we do not worried if AGAME cried for our independence. I even know there will more to come a cry from you. However, we Eritrean still continue to our destiny.
Shame on you Kidun!!! How do you dare to say that “Aslami Adi , and Semai andi yebelu”,,,We Eritrean Muslims defended and struggled for Eritrean indepenedence since the 1940th, when most our brothers/sis from high lands siding with Ethiopia(Hebret). Everybody knows who was against injustice governing of Shaebia since the early of Eritrean idepenendence. The majority Eritrean muslims
(diaspora) stead fast against Hgdef since early 1990th. If you dont know the history or what is going on please keep shut your mouth. Ato Salih is another hopeless shaebyawi. Both views of SALIH and KIDUN do not reflect the views of love and justice people of Eritrea regardless the ethnic and religioues differences we have. Our diversity is our strength, and no doubt in my mind the strength (unity) will lead us to victory. At the end justice and freedom will prevail. Regardless the stuipdity of Kidun the people of Eritrea will live in peace , and harmony. Finally iwould like to congratulate Ato Michael Embaye for his hard work and achivement in publishing his book. Keep it up bro!!!
The history of Shaebia after the retreat of 78 is the history of defending the dejen in one werar after another. Every time Ethiopia conducted a werar that consisted of tens of thousands of soldiers and lasted for weeks in bloody fighting in miles and miles of trenches, thousands of peasants perished. And as in the thought experiment, given the obvious intervals in between these rounds of battles, the disembodied brain at the top used to rush to conduct raids into the villages of Eritrea to replace the worn out body. Another horrifying indiscriminate giffa would be conducted, and thousands of children, women and men would be made to march all the way to Sahel in captivity, with guns surrounding them in vigilance all the way to the training camps. As these caravans of captured peasants trekked their way to the dejen, they must have resembled exactly the way slave caravans looked in the distant past. This scene was repeated again and again every time the Ethiopian army conducted a werar, until the day of independence. Given the numerous werars, it isn’t a surprise that it ended up depopulating the Kebessa villages, especially those areas that were easily accessible to teghadelti. And one has to reiterate this obvious point: it has been mainly on the back of this slave-army that independence came!
That disembodied head now seats in Asmara, its proper place. All the worn out bodies – the tens of thousands of dead peasants – are to be found scattered all over the foreboding landscape of Sahel. The sad part is that the victimization of the peasants continues even when they are dead. In the romanticized version of the revolution, the urban elite now want to attribute hidri suwuatna to this most traumatized population group to retrospectively provide vision to their revolution. What vision could those unfortunate peasants have had except to get the hell out of the Hobbesian world that the alien urban elite had created for them, and to return back to the normal life of their forefathers? Appropriate to the disembodied brain metaphor, the urban elite never thought that the peasants could do their own thinking. They reserved the thinking part to themselves (“ghebar denbar” as they used to say). But typical of the urban elite’s deceptive nature, they now want to attribute their aspirations (as in hidri suwuatna) to the peasants in retrospect. When the peasants of Eritrea refused to carry arms, it was because they didn’t share the urban elite’s nationalist aspirations. Their aspiration was rather simple: to be left alone to do whatever they have been doing in their villages since time immemorial. That was all. If so, to the contrary, putting any hidri on their mouth ought to be considered as the ultimate form of disrespect to the dead.
Until ghedli showed up in their villages uninvited, the peasants didn’t even have the concept of “Eritrea”, let alone the willingness to fight for that concept. And in those far away villages (far from the urban areas), where most of the forced conscripts came from, most of them had never uttered the world “Eritrea” in their lives before the arrival of the aliens in their doorsteps. It simply was a superfluous concept (like the idea of a quantum theory) that had no applicability in their daily lives. And they were better off without this urban elite’s concept that came from nowhere, like a virus, to spread so fast and cause so much havoc in their lives. The first time they uttered it, it must have sounded strange in their mouths – not unlike that of “El Dorado”. I could even imagine them laughing at their first attempts to pronounce it right as this alien word kept their tongues entangled (Ilitria, eltra, iritra, ertra, etc); but often tragedies of epic proportions have this kind of farcical beginnings.
Absolutely! What we ended up finally is with a failed state of Eritrea where there is no rule of law; where human trafficking became rampant and some people are making a living out of selling their brothers and sisters to the Rashaida for their kidneys and liver! Benefiting from illegal exportation of human beings and organs.
Don’t you feel the pain! People in Eritrea have become so much desperate fleeing the country in droves; where even mothers are forced to abandon their beloved babies leaving the country aimlessly not even knowing what will happen to them!
