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Ive already seen this movie:

Eritrea and the War by Media
By Daniel Wedi Korbaria

The background
Voice-over of an Eritrean immigrant: I may well be a supernatural, but Ive
already seen this movie and I know how it ends.
In twenty years in Italy, I have read piles of newspapers furnished with the lies of journalists. In
twenty years I have learned to recognize them, I know how they work, to daily hammer anyone
ending targeted by the US. At the end of the 1990s the target was Milosevic preceding NATO
bombs on Belgrade. Then came Saddams turn, alleged of killing his own people. The allegations
were tales of oppressed civilians, who were dying under his claws due to hardships and lack of
freedom. However, interestingly, all the newspapers seemingly caring for the Iraqi people failed to
write about the collateral damages suffered by the civilian population due to US sanctions and the
embargo of medicines.
I recall then that Italian public opinion supported the US lead which started to bomb Iraq in 2003.
Its about time said those who had learned to recognize Saddam as the embodiment of the
devil. They were all bold and satisfied about the military attack, so that he public enemy number
one would never again use those weapons of mass destruction, which journalists had widely
covered, convincing public opinion of their existence.
In February that year there were very few of us in San Giovanni Square in Rome protesting against
the war in Iraq; there were not enough pacifists to stop that damned war.

The movie plot

The work of journalists and activists of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) provokes an
international reaction, demonstrations in the squares for human rights, urging the humanitarian
intervention of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meetings, and at the same time, an
extraordinary meeting of NATO, military escalation and the roaring of engines of the airplanes
taking off loaded with democratic bombs.
After that the bombs of liberty, justice and respect for human rights fall by the thousands. This is the
war of democracy against the regime. Bombs kill women and children, provoking the exodus of
thousands of refugees, the setting up of tent cities for refugees and the proliferation of NGOs, who
manage the refugee camps. Its the same story all over again.

This is my question to the spectators: Why do you want to watch a movie when you
already know how it ends, having seen it many times over in recent world
history? Do you still want to pay for your ticket? The spectators respond: Yes, and
theres a queue at the box office!
Who will be the main character this time? Next! Iran? Or Pakistan?
After the fall of Afghanistan and Iraq came the Arab springs and colour revolutions. Then it was
Ghaddafis turn, who, according to newspapers, seemed to have suddenly gone crazy, bombing his
own population and throwing them in mass graves. We came, we saw, he is dead said a
visibly amused Hillary Clinton in an interview.1
After unleashing hell in Libya, the most developed Country in Africa, it was the turn for Assad and
the Syrian uprising where, according to newspaper reports, people were suffocated with chemical
weapons by the tyrant. Had it not been for the denial by the Russians about the origin of those
chemical weapons,2 Bashar al-Assad would have ended up like Saddam and Ghaddafi with the
UNs blessing.

Break
I had long started to have doubts about Italian newspapers, as I was convinced they were a
mouthpiece of the US propaganda. I thought they were biased, because they often translated and
published articles by the Washington Post, The New York Times, or worse, by the CNN and Fox
News, and I did not understand why they were so openly one-sided. One wonders: was the Italian
investigative journalist, Fulvio Grimaldi, right when he talked of butt-licking journalism?
I have learned from personal experience that when you are with an Italian, if you criticize the poor
functioning of his country, he will say You are right, unfortunately But if you turn your
criticism against the US he will get furious, as though you had offended his own mother, and would
start defending the US, making you feel like a plotter, or worse, like a terrorist.
The answer to the obvious question is embedded in Second World War history, when the Americans
freed Italy from Nazi-Fascism and travelled up the Italian peninsula distributing chocolates.
The Marshall plan bound Italy with an umbilical cord and turned it into a North American province.
It is undeniable that the liberation from the twenty years of Fascism implied sixty years of military
occupation, judging from the presence of about a hundred US military bases on Italian soil.3
Being part of NATO meant de facto relinquishing national sovereignty. Since then Italy has never
been independent again. The only exception being Craxi, who in the Sigonella affair, rebelled
against the US; by refusing to release the four Palestinian terrorists of the Achille Lauro.4
Only God knows for how many more years will Italy have to obey its master!

A master so skilful to create Al Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, ISIS, Boko Haram, and other extremist groups
if needed. This does not exclude the possibility that even the Red Brigades may have been the
product of the US! And if this theory is correct, then the historical compromise and its governments
of the first and second republic could be held accountable. So much for Mazzini, Cavour and
Garibaldi!

