Why Not the Way Forward for the Horn? A friend who knows that I have no time to read regional websites (As I am very busy editing my upcoming books) gave me your thought provoking article and I have read it with rapt attention and keen interest. It has some bold steps, but still remains short of complete breakthrough for the basis of reconciliation and peace between the two sisterly countries of Eritrea and Ethiopia. Besides you did not make your stand clear enough, meaning sometimes you want to uphold Ethiopia’s borders with its border in the Red Sea (that includes Eritrea) and sometimes you believe Eritrea’s independence and sovereignty is final. Congratulations as after writing this article I was told that you had many readers. However before I proceed with my burning issues I would like to ask you to ponder over the following solution deserving questions.
If the abolition of the Federal State was unanimous and real what caused the bitter and bloody Eritrean struggle for 30 years? And why did that harsh struggle got popular support from almost every Eritrean family at home and in the Diaspora? If the fight for liberation was not just why did it enjoy the support of Ethiopian intellectuals and change demanding Ethiopian underground movements? And how come you forgot the big chunk of the Ethiopian population, the Oromo in peace building? And since peace can only be obtained in collaboration with your neighbors is it fair to forget Somalia which is in deep turmoil? What about the simmering unrest in Darfur? Doesn’t it need an African solution? Can the Horn get peace without settling the unrest and dissatisfaction of the peoples of Ogadien, Benshangul, Gambella, Guragie, Hadiya, Sidama, etc. etc.? Can we have peace in our region without solving the crisis of ethnic identity? Are our politicians and intellectuals of both Eritrea and Ethiopia poised to bring peace to the two sisterly and neighboring countries? Why are the intellectuals of both countries short of seeing peace in relation to the global perspective? When the TPLF government in Addis refused to implement the international border ruling the intellectuals are still silent. Why? Does this stand manifest brotherhood and peace building? When the TPLF government horribly deported innocent Eritreans and Ethiopians of Eritrean origin what made the intellectuals (except Professor Mesfin Woldemarian) silent to speak against the shameful and unEthiopian brutal action? What can we learn from the melting pot America, European Community and Asean? What should be done about the supremacy syndrome or malady of some Amhara elite as well as the supremacy syndrome of some Tigrawot in and outside the TPLF? Don’t other nationalities have a say in peace building? Can peaceful solutions come out of nothing or without addressing the supremacy syndrome or እኛ እናውቅልሃለን ”egna enawklehalen” meaning ”We know what is good for you? Can peace prevail in the absence of economic benefits, power sharing, human rights and social justice? And above all how should we handle the economic disparity? Or can we have peace without equal distribution of power and natural resources? Finally should citizens be aliens in their own country or locality?
In the outset I would like to humbly tell you what one American educator said when he taught us how to be effective teachers; ” That a teacher should bring himself to the level of the students”. I also always hear some politicians claiming to ”come to political talks or negotiations from the position of strength”, forgetting keeping mutual interests at the forefront as the key to ultimate success. Some use sheer threats to subdue their enemies. Some also use appeasements; guarantee of survival, economic benefits, fraternity, fame etc. as a political weapon. It also surprises many as some politicians approach is not based on the ”win-win or I win and you win principle” that can solve any problem in the world. As such they never bring any change in any conflict. Why? Because they forget that time tested principles like honesty, patience, generosity or self sacrifice, fairness, respect, openness etc. are good instruments to bring in peace anywhere.
As regards us Eritreans we have bled, suffered and became humiliated too much for too long by our some Ethiopian brothers and successive governments to simply forget the past atrocities. We have sacrificed our intellectuals and heroes because of the cruelties meted us by successive Ethiopian governments up to the present. And strangely enough Eritreans fought for Ethiopia’s survival during the Italian occupation up to the toppling of the Derg regime. But what humiliating rewards we are still getting from our Ethiopian brothers in power is open for everybody to see. And the most irritating approach is that our Ethiopian brothers seem to be concerned of us more than we can do for ourselves.
By the way I commend you and Goshu Woldie as you took a bold step to leave the defunct Derg regime. I personally know also how much your sister (a well known nurse) suffered because of your defection from the Mengistu regime. Needless to say I closely know your brother Ambassador Ayalew since I met him during my stay in London as a guest of Wondimagegnehu Assefa and his wife Almaz in 1982. Besides you were working with my cousin Ato Yishak Tsegay who was the Chief Administrator of Eritrea at the time you were the head representative of the ruling party. So will you please allow me to address you as dear Dawit instead of Colonel Dawit? I hope you do.
Dear Dawit please understand that we have the sacred pledge handed down by our dear martyrs to safeguard and heal Eritrea politically, economically and socially. This is our main task in the life of every Eritrean. Ethiopia should not always expect the sacrifice of Eritreans to address its thorny problems of ethnicity and governance. This solely remains the task and responsibility of all Ethiopians combined. And as you may have seen the theme: ”There is nothing that can’t be done if we raise our voices as one” displayed at the Memorial Service of our dear icon Michael Jackson, it is not an impossible task to heal and unite Ethiopia. But to heal and unite Ethiopia you need to stand together. Accept all Ethiopian nationalities as equal partners in uniting and rebuilding Ethiopia. Give special care and attention to especially minority groups. Please allow me to elaborate this point clearly.
When speaking of the southern people of Ethiopia, like Wollayta, Hadiya, Sidama, Gammo, etc. you brand them as ”our decoration” meaning Getachn ጌጣችን instead of የኢትዮጵያ ጌጦች” You never brand them as Ethiopia’s decoration. And this is very shameful and divisive. You know there are Germans in Austria, Poland, and Switzerland etc. as much as there are Italians in Switzerland. But nobody sees them as decorations of the major ethnic group in a country. They are respected as an integral part of a nation. They are given equal opportunity to share power and natural resources. What a good lesson for all of us! So if you respect all nationalities in Ethiopia equally and make them participants of the nation’s power, financial and natural resources you have solved almost all Ethiopia’s problems. But as of now you don’t seem to be ready to accept a Gambella, Guragie, Hadiya, Oromo, Sidama, Wolayta or Somali president or leader, no matter how qualified he might be.
I remember to have purposely met Demise Belete who is the owner of Negat Radio of the Washington DC area and his group at the Eritrean Festival in Asmara few years back. He insisted that people like me who know Ethiopia very well should work to unite Eritrea with its motherland” as he put it. I squarely told him that it will be enough if they can safeguard Ethiopia from disintegration by the many mushrooming armed movements. He had to be told that Ethiopia is getting ethnically and in some regions religiously divided everyday. This is very annoying and shameful as Ethiopia enjoyed peaceful co-existence internally for centuries. But as soon as TPLF took Ethiopia and its resources hostage, ethnic and religious unrest started to emerge. And at the midst of erratic and faulty ”economic boom” Addis and even small towns of Tigray are busy raising high rise buildings and establishing high schools and universities in almost all towns of Tigray, that even Amharas and Oromos from very rich regions are urged to attend. Sadly enough millions in the Ogadien and elsewhere are going to bed hungry while the TPLF government boasts of its false and faulty double digit economic growth.