I hope you are not proud of such a failed state; or else you are one of those hard headed like you uncle DIA who is immersed in the politics of “dihrey sa’eri aytibkolla”.
I regret to have been born as an Eritrean! I tell you; I am very much ashamed to tell that I am an Eritrean!!
KombishtatoApril 6, 2013
Some people will not stop digging all the past atrocities of shaebia, as it should be, but the same people will not open their mouth at the past of Jebha’s evil past and atrocities. Some opportunist Jebha supporters will not stop covering up or avoiding Jebha’s evil past as they talk about shaebia’s past. In any Jebha affiliated website, like Awate web site, you will never read anything that exposes the evils of Jebha but these groups will not stop digging Shaebia’s past. Now tell me who is for free press and transparency?
Here is what YG writes about this topic in his classic essay “Romanticizing Ghedli”:
(5) Exculpating Jebha
For many in the opposition of the Jebha mold, the crisis in Shaebia is all they needed to make a full time job out of rehabilitating Jebha and some of its dubious heroes. But this sounds more hypocritical than the Highdefites’ task of defending Shaebia because, while the Jebha defenders do want us to remember all the atrocities committed by Shaebia, they do not want us to remember even a single event that seems to mar the image of Jebha. All this despite the fact that this organization, throughout its history, has inhabited the worst of two worlds: although it emulated Shaebia in almost all its failings, it lacked the focus the latter displayed in fighting the enemy.
But if there is anything that defines Jebha aptly, it is its sectarianism. This is an organization that was born out of sectarian motives, with ethnic and religious overtones; lived throughout its existence in sectarian squabbles (religious, regional, ethnic, linguistic and ideological); and understandably died as a result of its sectarian malaise. Its only half-hearted effort to reform itself in the 70’s soon floundered because it was never able to distance itself from its sectarian past, all along having been unwilling to let go the sectarian leaders of its past. No wonder that in its ashes, the Jebha factions that have survived it have now neatly aligned themselves along the very fault lines that doomed it to self-destruction. Only now, having come out of their respective closet, they openly wear their religious and ethnic hats all the way to their EDA meetings.
The contradictions that Jebha supporters display could be seen everywhere: They have been diligently digging up all the skeletons they can find in Shaebia’s past (as it should be). But if you point to similar cases in Jebha – Falul, Suriyet Addis, Menfere, Rasai, and all other pre- and post-Adboha massacres. – they throw tantrums. They love to criticize Isaias for every blunder that he makes and for every crime that he commits (again, as it should be). But not only do they not want to hear any negative attribution about their leaders, however inept, undemocratic, sectarian or murderous they were, they also are in the active business of giving them a post-mortem “make over.” They never tire of reminding us of the marginalization of Kunamas under Shaebia (again, as it should be). But if you tell them that in this marginalization, which has a long history behind it, Jebha played a major role, with many of their villages burned down to the ground, many Kunamas killed and their cattle pillaged, they go nuts in anger. Day and night, they never tire of pointing out the inhumane treatment of prisoners under the hands of Shaebia/PFDJ (again, as it should be). But it is in one of the most shameful history of ghedli in Eritrea that Jebha summarily executed its Ethiopian prisoners at a time of its retreat in the late seventies. In this regard, even Shaebia didn’t match this atrocity. I could go on and on: the horrors of giffa (which actually started with Jebha), sexual abuse of women (especially by corrupt cadres and military leaders), endemic corruption of the leadership, etc – all areas that Jebha had excelled well before Shaebia came to be fully identified with them.
Read the full article
good work,
however hope it will not be like ALENA’S DISTRIBUTION METHODS. ~Alena made me buy the book online but he wasn’t able to distribute the book. I felt i was robbed,
Good job Aranci,
As brave Eritreans such as Assena, Alena, Aranci, Amanuel Mahdere and Tesfay Temnewo record shaebia’s past history honestly and as they saw it, without colouring it, why are the Jabha supporters still ashamed and afraid from documenting Jabha’s evil past?
Not only that why are the Jabha affiliated websites, such as Awate still in the business of defending or denying to all of Jabha’s atrocities and crimes?
The people of Eritrea has every right to know the truth.
