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Eritrean Forum For Human Rights-Special Issue
SPECIAL EDITION ISAIAS AFWERKI’S RESUME AS PRESIDENT OF ERITREA Honour the spirit of the Martyrs. Speak, act and fight for those who have no voice. 1993: Only two months after independence, Isaias orders the forced transport of 12, 000 disabled freedom fighters to concentration camps outside of Asmara. While marching to Asmara for…
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Activities In Toronto, Canada
TORONTO ACTION is a coalition of civic and political organizations, namely EriForum, Qalna, and the Toronto Branch of EDA A contingency of Toronto Action setup a picket line on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at the foot of a high rise building, where the repressive Eritrean regime maintains an office in Toronto. Reaction from taxi…
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What If EPDP Reversed Its Decision On The National Conference
It is commonly said that there is no problem without a solutions; and dialogue is the noblest and the most mature of these solutions. Dialogue is a civilized feature in finding a solutions for problems that faces a society and the nation if [parties] agreed on that as a means [to resolve problems]. …
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محـاولة لفـض الإشـتباك
جاء الإنسان على مر التاريخ بأيدولوجيات متعددة لتنظيم العلاقة بين أفراد المجتمع منها ماهو ذو صبغة دينية والأخر دنيوية ، وجميعها ذات علاقة مباشرة بطبيعة الإنسان و أسلوبه في الحياة ، والغاية منها هو الإرتقاء به إلى حياة أفضل مليئة بالخير والسعادة . فكانت هنالك إجتهادات كثيرة في هذا المنحي بدء بأساطين الفكر اليوناني ثم…
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A Conference Of The Willing!
Unless those who have opted to dissent change course on short notice and rejoin the collective effort, the convening of the National Conference for Democratic Change (NCDC) in late July of this year appears to have become the business of the willing only. With the exception of one out of eleven member organizations, the EDA…
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The Paradox: Heralding A Soft Resistance
In its Unification Conference, The Eritrean Democratic Alliance invited some members of the Eritrean Civic Societies as observers. The invitation was considered a positive step in the right direction and a historic achievement though a tiny fraction of what Eritreans aspire. The members of the civic societies were to the expectations of our people; they played…
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Eight EDA Member Organization Agree To Unite Their Military Wings
Gedab News,(May 9, 2010): On May 4, 2010, eight member organizations of the Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA), an umbrella organization of Eritrean opposition forces, signed a memorandum of understanding to unify their military wings under one command. . The eight signatories are: (1) Eritrean Federal Democratic Movement (EFDM); (2) Eritrean Islamic Party for Justice…
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Eritrean Law Society Held Talks With Human Rights Watch
As a continuation of its ongoing effort to meet and establish working partnership with different organizations that share its goals and objectives, the Eritrean Law Society met and held talks with Human Rights Watch. On the part of ELS, the meeting was attended by chairman Michael Andegeorgis, Journalist Milkias M Yohannes and ELS treasurer…
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Reflections On Gender And Nationalism In Eritrea
Each year, on the 24th of May Eritreans celebrate independence day. The celebration symbolises the spirit of freedom, peace as well as respect and dignity of the citizens of the country. For Most Eritreans this day that marks the end of what they had suffered in subjugation and the end of war that brought their…
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The Shitara Code
You know those kids who stood outside movie theatres and told the patrons that they were only 5 cents short of the admissions price and could they please get help when, in fact, all they had was 5 cents? You remember those who ate beles “ny sania”: standing in front of the fruit vendor, they…