Note again the expression of supremacy: ”Eritrea and the Motherland”. Please note what this statement implies: ”That the suckling baby of Eritrea will vanish without the well fed and wealthy Ethiopia.” Is this the right way to handle Eritrea that helped Ethiopia get liberated from the brutal Derg regime? Is it fair to raise the issue of Eritrean unity with Ethiopia when Ethiopians are not right now breathing freedom and democracy at home and in exile? (Please refer to Aster Awoke’s moaning song; Agerie) Yes while Ethiopia is in deep and sad political, social and ethnic crisis under the so-called democratic TPLF government which existed under the borrowed time of G. Bush and his few misinformed officials who were smartly influenced by well paid TPLF lobbyists in world capitals and Addis.
Please don’t take me as a person working against unity. In fact as you can listen to my interview with Dr. Kiros Woldu Fre of Rahwa TV in Sweden and in the Website Eriplanet I am much for unity of the Horn. I have no ill feelings whatsoever against any ethnic group in Ethiopia, with whom I grew and prospered during my forty years in Ethiopia. The people of Ethiopia are not to blame for the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia. They too were not against the horrible deportation. I firmly believe that that the Horn can be pacified and united if its intellectuals can entertain healthy ideas of common progress, accommodation, good neighborliness, human justice, sharing power and natural resources equally. Mind you this is engrained in the Ethiopian principle Ante tibs; ante tibs አንተ ትብስ አንተ ትብስ or አንቺ ትብሽ አንቺ ትብሽ which is the like the famous American ”Win-Win” or both side winners principle.
It would be fitting if our Ethiopian politicians and intellectuals could have the gesture of unity if Ethiopia were rich and peaceful like West Germany of old. Otherwise who yearns to join a government which stirs war and unrest among its ethnic groups? Yes who joins erratic though seemingly powerful intellectuals who think only of themselves and their great past and who do not consider the prevailing all inclusive global approach and thinking on peace building and true economic growth? Why don’t we march along the path of new realities that is swiftly changing the new global world order? Yes, as I always emphasize in my writings quite often why don’t we keep the interest of the people first in our agenda to succeed in everything we do?
But above all let us remember that sheer greatness, abundant natural resources, and large population do not guarantee economic and military might. The Central African Republic, Brazil, Chad and the Sudan are abundant with natural resources. But the tiny nations of Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland and the Republic of Taiwan are far richer than these. Mind you South Korea was run by army generals who helped it establish knowledge based economic progress. It is aggressively competing Japan in everything. Its prowess in construction and ship building is so enormous that it is surprising the whole world. The cohesive social fabric, human and material resources management and work ethic are beyond compare. And mind you too that South Korea and Ethiopia were in the same footing in the sixties. Why all this progress in South Korea? Because it set priorities to tackle backwardness through education, economic progress and careful human as well as natural resources management.
The problem with some Ethiopian politicians is not lack of ports. It is lack of keeping up with the times of new realities. It is the Imperial past outlook. Fake or real they think of greatness only. Even when not under their control they can legally use Eritrean ports. Under the new realities in the global world any port, metropolitan cities, financial markets, shipping and insurance companies, business facilitating offices etc. are all properties of the world community. As for the TPLF regime they don’t seem to make the choice to peacefully co-exist with their Ethiopian brothers and neighbors. For them financial and military power towards their long and painful march (asserted by its slogan: ጉእዞና ነዊ ሕን መሪርንዩ ዓወትና ናይ ግድንዩ our march to victory is very long and painful, but it will become a realty by all means) to greater Tigray seems to be the only option. Fighting three rounds of horrible wars to destroy the Eritrean State and to capture the port of Assab is a case in point. Badme has never been the case as asserted by various TPLF statements. The maintenance of the Ethiopian Navy in Djibouti is an additional proof. So is its refusal to implement the international border ruling.
But they are totally wrong. Be it right or wrong the demolition and/or subjugation of Eritrea will bring them peril. Mind you they are already in trouble internally by fomenting ethnic and religious conflicts within the regions. Plus the invasion of Somalia is their heaviest burden still. Their donors are diminishing funds and material aid every day. Besides industrialized countries have understood that fanning wars goes against their economic interests as wars hinder the free movement of life sustaining goods, services and money. Their boast of democratic rule is becoming a farce or pure pretense. Arresting prominent people like Bertukan Mideksa, Brigadier Generals Teferra Mammo and Asamnew Tsegie have not only exposed how undemocratic the TPLF is, but is also eroding mass internal support. Whatever evil action they conceive it boomerangs on them or backfires on them. All these are not in line with the ”win-win” principle of survival, peace and economic independence. They should have realized long ago that even past conflicts’ shock waves are still reverberating and creating havoc to our world. Besides even when conflicts seem far away, their repercussions are felt around the world. And that is why political actors are forming new alliances to meet the economic, security, and social challenges of a new area. Delving ourselves in war, conflicts and purchase of military hardware will only push us out of the global economic competition and create crucial social problems that can and do destabilize us adversely.
The TPLF government is always working to thin the Eritrean Defense Force to easily destroy the Eritrean nation. Toppling the Eritrean leadership and establishing their version of a democratic government in Eritrea has never been their option. Their main goal is to destroy Eritrea and its people. Period. Their evil struggle of all sorts; military, economic, social and psychological is all designed to destroy and subjugate Eritrea. This is not an exaggeration. They are doing the same in Ethiopia. They don’t lead and govern Ethiopia. Ethiopia does not have its defense force. It has a TPLF defense force. They rule it. That is why they are imprisoning prominent and patriotic Ethiopians. Imprisoning Tamrat Layne on the cover of corruption is a case in point. Mind you he was publicly promised mercy if he accepts his fault. But he was mercilessly imprisoned when it is a public knowledge that the TPLF is awash with corruption. Only because he was one of the many Ethiopians who knew where the TPLF is heading. Otherwise whose hand is clean in the TPLF leadership? Please read the new revealing book Yegazetegnaw Mastawesha (የጋዜጠኛው ማስታወሻ) by a former EPRDF insider Tesfaye Gebre’ab to believe my points.
Worse they are inviting deportees to return to Ethiopia and claim their properties and bank savings, without legally opening the border crossings. As usual this is putting the wagon before the horse. This way they are allowing only rich people to claim their property and bank accounts. They are not inviting people of adequate means who cannot pay large amounts of money to go the long way to Ethiopia to claim their property and bank savings. This is designed that people only with lots of money go to Ethiopia in order that Eritrea becomes bereft of its rich people to kneel down under the mercy of TPLF. Mind you no bank interest will be paid to the returnees. In fact they will be asked to pay revenue that accumulated in their ten years absence. And all these in view that their properties, business enterprises’ stocks, Ekubs (cultural saving accounts) and house rents are looted during and after the deportation. The act of brutal deportation remains then a lasting pain and memory. Please frankly judge if this is just that creates venue for reconciliation and redressing economic damages and ill feelings caused by the horrible deportation. They are only bent to destroy the Eritrean State. Otherwise implementing the border ruling is the better choice to redress the effects of grave past mistakes. Everything seems a strange puzzle as no Eritrean inside or outside the government wishes the destruction of the people of Tigray.
Did I nag you dear Dawit and my readers by this lengthy article? It has a purpose and is a sign of deeper pains of us all. While the TPLF government is doing all it can to meet its unrealistic goals and when it is harassing the Eritrean people to the maximum no Ethiopian politician or intellectual raised his voice. Besides when the whole Horn is on fire why do we localize our problem? Please let us see the bigger picture. You cannot be safe with all the fires around you. The main issue in the Horn is unrepresented and unwarranted ethnic power and greed. It is also narrow mindedness as you can see that we are not taking the world’s new realities into consideration. Yes thinking and caring about the dynamics of a changing world should be central to our approach to solve all our problems. The forces of globalization have affected us all and forced us how to run our economies and how to manage our human and natural resources in line with the new global realities. Eradicating poverty and backwardness will require us a lot of effort, humility, and flexibility in the way we manage our human and natural resources.