The dramatic twist in the events

Inside a newspaper office in Rome or Milan, daytime: Comfortably sitting in
their offices, as if they were the heirs of Salgari who, in the Tiger of Malaysia managed to
describe a world he had never been to, Italian journalists started to describe Eritrea with their
demonic set of mind. A daily job aimed at destroying the new villain of the day, President Isaias
Afwerki considered an enlightened progressive leader by Eritreans, incorruptible and unique in
Africa. Incredulous, I started to worry.
Why on earth would Italian journalists write lies about a country they have
never set foot in? I asked myself in bewilderment. How did they select to demonize Eritrea,
out of the 54 African States? Whose orders? And why?
The fact that they mechanically repeated untruthful labels coined by the US such as North Korea
of Africa, Giant prison and Hell on earth to describe Eritrea, makes clear the answer to
the question as to who is giving the order. Otherwise someone would have come up with labels such
as: the Guantanamo of the Horn of Africa or the African Abu Ghraib, unless these
are considered democratic tortures.
Copying each other reciprocally, with a cut-and-paste worthy of a multinational tailors shop, they
defame Eritrea, even if they cant point it on the geographical map.
They ask: Are you an Indian?
I respond: No, I am African. Why?
They ask again: Isnt India in Africa?
And if the masters of the world have decided to attack Eritrea, journalists would come and do the
dirty work before the Marines arrive, lined up like soldiers in the trenches and ready to fight for a
loaf of bread.
In their articles they never mention the investments of the Eritrean Government on public health,
the struggle to drastically reduce infant mortality rate and the eradication of communicable diseases,
free education from nursery school to University, environmentally friendly development and the
fierce battle to stop land desertification. They also fail to speak about the future of young Eritreans
freed from the debt of the World Bank and IMF, while their very own sons and daughters are born
with a debt of 30,000 euro each.

In truth, what do Italian journalists know about Eritrea, except that its typical dish is the zighin and
that it is very hot and spicy? Do they know, for instance, that Eritrea reached the objectives of the
Millennium Goals and the hundreds of dams that have been built in order to achieve food security?
Are they informed about Eritreas self-reliance philosophy, or self-sufficiency, which teaches us to
work rather than beg? Eritrea is, in fact, the only African country refusing the humanitarian aid of
the USAID5 and still, no child dies from starvation. Eritrea has practically banned all NGOs from
the country, alongside their lifelong aid, aimed at crippling and impoverishing Africa.6
And this is something Western NGOs never liked, accustomed as they are of telling Africans, If
you do not approve of my being in your country, it is because you want to deny
your population human rights. Leaving reluctantly, they never forgave the Eritrean
Government for creating a precedent, which would have been a threat of good example, in the
words of Noam Chomsky, for other African countries. So the NGOs claim a regime change is
needed!

Italian ingratitude
Flashback: These Italian journalists are ungrateful people, mercenaries of misinformation, foot
soldiers and stenographers to power with a short memory; they do not even have the humility or
intellectual honesty, or the curiosity to want to know about Eritrea and its struggle for genuine
independence. They should have felt some sort of gratitude towards Eritreans; they should have felt
indebted and embarrassed for their lack of respect for the hundreds of thousands of Ascari (colonial
Eritrean soldiers), who died for their mania of grandeur.
Had it not been for Eritreans, recruited against their will, they would have never conquered
Cyrenaica and Tripolitania, Somalia and Ethiopia. It was thanks to Eritreans that they tasted their
dream to be an empire and had their place in the sun. But, surely, it is not the Eritrean Ascaris fault
if they then lost their head, and the Second World War with it, alongside their three African
colonies. For sure, Italy started an ordeal for Eritreans a century ago, which is still continuing.
The British gave their war booty to the Ethiopian monarch Haile Sellassie, and it was with the
complicity of the US7 and the nascent UNs silence that Eritreans found ourselves Ethiopians, first
federated and then annexed. The consequences of their guilty cockiness meant thirty years of war
for Eritrean people, the longest African fight for freedom, in which 80,000 Eritreans died. This was
your damned legacy. In the end, though, we won that war in 1991 and declared our independence in
1993, in spite of Italys ingratitude, which led it to finance Colonel Menghistu Hailemariam, who
massacred tens of thousands of Eritrean people.8 And today, Italy continues to betray the Eritrean
people by allying itself with Ethiopia, its former enemy of the past, dating back to the Battle of
Adua in 1896. To put it simply, Italy is waging a media war against its former first-born colony.
Daily, they bombard Eritrea with poisoned words covering it with infamy, and when they do not
have news they translate deceitful propaganda articles taken straight from online Ethiopian sites.

