An official account of the National Task Team for the formation of Eritrean Government in Exile.
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Sep 1, 2021 • 26 tweets • 14 min read
60 years ago, a small group of ill-equipped but determined #Eritrea|ns, led by the legendary Hamid Idris Awate, initiated an epic historical journey with the aim to liberate, by an armed struggle, Eritrea from #Ethiopia|n occupation & to restore to the Eritrean people the right
to determine the nature of the political community they want to live in and over the running of which they would have a meaningful say. The struggle was b/n two unequals: between the aid-bloated #Ethiopia|n Leviathan, and the ill-armed, largely marginalised subaltern #Eritrea|n
Aug 29, 2021 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
At the annual symposium Ambassador Andeberhan Wolde Giorgis organizes, he included criticism of the Government-in-Exile proposal. A link to the entire speech (in Tigrinya) is provided below. For those who did not follow it (or understand Tigrinya) here is a summary:
Thread.
All errors in translation are ours and we will correct them if we mis-translated what he said. Fairly soon, in this same thread, we will reply to it as we think it will advance the discourse to enable our people full information so they can choose the best path for #Eritrea.
Aug 7, 2021 • 53 tweets • 20 min read
Why Do We Need A Government In Exile? Rationale:
Because (a) the Government-in-Power has lost the legitimacy to govern on legal, political and socio-economic grounds and (b) the conventional opposition approach does not rise to the state of emergency #Eritrea is facing.
Thread. (2) In 1992, #Eritrean Peoples’ Liberation Front (EPLF) issued a Proclamation 23/1992 that
defined the Structure, Power, and Function of the Provisional Government of Eritrea (PGE).