Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Is Something Cooking in Eritrea?

In the last couple of weeks, asena-online.com has been reporting what it seems a growing confrontation and upraising by the Eritrean Defense Forces against the government. However, these reports are not confirmed by other opposition websites or opposition news sites. Since asena-online.com is relatively new, the credibility of its reports has yet to be established (unlike websites like awate.com, which have relatively established credibility among their readers). But it is also possible that asena-online.com may have access to high powered insiders in the army.
Another aspect of this website’s reports is that, it is not only reporting an incident in the army. Before these reports come, there was a continuous article (and is still continuing). This article seems a conspiracy theory in nature and accuses PIA all sort of dirt work. The article cites a couple of other development such as NATO’s movement into the gulf of Red Sea, Iranian movement into the port city of Asseb, and claims a cloud of change is hanging around Eritrea. It then asks Eritreans (in an editorial page) to prepare for it.
This article is now followed by continuous reports of incidences of confrontation between the army and the government. All this makes the website’s recent move like a more coordinated and organized campaign rather than reports of incidences.
The fact that these reports are only coming from asena-online.com and have the nature of coordinated campaign raises special curiosity. May be some organized groups in the army are behind all these reports. Also to note here is the background of the founder of the website. He is a veteran of Betmhrti sewra and is possible that he can have special connection to some groups in the army than other websites. All this makes one to wonder if some thing is cooking in Eritrea.
Check the website for all of the recent reports on the website: asena-online.com

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Utter garbage, that is what I think about all the concocted stories. It is laughable eg. for Iran to dump so much toxic waste in Massawa, when it has swaths of vast desert that does not need any regulation. Even their lies is immature.
Trying to copy the waste dumping story from somalia by some Europeans, because of excessive regulations in their countries is not going to hold water when applied to Eritrea.
My advice, ignore them.

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