Category: Articles
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The ENCDC Congress At Hawassa: A Determination To Succeed (Part I)
I reached Hawassa with a late group. It was late evening when our bus arrived there on the 22nd of November—and we were given a warm official reception at the entrance of the city. Our group included youth from Switzerland and refugees from the camps in Ethiopia and a few from other parts of Europe.…
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Mending The Habitual Error
This time I will tighten my belt and swerve little from the usual style of dealing with our “sensitive” concerns compassionately, because courtesy alone can’t resolve our complications from the roots. Though we are not used to it, and might cause discomfort to some, exposing the inside-out directs us to discover the right therapy for…
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“Yes!” To Sanctioning The PFDJ Regime
The Eritrean Youth Solidarity for Change, which supports sanctioning the Eritrean regime, has drafted a series of templates to enable whose who support the idea of sanctioning the regime to petition the representatives of the UN Member States who make up the UN Security Council. They have included simple instructions on how send this letter…
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A Document That Minimizes The Mistrust Among Us
The following is a response to a recurring question presented by some members of ENA and the Global Solidarity group; it asked if there is even a need for a transitional constitution! These members as well as the EGS suggested abandoning the constitution; they would like to transfer the responsibilities over to the “youth”. These…
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The National Congress And The End Game
So we convene again and this time, perhaps for the last time at such a level before PFDJ thugs are chased out of town and are hunted dead or alive from every fox hole, every sewer pipe or every other crevice in the land where they might attempt to hide, and are finally brought to…
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The Wisdom To Know The Difference
In February 2011 myself and my friends went to visit an ill friend in his house, we sat there for half an hour and then we thought of leaving, surprisingly it started raining heavily in that February day! I guess we can’t ignore global warming anymore. Anyway our sick friend insisted that we should wait…
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Eritrea’s Minister of Information, Ali Abdu, in Melbourne
In a trip shrouded by secrecy, Ali Abdu, Eritrea’s Minister of Information, made a surprise visit to Melbourne, Australia, on Saturday November 5th. He was received by a handful of regime loyalists. Since his arrival, his movements have been controlled and he has not appeared in public and there has not been any public meeting…
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The Eritrean National Congress: A Metaphor Of Hope
In association with the Eritrean national congress to be held in Addis on November 21, 2011, there is a question which I seem to be unable to repress: can this time the Eritrean people count on the good will of the leaders of the opposition groups, or their will is so corrupted thus nothing good…
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The Ethiopian Roar And The Weary Eyes of Eritrean Mothers (P. 1)
When Ethiopia roars from the South the threat is real. We Eritreans don’t take Ethiopian threat lightly. Generation after generation, we Eritreans have been on the receiving end of Ethiopia’s Tuta, Zeraf, Geday, Yematreba Fiel Zetegn Tweldalech….adventure. And we have deep scars to prove it. We have layers of tears still fresh. We have dark…
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The G13 ’Berlin Manifesto’: Lessons & Way Forward (Part II)
In Part I, I dealt with the circumstances that led to the writing of the letter and the reactions then. President Isaias, neither listened to the G13 nor the G15. He has been systematically eliminating all his potential opponents or competitors since the early 1970s. It was not in his nature to listen, the fact…
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Urgent Press Release: Girifna Movement (Sudan)
Urgent Press Release: Girifna movement Kassala University Students in Need of Urgent Medical Assistance Following Clash with Regime Khartoum—(October 23, 2011) On October 20, and for the third consecutive day, students in Kassala University protested the academic, economic and political situation in the country. They were met with excessive violence from the regime including live…
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Think Of It—Always!
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible…” Mahtama Ghandi (1869-1948) The End of Zenga-Zenga Rule Easily, though respectfully to the other Arab Spring revolutions, Eritreans in the opposition draw lesson…
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Addis Ababa Meeting: Expectations And Complexes
The participants of the Addis Ababa meeting did raise the issue of Ethiopian military intervention in Eritrea. Some raised it as a worrying issue should Ethiopia take such an action. Some asked if Ethiopiahas such a plan at all. Some called for Ethiopiato take such an action and remove the regime in Eritreaas soon as…
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Ethiopian intervention: A Scapegoat For Power Struggle
In any social struggle, getting support from neighboring countries is natural. If we take our case, without the support of the Sudanese people and government it would have been difficult to achieve independence, if not impossible. Similarly with the support of the Ethiopian people we were able to struggle against the late Ethiopian governments of…
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Comparing Two Commissions
It was in the old days when the hand picked members of the constitutional commission of Eritrea were busy touring the nation teaching and explaining the need and importance of a constitution. The constitution’s final draft was obvious for any critical observer—it wouldn’t divert an inch from what the EPLF willed regardless of what the…
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The Ghion Hotel Metting: A Refugee’s Perspective
The legacy of past generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. K. Marx Saliha must have been dozing when the accident happened. When she came to her senses she could see an overturned Toyota pick-up land cruiser and human bodies strewn all around it. A baby was crying near her, and…
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If I Were President Obama’s Advisor: Message To The Eritrean Opposition
By: Anonymous Author As we all know the Eritrean National Commission for Democratic Change has been busy for quite some time organizing a National Congress (Hagerawi Gubae) that will take place in Addis Ababa at the end of the next month. The purpose of this Gubae, presumably, is to discuss and map out a strategy…
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Eritreans Hold A Successful Demonstration In Giessen, Germany
By: Justice For Eritrea The Demonstration was a success. We are thankful to the organizers. You can see from the pictures and videos on facebook (e.g. http://facebook.com/justiceforeritrea) that there were many people. The demonstration was held because the rumor went around that the dictator of Eritrea himself would attend a so-called ‘cultural event’ in Giessen,…
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The G13 ’Berlin Manifesto’: 10 years after* (Part I)
A colleague whom I have never heard from, for almost 20 years called me one November evening in 2000 from Dubai. After quickly exchanging greetings he strongly warned me not to travel to Eritrea. He said he was extremely worried that the President is going to execute me and my colleagues, just like Saddam Hussein…
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The Addis Ababa Meeting In Perspective
Among many other issues discussed during the Sept 5-10 Addis Ababa meeting, I, as a participant, will try to share my short analysis on identifying and solving Eritrea’s main problems. I will first discuss on why Ethiopia’s government invited the meeting. Some would argue that Eritrean problems are only Eritrean national issue. Not really. The…