Finally a lot have been said about the racial, cultural, linguistic, religious and skin similarities of the people of Eritrea and Ethiopia and the Horn. And this is presented as a basis for unity and good neighborliness. And if you examine ancient history African countries had a proud historical past. The East African languages of Aderie, Amharic, Guragie, Silti, Tigre, Tigrigna, etc. are dialects of Ge’ez. East Africa is the cradle of humanity and civilization a fact attested by recent archeological discoveries, historians and the numerous fine stone monuments all over Africa. I know unity is good for all of us and we all should work hard towards this goal step by step. Otherwise forced unity will simply balkanize us adversely or negatively. And if unity deems necessary what kind of unity do we need? The European Community type or that of Asian countries? Or the one that many like me propose. That is the economic, cultural and political integration of the Horn countries of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalis and the Sudan?
What about territorial unity? Alas, I wish you safe journey friends! Our Arab brothers have tried this for decades, but failed. And why squeeze lands, cultures and languages to be physically united and one? What is wrong with nations peacefully leaving as neighboring brothers? The nation or community of people that share common history, culture, destiny, landscape and languages of their choice is also a good foundation for national and international co-habitation and economic progress. The division of the world into nations or states makes it manageable and peaceful.
What is wrong is not to be interdependent, especially in our globally interconnected world order. The East European countries which were too euphoric about their new found freedoms are finding it hard to exist without interdependence. While enjoying their new freedom they were confronted with harsh conditions and brutally crushed expectations. They have now realized that new uncertainties, economic problems, testing world events and unheard of global social crises need to be solved in cooperation with the larger region. Even the giant US economy and thinking are demanded quick adjustments. So this is more than true for the smaller nations that aspire to have economic self-sufficiency and peaceful life.
With all due respect and humility I am not saying that Eritrea is a paradise with no problem whatsoever, as it should have. No country is without a problem. Otherwise it does not exist. But many of the problems arise from the fact that it is in no-war-no-peace situation. However we can fare better once we put the fundamentals of economics to action, even if we live under virtual siege by people who do not know how resilient the Eritrea people are. I do not want to speak through the mouth of foreigners by quoting what they say to harm Eritrea. It is known that Ethiopian officials have the habit to quickly stereotype Eritrea for their political, social or ethnic and military failures at home and in the TPLF invaded Somalia. And shamefully the fragile African Union followed suit. The African Union which is very sensitive of even the smallest criticism is never expected to pass unbiased resolution as its history proves. And heaven knows who directs the African Union! The AU itself seems under siege by some governments and interest groups, as we never saw it acting on itself. However the fact they passed a resolution to harm the Eritrean people testifies that they don’t stand for any African cause. The AU has no mouth to speak against its big patron; Ethiopia, but it can speak against Eritrea at the invitation of even a passerby let alone at the invitation of any leader, group or country. What a shameful and strange drama and from a Union that was created to stand for the oppressed and bring peace to Africa! All this is done against the wishes and aspirations of the founding fathers and to the disgrace of Black Africa. They don’t even consider the ascendancy that our Afro-Americans are showing in education, business, media, politics, the arts and legal practice. But imagine if Eritrea were to behave the way Ethiopia is behaving against its people and neighboring countries, the AU may drop any bomb under its disposal over Eritrea and its law abiding and peace loving people to destroy us. Is this utter exaggeration? That is exactly what they did when they are forcing the UN to put sanctions against the Eritrean people who are living under virtual siege already. Both the AU and the UN are punishing Eritrea for their failure to implement the border ruling. There is a fitting Amharic proverb; …አህያውን ፈርቶ ዳውላውን- ahyawn ferto dawlawn meaning beating the saddle instead of the donkey because of fear that it may fight back.
Leaving that as it may I want to discuss the excuse I frequently hear. Many people tell me that Eritrea does not have dollar earning export commodities. Before telling them that Eritrea has many dollar earning commodities, let me remind them that Maldives, Malta, Seychelles, Tunisia, the Republic of Taiwan, etc. have no exportable commodities. But they are not poor, as poverty is man made. There are many invisible export commodities in almost all countries. We know the Asian Tigers do not have natural resources for export. But they created export commodities from the natural resources they import by their educated and skilled manpower, work ethic and non-violent and saving culture. Their people are not only taught and convinced to conserve energy, but are also equipped with energy saving implements and machines of every kind. Even Great Britain does not grow all the food that it needs. But though short of all the resources to run its economy, the abundance of its wealth flows to those in need elsewhere. Tunisia is said to have no natural resources. But it is economically strong thanks to its clear sighted leadership and its resourceful cohesive people. The United Arab Emirates have built a lot of sport arenas and golf fields following the example of Singapore that attracted Japanese and Asian rich people. The Philippines is a recipient of billions of dollars annually from its citizens working abroad by simply allowing them to open foreign currency bank accounts at home. I can go on and on to prove points towards economic recovery, but I have to stop here.
I realize the government is doing all it can to be self sufficient in food. And this is commendable. Access to clean water is on the rise and is eliminating water born diseases. Many villages have dams even for their cattle and farming. Mother and Child mortality rate is falling; a fact verified by UN agencies. The Eritrean forest maintenance is improving from time to time. Number of wild life is rising. But we still can enhance maintenance of our forests and wild life by not only controlling, but by also rewarding the people living nearby the forests and wild life. The Alebu twin factories are also a good start. Production of garlic, onions, pepper, potatoes, and tomatoes is increasing yearly. Other vegetables and fruits are on the rise. However do they meet the demands of our growing population? And are they affordable as world high fuel prices may make them expensive. Can the government subsidize fuel consumed by genuine farmers? Or should we consider other cheaper energy sources like wind or solar energy, as higher oil prices had been and is still unkind to emerging nations like ours? But it also needs to diversify towards other sectors of the economy as well. Opening the economic free zones as promised is the expectation of everybody. The spirit of hard work and entrepreneurship of our people will definitely be enhanced by so doing. Remember that we can only start by starting, as plans need action to be realized. Producing import substitute items should be our main step. Processing or producing vegetable oils even from imported pulses saves hard currency besides maximizing animal feed. Manufacturing garments and children wears at home is conserving and earning foreign currency, a fact verified by Dolce Vita, Baraco, Asmara Textile and other home grown clothing factories. Many small spare parts manufacturing houses should pop up in imitation of ERI-SOC, and SASBRE or the Eritrean brake lining factory. Although I know the government is working on big size cement factory starting medium sized reinforcement steel and cement factories will not only save foreign currency, but also speed up the much needed domestic construction, besides creating jobs. And above all, these economic activities will shame enemies and thwart their subversive activities.