Salih April 6, 2013
we do not worried if AGAME cried for our independence. I even know there will more to come a cry from you. However, we Eritrean still continue to our destiny.
kidun April 7, 2013
Aslami adi semai andi yeblu Salih dema intai adi alkeka iyou
elias April 7, 2013
Shame on you Kidun!!! How do you dare to say that “Aslami Adi , and Semai andi yebelu”,,,We Eritrean Muslims defended and struggled for Eritrean indepenedence since the 1940th, when most our brothers/sis from high lands siding with Ethiopia(Hebret). Everybody knows who was against injustice governing of Shaebia since the early of Eritrean idepenendence. The majority Eritrean muslims
(diaspora) stead fast against Hgdef since early 1990th. If you dont know the history or what is going on please keep shut your mouth. Ato Salih is another hopeless shaebyawi. Both views of SALIH and KIDUN do not reflect the views of love and justice people of Eritrea regardless the ethnic and religioues differences we have. Our diversity is our strength, and no doubt in my mind the strength (unity) will lead us to victory. At the end justice and freedom will prevail. Regardless the stuipdity of Kidun the people of Eritrea will live in peace , and harmony. Finally iwould like to congratulate Ato Michael Embaye for his hard work and achivement in publishing his book. Keep it up bro!!!
belay nega April 8, 2013
“Aslami adi semai andi yeblu Salih dema intai adi alkeka iyou”
BEALEGHE
Zebib April 8, 2013
belay nega
You are right in saing bealeghe but you should also say the same thing to Salih for what he said, if you are fair and honest.
belay nega April 8, 2013
ZEBIB
I NEVER READ WHAT SALEH SAID
ANYWAY THANKS FOR YOUR CONSTRUCTIVE ADVICE
fithawi April 8, 2013
kidun!
Husur yeHsireka meten nebsu… nisikka Haimanot zeybilka aremen, ni zikkone Haymanot zeytiwukil Husur metakossi ekka.
ezi zitekeskayo kaa netom sebek-sagim koynom kab bota nab bota enatezewaweru bi meguase zinebru zegatat zitebahle terekab zereba /mesHak/ eyu kikkewun zikeeal.
niHna aslamna kiristyana deki Hanti denbe zikkona hizbi ena. kumneger entelekka koynu ab Hasabat zeytetokur. bi Hasab tekawem wey degif. niHizbi ternifka mizintal gina yikre zeybihalo sidineet eyu.
kidun April 7, 2013
wedi Afe Shekor hadebehade kexryekin iyou
Zebib April 8, 2013
kidun
wedi afe shekor hadebehade neti hager keTfuo iyu!! Eto kemacka tebelesten gnayatn dma kemzi hji tgebro zelecka m’enti luKmtsna keTaKeu eyom. Amlack trai yewtsiana!
belay nega April 8, 2013
salih
“we do not worried if AGAME”
IS HIGH TIME TO ADDRESS OUR BROTHERS TEGARU ETHIOPIANS
Kombishtato April 6, 2013
Taken from YG’s eassay: Eritrea’s Drive for Modernity: In Search of Asmara
http://asmarino.com/articles/1611-i-eritreas-drive-for-modernity-in-search-of-asmara7
The history of Shaebia after the retreat of 78 is the history of defending the dejen in one werar after another. Every time Ethiopia conducted a werar that consisted of tens of thousands of soldiers and lasted for weeks in bloody fighting in miles and miles of trenches, thousands of peasants perished. And as in the thought experiment, given the obvious intervals in between these rounds of battles, the disembodied brain at the top used to rush to conduct raids into the villages of Eritrea to replace the worn out body. Another horrifying indiscriminate giffa would be conducted, and thousands of children, women and men would be made to march all the way to Sahel in captivity, with guns surrounding them in vigilance all the way to the training camps. As these caravans of captured peasants trekked their way to the dejen, they must have resembled exactly the way slave caravans looked in the distant past. This scene was repeated again and again every time the Ethiopian army conducted a werar, until the day of independence. Given the numerous werars, it isn’t a surprise that it ended up depopulating the Kebessa villages, especially those areas that were easily accessible to teghadelti. And one has to reiterate this obvious point: it has been mainly on the back of this slave-army that independence came!
That disembodied head now seats in Asmara, its proper place. All the worn out bodies – the tens of thousands of dead peasants – are to be found scattered all over the foreboding landscape of Sahel. The sad part is that the victimization of the peasants continues even when they are dead. In the romanticized version of the revolution, the urban elite now want to attribute hidri suwuatna to this most traumatized population group to retrospectively provide vision to their revolution. What vision could those unfortunate peasants have had except to get the hell out of the Hobbesian world that the alien urban elite had created for them, and to return back to the normal life of their forefathers? Appropriate to the disembodied brain metaphor, the urban elite never thought that the peasants could do their own thinking. They reserved the thinking part to themselves (“ghebar denbar” as they used to say). But typical of the urban elite’s deceptive nature, they now want to attribute their aspirations (as in hidri suwuatna) to the peasants in retrospect. When the peasants of Eritrea refused to carry arms, it was because they didn’t share the urban elite’s nationalist aspirations. Their aspiration was rather simple: to be left alone to do whatever they have been doing in their villages since time immemorial. That was all. If so, to the contrary, putting any hidri on their mouth ought to be considered as the ultimate form of disrespect to the dead.