In this way, they are reversing the course of history by negating Eritreas 30-years fight for
freedom, in order to deliver Eritrea to Ethiopia hand packed, as it were, like a beautiful present, so
that it can be re-annexed. They are forgetting that for 13 years, i.e. since 2002, part of Eritrean
sovereign soil has been occupied by Ethiopian military forces, in spite of the Algiers Treaties, 9 of
which Italy is a guarantor country. Final-and-binding agreements in which the Boundary
Commission (EEBC) of the United Nations definitively awarded those territories to Eritrea and
from which Ethiopia refuses to withdraw, contravening international law and agreements. In the
meantime, the Tigrayan people in power in Addis Ababa threaten yet another war against Eritrea, 10
especially after Obamas latest visit, Attila overseas, which appears to have given the green light for
a new attack. If Eritrea were threatened with a new war jeopardizing its independence, our
sovereignty and its flag, obviously they could no longer consider themselves as neutral and nonpartisan. They would not be any different from Ethiopian soldiers.

What democracy?
Subjective: I, the grandson of an Ascari, can claim to know Italy. I know its language, dialects
and proverbs well. I know its culture and art, the monuments, the literature, the music of
singer/song writers, as well as underground music, the cinema of great film directors and of actors
of the past, its theatre, museums, the festivals and fairs, the saint patrons feasts, its events in the
streets and squares, its History and Constitution, the world of work and social centres, its elderly
and its hospitals, the cuisine, politics, newspapers and journalists, sports and the magical AS Roma.
But I also know the troubles afflicting it. Since my arrival in Italy, the Bel Paese is governed by bad
politics, by people who change their party in the same way they change their shirts, by mafias of
every kind, a country where the code of silence, hush money and corruption reign supreme. A
country where meritocracy is not recognised, of people with friends in the right places, a country of
workplace deaths, black market, of exploitation of African workers in tomato fields, a country of
bribes, blackmailing, extortions, nepotism, of give-and-take bargaining where one hand washes the
other, of the exchange of votes, of fixed tenders, a country where illegal development reigns, with
widespread tax evasion, where you die on the zebra crossing, children are kidnapped and women
killed, a country where the best brains choose to emigrate elsewhere and those who remain have
precarious jobs.
I arrived in Italy and I immediately realised that it was not the same Italy of Dante, Leopardi,
Michelangelo and Leonardo, which I had studied and dreamt of as a young student in Eritrea. It is
no longer even the Italy of De Filippo, Tot, Fellini and Mastroianni, of De Andr and of Giorgio
Gaber. It is no longer the Italy of Pertini and Berlinguer, of Falcone and Borsellino. It is not the
Italy of scientists and Nobel-prize winners, of Guglielmo Marconi and Enrico Fermi. That Italy is
dead and buried to leave space for the likes of Riina, Schettino, for Mafia Capitale, corrupt
politicians and brown-noser journalists serving the establishment. This is a mediocre Italy;
mediocre, but democratic. But what country can be defined as democratic when censorship rules,
when the state stops demonstrations in the squares, when the law is not impartial and rewards the
clever fellows who steal billions and imprisons someone who has stolen an apple? It is a democracy
only because elections are called every one-and-a-half year? It is a lousy democracy, worthy of a
Land of Boobies!

Freedom of the press, look whos talking!

An overview of the past: In spite of my dislike for Emperor Haile Sellassie, those gestures and
screams to stop him from talking at the League of Nations in 1936 (when Mussolini invaded
Ethiopia) were, from my African perspective, shameful and anti-democratic. He was denied the
human right a head of state ought to have in order to defend his country from military aggression.
Like father, like son! With the same anti-democratic method, today they are denying Eritrea that
same right to defend itself from their media accusations and they are accusing the whole Eritrean
community residing in Italy to be supporters of the regime, collaborators, spies,
etc. They accuse others of dictatorship, when their democratic freedom of the press is only a
monologue without opposition. They are the first to censor Eritreans voice by deleting it and
banning it on social networks, so that they can continue speaking evil undisturbed. Your
comments waiting for moderation is their rule. And when all else fails, in a desperate
attempt to shut up mouths they scream, Fascist! to an African, and do not believe that history
can be re-written again from the beginning and that their ominous past may be transferred to the
victims. There is no world reversal; the butchers remain butchers and victims remain victims. It is a
useless attempt to remake an old movie, which was already ugly originally.