The final point that I want to address is the pollution free tourism industry. True, it creates some undesirable habits. But to counteract the bad influences of tourism we can brace up our people with knowledge and evil shunning enduring characters. Otherwise its dollar earning visa services, embarkation fees, duty free shops, taxi fares, hotel and guest houses rent, tours, tourist guide fees, restaurant services, Internet services, telephone charges, porter fees, scuba diving, domestic bus transport, etc. etc. can help us a lot as are helping many nations survive. The Eritrean mild weather, our unpolluted sea, the islands, our sea shores, our peaceful and hospitable culture are all invisible dollar earning commodities. These facts should alert us all to realize that there are numerous weightless and invisible dollar earning commodities in Eritrea.
Sorry for the diversion, but in conclusion I want to emphasize that we East Africans will fare better if we can solve our economic, social and political problems even without creating new conflicts. I say this because we are starting to see the effects of global warming, desertification of sub-Saharan Africa, new epidemics, financial crisis, waves of fundamentalism of every kind that deserve the attention of all of us. Let us all be inward looking and realize that we need reconciliation to shape our future for the better. All nationalities major or minor are important to our survival. Self sacrificing spirit like that of Chinwa Achebe, Desmond Tutu, Julius Nyerere, Leopold Senghor, Mzee Jommo Kenyata, Mo Ibrahim, N. Mandela, Negib Mahfous, Newal Elsaadawi, Ngugi W thiango, Woldeab Woldemariam, Wole Soyenko, etc. We are closer towards one another as confirmed by dear Dawit Woldegiorgis, who initiated me to write this article. Since I write out of pains I may irritate some politicians and intellectuals. People don’t understand realize what deep wounds we Eritreans have due to the prolonged harsh circumstances we went through. Anyway please be informed that it is only designed to alert us to come to peaceful rapprochements. If I have irritated you and my esteemed readers, I humbly ask you to forgive me. The world is always tough my dear sisters and brothers in the greater Horn. If we are waiting for a good time to come we may be waiting forever. We can hope relief from thorny problems, but never an easy time. However, remember only tough and principled people do outlast tough times. Finally I want to tell friend or foe that the resilient Eritrean nation will emerge strong as it has done in the past. Let us please be assured that the nation that survived all kinds of odds has the capacity and the will to determine its bright hopes. And I fervently pray that God and the future be on the side of the people of the Horn.
(Please read my upcoming article: A Call to the Intellectuals of the Horn and my book: The Deportation of Eritreans from Ethiopia, where Africa’s problems and their solutions are vividly explained and QV: ስራ ነጻነትና የተሳካ ሕይወት)
Mellese Woldeselassie is located in Asmara, Eritrea. He can be reached at: melwold2000@yahoo.co.uk
July 15th, 2009 at 3:01 am
I must say this is a great article i enjoyed reading it keep the good work :)
July 15th, 2009 at 3:03 am
The above piece presents the usual EPLF jargon of ethnicity in Ethiopia while denying the existence of different ethnic groups in Eritrea. The non-Tigre ethnic groups in Eritrea are accusing the Tigre dominated EPLF of repressing them. The EPLF guys like Mellesse Woldeselassie should clear the problem in their backyard before talking about the etnic groups or communities in Ethiopia. What he calls the supremacy syndrome is typical of the Tigre leaders of the EPLF. For example the author refers to the Tigrigna speakers in Tigray as Tigrawot as if they are different from the ones in Eritrea. Thew wrong mentality of supremacy prevailing in the Tigre elite of Eritrean origin is one of the sources of the conflict for secession. The Tigres in Eritrea consider themselves as superiors because of the Italian colonization and put on the colonial identity. If they understand well colonization is associated with degradation and slaver and is something to be proud of as the Eritrean elites are doing.
July 15th, 2009 at 4:11 am
I’m surprised whether the writer was matured or green during EPLF took Ethiopian’s tooth during deporting from Eritrea. The TPLF is more sensitive to Eritrean than Ethiopian you believe it or not!!! Because of the biased comment yours this long story is valueless.
July 15th, 2009 at 4:32 am
ፕሬዚደንት ኢሳያስ የጻፉት ጽሁፍ ነው ሚመስለው
ባለፈቅ የታሪክ እስረኛ መሆን የለብንም ብለው ነበር መሰለኝ…..
አሁን ግን ብዙ ታሪክ ያወሩ መሰለኝ
ከዚያ ውጪ ግን…. ምንም አልገባኝም ለማለት የፈለጉት ነገር በዚህ ጽሁፍ
ለማንኛውም ታሪክን ለታሪክ ትተን… አብረን እንስራ
ወያኔን እርሱት…. አያስፈልገንም ስሙን እዚህ መጥራት
አይመስሎትም?
July 15th, 2009 at 4:36 am
This piece of comment has come from Asmara.
Dear Mellsse W/sellassie: What else do you want to write from Asmara where you cannot speak and write of your thoughts and feelings. The content of your response is a good indicator of your ‘would be book’ in your yable. Your comment i assume to be the summary of your book.
July 15th, 2009 at 5:06 am
The write seems still an angry man with an old mind.
Is it really important to write this long bla bla if he donot want to have cooperation between the two contries?
You become independent and live up to yourself. We donot need you any more.
July 15th, 2009 at 5:26 am
The article reflects the usual cry of people from Eritrea and Tigray. They cry, cry and cry as the saying goes “Tigre and Korkoro saynekut yichohal”.
Which is true?
(A) Shabia and the people from Eritrea fought for the freedom of Ethiopians
(B) Weyane and the people from Tigray fought for the separation of Eritrea
Shabia threw two million Ethiopians out of Asab and Asmara in 1991, stole their teeth and hard won belongings, and rape several underage girls and elders. The writer and our cousins in Eritrea deliberately forget this issue always while echoing the removal of 50000 Shabia supporters from Addis Ababa.
Oh God! we are naturally unlucky to be neighbors of Tigres in Tigray and Eritrea. What we actually need is not these people. They are evils and a nussinace to live with. We are concrened about the Asab port.
This way or that way, by force or legal course, by negotiation or determination, we will control Asab when Meles, TPLF (weyane) and Tigres are thrown out from our lovely Addis Ababa (New Flower).
July 15th, 2009 at 5:26 am
Despite the colonial divide no one denies the fact that the Tigrigna speakers in Eritrea and Tigray are kin and kiths. The Tigrigna speakers in Eritrea like the author of the above long piece feel superior because of Italian colonization. The Tigre controlled EPLF promised that Eritrea will be the Singapore of Africa and the economic power of the horn. The reality is that Eritrea has one of the most depressed economiies and repressive regimes in Africa (I know many Tigres on both sides do not like to be counted as Africans). Thousands of Eritreans are taking every chance and fleeing the country, hundreds losing their lives in the Sahara desert. Eritrea is now among the largest exporters of refugees in Africa and it will be devoid of young people if this trend continues.
The Tigre elite misruling and exploiting Ethiopia had done all they could to prioritize and promote Eritrean interests. The tigre elite ruling Eritrea should stop their empty hollow bravado (living in their dreams) and accept the reality that Eritrea can not be a viable state. The decoupling of Eritrea from Ehiopia which was in part driven by the misplaced superiority emanating from colonialism has not brought peace and prosperity to Eritreans.