Until ghedli showed up in their villages uninvited, the peasants didn’t even have the concept of “Eritrea”, let alone the willingness to fight for that concept. And in those far away villages (far from the urban areas), where most of the forced conscripts came from, most of them had never uttered the world “Eritrea” in their lives before the arrival of the aliens in their doorsteps. It simply was a superfluous concept (like the idea of a quantum theory) that had no applicability in their daily lives. And they were better off without this urban elite’s concept that came from nowhere, like a virus, to spread so fast and cause so much havoc in their lives. The first time they uttered it, it must have sounded strange in their mouths – not unlike that of “El Dorado”. I could even imagine them laughing at their first attempts to pronounce it right as this alien word kept their tongues entangled (Ilitria, eltra, iritra, ertra, etc); but often tragedies of epic proportions have this kind of farcical beginnings.
belay nega April 6, 2013
KOMBUSTAT
SO THE 30 YEARS WAR WAS AN ABSOLUTE LOSS?
Zmeroro April 7, 2013
Absolutely!!!
belay nega April 7, 2013
ZEMERORO
“Absolutely!!!”
SO AS WAR IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF AN IDEA
IF THE 30 YEARS WAR IS ABSOLUTE LOSS
THE IDEA WAS WRONG. IS THAT WHAT YOU MEAN?
Zmeroro April 8, 2013
Absolutely! What we ended up finally is with a failed state of Eritrea where there is no rule of law; where human trafficking became rampant and some people are making a living out of selling their brothers and sisters to the Rashaida for their kidneys and liver! Benefiting from illegal exportation of human beings and organs.
Don’t you feel the pain! People in Eritrea have become so much desperate fleeing the country in droves; where even mothers are forced to abandon their beloved babies leaving the country aimlessly not even knowing what will happen to them!
I hope you are not proud of such a failed state; or else you are one of those hard headed like you uncle DIA who is immersed in the politics of “dihrey sa’eri aytibkolla”.
I regret to have been born as an Eritrean! I tell you; I am very much ashamed to tell that I am an Eritrean!!
Kombishtato April 6, 2013
Some people will not stop digging all the past atrocities of shaebia, as it should be, but the same people will not open their mouth at the past of Jebha’s evil past and atrocities. Some opportunist Jebha supporters will not stop covering up or avoiding Jebha’s evil past as they talk about shaebia’s past. In any Jebha affiliated website, like Awate web site, you will never read anything that exposes the evils of Jebha but these groups will not stop digging Shaebia’s past. Now tell me who is for free press and transparency?
Here is what YG writes about this topic in his classic essay “Romanticizing Ghedli”:
(5) Exculpating Jebha
For many in the opposition of the Jebha mold, the crisis in Shaebia is all they needed to make a full time job out of rehabilitating Jebha and some of its dubious heroes. But this sounds more hypocritical than the Highdefites’ task of defending Shaebia because, while the Jebha defenders do want us to remember all the atrocities committed by Shaebia, they do not want us to remember even a single event that seems to mar the image of Jebha. All this despite the fact that this organization, throughout its history, has inhabited the worst of two worlds: although it emulated Shaebia in almost all its failings, it lacked the focus the latter displayed in fighting the enemy.
But if there is anything that defines Jebha aptly, it is its sectarianism. This is an organization that was born out of sectarian motives, with ethnic and religious overtones; lived throughout its existence in sectarian squabbles (religious, regional, ethnic, linguistic and ideological); and understandably died as a result of its sectarian malaise. Its only half-hearted effort to reform itself in the 70’s soon floundered because it was never able to distance itself from its sectarian past, all along having been unwilling to let go the sectarian leaders of its past. No wonder that in its ashes, the Jebha factions that have survived it have now neatly aligned themselves along the very fault lines that doomed it to self-destruction. Only now, having come out of their respective closet, they openly wear their religious and ethnic hats all the way to their EDA meetings.