The power of the good ones

Now there is a continuous competition among journalists, done at the expense of the poor wretches,
as to who is the most humane and good than the rest. If we were to ask with the words of John
Pilger: Who gives you the right to do what you are doing around the world? they
would all reply with conviction: We are doing it for human rights.
Thanks to western wars, journalists have discovered they are such saints that each year they
compete to win the prize for the Best Human Rights Defender. The winners are those who, either by
means of articles or photographs, describe civilians dismembered by bombs. Obviously, the prize is
commensurate to the length and intensity of the war; the higher the number of casualties, the more
fame and gold tokens will be in store for the winner.
The winner of the Prize for Best Humanitarian of 2015 is the weekly
magazine standing, ovation and loud applause.
And it is international NGOs overseas -- which have been involved for decades in the regimechange policy, colour revolutions and Arab springs -- who finance these competitions and meaty
journalistic prizes. In fact, authentic bribes! Bingo!
In return, Italian journalists cite the same NGOs as reputable sources in their lies and attribute them
sacrosanct indisputable truth, and they repeat like a prayer: Amnesty said this, Human
Right Watch confirms this, According to a classification by Reporters sans
Frontires or by Mdecins Sans Frontires. For the record, all these organizations are
financed by the Open Society Foundation11 of that saint man George Soros, author of speculations

worth billions of dollars and of bloody colour revolutions;12 a "philanthropist" able to call in Rome
in an OTPOR-style operation 120 journalists13 from around the world to best accommodate the
arrival of more refugees. We are a coalition of Journalists, coders, designers, digital Strategists &
global citizens coming together to tackle the Mediterranean migration crisis reads their twitter
profile. Poor Europe!
Journalists turned humanitarian activists continue to shout, Come, come! knowing that their
appeasing attitude functions as a pull factor and beckons hundreds of thousands of desperate
people from Africa to Europe. They will not admit that, actually, they are the ones killing migrants,
drowning them in that cursed sea and turning survivors of the shipwreck into zombies left on the
pavements of railway stations of big cities. Italy does not have the capacity, or the will to offer
proper reception; if it does so, there is another reason behind it: usual Italian style corruption.

Too many jackals are fighting over the same bone

Scene sequence: Immigration and the refugee crisis create jobs for many Italians who are
involved in this pretending to be volunteers. From those in charge of reception, to journalists, to
photo reporters, to NGOs activists, to news analysts and Africanists on TV, to human traffickers,
they all bite and strip their bone. Immigration in Italy is more lucrative than drug smuggling. For
most journalists it is only a simple duty: Work is work, i.e. the piece that at the end of the
month will secure him a good salary. From their articles and photographs of corpses no humanity
shows through; they are cold, cynical and cruel shots. They are repeated words without emotion.
These are modern gravediggers armed with cameras, tablets and cell phones, experts of social
network media who manage to convert every like into cash. In order to earn more they have no
scruples about splashing together with the corpses floating in that liquid blood-red cemetery. They
are there to catch their story, their scoop and then they go and sell the product to the highest bidder.
In spite of their sharp teeth, they do not feel like vampires. It is their democracy which grants them
this freedom of press.
And still, the visionary Giorgio Gaber had summed them up very well already in 1980, when he
defined them thus: Youre cannibals, necrophiliacs, pathetic, smart, and you could
say complacent with yourselves; you throw yourselves on human disaster for a taste
of tears on the first page.14

The backstage of the exodus

Then why do young people flee Eritrea? This is the million-dollar question and the most
banal reply would be: Because of the most ferocious regime in the world.
But this script is too weak, too obvious. This is the clichd western perspective that will end up
boring the spectator. What about the other side of the story, the other narrative, 15 the African
perspective for instance? Are we really sure that things are not different from how they appear?
What if it had all been organized to weaken the Eritrean Government? And here the story becomes
more interesting, disturbing and disarming.