July 15th, 2009 at 6:14 am
It was the Amhara King (he is half Oromo), Menelik who gave away part of the land of the Tigrigna speakers to the Italians to divide and weaken the Tigres. Though the Tigre elites in Eritrea claim a separate identity for the sake of solidifying their Eritrean one, this does not change or dilute their Tigre identity by any means. For example the oldest and most resepected Tigrayan leader Abboy Sebhat Nega, had responded to some Tigrayans who are opposed to the return of Eritrean Tigres to Ethiopia. In his response to the Tigrayan public gathered in Washington DC, Abboy Sebhat said that we should not forget that these Eritreans are alsoTigres and it is our task (that of the TPLF) to take good care of them too. Abboy Sebhat was blunt or very clear about the Tigre identity and people which also included the Tigrigna speakers in Eritrea. The other great Tigre leader Meles Zenawi has also told the Tigrayans that
the TPLF is the protector of all Tigres irresepctive of where they live and the return of the Eritrean tigres to Ethiopia should be welcomed. In the eyes of many Tigres, Meles Zenawi is a more unifying Tigre leader than Isayas Afewerki.
July 15th, 2009 at 6:57 am
እኛ ኢትዮጵያውያን የራሳች ብዙ የቤ ስራ እያለብን ስለ ኤርትራ ከኢትዮጵያ አንድ መሆን ማውራቱ ጌዜው አይመስለኝም::ኤርትራ እንዲሁ በጨካኝ አንባገነን መሪ የምትማቅቅ ሀገር ናት::እኛ ቀድመን ችግራችንን እንፍታ እንደዚሁም እንሱ ችግራቸውን ይፍቱ::ከዛ በኋላ መነጋገር ይቻላል::
July 15th, 2009 at 7:03 am
infowars.com
we Ethiopians know it is about the nile
Egypt Calls for Establishing New World Order to Overcome Crises
Crienglish
July 12, 2009
Egyptian Assistant Foreign Minister Naela Gabr said Saturday that the world society should make joint efforts to set up a new world order to deal with various crises.
Gabr made the appeal when addressing the senior officials’ meeting of the 15th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit, which opened Saturday in Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
The current world situation is quite different from 48 years ago when the NAM was founded, with increasing population, outbreaks of epidemic and deteriorating environment, she said.
The world society should reconsider the international financial system and be more democratic in decision-making so as to avoid the global financial crisis which has hampered the economic growth of developing countries, Gabr said.
She also called for restructuring of international mechanism in health and agriculture in an effort to help overcome the crises in the two areas, referring to global spread of A/H1N1 flu and rising food prices.
Senior officials from over 140 countries gathered here to work out basic documents for the coming NAM summit, which will state the movement’s stance in the current international context on major international and regional issues like the global financial crisis, the Middle East peace process, and the Iranian nuclear issue.
The NAM has played a significant role in protecting rights and interests of its member states, and Egypt, as it will be the rotating chair of the group of pan-developing countries, will endeavor to strengthen its role in the world arena, she added.
Formally founded in September 1961, NAM groups 118 member states, which represents nearly two-thirds of the United Nations’ members, particularly developing countries. It also comprises 55 percent of the world population.
July 15th, 2009 at 8:10 am
This is not a response to Colonel Dawit, but rather a typical Shabian desperate and opportunistic attempt to incite hatred between ethiopians. The issue Colonel Dawit raised was clearly about Ethio-Eritrea, yet this supposed response to the article is nothing but whinging and sticking a dirty Shabian nose in Ethiopian internal affair. what a wast of space, or if this is meant to advertise a book, I am afraid, you just killed that little chance of curiosity in people who might have looked at your book.
July 15th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Kassim Oumer
I admire your assessment of this shabian garbage, but just to update you to the current reality, The much cherished good old colonial days when The Tigrawot had to go to eritrea in search of work in colonial economy and got treated like dogs by Italian askaris the Tigrignas is no longer there. The trend has changed now that the Tigrawot(ethiopians) are feeding the Eritreans in refugee camps and if eritreans can have any kind of complex now, it can only be inferiority complex, or jealousy. cos one can not simply feel superior with nothing to show for it. so my friend, Eritrean superiority complex is an outdated myth, which they can only use within their own cercle to boost their moral. not with us, thank you.
July 15th, 2009 at 11:10 am
How dare Eritreans are always in demand of what Ethiopia has to give in even after they got their independence? They blame Ethiopians for expulsion of Erireans by tPLF? Why don’t the Eritreans make themselves responsible of their expulsion, after all it was TPLF from Eritrea and Tigray region who expelled Eritreans not Ethiopians not Amara. Leave us alone! Eritrea was raping Ethiopia even when they were getting privilege from the past and present leaders and now they are crying fowl because they created TPLF from Tigray and Eritrean origins that kicked out Eritreans. While you are talking of Eritrea’s expulsion, why did you not discuss Ethiopians being expelled from Eritrea? At least we Ethiopians have the moral, decency like Dawit Weldegiorgis to forgive and make peace but you still keep blaming. As a non Amara, I am here to defend Amara because of OLF’s and Eritrea’s weakenss you blame Amara of Ethiopian origin. Admit it, you are still not capable of ruling your own people as the heroes of Amara who kept Ethiopia in tact from colonization let me tell you. I can really publicly say that Amara is indeed a better ruler than Issayas, OLFs, tPLFs and they have demonstrated it. They have excellent diplomacy as “equals” of the Western nations. That is why the West respects and respected Ethiopia if we are discussing the truth, not as subservient to the West like TPLFs and like anti social like the Shaebia and OLFs. You can no survive in the world with that kind of attitude so more power to Amara of Ethiopians. When are you taking the responsibilities for your actions?
The danger about what is going on right now, Eritrea is painted as saint by Issayas and Eritreans while Ethiopia is collectively demonized with or without TPLF. Dear Col. Dawit W/Giogrigs, I have read your humble article, please stop giving in to those anti social, anti diplomatic, pro ethnic, elements they still need to go back and learn what moral and diplomacy means. Apparently Ethiopians have those qualities.
Eritreans, stop acting like you care for other ethnicities of Ethiopia trying to create division between us. In truth you want this to happen to further dismantle Ethiopia. You have your independence and now work on your country. You created and collaborated with tPLF that lead to the expulsion of your people so take responsiblity for that not Ethiopians who are amaras.
The attempt to acquire property is amazing. What of those who are enriched in Ethiopia who were supporting Shaebia to kill Ethiopia? Why should we give in to that now? You created a monster for your own demise. BTW, if you want also Eritreans to claim their property in Ethiopia, you did not discuss Ethiopians claiming their property from Eritrea. Once reconciliation is reached you apparently assume Eritreans to live in both Ethiopia and Eritrea in luxury owning properties and wealth will you allow Ethiopians to do the same?
Why do you keep talking about other countries like Somalia and Sudan, etc before cleaning your own house of racist and ethnic minds? Mind you, you talked the positive part of other countries, leaders and of course Eritrea while you did not say anything positive about Ethiopia. It is clear your hatred for Ethiopia while Col Dawit praised Eritreans and Eritrea.
So, I don’t know we Ethiopians are strengthening Eritrea while weakening our own country and definitely they are loving it as the above writer as it shows Eritrea’s concern is only Eritrea and other neighboring countries not Ethiopia.
I have no problem with Eritreans or Eritrea but as they love their country we should do the same as well and not be blinded.
July 15th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Why woyanes and shabiyas always choose to forget to mention the thousends of Ethiopians deported from Eritrea, bare foot and nothing on their backs? I know two wrongs don’t make things right, but when we talk about these issues, we should at least pretend to tell it like it is. These two leaders we have in Ethiopia and Eritrea are cruel, uncivilized, greedy, tyrants, and immature.
