Sanction against Eritrea: Woyanne's (Ethiopian ruling elite) agenda

(Action group)

We wholeheartedly and unequivocally reject the idea of sanctions against Eritrea and view it as unjust and irresponsible for the following reasons:

The UN or any other country for that matter cannot be the accuser, the judge and jury. To date, there has not been a single shred of evidence to link Eritrea with whatever/whichever party in Somalia by way of aiming to make the region unstable. The government of Eritrea has denied all charges levelled against it including weapons smuggling – thus far, the UN and AU have not been able to present any credible facts to prove otherwise.

The accusation against Eritrea was based on an unfounded and unsubstantiated report produced by the U.N. Arms Monitoring Group. The Group accused Eritrea of shipping arms and claimed that 2,000 Eritrean soldiers were fighting alongside the Somali Islamic Court Union (ICU), which turned out to be pure fabrication. No Eritrean was found dead or alive in Somalia following Ethiopia’s invasion of the country. A plane that was allegedly transporting weapons and fighters from Eritrea was later found crashed in Uganda while being used by Dyncorp, a contractor for the US military and Intelligence service.


The UN Envoy for Somalia has admitted that despite the talks about Eritrea supplying arms to Somalia, there is no hard evidence to link Eritrea with these accusations.

Therefore, the call for sanctions against Eritrea rests on flawed premise – not only are the UN and AU intent on unfairly meting out punishment but their action represents a travesty of justice.

Sanctions on Eritrea will not solve the problem in Somalia and Eritrea cannot be used as a scapegoat for the failure of others to bring about ‘peace’ in Somalia.

Sanctions never work: realistically speaking, all evidence points to the inefficacy of sanctions. What’s more, when imposed against countries, sanctions have always produced a result that does not match the desired outcome. History is rife with examples of countries that have been left destitute as a result of sanctions.