliance avails itself on line to cooperate with the people,
neighboring nations, the region and the international community for the
collective struggle of assuring peace, security, stability and sustainable
development in the Horn.