Category: Articles
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On Semere Tesfay: Giving Up Justice In pursuit Of Security
Recently Semere Tesfay posted an article titled, Challenging The Rhetoric & hypocrisy of violent regime change, at Awate.com. As I understood it, in essence the article argues that we should give up the pursuit of justice for the sake of security, peace and harmony in Eritrea. Many would find the idea outrageous, and others may
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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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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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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
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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
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YPFDJ: Radicalization Of Eritrean Diaspora Youth (P- I)
An article titled “Exposing YPFDJ in Europe: Part IV” appeared at awate.on-forge.com. It reveals an untamed and gratuitous physical attack committed by Senai Solomon Lemma, the head of YPFDJ Denmark, against an Eritrean man at a social gathering. Instead of averting the attack, PFDJ members were encouraging and cheering Senai Solomon who got 40 days
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YPFDJ: Radicalization Of Eritrean Diaspora Youth (P- I)
An article titled “Exposing YPFDJ in Europe: Part IV” appeared at awate.on-forge.com. It reveals an untamed and gratuitous physical attack committed by Senai Solomon Lemma, the head of YPFDJ Denmark, against an Eritrean man at a social gathering. Instead of averting the attack, PFDJ members were encouraging and cheering Senai Solomon who got 40 days
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Why Is The Eritrean Regime Still Surviving?
The PFDJ regime is the most repressive regime in the world. It is known as a troublemaker nationally and internationally. The regime has become a source of instability for the countries of the Horn of Africa and is listed at the top of human rights violating governments of the world. Thousands of people are suffering
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Why Is The Eritrean Regime Still Surviving?
The PFDJ regime is the most repressive regime in the world. It is known as a troublemaker nationally and internationally. The regime has become a source of instability for the countries of the Horn of Africa and is listed at the top of human rights violating governments of the world. Thousands of people are suffering
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My Life Story In A Nutshell: A Matter Of Perspective
I was not born in Asmara, although I considered myself in that modern parlance an ‘Asmarino’. I came to Asmara when perhaps I was just may be over fiver years old from the next small town, next to the next small town. Living in Asmara was like living in a big village. Asmara, at least
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Ethiopian Village Of Agarfa & The American Ambassador
It is not a coincidence to come across similarity of attitudes in all totalitarian regimes in the world. In their good days they assert that they are undivided part of their region rather part of the whole world. Though informally, many times they consider themselves as regional powers, and they tend to act accordingly. In
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Exposing the YPFDJ in Europe: Part IV
By Eritrean Unity Movement Part I exposed the branches of the YPFDJ across Europe. Senai Solomon Lemma, Chairperson of YPFDJ in Denmark that we mentioned in Part I received 40 days of suspended prison sentence for his uncontrolled act of violent assault on an Eritrean at a party. Elderly members of the PFDJ cheered Senai
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An Appeal To The PFDJ Conscience
‘Evil prospers where good people do nothing’. This saying is heard in various circumstances and contexts, and it is worth taking a careful note of it in the context of Eritrea. On the occasion of the anniversary of Eritrean independence we have seen a stark and clear illustration of the polarized reality of Eritrea. On