Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, making them question their own memory, perception, and sanity. Using persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying, it attempts to destabilize the victim and delegitimize the victim’s belief.”
The term originates in the systematic psychological manipulation of a victim by her husband in the 1938 stage play Gaslight, known as Angel Street in the United States, and the film adaptations released in 1940 and 1944. In the story, a husband attempts to convince his wife and others that she is insane by manipulating small elements of their environment and insisting that she is mistaken, remembering things incorrectly, or delusional when she points out these changes.
1. Government of Eritrea On Alliances
1A. For the umpteenth time, we will never ever allow any foreign country to establish bases in Eritrea. This is what makes Eritrea different from all other countries. We also don’t believe in any “alliances” and we never join them.
1B. We have given UAE a base and, by doing so, we have outsmarted those who wanted to isolate us. We have also joined the Saudi alliance which we call the “Saudi initiative” although the Saudis call it an alliance.
2. Government of Eritrea On US Military Bases
2A. We will hire a lobbyist and conduct interviews to convince the US to establish a military base in Massawa instead of Yemen or Djibouti. We will even tell them that our landscape looks like that of Tora Bora. Whatever it takes.
2B. The US asked us to establish a military base but we said no.
3. Government of Eritrea On 1997 Constitution
3A. We have designed a constitution unlike any other in the world because it was people-driven, and we conducted hundreds of meetings with thousands of our people all over the world for two years to ensure that it’s exactly what the people want and it is timeless because it has mechanisms for its amendment.
3B. We had to get rid of the constitution because Dr Bereket, the chief drafter of the constitution, compromised it by meeting with Red Sea Afar Democratic Organization advocates in Canada and saying he would be open to amending it to reflect their concerns.
3C. Actually, we had to get rid of it because when it was written the Warsay did not have a hand in its drafting because they were too young then.
3D. I don’t want to debate “is it alive? is it dead?” but we are going to draft something but I don’t want to call it a constitution but law of governance. There is no timeline for it. (video)
4. Government of Eritrea On Territorial Integrity
4a. Final and binding means final and binding: no negotiation, no normalization with Ethiopia until they leave from every inch of Eritrean territory and it’s demarcated in accordance with the virtual demarcation outlined by EEBC! This is such a matter of principle for us that we will hold on to this view no matter what and however long it takes.
4b: All the things we said above only applied if Ethiopia is governed by TPLF, see? If someone else is in charge of Ethiopia, demarcation can wait, troop removal can wait, what matters is peace, love, and normalization.
5. Government of Eritrea On Sovereignty
5a. Those who say Eritrea and Ethiopia are “one people” have ambitions of subjugating Eritrea. I am not Habesha; I am Eritrean! We are two distinct countries, with distinct histories. There is nothing remarkable about some Eritreans and Ethiopians sharing common culture as is the case with every colonized African country whose borders were made by colonizers. Eritrea also shares commonality with the people of Sudan and Djibouti. But that doesn’t make us “one people.” We have written lots of literature on this and we have made it very clear to the author of “Identity Jilted”
5b. Anyone who says Eritreans and Ethiopians are two peoples doesn’t know history. (video.)
6. Government of Eritrea On National Service
6a. National Service is designed to ensure that people from different ethnic groups of Eritrea get to know one another and get immersed in the crucible of Eritreanism. Its indefinite nature is only due to the fact that war has been imposed on us and Ethiopia remains belligerent.
6b. National Service is like the Marshal Plan: a way to rehabilitate a post-war Eritrea. It’s part of the country’s national development plan.
6c. National Service’s indefinite nature will soon (January 2016) become finite. We will tell all European ambassadors that fable until we cash the 200 million Euro development check they gave us to reduce migration.
6d No it won’t be; we never said that. It will stay as long as Ethiopia remains a threat.
6e. The threat is gone; we are at peace; and some family members have been told that new recruits will serve only 18 months. Mr Minister of Information, is this true? I don’t deny it is true, but if it were true, we would have announced it in our public media, Reuters is told by Mr MoI.
