As Thousands Flee Regime, Eritrea Goes It Alone -- Washington PostFacing the prospect of U.N. sanctions and increasing 'brain drain,' young nation's authoritarian president chooses defiance.
As thousands flee regime, Eritrea goes it alone
Facing the prospect of U.N. sanctions and increasing 'brain drain,' young nation's authoritarian president chooses defiance
"Leave us alone," said the commandingly tall former guerrilla leader who became Eritrea's first and only president in 1993, after a 30-year struggle for independence from Ethiopia. "We don't want to be pushed around."
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My Comment: Sighhh .... another typical paranoid African dictator, who installs a centrally controlled command economy that is regulated by his government on a micro level. To insure that he stays in power, a police state is then imposed on the population, and threats of war and/or supporting wars in neighboring countries becomes their central foreign policy initiative.
The only good thing that I can say of this situation .... is that this dictator is not asking the West for handouts .... yet.