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Ambassador Yamamoto Heading To Eritrea
Gedab News has learned that Ambassador Donald Yamamoto, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary to the US Secretary of State, will fly to Asmara next week to meet with Eritrean authorities. If accurate, this would be a turning point in the relationship between the governments of Eritrea and the United States which has been going from bad to worse…
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قراءة هادئة في جوانب أزمة المعارضة
إتكاءة على ملتقى الحوار الوطني للتغيير الديمقراطي بعد توقف طويل عن الكتابة في مواقع الإنترنيت إلا من كتابات عابرة اقتضتها ضرورة الأحداث (1) ، قررت أن أعاود الكتابة مرة أخرى ، ولما كان الكتابة في هذا التوقيت دون تناول موضوع ملتقى الحوار الوطني للتغيير الديمقراطي ، أمر خارج عن النص فلا بأس من الإتكاءة…
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Men And Women of Kebessa
Her good mother was so tough, precise and unrelenting, she did not let her slack until she was satisfied that she had totally absorbed her teachings and proved her qualifications. Distortions, variations or alterations were totally rejected. Opinions, excuses or suggestions were also totally unacceptable and punishable. Things had to pass as they were and…
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An Analysis Of The Crisis Of The Opposition
This article is written with the upcoming National Conference for Democratic Change as a background. After a long hiatus from writing in the Internet sites except for transient events necessitated by the need to (1), I decided to write again. Since writing at this time, without addressing the issue of the National Conference for…
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Wanted: A Few Good Women
This website prides itself on being the most diverse. More than any other Eritrean website, it reflects the kaleidoscope that is Eritrea. While other websites were rationalizing the uniformity of their writers with sophisticated sophistry (how many times have you heard of “digital divide”?), we worked hard to make everybody feel welcome at awate. The…
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التمدن يتيح النظر الى ابعد من ارنبة الانف
اولا وقبل كل شئ اقول، رحم الله امرء عرف قدر نفسه، وهو انا الفقيرالى الله والى المعرفة، وهذا الاستدلال يقودنى الى الاعتذار المسبق من اخوتى حتى لا يذهب الظن بهم الى مصافى الشك والاشكواك، التى طبعت حياتنا ، بدلا من المصارحة والمكاشفة،وهكذا فى مقال لى سابق عندما اردت تاكيد ان العيب فينا وليس فى غيرنا،…
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Truth Telling, Painful At That
Last Tuesday April 27th 2010, there was a conference held at the national press club in Washington DC. The event was organized by the press advocacy group reporters sans frontiers (rsf) and the national press club under the banner “truth tellers”. Eritrean independent journalist Milkias Mihretab Yohannes was the speaker at the event. Milkias, shares…
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Boycotting The Eritrean Dream: For What Purpose?
Hardly surprising, since the reality of National Conference of Eritreans, for long, has been one of failed expectations and mounting frustrations; the power to make change within the opposition camp is always dashed by walkouts and boycotts. Year in and year out, the issue of national conference is invoked, in every meeting of the political…
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A Tale of Two Cities London Peace Conference
I was born and grew up in an ex-British colony– Eritrea, the first time I saw a British person was in my village, the Manager of the Agricultural scheme ( S.I.A.). I remember that even the local games we were playing as kids were of British background( cricket& Rugby). Then I migrated to another ex-British…
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ማዕቀብ ኤርትራ፡ ተኸሳሲ ባዕሉ ዘምጸኦ ሰበብ A T
ነቲ ባይቶ ጸጥታ ሕቡራት ሃገራት ኣብ ልዕሊ ስርዓት ኤርትራ ዘሕለፎ -ፈልዩ ዝቐጽዕ ማዕቀብ- ብዝምልከት ዝስማዕ፡ ክልተ ውዱን ኣገላልጻታት ንግንዘብ። እቲ ሓደ ብወገን እቶም ደገፍትን ተጣበቕትን ናይቲ ስርዓት ዝቐርብ ኰይኑ፡ ብኣበሃህላኦም፡ ናይ መንግስቲ ኤርትራ “ጽቡቕ ኣርኣያ”፡ ማለት፡ እቲ ዝኽተሎ ኣገባብ፡ ንናይ ርእሰ-ሓያላን ኣገባብ ምውጋድ ቅልውላው ዝነጽግ ብምዃኑ፡ (ብቐደሙ ‘ውን፡ እቲ ቅልውላው ንርእሱ፡ ባዕላቶም ዝፈጠሩዎ ብምዃኑ) ብመንጽሩ…
