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State, Religion and Ethno-Regional Politics
Sign of the Times On August 1, 2009, I happened to be in Washington DC, visiting a family friend who was in hospital following a serious surgery. As I was about to leave the hospital, a brother of the patient and a man I have known for many years and regarded as a friend…
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Behind The Remote Controlled Demonstration: India Edition
Editor’s Note: The Eritrean regime has claimed that it has nothing to do with demonstrations which have been organized to protest UN Resolution 1907, the targeted sanctions against the political and military leadership of the self-imposed government. It, and its loyalists and affiliates, have attempted to characterize the demonstrations as spontaneous grassroots movement from ordinary…
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Reflections On Semere Tesfai’s article
I paused reflect after reading Semere Tesfai’s article (Ali Salim’s Land Argument: A Mirage of Power Ambition (awate December 10, 2009), in which he challenges Ustaz Ali Salim who have been debating about the mother of all our issues and problems, with transparency and clarity that most Tigrigna intellectuals (the likes of Semere) are not…
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Who Is Going To Pull The Trigger?
For years we kept writing, revealing, and screaming about our wounds and the wrong policies of PFDJ. This mild struggle of “telling” was mainly intended to inform the uninformed members of our society and the international community about the inhumane acts of Isaias and therefore inspire Eritreans to fight for their right and remove the…
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Re-affirming Bigotry: For Some, It Comes So Natural
When people are bad, inherently bad that is, no amount of pleading will ever dissuade them from their evil actions or deeds, no matter how abhorrent and how disgusting those actions or deeds may turn out to be. Such people are not driven by causes – any causes just or otherwise, but rather, by innate…
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Shagged Refugees and Extremist Rallies
The protesters who enjoy democracy and happy life with their families in the West don’t care about the sufferings inflicted upon Eritreans by the regime. Their slogans proves: “We are the government and the government is us.” The slogan describes them perfectly, and the data that appeared together with “The Eritrean Covenant” published at Awate.com…
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The Dictator Reaching A Shameful Zenith:
“The sweetest moment in a dictator’s life can be when democracy triumphs, he’s deposed, his name becomes synonymous with misery and terror, his former subjects look forward to a prosperous country without him but with the support of the West and the United Nations, and foreign correspondents leave his wrecked country for another hotter spot.…
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A Protest To Mend 50 Years Of Injustice And Unfairness
The entire hullabaloo about the ‘unjust’ and ‘unfair’ sanction is becoming a nightmare. Assuming the Resolution was hatched up in the US; this time one would fail to find the rational. We know the reasons behind the 1950s decision of the UN to federate Eritrea with Ethiopia, but can anyone from the ‘Mekete’ camp convince…
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The Paradox: The Anti-Democracy Enjoying Democracy In The West
The rallies of shame. The rallies of emptiness and senselessness would expose an entity to a world that already knows the reality of the regime on the 22nd of February in the West, of course, not in the known as Eritrea. The dictator understands that the rallies will not reverse the sanctions, but through the…
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“Abu Rejela”, A Giant of The Eritrean Revolution, Has Died In Sudan
On the night of February 13th, Mohammed Ali Idris, better known as “Abu Rejela”, a hero of Eritrea’s Revolutionary struggle, died in the Eastern Sudanese town of Kassala. Abu Rejela was a comrade of Hamid Idris Awate, the leader of Eritrea’s revolution, and his acclaim was established in the Battle of Togoruba. On the 15th…