July 15th, 2009 at 11:58 am
The EPLF also opposed the TPLF manifesto for independence on the grounds that Tigrai was an inegral part of Ethiopia and there was no justification for secession from Ethiopia. At this time, the EPLF was reluctant to support separatist movements in Ethiopia, not just as a matter of princople but for various other motives as well… [more excerpts will be posted later
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/10314
July 15th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
let’s get those cancer tigrains. let’s get them including agazzzi meles monkey I.
The EPLF also opposed the TPLF manifesto for independence on the grounds that Tigrai was an inegral part of Ethiopia and there was no justification for secession from Ethiopia. At this time, the EPLF was reluctant to support separatist movements in Ethiopia, not just as a matter of princople but for various other motives as well… [more excerpts will be posted later
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/10314
July 15th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
let’s get those cancer tigrains. let’s get them including agazzzi meles monkey I.
The EPLF also opposed the TPLF manifesto for independence on the grounds that Tigrai was an inegral part of Ethiopia and there was no justification for secession from Ethiopia. At this time, the EPLF was reluctant to support separatist movements in Ethiopia, not just as a matter of princople but for various other
motives as well… [more excerpts will be posted later
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/10314
July 15th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
“mucho umo poketo carnesada” spanish=a lot of smoke not enough meat, my Eri professor…..
July 15th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
To Kassim Oumer,
My dear Tigraway friend, just b/c you were temporarly manage to loot the Eritrean and Ethiopian properties and resources for the last 19 year, it does not mean you have over come your Ag*me poverty and greediness. Thousands of your sisters and brothers are still earn a living doing manual jobs in Eritrea and still crossing the border in thousands in search of jobs in Eritrea. As to the Eritreans in ‘Camps’ in Tigray, these are a few hundred teenagers who are fleeing the National Srvice (AWOLS) as any country would have…even the US has AWOLS who cross the border to Mexico and Canada to avoid the drafts. Do you think Mexico is better than US?
You are still my beloved servant and yesterday, today and tomorrow!!
July 15th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
dear peace,
I love your comment,
you must be a new generation ethiopian who doesn’t give a f*ck about those retarded Italain dogs, namely eritreans. As for me, I really don’t give a toss whether Eritreans want be at peace with us or not. As seen from recent experience plus logically speaking, they are not capable of causing us as much damage as they used to when they were part of us. trust me, it’s much easier to deal with external bug than an internal parasite. they are too little too poor to worry about. which is why as you can see they trying every possible back door to get to ethiopia. cos obviously they know the consequence of facing ethiopia through the front door, namely Badime. yes it’s true that independent Eritrea will always be irritant to Ethiopia, but trust me, irritating Ethiopia doesn’t come cheap for eritrea and it’s poor people. given the current rate of exodus from eritrea, they might even run out of people before they achieve any thing. It’s just a question waiting to see who is gona get tired first. we will see….
July 15th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Seifu, stop the propaganda you are all the same
July 15th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
No Election in Ethiopia
Let TPLF declare a win without any run
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/10292
July 15th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
African problem in general and the said two c’s in particular is ethinic oriented narrow minded poleticians like Mellesse w/selase. As long as these noctious weeds present and allowed to dissiminate their toxic propaganda we keep fighting each other for ethinic suparmacy. Be aware Ethiopians and Eritreans from such poisonous change resistant guy.
July 15th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
The writer made very good points but I lost him when he said “What about territorial unity? Alas, I wish you safe journey friends! Our Arab brothers have tried this for decades, but failed. And why squeeze lands, cultures and languages to be physically united and one? ”
What is wrong with physical unity especially for those who had similar language, culture, history living under one country like Ethiopia with Eritrea and Djibouti as a sub-domain? Also bigger and physically united countries, as we see it today, are stronger viz USA, Brazil, China, Japan, India. You want a strong and economically tied horn of africa but at the same time you just don’t like physical unity….when is this mentally where we want to eat the cake and have it too going to stop?
July 15th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
“Kassim say, “The Tigres in Eritrea consider themselves as superiors because of the Italian colonization and put on the colonial identity. If they understand well colonization is associated with degradation and slaver and is something to be proud of as the Eritrean elites are doing.”"
We were more proud people under the italian colonization than under ethiopian administration. You can imagine what people felt when Eritrea ceased as a state and become the province of the poorest nation of the world. Above all the ialians build eritrea and ethio leaders destroyed it. so no wonder we would prefer not to be part of ethiopia. You can go ask anyone of any nationality around the world, if he wants to be part of ethiopia. the answer is for sure no. Identity has nothing to do with being colonized or not. we are just eritreans and we will stay so till the end of the horn of africa.
God bless horn of africa.
cheers
July 15th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
melesse w selasse,
with all due respect, what’s all this mambo jumbo about? you titled your articled as a response to Colonel dawit’s initiative but you ended up with pre-independence war propaganda about how Eritrea will be Singapore using it’s invisible resource, although 18 years has passed and you have nothing but this type of repetitive tultula to show for it. Let me for argument sake agree with you on the possibility of resource poor countries making it to the top as some such as Singapore have proved it. but what you fail to understand is Eritrea being the only nation with no university has neither the visible nor the invisible resource you are talking about. how can you talk about invisible resource(knowledge ) when your entire young population is nothing but trench diggers? my dear old friend, I wish you realize how dangerously misleading your fantasy is. Keep dreaming…..
July 15th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
melesse w selasse,
with all due respect, what’s all this mambo jumbo about? you titled your article as a response to Colonel dawit’s initiative but you ended up with pre-independence war propaganda about how Eritrea will be Singapore using it’s invisible resource, although 18 years has passed and you have nothing but this type of repetitive tultula to show for it. Let me for argument sake agree with you on the possibility of resource poor countries making it to the top as some such as Singapore have proved it. but what you fail to understand is Eritrea being the only nation with no university has neither the visible nor the invisible resource you are talking about. how can you talk about invisible resource(knowledge ) when your entire young population is nothing but trench diggers? my dear old friend, I wish you realize how dangerously misleading your fantasy is. Keep dreaming…..
July 15th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Is he intellectual? I don’t think. Once you are a devil spirit you will always remain a devil or our similar saying “YeAdakone Seytan Saykess Ayikerim! This is true to his nature that he has reached to the Prof. of hate. He is talking about a country “Eritrea” whose people is confused, disoriented and suffering of identity crisis and living in an open prison. Those who risk their life exile to other countries including to ETHIOPIA. What a shame. Disaster is looming between the highland hamassen and lowland muslims. Abroad their are ashamed of being called Eritrean and you see sign of humility and desperation in their face. What can you do?
July 15th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
redseaman,
“You can go ask anyone of any nationality around the world, if he wants to be part of ethiopia. the answer is for sure no”.
really?
you must have missed Bob marly’s 60th birthday in Addis while you were in trench. surly, those Jamaicans and the many educated African Americans in the US who take pride in ethiopian history are more civilized than a few desperately poor nomads some where in the north east of Africa, namely Eritreans. know your shida size before you open your banda mouth.
one thing I do agree with you though, yes we were poor when we colonized you, which is why we couldn’t afford to buy some thing better than 3 million Eritreans and their camels.
the other thing I agree with you is, regardless of anthropology, you have nothing in common with Tigrians(ethiopians) cos Ethiopians simply can’t have any thing in common with colony lovers. once a slave always a slave. chaio, in your slave master’s language.