7. Government of Eritrea On G-15 (Reformers)
7a. What G-15? More like G-3! Only 3-4 of the G-15 are treasonous, reported the government newspaper Trgta in 2001. The rest were misled by them. So we shouldn’t treat their case uniformly. Just before their arrest on September 18, 2001, the accusation was that they were guilty “at the minimum, abdication of responsibility during Eritrea’s difficult hours, at the maximum, grave conspiracy.”
7b. All G-15 are treasonous and they were “conspiring to overthrow the legal government of the country…, colluding with hostile foreign powers with a view to compromising the sovereignty of the country, undermining Eritrean national security and endangering Eritrean society and the general welfare of its people
7c. A former guard, Eyob Bahta (video) said several of the G-15 died either in the first prison (Embakala) or their final destination (Eila Eiro.)
7d. Eritrea’s Foreign Minister, Osman Saleh, (who has no earthly idea) said they are all alive and well.
8. Government of Eritrea on Free Press
8. In an interview, Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki said that he doesn’t know the disappeared publisher (now, along with many of Eritrea’s private journalists, is reported dead) of one of the few private press Eritrea had before it was shut down. I don’t know him (Joshua, founder of private newspaper). If I don’t know him, how can I tell you where he is?
9. Government of Eritrea On Qatar
9a. Qatar was the only destination for Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki for many, many years. (Photo). Qatar was trusted with Djibouti mediation to such an extent all questions related to the mediation were deferred to it by the President.
9b. Qatar has always been a dangerously Islamists country who wants to destabilize Eritrea.
10. Government of Eritrea On Djibouti Prisoners of War
10a The SEMG claim that Eritrea had Djibouti prisoners of wars are lies, their claims that they escaped are lies, all are categorical lies..
10b. The Djibouti POW issue is solved: two escaped, and we handed over four.
11. Government of Eritrea On The People of Eritrea
11a: Eritrea is the land of the brave and its people are patriotic and will do anything for their country.
11b: Eritrea is a land where the people you suspect the least–people who founded the revolution, people who spent their entire lives to liberate Eritrea, are traitors. Members of the party’s own central committee, executive committee, artists, businesspeople, elderly, journalists, teachers, conscripted soldiers. And there are so many of them and they all, coincidentally, seem to be opposed to the rule of Isaias Afwerki.
12: Government of Eritrea On Due Process
12.1 Art. 191 of Eritrea’s Civil Procedure grants citizens “Right of Habeas Corpus”, that is: “Every person arrested or detained prior to trial shall have the right to petition any court for his release on the grounds that his arrest or detention is without due process in violation of the laws and Constitution of Eritrea. Such petition may be filed by the arrested person, his counsel, a relative or any other interested person acting on behalf of the arrested person.”
12.2: Eritrea’s Justice Minister refers questions about habeas corpus to the Minister of Foreign Affairs who refers it to National Security. Pilot Dejen Andeheshel was arrested without charges for 15 (1999-2014) years, until his escape. He was interviewed by assenna.com after his escape and he disclosed, among many surreal things that, while in jail, he was discouraged from asking why he was arrested because his question would be offensive as it would imply the government wrongfully arrested him. Read his recent interview where he says that though living in Sweden now, he still feels like a prisoner.
13. Government of Eritrea on Armed Ethiopian Opposition Groups
13.1 The claims by the UN’s Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea (SEMG) that we host armed Ethiopian opposition groups are categorically false.
13.2 All the changes that happened in Ethiopia are largely due to our efforts to help Ethiopian democratic forces in Eritrea.We are now going to reconcile the Eritrea-based armed Ethiopian opposition (whose existence we denied) with the new government of Ethiopia because Asmara is the capital of peace and reconciliation. We will never reconcile with Eritrean opposition because they are not opposition but traitors who sold out Eritrea. Plus, what opposition? They don’t exist.
14. Government of Eritrea on Eritrean Opposition Groups
14.1 They do not exist and they don’t matter.
14.2 Over the last 20 years, they have colluded with the enemies of Eritrea and worked day and night for regime change. Now that their main benefactor, the Weyane, is dead and buried, it is game over: they exist even less.
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