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ኣድጊ’ዶ ገመል ምዃን? SemDTesfai
እቲ ሰብ ምዃን ቀሊል ኣይኮነን። ኣኽሊል ፍጥረት ምዃን ንኸማኡ ኣይተዋህበን። ብኸማኡ’ውን ኣይተዋህበን። ንኵሉ ሓለፋ ዝኽፈሎ ዋጋ እነኤዎ። ንልዕልነት’ውን። ኣኽሊል፡ እቲ ዝለዓለ ካብ መዛንኡ እዩ። ጽላል’ዩ። ሓላዊ’ዩ። ኣኽሊል ንጉስ’ዩ። የመሓድር፡ የዋህድ። ሚዛንነት ይሕሉ። እቲ ማእከለ ሚዛን’ዩ። ተግባራውነት’ዩ። ርትዓውነት’ዩ። እምበኣር እቲ ሰብ ምዅን ሓለፋ ጥራሕ ዘይኮነስ እንተላይ ሓላፍነት እዩ። ንሰብ ኣኽሊሉ ከኣ ኣእምሮኡ እዩ። ሰብ ነፍሱ ይፈልጥ፡…
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العهد الإرتري:نحو سلام عادل ومستدام
مجلس إبراهيم مختار العهد الإرتري نحو سلام عادل ومستدام (1) إحياء العهد الإرتري : إننا ، معدو هذه الوثيقة، نمثل مجموعة متنوعة من الإرتريين المشغولين بقضايا المجتمع ، ينتمي أفرادها إلى مختلف مشارب الحياة، من داخل إرتريا ومن بين المجتمعات الأرترية في دول الشتات، ننحدر من خلفيات إثنية وإقليمية وسياسية مختلفة، وقد ساهمنا في النضال من أجل الإستقلال،…
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The Eritrean Covenant: Towards Sustainable Justice And Peace
Mejlis Ibrahim Mukhtar The Eritrean Covenant TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE JUSTICE AND PEACE1 Reviving the Eritrean covenant: We, the authors of this statement, are a diverse group of civic-minded Eritreans who come from all walks of life, from inside Eritrea and the Diaspora and from different ethnic, regional, and political background and persuasions. Individually, like many ordinary…
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The Triangle Of Pricks: Eritrea – Sudan & Ethiopia
le’teakejl alebna higya lwT wo’Hrit … eb atmashash let’thayeb it’trekeb eb tmnit dib le’amr lel’ake meglel mibel m’qwet (Selected lines from an old Tigre song “Anseba may zere”) ‘Not Too Bad!’ is what anyone familiar with the frustratingly slow pace of developments (towards a better day) in Eritrea during the last 20 years would describe…
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National Conference Revisited: An open letter to PCNC
Dear compatriots: [This is an open letter from an independent perceptive observer to the preparatory committee of National Conference (PCNC) that will convene on February 15, 2010] You are convening at time our nation and its people are devastated by the rogue regime in Asmara. The whole livelihood of our population is decimated by…
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It Is Not “Muslims & Lowlanders”….Its Engaging & Power Sharing Stupid
Ali Salim is not just a person – it’s a political pulse of a nervous, restless and concerned community – it is a voice of a community that’s worried about the uncertainty of its fair share in Eritrean politics – it is a fundamental question of what is there for me, worry – it is…
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We Cannot Afford to Be Divided
Finally the dream of the faithful Eritreans is approaching and it will come true. My happiness heightened when three opposition groups took a vital positive initiative and united. That is what an honest Eritrean wishes. That is what many were waiting for years, to join the struggle for freedom and justice. If we go back and…
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وقفة تأمل فيما جاء في مقال سمري تسفاي
وقفت على مقال للكاتب سمري تسفاي بعنوان: (Ali Salim’s Land Argument: A Mirage of Power Ambition ) نشر في موقع عواتي في 10 / 12 / 2009 م وترجمة العنوان ((علي سالم وحجة الأرض: وهم أو سراب السلطة ) يتحدى صاحب المقال الأستاذ على سالم / الذي تناول في مقالاته أمهات القضايا والمشكلات بشفافية ووضوح…
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Ufficio Lavoro, Worker’s Union & Labor Party
A laborer, a worker and a proletariat may be interchangeable words, if you are innocent. But as you progress from one to the other, you notice that the involvement of the politicians who claim to speak on behalf of labor ranges from zero to one hundred percent; from the practical to the abstract; from the…
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Sharing Thoughts…
I was supposed to return to my station but the schedule was postponed due to a technical travel emergency. During the long relaxation period I had—physically and mentally—I stayed away from the political climate and spent my time in social and cultural activities—even the Internet was not available to me on a daily basis; but…