July 15th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
This article seems a letter addressed to “Woyane”, instead of a response to Col. Dawit’s article. As far as my understaning goes, the centeral thesis of Col. Dawit’s article is that it may be “ok” for democratic forces of Ethiopia to start a healthy relationship with the Esayias regime and topple down the tyrant “Woyane” regime in Ethiopia. This article, however, focuses on the problems in Ethiopia created by the Woyane regime, the alleged attitudes of some groups in Ethiopia, and some other horn of Africa issues that do not have any, or that have a remote, relationship with Col. Dawit’s thesis. Simply put,it’s demagoguery.
July 15th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
This article seems a letter addressed to “Woyane”, instead of a response to Col. Dawit’s article. As far as my understanding goes, the centeral thesis of Col. Dawit’s article is that it may be “ok” for democratic forces of Ethiopia to start a healthy relationship with the Esayias regime and topple down the tyrant “Woyane” regime in Ethiopia. This article, however, focuses on the problems in Ethiopia created by the Woyane regime, the alleged attitudes of some groups in Ethiopia, and some other horn of Africa issues that do not have any, or that have a remote, relationship with Col. Dawit’s thesis. Simply put,it’s demagoguery, or a letter with a wrong address.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Thanks for a well though and thought provoking article. I have read many articles dealing with the Ethio Eritrea issues. But, unfortunately, most of them are written by what I call the remnants of Amhara nefteTegnotch or mesafnti “Abai” Tigrai. What they basically want is: “it is our way or the highway” and that is not kosher with me. To make their one-sided point, they always minimize the struggle the Eritrean people dearly paid and FINALLY won their independence truly against all odds! As long as they keep on uttering “Red Sea, Red Sea or Assab is ours, no genuine rapprochement can be achieved with the Eritrean people who fought for a long time to achieve their independence. What you are nobly suggesting as the Horn Union can not be achieved until and when the Ethiopian intellectuals and those in the Diaspora drop the silly idea of subjugating Eritrea hoping that the US under any administration and European powers would always rescue them! The Eritreans have paid too heavy of a price and suffered too long to simply white wash all the crimes successive Ethiopian regimes have committed against the honest and hard working people of Eritrea.
July 15th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
seifu ahya(donkey) calling names you must be joking or your dedeb limited donky mind is dameg for good moron
July 15th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
“እድሜና እውቀት አብረው ይመጣሉ:አንዳንዴ ግን እድሜ ብቻውን ይመጣል” ይባላል:: ፀሐፊው ገና ከጎሬላ አስተሳሰብ የተላቀቁ አይመስሉምና የጀመሩት መጽሐፍ የሚያፍሩበት ይሆናል ብየ እገምታለሁ::
July 15th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Dear site owners,
Where is my comment ? Endet New negeru Bakachu? I submitted it and it disappeared again. Is it fair? I need your response!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 15th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Redseaman,
You are right, you love being enslaved by white man rather than live in peace by your closest species. Trust me, take a look at the example of other African countries, there is nothing to be proud of colonization.
Solomon,
good point!
July 16th, 2009 at 5:26 am
Mr Woldesellasie,
you are simply a confused Man….with a confused Ideas.All this mubo…Jumbo with no core message to convey to your audiences.You have wasted our time.And next time please consult someone who knows how to put articles in a more organized way before you post it on Internet.
Or simply take time and think about what you wanted to say before you spit in to our eyes.
Testa-di-galina mr poor Old man….
Your Italian Master.
July 16th, 2009 at 6:42 am
please maj, dawit is not col. all his life he is working for unitiy before the independece he was in the mountan of afabet for unity with the leader of shabia after that he will never sleep again he will nevere preach about unity by afemouz i just cannot understand ur cauation still u are in the jungle please do not write nensseose u are the enemy of ertrian and eth.u dont know him morethan me my friend came to visit me he was deported from gondar by TPLF know he return back to asmara we where discouss a lot of thing still we are one ethiopian ,if he read ur arthicle he will responce for u after that u will never writte all ur life PLEASE LEAVE RESPECTOD MAJ .DAWIT
July 16th, 2009 at 9:38 am
saba shame on you tigraway is no friend of yours i have to thank you for the tigraway works for living ,but you sale your body and soul if you have one for living we all know that eritria is in socied watch live alon any one serve to any one you are very stupid and dirty the arb servant and shermuta as you say at the end of your line you are still arb whor and yesterday whor today whor and tommorow
July 16th, 2009 at 11:04 am
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July 16th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/10320
weyane will collapse soon.
weyane will collapse soon.
Free our liberity ladylet’s get those cancer tigrains. let’s get them including agazzzi meles monkey I.
The EPLF also opposed the TPLF manifesto for independence on the grounds that Tigrai was an inegral part of Ethiopia and there was no justification for secession from Ethiopia. At this time, the EPLF was reluctant to support separatist movements in Ethiopia, not just as a matter of princople but for various other
motives as well… [more excerpts will be posted later
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/10320
July 16th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/10320
weyane will collapse soon.
weyane will collapse soon.
Free our liberity ladylet’s get those cancer tigrains. let’s get them including agazzzi meles monkey I.
The EPLF also opposed the TPLF manifesto for independence on the grounds that Tigrai was an inegral part of Ethiopia and there was no justification for secession from Ethiopia. At this time, the EPLF was reluctant to support separatist movements in Ethiopia, not just as a matter of princople but for various other
motives as well…
July 16th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Eritrea belongs to Ethiopia. As an Oromo, I feel that OLF has been capitalizing on secession rather unity. Eritreans should reject the colonial history. Red Sea has been part of ethiopia and Ethiopia has to get it.
There will be no union of Eas African countries for historical reasons. To be honest, I do not understand why eritreans could not join Tigray of Ethiopia. Eritrea and Tigray speak the same language and have the same culture. Both Issaias and Mlese are mercenaries. they are weakening the tigrigna speaking community. Tigreans and Eritreans have become enemies. Why this ? Oromos should think of their future. Oromos and amars could rule Ethiopia by getting rid of Tigreans and Eritreans from the center of power.
Shaebya is infiltrating the Ethiopian Opposition. The plan to dismember Ethiopia is still being intensively followed by Eritreans. We have to stop the madness of eritreans. We have to liberate Eritrea and jooin it with Ethiopia. We have the power and the mean.
The writer of the article is an anti-Ethiopia and is preparing to invade Ethiopia. We have to campaign against recognizing Eritrea as a country. Ethiopia is part of the Red Sea. We have to get reed of Meles and co.. Ethiopan nationalist should Ethiopia. Zenawi is a traitor as we have seen.
July 16th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Eritrea belongs to Ethiopia. As an Oromo, I feel that OLF has been capitalizing on secession rather unity. Eritreans should reject the colonial history. Red Sea has been part of ethiopia and Ethiopia has to get it.
There will be no union of Eas African countries for historical reasons. To be honest, I do not understand why eritreans could not join Tigray of Ethiopia. Eritrea and Tigray speak the same language and have the same culture. Both Issaias and Mlese are mercenaries. they are weakening the tigrigna speaking community. Tigreans and Eritreans have become enemies. Why this ? Oromos should think of their future. Oromos and amars could rule Ethiopia by getting rid of Tigreans and Eritreans from the center of power.
