{"id":13722,"date":"2023-02-07T16:05:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T16:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/peace-is-deeply-valued-and-cherished"},"modified":"2023-02-07T16:54:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T16:54:12","slug":"peace-is-deeply-valued-and-cherished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/peace-is-deeply-valued-and-cherished","title":{"rendered":"Peace is Deeply Valued and Cherished"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>Like almost all conflicts, the one that was raging in northern Ethio\u00adpia during the past two years was fought both on the ground and along the information front. Within the latter battle, a recurring, ever-present element was disinforma\u00adtion. In fact, disinformation re\u00admained central and dominant since the very beginning of the conflict. At the same time that the Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF) initiated the conflict with its un\u00adprovoked November 2020 attack on Ethiopia\u2019s northern command outposts, the group\u2019s supporters coordinated to launch the #Tigray\u00adGenocide hashtag campaign.<\/p>\n

Today, even while the large-scale conflict in northern Ethiopia is pur\u00adportedly over, the disinformation and blatant falsehoods continue to swirl. Now they aim to character\u00adize Eritrea as a scheming \u201cspoiler\u201d and hope to portray it as innately disappointed or ill at ease with the potential for peace. In addition to being extremely dangerous and highly irresponsible, these claims are completely misguided and far from the truth.<\/p>\n

Peace is cherished <\/b><\/p>\n

Eritrea deeply treasures genuine, lasting peace, particularly because the country has experienced nu\u00admerous difficulties and been on the frontlines of externally-imposed wars and instability. To be certain, over the decades, war has never been the country\u2019s desire or pref\u00aderence. Far from it. Instead, the country has regularly been forced to take up arms in order to attain its freedom, defend its territorial sov\u00adereignty, and maintain its indepen\u00addence. Having sacrificed so much, borne a tremendously heavy bur\u00adden, and paid extremely high costs in blood and treasure as a result of war, Eritrea isn\u2019t against peace \u2013 it cherishes and values it.<\/p>\n

Contrary to the claims of detrac\u00adtors accusing the country of desta\u00adbilization and labeling it a \u201cspoil\u00ader\u201d, there is no threat to Eritrea from lasting peace in Ethiopia. The opposite is true. It does not see or approach the regional situation in the Horn as a zero-sum game or opportunity to gain benefits at oth\u00aders\u2019 expense. Rather, it has regular\u00adly articulated that the fates of the countries of the region are closely-linked and intertwined; the estab\u00adlishment and maintenance of peace and stability in one have positive spillover effects and will allow others to reach greater heights. Eritrea\u2019s proactive efforts to insti\u00adtutionalize initiatives toward re\u00adgional peace, cooperation, and in\u00adtegration alongside other countries across the region are demonstrative of this outlook and approach.<\/p>\n

In 2018, the powerful winds of change, optimism, and hope swept across the region. Eritrea and Ethiopia signed a much-celebrated agreement on peace and coopera\u00adtion. The agreement was met with unreserved elation and euphoria by the peoples of the two coun\u00adtries, offering scenes and memo\u00adries never to be forgotten. It also augured great hope and aspiration for a new positive chapter in the region, characterized by mutual goodwill, friendship, progress, and cooperation across numerous areas and sectors. The establishment of enduring peace now will help to al\u00adlow the various provisions of that historic agreement to be pursued with greater vigor and dynamism.<\/p>\n

Of course, peace, which includes the complete disarmament of the TPLF, will also have profound security im\u00adplications for Eritrea. In 1998, the TPLF, then at the helm of power in Ethiopia, launched an aggressive expansionary war against Eritrea. Despite having agreed to peace with Eritrea over two decades ago, the TPLF went on to militarily oc\u00adcupy Eritrean territories, regularly made calls for the overthrow of the Eritrean government, and boldly proclaimed its intentions to carry out \u201cmilitary action to oust the re\u00adgime in Eritrea.\u201d More recently, as part of the war it launched in No\u00advember 2020, the TPLF planned to invade Eritrea to carry out \u201cre\u00adgime change\u201d and incorporate large swathes of sovereign Eritrean territory into the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. It shelled numerous Eritrean villages near the border, kidnapped civilians, and indis\u00adcriminately launched missiles at heavily-populated cities, including Asmara, Eritrea\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n

Accordingly, the removal of a longstanding regional scourge and existential threat can only be re\u00adgarded as a positive development for the region.<\/p>\n

Peace offers great promise <\/b><\/p>\n

Having withstood decades of war and foreign aggression, peace additionally provides great prom\u00adise for Eritrea. Lasting, genuine peace and stability will offer a vi\u00adtal boost to its economy, encour\u00adage foreign investment, and allow the country to singularly focus its attention and resources from occupation of its sovereign lands; resultant and intermittent military; and, national security threats to promoting socioeconomic devel\u00adopment and nation-building.<\/p>\n

Despite its relatively small size, the country is blessed with vast potential and an abundance of resources. Peace will allow it to leverage its huge comparative ad\u00advantages, including its extractive industry, blue economy, tourism sector, and locational\/geostrategic endowments, among others.<\/p>\n

Here, it is useful to recall how after winning its independence in 1991, with minimal foreign aid or external influence, Eritrea embarked upon the monumen\u00adtal task of reconstructing and re\u00adbuilding its war-shattered country and economy. Despite the sheer scale of the challenge, the early signs were promising and the pe\u00adriod was marked by high levels of optimism. Numerous schools, hospitals, dams, and other critical infrastructure were rehabilitated or constructed, access to water, tele\u00adcommunications, education, and healthcare were improved, and a large-scale demobilization of the country\u2019s armed liberation forces was begun. Additionally, from 1993 to 1998 (when the TPLF launched its war of aggression), some economic diversification was achieved, inflation was kept rela\u00adtively low, and the nation\u2019s gross domestic product grew at an aver\u00adage annual rate of 11 percent.<\/p>\n

While only a snapshot of the period, this does suggest that with the conditions of lasting peace and stability, there is considerable po\u00adtential \u2013 and ability \u2013 in Eritrea for significant socioeconomic growth and sustainable development. Ul\u00adtimately, if genuine, lasting peace can help the country to fulfill this significant potential, it can only be most welcome.<\/p>\n

Those that gained most from conflict remain against true peace<\/b><\/p>\n

The past several years and even decades of conflict and instabil\u00adity inflicted a great toll on Eritrea and much of the wider region. At the same time, however, some par\u00adties benefited greatly \u2013 financially, politically, or in terms of accruing power and influence. Today, as then, it is them, and not Eritrea, that are against a genuine, enduring peace that would put the hopes, as\u00adpirations, and interests of the peo\u00adple of the region front and center.<\/p>\n

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