Looking beyond Isaias: Complexities of the make-up of the Eritrean population, past and present – a help or hindrance?

Looking beyond Isaias: Complexities of the make-up of the Eritrean population, past and present – a help or hindrance?

By Martin Plaut Introduction I would stress at the outset: this is an initial attempt to consider these questions. I wish to interrogate issues that have only limited public discussion and my analysis is tentative. I would welcome any informed criticism. There is one central question that is genuinely puzzling about Eritrea: why its people, who fought with such courage and sacrifice for thirty years to achieve independence and freedom, only to a…