Sir:- 

With reference to your reports on the war in Eritrea may I point out that the Eritrean Liberation Front is not a Moslem movement, but a national front comprising all religions and sects of the Eritrean people.  Moreover it is not a secessionist movement but an organization aiming to liberate the people and the land from the indisputable

colonial rule of Ethiopia.

 Emnetu Tesfay

Kibbutz Givat Haim

NEWSWEEK – LETTERS

 AFRICAS WARS

 Your cover story on the Horn of Africa was timely.  But your inside pages hardly discussed the seventeen-year-old struggle for Eritrean independence.  The downfall of former Emperor Haile Selassie's regime and the inability of the military junta's government to rule are direct results of their failure to find a just solution to the Eritrean problem.

 Emnetu Tesfay

Stavanger, Norway

 Newsweek, March 27, 1978