The Eritrean Government has called for United Nations attention for a long time and proposes the
opening of an independent investigation on the trafficking of human beings from Eritrea towards
Europe, stating they have new sufficient and damning evidence about authors above suspicion, with
their names and surnames. But the UN does not intend to open this independent inquiry, because
doing so would uncover the skeletons in its cupboard that would undermine its credibility.
Who is really behind the scenes? Who is the true director? Who benefits from this?
I recently renewed sanctions on some of the worst abusers, including North
Korea and Eritrea. Were partnering with groups that help women and children
escape from the grip of their abusers. Were helping other countries step up
their own efforts. And were seeing results16 reiterated President Obama in his speech at
the Clinton Global Initiative.17
It is obvious that the strategy is to deprive Eritrea of its future: its young people. Yes, the very
young people who arrive in Lampedusa on board boats, risking their lives each time. No-one can
deny that Ethiopia the number one US ally in Africa wants access to Eritrean sea, which is
easier to achieve if there are no young people defending Eritrean borders. Similarly, it cannot be
denied that the US wants a military base in Eritrea to exploit its strategic position in the Red Sea.
The Human Rights Watch, therefore, declares Eritreas endeavours for national defence and nation
building as slavery, thus whitewashing ancestral crimes.
But Eritrea, as opposed to its neighbours, is still free and sovereign and does not host American
military bases or AFRICOM American soldiers, present throughout Africa.18
At this point, to keep the publics attention alive, you must surprise it by creating suspense by
means of another dramatic turn of events.
In UNHCR-run refugee camps all the protagonists of regime-change run amuck: secret service
agents, NGOs, journalists, photo reporters. Their humanitarian mission is to keep a file on people,
extort information, hide the truth; in other words, adding more fuel to the fire in order to further
destabilize the country from which people are fleeing. True wolves in sheeps clothes!
Facilitate full access for UNHCR to Eritrean asylum seekers19 are the categorical
instructions of Human Rights Watch to the governments of the countries, which host refugee camps.
In the report of September 2014 the same [Human Rights Watch] wrote: Eritrean refugees
have become a crucial source of information on the human rights situation in
Eritrea ().20
With the excuse of alleged retaliations by the Eritrean Government on their relatives, their identities
and real names are hidden, other names are chosen, among those easiest to pronounce so that public
opinion can familiarize with them, the shorter they are the better they will be understood. So names

like Dawit, Abel, Sara, Musie, Haile are published. And it must be said that even the journalist
should be able to spell a name like Ghebremedhin, Habtemariam or Abdelkadir.

Pull factor
Eritreans of the recent migration know only too well the economic situation of families in Eritrea,
and we know that 100 euros a month make a huge difference. These young men know that only by
signing There is a dictatorship will they manage to get their asylum documents and those
100 euros to send back home. I would do the same in their shoes; in fact for that document I would
also confess to have killed Bin Laden. Newspapers underestimate and offend the intelligence of
their readers, because they know that to obtain a stay permit you must be persecuted for political
reasons and not just be an economic migrant.
For this reason, once disembarked in Lampedusa, they do all they can to escape also from Italy,
considered as having poor welfare, whereas Northern Europe is richer and more generous. If they
escape from (poor) Italy, why is then poverty in Eritrea considered a dictatorship after two wars
with Ethiopia lasting almost 40 years and two recent United Nations sanctions?
Another pull factor for young Eritreans is the prima facie refugee status given exclusively to
Eritreans, notwithstanding the fact that in Africa there are more unfortunate countries.
The prima facie policy of granting political asylum to Eritreans subscribed by both Italy and the
EU, obeying orders from overseas and risking a proper invasion, is beckoning more and more
unfortunate people from all over Africa, especially Ethiopians, who of course declare to be Eritreans
upon entry to Europe, given their similarity in appearance. But this phenomenon is ignored by
UNHCR statistics and by reports of journalists who are only interested in confirming that the
exodus is only concerning Eritreans. Suit yourselves.
For a piece of paper, those poor wretches, even unaccompanied minors, must repeat what is written
on the script: I fled from mandatory military service. In fact, selling and buying
imaginary stories of torture scenario in Eritrea to anyone be it from Eritrea, Somali, Ethiopia or
Sudan has become a lucrative business. Even now that National Service is back to its 18 months
duration they will still flee in order not to contradict those previously given reasons. But the group
of disembarked refugees includes also these infiltrated Tigrayans of Ethiopia, who do not want to be
simple bystanders, but choose instead willingly to represent the opposition to the Eritrean
Government. The cleverest ones learn immediately in the most disparate languages (Scandinavian,
German, French or Italian) how you say torture, prison, forced labour, and religious persecution.
For them the contract as being in the opposition means more money, quick papers,
accommodation and work. For instance in Italy they make press conferences at Camera dei
Deputati,21 thanks to some left wing humanitarian politicians and, obviously thanks to the
presence of journalists who work as boosters, to make them feel as though they were the majority.
True Eritreans are aware of the media war against Eritrea and it is for this reason that they
constantly demonstrated against it like the one recently in Geneva against the COI, the UN

