They have told the VOA correspondent in Eritrea that she is not allowed to compile reports about the country because budget is not allowed for that.  This is tantamount to saying: “Since you are compiling positive reports about Eritrea, you better shut up!”

In any case, the Eritrean people long before independence are well aware of the nature of the VOA which is administered by the US Intelligence Department. Hence, as far as we are concerned, the VOA’s current intensive smear campaign against Eritrea comes as no surprise recalling its reference to us in the days of the Mengistu regime as ‘secessionist bandits.’  Even more so, it does not make any difference.

It is inconceivable to imagine that the VOA, which did not succeed even though it had been echoing the ambition of the so-called powerful Mengistu Hailemariam’s Ethiopia, would make any difference this time by applying the same practice to the servant TPLF regime, thus becoming the servant of the servant.  

Dengor Fayd
Asmara

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