Month: January 2013
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Its Not True–But At Least It Is Coherent
Well, when you say nothing happened, you can’t explain what happened. But the world knows something happened and you know you can’t go on saying nothing happened. That’s the quandary of the Eritrean regime. But it is not its first quandary, and it always stumbles around for an answer. It feeds its surrogates some misinformation…
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We Missed You Too…
… our loyal readers, writers, commenters… but that is another story, a much, much smaller story compared to what is going on back home. So that story will have to wait. gedabnews.com has been re-purposed and, until awate.com returns, it will be our meeting place. 1. To contact us by email–comment, article submission, news, inquiries–…
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London Calling: Forto 2013
London Calling… Eritreans in the UK occupy the Eritrean embassy in solidarity with Eritrean soldiers who occupied the Eritrean Ministry of Information at Forto in Asmara. They call their campaign “Forto 2013” and, in symbolic move, remove rule by man (Isaias Afwerki’s picture) and replace it with rule of law (the demands of the young…
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The View From The Dark Side
When we last read madote.com, it had told us (on 11/27) that Ali Abdu had returned to Eritrea*. Now, madote.com is saying nothing happened on Monday except that a handful of “terrorists” threatened to kill MoI employees , that the government gave them–the terrorists, that is, safe passage (“they were not apprehended for their terrorist…
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Eritrean Regime Rounds Up Suspects Behind The Siege
1. As we reported yesterday, while the Eritrean regime publicly downplays the Monday siege of Eritrea’s Ministry of Information (MoI), it has cast a wide net to arrest anyone it suspects of having anything to do with the one-day occupation of the MoI building, aka “Forto” or “enda zena” and it has started, at its…
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The Uprising In Eritrea: A Prologue, Not An Epilogue
A day after young soldiers stormed the Ministry of Information and held in captivity the employees of the ministry, resulting in the state television, Eri-TV, to go off-air, Eritreans have more questions than answers. Who were the soldiers? Did they really hold the Ministry of Information employees captive? Who was responsible for the state television…
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What (Italian) Colonialism Did To My People Of (Eritrean) Kebessa
[Editor’s note: We usually try to limit article lengths to 5-7 pages, and when a piece is longer, we will usually serialize it. But then, there are some articles that have to be read at one sitting…preferably printed, preferably on a lazy Sunday morning. This article by Aklilu Zere–all 26 pages, all of the nearly…
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Ghedli Defamers And The Appeal Of Inevitability
In “Eritrea: the illusion of independence-liberation dichotomy” (asmarino.com, January 11), Zekre Lebonna attempts to frame the positions of the “gedli romanticizing” and “gedli de-romanticizing” writers debating the role of the Eritrean revolution in the creation of totalitarianism in Eritrea. Regretfully, however, the author, far from clarifying the issue, muddies it up by caricaturing and misrepresenting the…
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Some Eritrean Wonders Of 2012
The year 2012 was not in short supply of Eritrean wonders, I chose a couple of these wonders and tried to put them under the microscope trying to dissect them and see what they really are. The subjects discussed are not new subjects, they have been thoroughly discussed and researched, but what this article brings…
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Unfiltered Notes: How Much Do Eritreans Love Their Country?
Boundless love is what most of us believe we have for Eritrea. But our tendencies to embrace the king of the day (znegese ngusna)no matter how harsh the sacrifices seem to suggest otherwise. Judging by the only measurement that matters – our collective inability to remove what has turned out to be a modern day…
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Time For Some Reflections
“The years roll by” may have become a catch phrase we repeat very often in our nation’s predicament – but literally, the years are indeed rolling by. How fast they come and go is even hardly noticeable these days. Between jobs, schools, holiday events, vacations and family life in general with all its fun memories,…