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Hercules and the Augean stables.





Dittatura, multinazionali e società civile.
Spesso sento parlare di paesi africani dove si consumano tragedie e che in Africa la sofferenza e il dolore sono il corso normale degli eventi. L'Eritrea è un paese africano, ma perchè deve seguire il sentiero della guerra civile, delle dittature, della fame, dell'esodo della popolazione?
Anche a me inquetano le risposte del tipo :"in Africa le cose funzionano così!".
La realtà è che la società civile africana che permette che succeda tutto questo.

Gli organi di informazioni occidentali definisco l'Eritrea come paese del Terzo Mondo o meglio "paese in via di sviluppo". La società civile eritrea, si è mai chiesta cosa significa essere un "paese in via di Sviluppo"? E 'in developing the country's government? Politics and the parties are in the developing world? The administration? Education? The media are in the developing world? Eritrea has had the opportunity to develop?
For example, consider the reconstruction of Italy since 1945? In 20 years after the Second World War had reached its economic boom and everyone had forgotten about the second world war. So why the almost 18 years since independence in Eritrea continues to wage war, to deal with its neighbors and violate the human rights of their people?
Some may say it is the fault of the war against Ethiopia. Then we compare Eritrea with Israel. This country from his controversial birth has addressed almost all the wars with neighboring Arab countries.
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflitti_arabo-israeliani
The war with Egypt in 1956
The Six-Day War of 1967
The Yom Kippur War (Yom Kippur)
In 1978, the invasion of the south Lebanon
Intifada
etc ... etc ...
say that Israel as the Eritrean women also enlisted in the army. The civil service takes so much effort and time to young Israelis. It 'a state of emergency in perennial conflict. But the Israelis can vote for the party they want, the judiciary can check the actions of the military, politics and the police. The rights of the Israeli town of inte are carefully followed.



So what's missing from Eritrea to Israel? I might venture to say that there's no "COMPANY 'CIVIL' of developed countries.
E 'Eritrean civil society that is backward. In Eritrea informed, get involved in politics and actively aware of it, to the institutions to account for their actions is a crime equivalent to high treason against the state. Subversion of democracy (If you really need to talk to democratic order.)
not that there is no information, because many crimes of the Eritrean government are now on the lips of everyone, including the Eritrean dictator himself.


Sometimes it happens that I come across discussions in which the enemy is the African neo-colonialism. Where the fault of African disasters you download to Western countries (and in part to China). Who allows multinational companies to do business in Africa? I'm just the shareholders or are African governments?
If the neo-colonialism was a crime to wear in court, then the part of African civil society that hold? Defendant, prosecutor or defense attorney? Civil society at the moment is the role of the defense lawyer, put forward the strategy of silence, the right not to respond (to violations of the interests of the country). Civil society said nothing provides the pretext for the continuation of business of corporations in the land Africa. Silence is consent. Now there are not only the multinationals but there are also departments and military commands. See the U.S. presence with Africom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRCZk8mM1EU
Who provides support to military bases? The land where the win? Or agree that dictatorships are the same? African civil society what it does in this case?


Returning to Eritrea:
The problem lies in the work of companies that let pass any action getting used to everything, then nothing will amaze, frighten or sorrow. Everyone, including Isayas Afeworky are Conscious of how dramatic the situation of the Eritrean people.
Maybe it's time to stop a moment and think like out of this quagmire.

To make me understand I want to tell a mythological story that I read last week in a newspaper.

Heracles is a hero of Greek mythology, Roman mythology, corresponding to the figure of Hercules. Famous are his incredible feats, the twelve labors. In particular, the present episode of the Augean stables.

Augean dell'Elide was the king, in the Peloponnese;
Augean had received from his father Elio lot cattle. Augean stables never not cleaned, so that it continued to accumulate manure created serious problems in the area, while the sky was obscured by swarms of flies attracted by the dirt. Hercules proposed to King that Augean would clean up the dung from his vast stables before sundown. In exchange, he asked for a tenth of all his cattle. The king accepted the bet and the two incredulous swore on their agreement. Heracles then opened two breaches in the walls of the stables, and diverted the course of the nearby rivers and the rushing waters invaded the huge stables and courtyards, sweeping away the dung to the valleys of the pasture. So Heracles made his "sixth effort" cleaning up the entire earth dell'Elide without even getting dirty.

a Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Switzerland is the country where the choices are made with the referendum is the people to govern themselves. Participatory democracy.
Friedrich Durrenmatt wrote in 1954 a story titled "Hercules and the Augean stables" (Herkules und der Stall des Augias). In the sixth review of fatigue that makes Durrenmatt but not Hercules cleaning the Augean stables, but they are citizens to do so. The moral is that it is not the hero but the people dell'Elide clean up the dirt on his country. Citizens will have a clean and orderly country only if they do not delegate to any management and policy, but if they take charge in person. Why democracy, government by the people, is growing thanks to continuous and diligent monitoring and cleanup actions.


Eritrean We expect the heroes (or other Western countries) that will release us from the chains of dictatorship. Maybe it's time that we have to inform us in person and costruici a review, and then maybe look for solutions for this country.

Before concluding I want to connect the mythology and neo-colonialism by using the end of the story of Heracles.

Heracles at the end after you have cleaned the stables Augean asked the king the promised reward, but he refused saying that he was deceived by him: not Hercules but the rivers were cleaned up by the dung of his kingdom. Heracles asked that the dispute be referred for trial but was to his detriment and was expelled from the Elide.
According to another version, the dispute that followed the failure to reward for their work led to the war: Hercules and Augean won was killed.

Multinationals can compare with the Hercules, which provide their services to an African country. The relationship between multinationals and neo-colonies as so often end tragically, as described in the story of the Augean stables, just because the government is at odds with the interests of the companies. I would not be
franinteso, multinationals and governments have the right to do business with who they want. The issue is that dictatorships are not an expression of the people and often do not meet these dictatorships nor a monitoring body, nor to the judiciary. So problems of dictatorship and multinationals lead to trouble not only to destabilize a country but a whole region of a continent. All this is because civil society has abdicated its role as guarantor and controller.



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