Shaebya is infiltrating the Ethiopian Opposition. The plan to dismember Ethiopia is still being intensively followed by Eritreans. We have to stop the madness of eritreans. We have to liberate Eritrea and jooin it with Ethiopia. We have the power and the mean.
The writer of the article is an anti-Ethiopia and is preparing to invade Ethiopia. We have to campaign against recognizing Eritrea as a country. Ethiopia is part of the Red Sea. We have to get reed of Meles and co.. Ethiopan nationalist should Ethiopia. Zenawi is a traitor as we have seen.
July 16th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/10320
http://www.eppfonline.org/
weyane will collapse soon. lets get all the tigrain from all part . we ethiopian must work with eritrean to get those tigrain.
victory to ethiopia.
.
The EPLF also opposed the TPLF manifesto for independence on the grounds that Tigrai was an inegral part of Ethiopia and there was no justification for secession from Ethiopia. At this time, the EPLF was reluctant to support separatist movements in Ethiopia, not just as a matter of princople but for various other
motives as well…
July 16th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
From GETACHEW REDA- Dear Ethiopians:
This is the worst silly and ignorant Eritrean writer ever you will encounter.
Let me quote this fool and I will much his stupidity and ignorance how he also forgot or how his Eritrean population and fighters were also suffered and humiliated too much too long by his own Eritrean Liberation Fronts. Let me quote this idiot brain what he said.
“As regards us Eritreans we have bled, suffered and became humiliated too much for too long by our some Ethiopian brothers and successive governments to simply forget the past atrocities.”
My answer to such blinded eye is this (1)“The worst abuse too long and too humiliating tyranny and cruelty was carried worst by Eritreans against Eritreans for 10 long years than was carried by Ethiopians. From the start, of the fake Eritrean liberation freedom the Muslim leaders who claimed they were Arabs (Eritrea as Arab population) had engaged in religious /Jihad campaign against Christians. First, I want him to read his leader who brought his “fake-freedom” what he had to say about the killing of Christian Kebesa by the Islam Law Landers in side ELF- a document titled “Nehnan Alamanan” hand written by Isayas Afewerki.” Read also the documented record of the cruelty of mass killings conducted by ELF or by EPLF against Each others troop and the villagers trapped among them as supporters. It was a killing zone. - I think I will post it on my web log so that you will see the nature of these fascist Eritrean elites.
He also said –
“We have sacrificed our intellectuals and heroes because of the cruelties meted us by successive Ethiopian governments up to the present. “
I will advice you all to read the record of their cruelty and compare to what this fool is claiming. I will lead you to a document posted by Eritrean Human Rights under the topic “The ELF and EPLF leaders’ conspiracy of killing fighters and causing disappearances in the 1970s and 1980s”
And judge it for yourself who is distorting the truth about abuse.
This fool also claimed the following saying,
(3- )And strangely enough Eritreans fought for Ethiopia’s survival during the Italian occupation up to the toppling of the Derg regime. But what humiliating rewards we are still getting from our Ethiopian brothers in power is open for everybody to see. And the most irritating approach is that our Ethiopian brothers seem to be concerned of us more than we can do for ourselves.”
My response to such unbalanced claim is , he also didn’t mentioned the thousands and thousands and thousands of Eritrean askari who slaughtered the Tigrayan farmers and Ethiopians who were not armed during the war of the colonial occupation of the Italian aggression. I will come back with this issue how the Eritrean askaris in Adi Kolo and Emba Aradom supported by photo document if you do not believe me. Not even to mention the atrocity these askari, especially the Eritrean askari machine gunners the mass killings committed in the second battle of Tembien.
So, this slogan that Eritreans fought with Ethiopians to oust Italians is somewhat true, but also the atrocity and the service they gave to the Italians is much much much higher than what here and there few Eritreans fought alongside with Ethiopians. You Ethiopians need to tell these fools to look for other fools next time. No more foolishness any more- tell these askaris the way they need to hear it as it is. Eshiruru! Is too much for these askaris. Enough is enough. I only respect those who respect Ethiopia, not those who foolishly irrationally accused here as abuser as if their own Eritreans are not abusing them or killing them. From now on, any one who claim he/she is ethnic or tribe or what have you and claim Ethiopia as a monster apart than any other countries history- need to be engaged by pointing out their crime also- expose them and engage them what their leaders and their crime towards their own people look like. Enough! Let me here what this fool have to say about their own killing zone, disappearances. What is Meles Weldeselassie doing currently in Asmara? Enjoying freedom or tightening the tyrant’s robe on the neck of the Eritrean youth? www. Ethiopiansemay.blogspot.com
July 17th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/10320
http://www.eppfonline.org/
let’s get those cancer tigrains. let’s get them including agazzzi meles monkey. We must work with our eritrean brothers
to get those tigrain rats.
The EPLF also opposed the TPLF manifesto for independence on the grounds that Tigrai was an inegral part of Ethiopia and there was no justification for secession from Ethiopia. At this time, the EPLF was reluctant to support separatist movements in Ethiopia, not just as a matter of princople but for various other motives as well… [more excerpts will be posted later
July 17th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/10320
http://www.eppfonline.org/
let’s get those cancer tigrains.
let’s get them including agazzzi meles
monkey. We must work with
our eritrean brothers to get
those tigrain rats/monkeie
July 17th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
The writer introduces himself as an ‘intellectual’. However, as is typical of many who write in support of Eritrea, his article is highly biased against Ethiopia while being very complacent regarding the record of the Eritrean government. He also makes several observations, which if one tries to read between the lines, shade additional info on the writers perspectives or motives.
He talks about Ethiopia’s effort to disintegrate eritrea. Well! Isn’t it the Eritrean leadership which predicted Ethiopia will disintegrate soon and then designed policies to take advantage of it. This being so, the writes seams to indicate that the current situations in eritrea are so bad that it may actually fail.
He also says that a big country does not necessary has to be better than a small one, and for this he cites the famous singapore. As i remember, that is how Eritrea after its separation from ethiopia started out. After more than 15 years, Eritea now is worse than during the time of derg. Any open minded person should try to ask what is the cause of this failure before thinking about the future.
The writer also says the Ethiopian government is inciting many wars. Again, such a comment will be well placed for eritrea than ethiopia. The Eritrean government has even gone thousand miles to fight ethiopia through somalia, hasn’t it?
The writer prefers the status of teritorial separation between Ethiopia and eritrea to remain. If this is so, the why doesn’t he focus his comments and advises to the Eritrean government and help to tranform that country.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:11 am
Getachew reda,
anta saHsah Agametai, what the hell do you know about Eritrea to give us your non sensical garbage in garbage out. Speak for your miserable Tigrai before you can talk about Ethiopia. Let the Ethiopian afair to the Ethiopians!
July 18th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Getachew reda Agametai, tigrain
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/10320
http://www.eppfonline.org/
let’s get those cancer tigrains.
July 19th, 2009 at 12:16 am
Hawileyto may i call you karnach barya or adge dedb hodam absoletly no miserbl tigrai moron animal think befor you speak ops i remmber you don’t have a brain to think your stupid brain is dameg out of service
July 19th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
seifu you bored me to dath get a life go to school
July 19th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Hawiley i read your stupid comment i thougt that adgee or hodam ethiopian parasit but you are worest shabia banda italian slav your women the arabs sex slav (whor ) the mens fug
October 11th, 2009 at 9:58 am
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