The contradictions that Jebha supporters display could be seen everywhere: They have been diligently digging up all the skeletons they can find in Shaebia’s past (as it should be). But if you point to similar cases in Jebha – Falul, Suriyet Addis, Menfere, Rasai, and all other pre- and post-Adboha massacres. – they throw tantrums. They love to criticize Isaias for every blunder that he makes and for every crime that he commits (again, as it should be). But not only do they not want to hear any negative attribution about their leaders, however inept, undemocratic, sectarian or murderous they were, they also are in the active business of giving them a post-mortem “make over.” They never tire of reminding us of the marginalization of Kunamas under Shaebia (again, as it should be). But if you tell them that in this marginalization, which has a long history behind it, Jebha played a major role, with many of their villages burned down to the ground, many Kunamas killed and their cattle pillaged, they go nuts in anger. Day and night, they never tire of pointing out the inhumane treatment of prisoners under the hands of Shaebia/PFDJ (again, as it should be). But it is in one of the most shameful history of ghedli in Eritrea that Jebha summarily executed its Ethiopian prisoners at a time of its retreat in the late seventies. In this regard, even Shaebia didn’t match this atrocity. I could go on and on: the horrors of giffa (which actually started with Jebha), sexual abuse of women (especially by corrupt cadres and military leaders), endemic corruption of the leadership, etc – all areas that Jebha had excelled well before Shaebia came to be fully identified with them.
Read the full article
http://www.ehrea.org/gedli.htm
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yonas kidane April 7, 2013
ARANSHI
HABERETA XEHAFELNA ABEY KEM NREKBA EZOM AB DEGE ZELENA MS ZERGAHQAYA MALETEY EYE
weygud? April 7, 2013
keyenebebekaya TEHEREFEKA mexihaf nay behaqhi kea DERESANE DEM dekonu meraheten tehababereten delewewa adi geroma sele dekonu tesefa yegeber nezeyea anebeyebom libom kitenekef emo gegatatom tewehadewo emeber kigedefewo eko ayheseben eyu
ahmed saleh April 7, 2013
CONGRATULATION ARANCHI
I look forward to read the book .
Tewolde Tesfamariam April 7, 2013
Yes Congratulations Aranchi!
Zerai April 7, 2013
good work,
however hope it will not be like ALENA’S DISTRIBUTION METHODS. ~Alena made me buy the book online but he wasn’t able to distribute the book. I felt i was robbed,
Samuel April 7, 2013
Congratulations
kabbire April 7, 2013
ካምፖቺታቶ ከም ዝበሎ፤ ግዱሳትን ዉፉያት ሰባት ከም በዓል ኣሰና ኣማኑኤል ማህደረ ኣለና ኣራንሺ ከምኡውን ተስፋይ ተመንዎ፤ ጉድን ሕሉፍ ታሪኽ ህዝባዊ ግምባርን፣ ጽቡቕን ክፉእን ኩሉ ብጋህዲ ንዓለም እናነገሩን ኣናኣዘትውን፣ ስለምናትይ እዮም እቶም ሰዓብትን ደገፍትን ጀብሃ ኢና ዝብሉ፣ ነቲ ሕሉፍ ኣፍራስን ቀንጻልን ታሪኽ ናይ ጀብሃ፣ ኣብ ክንዲ ዝነግሩን ዘዝንትውን ብሕብራዊ ቐለም ክኹልዎ ዝየዕርፉ። ን ኣብነት ኣብ ዓዋተ እትብሃል መርበብ፣ ንከክፉእ ታሪኽ ሻዕብያ ክፍሕሩ ዕረፍቲ የብሎምን፣ ብዛዕባ ግናይ ታሪኽ ናይ ጀብሃ ግና ቃል ኣየተንፍሱን። ስለምንታይ፧
ካብዚ ሓሊፉ ስቓይ መንእሰያት ኤርትራውያን ኣብ ሲናይ ግብጺ ሱዳን ሊብያ፣ ከም በዓል ኣሰና ኣዝማሪኖን ኤረናን እንዳኣቃልዓ፣ ተዳናገጽቲ ጀብሃ መርበባት ግና ነዚ በዓል ቢቢሲ ሲ ኤን ኤን ዝዛረባሉ ዘለዋ ስቓይ ኤርትራውያን ኣብ ሃገራት ዓረብ ዘይትንክፈኦ ?
kabbire April 7, 2013
Good job Aranci,
As brave Eritreans such as Assena, Alena, Aranci, Amanuel Mahdere and Tesfay Temnewo record shaebia’s past history honestly and as they saw it, without colouring it, why are the Jabha supporters still ashamed and afraid from documenting Jabha’s evil past?
Not only that why are the Jabha affiliated websites, such as Awate still in the business of defending or denying to all of Jabha’s atrocities and crimes?
The people of Eritrea has every right to know the truth.