The lawbreaker and justice are like water
and oil
By: Shabait Staff
March 4, 2005
The Eritrea Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC) had invited both Eritrea and
Ethiopia to attend a meeting in London on February 22, 2005. Unfortunately,
the EEBC's proposal for a meeting failed to materialize due to the rejection
by the TPLF minority regime of Ethiopia. Such rejection is in continuation of
the Addis Ababa regime's consistent defiance of international law and the civilized
norms of the international community, and its adventuresome frolicking on the
road of lawlessness. This, however, comes as no surprise to Eritrea, as the
lawbreaker and justice are like water and oil that do not mix, and it is expected
for the violator of the law to stay as far away as possible from truth and justice.
It is to be remembered that the Addis Ababa regime, in an attempt to bury truth
with the logic of force, instigated its large-scale invasion of Eritrea. To
further this goal, the barbaric TPLF regime used warmongering propaganda inciting
ethnic hatred that is far removed from ethical conduct, in order to goad the
Ethiopian youth to burn in the flames of war. At a time when the international
community was sparing no efforts to resolve the conflict in a peaceful manner
when it first erupted, the leaders of the minority TPLF regime in Ethiopia were
using foul language on any party that called for sanity and peace to prevail.
This was a ploy favored by the regime to cloud the issue and prevent the truth
from emerging. All such attempts, however, could not prevent the truth from
finally manifesting itself. In the end, the logic of force used by the Ethiopian
regime failed completely.
When the regime was finally brought before the arbitration court at The Hague,
its utter nakedness was exposed for all to see. However, even after the EEBC
rendered its "final and binding" ruling on April 13, 2002, the regime's futile
attempts to escape from truth and justice did not cease. Contemptuously dismissing
the mandate of the international community in general, and the UN mission and
the august international court at The Hague, in particular, the Addis Ababa
regime officially rejected the final and binding ruling of the EEBC, thereby
obstructing demarcation from taking place, and is currently adhering stubbornly
to its path of lawlessness.
Rejection of the law and intimidation are in the nature of lawbreakers to evade
truth and justice and to cover up their violations of the law. Thus, the TPLF
regime's refusal of the proposed London meeting comes as no surprise, as it
is one in the long list of its futile attempts at evasion of justice. What is
surprising, however, is that the international community, the UN, and the guarantors
of the Algiers Peace Agreement, who have been much maligned and treated with
disrespect by the Addis Ababa regime, have been so far reluctant to carry out
their mandate that the Algiers Agreements confers on them, and to see to it
that the law is respected and the TPLF regime reined in to abide by the rule
of law.