Miriam September February 4 at 2:37pm · Edited
Dear members of the organisation Simret (ESMNS) When we fail to stop political and collective bullying, we loose more than the ability for mature political dispute, we endanger values of freedom and democracy.... There is a strongly reoccurring pattern in your organisation, in which you solve 'disagreements' with others through loud aggressive campaigns spreading often over weeks using various platforms and tools for acceleration. Campaigns in which your members repetitively and very actively use, spread, justify, or silently accept defamation, heavy insults, ridicule, scare mongering, or open intimidation and threats against other Eritrean groups, human rights activists, and individuals. My understanding is that you do so within the context of seeking to change an authoritarian and aggressive regime in Eritrea in order to replace that with one that is tolerant and just. I wonder if your leadership and members are at all aware of the profound contradiction. Now that you have recently decided to become an Eritrean political party at your last congress in Mekele - I actually do not just wonder. I sincerely worry how such organisational habits impact on the image of the opposition as a whole and further, how you would respond to political disagreements, disputes, and competition on the ground that would naturally occur in a multifacetted political arena of a post -PFDJ Eritrea. I look forward to a sincere and mature debate - it's part of a democratic process, which many of us strive for. And that process has to be built now. In many forms and where ever we are.
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Yvonne Meyer True words! February 4 at 3:15pm · Like · 1