Category: Negarit
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Finale of an Eritrean Struggle
In the previous two phases, we talked about things that must be done at the individual level. An individual must decide whether they want to support the Eritrean regime, oppose it, or be indifferent to it. If they decide to resist its injustices at the individual level, they decide their degree of resistance. Is it
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Imitating The Eritrean Ruling Party!
Usually, when PFDJ supporters return appalled by what they witnessed while in a visit to Eritrea, they recount their experiences with bitterness to the extent one would think they have joined the opposition to the regime. But soon they meet like-minded friends and enter the echo chambers where they are overwhelmed by the feel-good sentiments.
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Major Dawit woldegiorgis: A Politician or a Soldier?
I have followed Shaleqa Dawit for a while and we had a brief exchanged views a few times. In weeks he has been active on Ethiopian diaspora circles, and I was curious to know what he is up to. To my dismay, he is still insistingly spreading his misconceptions about Eritrea and I would like
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Negarit 200: The Game Is On
In the previous Negarit, we talked about the three stages of the revolution or movement Stage 1: is to express, verbally, in writing, and in action our opposition to the Isaias Afwerki administration. Call that PFDJ, ህግደፍ, enemy, Adi Halo but you are talking about a system and people for developing and implementing the cruel
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Negarit 199: Perfecting the Resistance
In English and Arabic, opposition (معارضة) and resistance (مقاومة) are different, but in Tigrigna the word for both is (ተቃውሞ). Conceptually the terms are similar in usage though different essence. Generally, opposition describes a political party operating in a system of government based on democratic competition through elections. In Eritrea organizing outside the ruling party
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Negarit 198: Catch22-Nationalists or Patriots?
Your always long for Gondar Will you go to it or it will come to you! (a traditional wailing in Tigrinya) When famine was spreading in Tigray due to the war, I suggested that Assab and Massawa ports be accessible for receiving aid for shipment to the suffering regions of Ethiopia. A few who were
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Abiy and Isaias, Radwan in the Middle.
Ser’e is something forbidden by tradition be it mentioning or consuming. For instance, traditional women do not mention the name of their husbands and must refer to them as “father of so-and so”. Ser’e also forbids the consumption of certain foods and additives, like goat meat or salt. Likewise, partisans have Ser’e not to appreciate
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Time To Clean Your Own Courtyard
Hopefully, the guns will stop. Hopefully those drunk with lust for blood will sober up. Hopefully, those who have nothing to sell but hate, destruction and bloodletting will reevaluate their position. Hopefully the poor victims of this war will breathe a sigh of relief. Hopefully the farmers will go to their farms, the shepherds will
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Machoism Is Vengeans
For centuries, the Horn of Africa region has been plagued by a violent culture of war. And almost all wars are motivated by vengeance (Hne mefday). It’s the animal extinct in human beings, the Darwinian survival of the fittest. Nations explain it by saying, “If we let a tribe get away their aggression, they will
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Invaders or Defenders?
Today I will formally introduce the background intro music of Negarit, that you hear in the intro and outro. It is the work of my youngest brother Ahmed Abdulrahim. On behalf of myself and the audience of Negarit, I express my appreciation and gratitude to Ahmed for the gift. Thank you. I always avoid mentioning
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Presence of Ethiopian Forces In Eritrea
Can wars end? What are signs that wars will end? What was the result of past “wars to end wars”? Is our region hastening Armageddon? Will the war in our region ever end? Who are the actors in the war apart from what we see? What is sovereignty when foreign forces are stationed in a
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Season of Migration to the PFDJ
During the last three-Covid-years, the PFDJ was restlessly awaiting the end of the pandemic to relaunch its propaganda onslaught. Now it’s back to normal and the PFDJ is active trying to regain its momentum. Parties, wild dancing craze, surrendering, wring regret statements, are abundant. Round ten, twenty or thirty of the onslaughts is on. Spies,
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Drones Created Out of Dirty Residues
In the last episode of Negarit (#181), I asked my audience ‘what do they miss the most in Eritrea?’ I was not surprised by their answers because I can identify with most of them. But regardless, they were heart-wrenching. Let me begin with a memorable story about a strong, assertive, no-nonsense woman I knew as
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31 Years Talking to Themselves, never listen
Over the last months, the PFDJ operatives have been complaining that some forces are forcing them to talk back. They seem they were silenced! However, together with their adversaries, they have been talking, the only think they are good at. I will start with a 12-word quote from a Palestinian poet, the late of Mahmoud
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Come out Equipped With Truth
In an opposition member accepts and promotes all the values of the incumbent regime and adopts all its decisions and symbols, then, what is it opposing? Worse, if you are a single-issue opposition to the regime, what happens if the regime agrees to your issue, what will you be opposing? Ladies and gentlemen, if you
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Let Sherifo Testify
I am sure you must remember Mahmmed Sherifo. Certainly, you remember the reformers. Were they reformers… or something else! And how is the constitution tied to their arrest! Lastly, what’s the foundation of a constitution! This topic includes two parts. It’s an important topic and I believe it will help many who might be confused
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And I Waited for the Stale Speech!
It’s good when a culture encourages entertainment; it is bad when it spreads gloom. Entertainment makes you forget your pain. And Eritreans have more reasons than any other country in the world for partying. That is why they must adopt the goal of “Pursuit of Happiness” which is a fundamental right of Americans that’s engrained
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Between Constitutionalism and “The Constitution”
[Reading time 9 minutes] Carlo was a driving school owner and trainer who was traveling to Keren in a bus together with his friend. The bus driver was reckless and seemed incompetent. The bus swayed and the passenger panicked, including Carlo. The friend asked Carlo to sit beside the driver and instruct him how to
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Nom de plume
Before pencils, fountain pens and dry pens were invented, writers used feathers that they dipped in a container of ink to write. Somehow ‘plume’, a French word became so popular that it is used to mean the feather in many languages. And if you are thinking that pseudonyms are a new phenomenon, it is not.
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Citizen-hating Vagabonds
Why are the PFDJ and its supporters obsessed with rivalry, destroying, and eliminating TPLF? They waste their emotions and resources practicing their decades-old obsession? Wouldn’t it be better if they focused on improving the livelihood of Eritreans instead? One would think, winning inside Eritrea would make them win any other rivalry. However, overextending the meagre