Author: Amanuel Hidrat
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Requiem for the Victim
“The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own and is termed as the collective or common consciousness.”(Emil Durkheim) All I hear is death, rape, drowning, imprisonment, all bad news day in day out, and are certainly all mind and
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Eritrean History: A Transaction Of Bad Politics (Part-III)
“Never trust a government that does not trust its people.” The noble peace prize winner and Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov used to say that. What a befitting reminder it is at this crucial time, to warn our people to never trust an organization that walkout or boycott a popular movement for unity and democratic change.
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Eritrean History: A Transaction Of Bad Politics (Part-I)
In my debut of “Tebeges” on Sept 14, 2010 as a columnist at awate.com, I have promised my readers that I would tackle four different issues that are relevant to the transaction of our current socio-political query. One of them was “responding to any distorted historical accounts.” As planned, this topic will be presented in
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Coaxing The Variables Of Socio-Political Groups
In medicine a far more promising approach to treating advanced cancer is to coax the immune system to recognize cancer cells as deadly. Similarly in the socio-politics of multi-ethnic society, it is vital to coax the unity of minorities to recognize that “majority supremacy” is deadly to the survival of minority’s identities. I believe this
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Divorce Isn’t An Option, Ethnic Grievances Isn’t A Sin Either
As the saying goes two birds with one stone, this edition of “tebeges” will attempt to respond for two different issues at the same time. In the past week I read two articles that propelled me to write this essay. Indeed, I discovered something unpleasant thing that gave me rude awakening against all my feelings
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Nature Abhors Vacuum: Observing the Laws of Opposites (Part-II)
“Freedom of the mind requires not only the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thought.” (Alan Bloom) For purposes of clearing my mistaken identity, perceived by many other than those who know me, some disclosures must be in order on my side, to clear once for all. I have been writing for