Eritrea's Red Sea coast is once again being discussed as a strategic asset, this time as a possible anchor for partnership with Israel and the West. EBRF welcomes that conversation, but it has to start from one honest point: a coastline is not a partner. A government is. For more than three decades, Isaias Afwerki and the PFDJ have rented out Eritrea's ports and goodwill to whichever outside power helps keep them in place, while Eritreans themselves have had no national election, no sitting National Assembly since 2002, and the 1997 constitution still shelved. Agreements signed with one man end with that man. They cannot give Israel, the United States or Europe the predictability that real security cooperation needs. EBRF's program offers something different: a peaceful, Eritrean-led democratic transition, constitutional governance, elected and accountable institutions, an independent judiciary, and an end to indefinite national service. Under the leadership of @BlueFront90547 and @BeyeneGerezghe1, and with an active EBRF community in Israel and across the diaspora, we are already building the civic structures a free Eritrea will need on day one. A democratic Eritrea, governed by the rule of law and answerable to its own citizens, will be the stable, trustworthy Red Sea partner the region and its friends are looking for. Partners in Washington and Jerusalem should invest in that future, not in prolonging the past. @StateDept @AsstSecStateAF @SenateForeign @HouseForeign @RepJoeWilson @TiborPNagyJr @mrubin1971 #EBRF #BlueRevolution #RegimeChangeInEritrea #RedSea

Eritreans in the diaspora are once again being pressured to fund the PFDJ's agenda, while the regime talks about peace abroad. @ElizabethTecle is right: Eritrea has no constitution in force, no rule of law and no elected body that can account for a single cent of that money. A regime that was never chosen by the people has no mandate to tax them, and no right to pull children out of school and into endless national service and conflict. Every contribution collected through fear, intimidation or pressure on families back home keeps an unaccountable system alive. The answer is not silence. It is a peaceful, democratic alternative. That is what @BlueFront90547 offers under the leadership of @BeyeneGerezghe1: a peaceful, time-limited transition, the implementation of a constitution, an elected parliament that decides questions of war and peace and controls the public purse, and independent courts that protect every citizen at home and abroad. In EBRF's vision, Eritreans will pay taxes to a government they elected, with budgets debated in public, not to a party that answers to no one. We ask host governments to treat the coercion of their Eritrean residents as what it is: transnational repression. @StateDept @AsstSecStateAF @SenateForeign @HouseForeign @RepJoeWilson @TiborPNagyJr @UN_HRC Eritrean diaspora: stop funding war. Invest in freedom, peace and a constitutional Eritrea. #EBRF #BlueRevolution #RegimeChangeInEritrea #NoMorePFDJTerror

Yemeni fishermen seized in the Red Sea, taken to Eritrean facilities, underfed and forced to carve mountain roads under armed guard. @phelemawi is right: Eritreans recognise this system, because it is the one the PFDJ has imposed on our own people for decades. Indefinite national service has turned generations of young Eritreans into unpaid labour with no end date, no contract and no court to appeal to. Now the same model reaches foreign fishermen at sea. A government that answers to no parliament and no judge will not stop at its own borders. EBRF's program under @BlueFront90547 and @BeyeneGerezghe1 offers a different path: a peaceful, time-limited transition; an end to indefinite national service; independent courts where every detainee, Eritrean or foreign, is charged or released; an elected parliament that decides on war, peace and the use of our coastline; and lawful, cooperative relations with Yemen and every Red Sea neighbour. We ask @StateDept @AsstSecStateAF @SenateForeign @HouseForeign @RepJoeWilson @TiborPNagyJr @UN_HRC to press for independent access to these detainees and to stand with Eritreans working for a constitutional, democratic future. The Red Sea should be a shared space of trade and fishing, not a source of forced labour. #EBRF #BlueRevolution #RegimeChangeInEritrea

On UN Day, the PFDJ welcomed the UN family to Asmara and spoke about respect for international law and sovereignty. @phelemawi asks the right question: where is that respect inside Eritrea? The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Eritrea has never been allowed into the country. The 2016 UN Commission of Inquiry found reasonable grounds to believe crimes against humanity had been committed, and the answer from Asmara was denial, not reform. Thousands of Eritreans are still held without charge or trial, and the 1997 constitution has never been implemented. Sovereignty belongs to the Eritrean people. EBRF, under @BlueFront90547 and @BeyeneGerezghe1, stands for a peaceful, democratic transition that turns international law from a speech into practice at home: open access for UN human rights mechanisms, the release or fair trial of every detainee, independent courts, an implemented constitution, and an elected parliament that answers to citizens. We ask the international community not to accept words on UN Day as a substitute for access, accountability and the rule of law in Eritrea. @UN_HRC @StateDept @AsstSecStateAF @SenateForeign @HouseForeign @RepJoeWilson @TiborPNagyJr #EBRF #BlueRevolution #RegimeChangeInEritrea

The #BlueRevolution began as a cry for human rights and justice. Today Eritreans are asking the next question, and it is the right one: how will Eritrea be governed after the PFDJ? EBRF's answer is clear. A peaceful, time-limited transition, not a new strongman. A constitution that is finally implemented, not left frozen as the 1997 text has been for almost thirty years. Independent courts, so no citizen can disappear without charge. An elected parliament that decides questions of war and peace, so no single man can again send our sons and daughters to the front. And an end to indefinite national service, so young Eritreans can build their lives at home instead of fleeing across deserts and seas. This is what @BlueFront90547 and its leadership, including @BeyeneGerezghe1, stand for: rule of law, constitutional government and institutions that answer to the people. It is a program for every Eritrean, inside the country and in the diaspora, whatever their region, language or faith. Isaias Afwerki has never held a national election. Eritreans deserve a government they choose. We ask friends of Eritrea in Washington and beyond to support a peaceful democratic transition and to hear the voice of the Eritrean people. @StateDept @AsstSecStateAF @SenateForeign @HouseForeign @RepJoeWilson @TiborPNagyJr #EBRF #BlueRevolution #RegimeChangeInEritrea