TPLF Regime’s Rejection of the EEBC
Decision Open Call for War
By: Shabait Staff
December 18, 2003
Directly after the declaration of the EEBC decision, the TPLF regime blew its
victory trumpets and made much fanfare announcing that the Boundary Commission
had issued it’s just and fair decision, and that it awarded more than the regime
had dreamt of. The regime publicized this in its official mass media. However,
shortly in a contradictory step to its announced to this effect, the same regime
declared its disassociation and reneged on its obligations to honour the Commission’s
a final and binding ruling. It employed in this act all kinds of deceit and
pretexts.
In its outright arrogance, the TPLF regime went to extremes and excesses when
it declared that it no longer recognizes the legality of the EEBC. In the same
line, it called on the UN Security Council to abrogate and nullify the Algiers
Peace Agreement and replace the EEBC by another. Here, the regime tends to forget
and ignore that the Security Council and representatives of the world community
and other international guarantors who signed the Algiers Agreement have no
right to cancel the EEBC or look for another mechanism that realizes the illusions
and dreams of the TPLF regime.
We are following with great regret these days the regime’s heated and craving
diplomatic campaigns to try to appear in the disguise of desiring peace through
raising the slogan of so-called open-ended dialogue and also as concerned for
the security and stability of the region, pretending to deny that its arrogant
policy still remains beating the war drums. However, it is not unusual for this
regime to profess falsely certain human values with which it has no ties, in
the belief that deceit and evasive tactics can deceive all. In this respect,
the regime’s hidden agenda vividly came out into the open.
How can a party occupying the territory of the other ask it for dialogue? By
what logic? And to start dialogue on what, why and until when? It is extremely
odd for the TPLF regime to call for dialogue so naively, oblivious of the fact
that the regime itself is the party that threw the EEBC decision in its wastebasket,
and that it is the same party that is insisting to continue its occupation of
the sovereign territory of the other side. The call for such a dialogue is tantamount
to a clear declaration of war. There is no other interpretation to it.
The futile attempts of the invading TPLF regime to give legitimacy to its invasion
of Eritrea represent another face of its arrogance. Its message amounts to either
dialogue or war. It has no other meaning. Either of the two options surely means
entering into a vicious circle of wars.
The atmosphere the regime is trying to create on the ground is a clear intimidations
to again ignite war. However, attaining peace and stability in the region and
enabling the two peoples to enjoy both can only be achieved through the implementation
of the final and binding EEBC ruling. Any attempt to violate this decision in
letter and spirit mean war itself. If there are some lessons learnt at all TPLF
regime from its previous wars, it is that the option of war is not in its favour,
and that ultimately there is no escape from succumbing to the EEBC final and
binding decision.