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Remembering September 1
If you think you know the history of Eritrea, here is a pop quiz: when did Eritrea’s armed struggle for liberation really begin? Was it on 9/1/1961 when Awate fired his first shot as many Eritreans believe or late October 1961 when my late uncle joined the revolution? If you answered 9/1/1961, you would be…
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September 1 Is The Answer: “Peaceful Or Armed”
September 1, 1961 is the day that 14 poorly-armed Eritreans led by Hamid Idris Awate engaged the Ethiopian army in battle and forced its withdrawal from Mt. Adal, Eritrea. The 14 Eritreans were the entirety of the Eritrean Liberation Army (ELA) of the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF), which had been founded a year earlier. Mt…
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Asmarino.com – Tigrigna
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Asmarino.com – English
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ከምታ ናይ ሊብያ!
ጭቁን ህዝቢ ዓለም ነንሕድሕዱ ዘመሳስሎ ናይ ሓባር ረቛሒታት ኣለዎ። እዚ ድማ ጭቆና ኢዩ። ኣብ ሊብያ ዘሎ ሽግር ኣብ ኤርትራ ኣሎ። ምናልባሽ ናይ ኣፈታትሕኡ ኣገባብን ግዜን ክፈላለ ይኽእል። ኣብ መጨረሻ ግን ንዘላኣለም ከምኡ ኢሉ ዝነብር ሽግር የለን። ኣብ ኤርትራ’ውን መዓልቲ ኣላ ህዝቢ ዝትስኣላ። ኣብ ዓለም ዝካየድ ዘሎ ጸረ ዲክታተርነት ሰውራ ኣዝዩ ቅልጡፍ ኢዩ። ኣብ ከባቢና ዝካየድ…
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Exposing Despotism And Affronting The Masses
Greetings to you all brothers and sisters and especially Muslim Eritreans in this Holy month of Ramadan and the soon coming Eid Al Fitr Holidays. Before I go to the main subject of this article, I want to shed some light, or clarify it—for lack of better word—certain issues and points on my last article,…
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An Almost Forgotten Article
This article was the only article that I wrote in 2004 but was not posted on Awate.com because it violated a tenet: multiple posting. I had posted it on Gebeel and Dekebat websites and I just remembered it when I read Semere Tesfai’s recent posting. Here it is being reposted as is without any modification…
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How should tyrants, including Isaias Afwerki, be removed from power?
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On Mohammed Kheir Omar’s Public Stature: Keeping The Record Straight
This response is prompted by a need to redress misconceptions arising out of Ismail Omer-Ali’s last POINTBLANK whose object of focus is an article by Mohammed Kheir Omar. While Mohammed Kheir Omar is more than capable of deciding what to make of the issue, I believe that when a person of virtue and integrity comes…
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Challenging The Rhetoric & Hypocrisy Of Violent Regime Change
Today, there are two diametrically opposing schools of thought in the opposition camp: Violent Regime Change vs. Non-Violent Regime Change. Again on the violent regime change camp, there are two completely different arguments with different sets of objectives that are being made to justify why violent regime change is the right course of action. And…
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A Testimony On Milkias
Milkias is special when it comes to exposing the tyrannical regime’s brutal nature and cruel treatment of its own people. He is not saying it only now, when everybody has taken it as a fashion to write and talk about it, but long time ago, right in the middle of Asmara while Shaebia was enjoying…
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One Day In Ramadan
Yusuf Mohammed Ali (Yusufzai) was clearly bothered; something must have went wrong. I tried to reach him by phone throughout the day to no avail. His office was not that far from mine, we usually talked on the phone or met to have coffee almost every day. I talked to his friend, the journalist Zemenfes…
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A Short-lived Democracy That Never Was
Two men surveyed the scene in Eritrea from afar. One saw (or thought he saw) a new era of freedom and prosperity and turned to his companion with tears in his eyes and said “how lucky we are to finally witness the birth of a free and democratic Eritrea” His companion who was peering…
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The Sun Never Sets On The Eritrean Empire
[This is a speech given on July 20, 2011, at a gathering organized by Eritreans in Las Vegas, Nevada.] A lot of you might think that Eritrea is that small country hugging the western shores of the Red Sea; but you couldn’t be more mistaken. Eritreans have filled the four corners of the world, with…
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The Past & Future: The different Views
Can Eritreans live together & share a common future? The immediate response to that question will be: of course they can, yes they should! You will always find that answer in public, but not behind closed doors! You can read that in the political programs of the government & the opposition, in public statements; you…
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The Diaspora Ethiopians: A Matter Of Perspective
Mengistu H. Mariam as we all vividly remember was one of the most brutal dictators in Africa during one of the most turbulent periods in Ethiopian History. This non-descript small man committed atrocities on his people under which the ‘French Reign of Terror’ will pale by comparison. So I was surprised to see him interviewed…
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August 10, 2001: The Day Eritrean Summer Was Crushed
Early that morning, my son left home early to attend a court hearing of the President of the Students’ Union of the University of Asmara (UoA). And I was lucky enough, at least, to have been able to see him again six years later. On August 9, the UoA students held a general assembly and…
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August 10, 2001: The Day Eritrean Summer Was Crushed
Early that morning, my son left home early to attend a court hearing of the President of the Students’ Union of the University of Asmara (UoA). And I was lucky enough, at least, to have been able to see him again six years later. On August 9, the UoA students held a general assembly and…
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Beneath The “Emamet”
Not realizing beneath “Emamet” (traditional Eritrean Muslim’s turban), Ymma Zeineb was over excited to see Eritreans with “Emamet” in a meeting with the Ethiopian dictator, Mengistu Hailemariam, in Ethiopian TV. And, confided to her close friend “Adey Selas”, and said “N’mejemerya gz’ye nay add’na Emmamet ztekhednu ertrawyan r’eena” (this is my first time to see…