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commission of inquiry, which went to Ethiopia to interview Eritrean refugees. As Beaton Galafa
says: Its like interviewing a North Korean defector in Seoul.22
But let us go back to the main story, because this would be a sub-plot.
If young people flee from the Eritrean dictatorship then why do they not
establish themselves in UNHCR refugee camps built across the border in
Ethiopia, Djibouti and Sudan? Refugee camps in the three countries neighbouring with
Eritrea have strategic positions and have been built just to attract young people. Eritrea cannot
militarily invade the three countries had it done so more than a war would have broken out with
its neighbours. Once they have crossed the border these young people are free at last, freed from the
clutch of the oppressor and finally under protection of the UNHCR. For these young men the
infamous Eritrean dictatorship ends when they enter the gates of those refugee camps, where they
can consider themselves safe in the arms of the UNHCR where they can be washed, dressed and
fed. A piece of cake.
Then why are they embarking on that infernal trip? Then they are also fleeing from the maternal
arms of the UNHCR? Why? What goes on in there?
From the confessions of refugees you can understand they are instructed on how to walk through
the desert and cross the Mediterranean sea by the operators and activists of the NGOs. They are the
ones giving them the right directions and the telephone contact numbers.
But why then are they not loaded onto UN planes from the refugee camps in Ethiopia and
transported safely towards European countries, where they will be granted refugee status? Why
does the trip have to be on foot or by unsafe means at all costs, if they will, in any case, be admitted
to Europa? Does The European Union admit them only if they survive the Mediterranean? You do
not need a degree to answer this question. You need a tragedy to achieve the objective of regimechange!
The journey is an obstacle race and, like in a giant nativity scene, the path is furnished with the
cruellest possible characters: Bedouin organ traffickers, guards and prisons in the countries
overlooking the sea, traffickers of human beings, who organise the crossing, people smugglers who
drive sea wrecks conceived as disposables, journalists and photo-reporters ready to inform public
opinion and, last but not least, also the ISIS cutthroats.
For the aggression against Eritrea and the emptying of the country of their youths what is known
as strategic depopulation -- hundreds of traffickers of human beings have been involved. Dozens
of native human rights activists with satellite phones and even priests and nuns, more saint than
Mother Theresa of Calcutta, continue the religious discourse on the lack of freedom of worship in
Eritrea, which suddenly affects the country, in spite of the fact that the State of Eritrea is secular and
historialy Christianity and Islam have been coexisting in the country for centuries in peace and
harmony.

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Each task is pursued working in synergy with a well-coordinated teamwork, each one contributes
well and better to the Western geopolitical project, so that the opening of a new war front may be
justified; because, in a democracy you need mass consensus to bomb a country. In a democracy
consensus is everything and to achieve it you must get public opinion, i.e. democratic voters, on
your side. And to convince voters it cannot be sufficient to inform them on the enemys brutality; to
convince them you must create a perfect tragedy, you must bring scenes of tragedy to their homes.
And tragedy must reach the whole world in very little time, and this can be achieved only through
the miraculous power of mainstream corporate media. In this respect, Italian journalists play their
role perfectly at home.

