Whether it be amongst our people or within our armed struggle, the opportunistic bosses of 'Jebha" have in the pursuit of their selfish interests, found it expedient to promote ethnic and sectarian antagonism and managed to create and sustain numerous divisive factions among the Eritrean people and fighters. Their continuing frantic efforts threaten to spread the plague of division into the surrounding communities and beyond. When "Jebha's" bosses divide the Eritrean people in this manner and scramble for the control of the resultant factions, it is always for their personal interest rather than that of the respective communities.
The only people who benefit from this are the opportunists. Our conscience does not allow us to tolerate such a state of affairs which subjugates the masses for the benefit of a privileged few. The objective of our struggle is not to foster communal strife but to promote harmony and to win national liberation. We therefore resolutely oppose the opportunistic and divisive elements that work against our national unity and thus, undermine the struggle for national liberation. Since we are witnessing within our struggle the development of personal power contests through claims and counterclaims of the allegiance of one group or another, we unequivocally state that we are opposed to ethnic parochialism. We wish to remind these tribalists who have tried and are still trying to manoeuvre us, that their attempts are futile and that they are only exposing themselves.
We are freedom fighters who are dedicated to the unity of all progressive combatants without regard to their ethnic or regional backgrounds.