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Operation Forto 2013 Impacts Operation Fenkil 2013
The Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) waged Operation Fenkil on February 8, 1990. By February 10, 1990, the military operation had achieved its mission: to liberate the port city of Massawa and to evict the occupying Ethiopian force– which lost about 8,000 soldiers in the 3-day battle. The anniversary of Operation Fenkil is marked every…
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Eritrea: The Challenges Of Today And The Prospects Of Tomorrow
(This is the source of the speeches which I delivered in Melbourne on the 29th of December 2012 and in Perth on January 21, 2013. I will present a comprehensive report about my busy schedule in Australia, hopefully soon. I have now returned home after my hosts in Australia fattened me like a cow to…
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Behind Isaias Afwerki’s Crocodile Tears About Human Trafficking
Eritrea’s self-declared president sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to complain that Eritrea has been the “target of malicious and concerted practices of human trafficking” for the “past ten years or so” and since Eritrea has “statutory obligations as well as universal morale [sic] and humanitarian responsibilities” to put an end to…
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Aljazeera: Family Says Colonel Abdurahman Mahmoud Jasser’s Death Mysterious
The Eritrean government’s official website disclosed on Saturday that Colonel Abdurahman Mahmoud Jasser had died on February 2nd “following his recent sickness” and that he would be buried in the “Martyr’s Cemetery” on Sunday. The government passed its condolences to “the family members and friends”. Now, family members are saying that his death is a…
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What Did Bashir And Isaias Discuss?
On February 2, Sudan’s Omar Al Bashir was in Asmara for a one-day “working visit.” This was, as we reported, the first visit to Eritrea by a foreign head of state since the developments of January 21, when members of Eritrean Defense Forces occupied Eritrea’s Ministry of Information for a day and announced their demand…
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PFDJ Dictionary Hooligan: A Citizen Who Demands His Civil Rights
PFDJ Dictionary If you are an Eritrean living in Africa or the Middle East, you have to go to the Eritrean embassy to renew your passport, which you will need for your residency permit. If you are an Eritrean living in Europe, North America, Australia, etc, you can go to the Eritrean embassy to pay…
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Iranian Defector Says Al Quds Leader Met With Isaias Afwerki
An Iranian translator who recently defected to the West says that Qassim Suleymani, the leader of Iran’s paramilitary force, Al Quds, met with Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki on May 20, 1998. According to the translator, Ahmed Hashemi, the discussions between Qassim Suleymani and Isaias Afwerki–which was also attended by Iran’s Foreign Minister, Manouchehr Mottaki–centered on…
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Omar Al Beshir Visits Isaias Afwerki
Sudan’s President, Omar Al Bashir, paid a visit to Isaias Afwerki in Asmara today. Accompanying Al Bashir were Sudan’s Defense Minister and Intelligence Chief. Isaias Afwerki, as usual, broke with protocol and was not accompanied by his defense minister or chief of intelligence. The “working visit” lasted a day and Al Bashir returned back to…
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We Are Back (Kinda)
Thanks for your patience… awate.com is back..however, as you can see, we are missing a few articles, some articles, actually a whole lot of articles (April 2012 – December 12) that we are in the process of reconstructing. We have been through this before: it will take us a little time, but we will reconstruct…
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“Tesfai Germen” (wink, wink) explains the motivation of the January 21 “conspiracy”
Alenalki interrupts its usual programming of concert promotion to provide an article by Tesfai Germen. After providing background to Eritrea’s history of the 1940s, where he corrupts the goals Abdulkader Kebire and Woldeab Woldemariam by recalling only their patriotism and disregarding their demand for liberty and justice, “Tesfai Germen” (who is just an ordinary Eritrean…
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Eritreans In London Rally, Shut Down Traffic
On February 1, for the second time in a week, Eritreans in the UK staged a rally in front of the Eritrean embassy to demand immediate change in Eritrea: the resignation of Isaias Afwerki and the replacement of rule by autocracy by rule of law.
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Eritreans In Israel Protest Outside Eritrean Embassy
Around 150 Eritrean asylum seekers protested outside the Eritrean embassy in Ramat Gan on Friday morning, in a show of solidarity with Eritrean political prisoners and a group of army officers who staged a failed coup in Asmara last month. Speaking in English, asylum seeker Isayas Teklebrhan gave a speech calling for “the immediate resignation…
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Human Rights Watch 2013 Report: Eritrea
Eritrea is one of the world’s most repressive and closed countries. The government of President Isaias Afewerki has effectively banned the independent press. Journalists languish in detention, as do officials who question Isaias’s leadership; many have died in jail. No civil society organizations are allowed to exist. Arbitrary arrest of citizens is rampant, and torture…
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Human Rights Watch World Report 2013
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Eritreans In Berlin: No We Won’t Be Silent
January 30.
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In Solidarity With January 21 Uprising: Milano
Eritreans in Porta Venezia answer the question: what do you call an Eritrean who doesn’t feel the pain of other Eritreans?
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Dejen DC: Forto 2013 – Updated
Eritreans for constitutional governance and democracy demonstrate outside the Eritrean Embassy in Washington, DC. The Eritrean Embassy spokesperson, Freweini Abraham, overreacts (just a tad) and describes the peaceful attempt of peaceful people to ask for peaceful change in Eritrea as if it was somebody attacking Dejen DC. Read her instant classic below: 29 January 2013…
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More Arrests Confirmed
The Eritrean regime has arrested Suleiman Hajj and Jaber Dere’e. Suleiman Hajj was the mayor of the city of Mendefera, and the deputy to the regional administrator of the South Zone (“Zoba Debub”), Mustapha Nurhussein. Mustapha, along with Abdella Jaber, who was the Director of Organizational Affairs for the ruling party, PFDJ, was arrested last…
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Expressen Gets Its Wrong
By: saay The online edition of Swedish newspaper Expressen has an article with the heading (in Swedish) “Ministern bekräftar: Har lämnat regimen”. Google translate assures me that this means “Minister confirms: Has left the regime.” The article carries the byline of “Kassem Hamadé” who says that he got all this information (“world exclusive interview”) from…
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No, Sunridge CEO Michael Hopley Is Not A “Useful Idiot”
In political jargon, “useful idiot” is a pejorative term for people perceived as propagandists for a cause whose goals they do not understand, and who are used cynically by the leaders of the cause. That’s the wikipedia definition of “useful idiot” which is always attributed to VI Lenin. But Sunridge Gold Corp CEO, Michael Hopley,…