The perfect tragedy

External Mediterranean Sea night time: As in the best thrillers, tragedy represents
the final climax, when something terrible must happen and the spectators anxiety roused. Soon
afterwards, something will happen that will make everyone cry and will move all consciences, will
cause indignation and will provoke a widespread reaction: a thirst for justice and revenge.
And in the tragedy that is about to take place the same thing happens -- that is rescuers never get
there on time. The same happens with tragedies at sea. Whoever gets there first declares that the
reason for the sinking of the boat is always the same: all the migrant passengers moved to one side,
they unbalanced the wreck boat and they drowned. A collective suicide, then? They travel in perfect
balance for days and then just when they are close to Italian shores and someone approaches them
to rescue them they lose balance and drown. No suspicion that someone might have accidentally, or
worse, deliberately, hit them? Of course, you dont get to see this in the movie.
The tragedy of Lampedusa of the 3rd October 2014, in which 366 people died, did not shock public
opinion that much, both in Italy and internationally. Certainly it did not stop the Italians, used to
having their supper in front of the television, to continue chewing and swallowing their meal.
Apparently, another much bigger tragedy with thousands of casualties, Titanic style, will be needed.
Only then will there be public uprising causing a violent reaction, which will lead to asking NATO
intervention in the name of human rights. In spite of the NGOs and journalists uproar, arrived on
the scene of the crime to bathe in the blood of the innocents, tragedy has turned into a TV show
with adverts and a showcase of politicians.
Tragedy has become showbiz.

Never kneel down, we shall never kneel!

An Overview: The international Tribunal is full of the journalists, who in recent years have
defamed the name of Eritrea. The list is very long. Many of those have gorged at the expenses of
poor wretches. Now the same journalists, drying their foreheads at the uncomfortable questions of
the public accusation, stammer: Can you repeat the question, please? You should have
done a mea culpa, at least, like your German colleague Udo Ulfkotte.23 But it is too late now. The

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truth is out, because the Empire of Evil has fallen, just as Julius Ceasars, Alexander the Greats,
Napoleons, Hitlers and Mussolinis as well as the British empires before it. And here are those
journalists in the dock, accused of crimes against humanity. Today we celebrate the Nuremberg trial
of the Press; their position is not enviable, for sure.
Close up: The Eritrean immigrant in the shoes of the public prosecutor puts them under pressure:
Why did you fuel hate applying the divide and rule principle
and contribute de facto to the destruction of cultures and
sovereign countries? Why did you misinform us? Why have you
always lied, misled, and hidden the crimes of the Empire when
your professional code forbids this? Why did you corrupt public
opinion inducing it to justify and legitimate those crimes? Why
did you cause entire populations to be exterminated just to
fatten your bank account? You have signed all the human
tragedies of the last decades in exchange for personal
privileges. In each of those wars, which the Saviors provoked
throughout the world, you left your ink mark printed in black and
white. Words fly away, written words remain! You have bombed
the cities first and then the marines arrived to finish the job and
it is for this reason that you are today accused of crimes against
humanity, just the same as them. Tell me why did you sell your
soul to the devil? Was it worth it?
Objection Your Honor!
Objection overruled!
If only you had stopped for a second to reflect, you would have
understood that Eritrea is different from other countries. It
means you did not understand anything, it means you have
underestimated the value of this heroic people. In the past they
had already given you the lives of their fathers and grandfathers
without receiving anything in return except your ingratitude;
now they wont give you the future of their sons. Eritreas
destiny belongs only to its people because there have been
dozens of thousands of martyrs who died for its freedom and for
its flag. And to honour those martyrs Eritreans have taken an
oath: they will pay the same sacrifice in order to hand over their
motherland to their children. They will never take their flag
down, and instead they will defend it tooth and nail.

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You should have suspected that the very Eritrean youths you
have blackmailed for a damned residence permit would one day
come back and defend their Country. So, you were wrong to
believe, dear journalists, that you could win this war; you should
have remembered a people that won a thirty years war, fighting
against everything and everyone, starting from the greatest
African army supported by: the USSR, the USA, East Germany,
Cuba, Libya, Israel, Yemen, Great Britain and even Italy.
Dissolve
The End!

About the author:

Daniel Wedi Korbaria is an Eritrean author and screenwriter who lives and
works in Rome, Italy, since 1995. As an activist he has published in several
websites articles written in Italian and translated into English and French,
among others: Scream of an African, J'accuse Human Rights Watch,
The strength of Yonas, My encounter with Father Mussie Zerai. His
novel in Italian will be published soon. He can be reached at
wedikorbaria_at_yahoo_dot_it
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J'Accuse Human Rights Watch
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Eritrea: UN Names Commission of Inquiry Panels Focus Should Be on Justice for Abuses
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Editor of major newspaper says he planted stories for CIA By Ralph Lopez Jan 26, 2015
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