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(በርሀ (ጄምስ) መሓረና ሙሉእ ሂወቱ ብሻዕብያ ዝተዓሸወን መስርሒ ዝኾነን ዘፍቅሮ ሓወይን ዓርከይን ስኢነ) በርሀ ኣብቲ ሃብታም መሬት ጫዓሎ ካብ ርኹባት ቤተሰብ ዝተወልደ፣ መባእታዊ ትምህርቱ ካብ ቀዳማይ ክፍሊ ክሳዕ ራብዓይ ክፍሊ ኣብ ኳዓቲት ተማህረ፡፡ ንዝተወሰነ እዋን ኸኣ

(በርሀ (ጄምስ) መሓረና ሙሉእ ሂወቱ ብሻዕብያ ዝተዓሸወን መስርሒ ዝኾነን ዘፍቅሮ ሓወይን ዓርከይን ስኢነ)

በርሀ ኣብቲ ሃብታም መሬት ጫዓሎ ካብ ርኹባት ቤተሰብ ዝተወልደ፣ መባእታዊ ትምህርቱ ካብ ቀዳማይ ክፍሊ ክሳዕ ራብዓይ ክፍሊ ኣብ ኳዓቲት ተማህረ፡፡ ንዝተወሰነ እዋን ኸኣ ትምህርቱ ኣብ ዓዲ ቀይሕ ምስቀጸለ ትምህርቱ ብምቁራጽ ናብ ኣስመራ ብምኻድ ኣብ ከባቢ ቃኘው ስቴሽንን ውሩያት ናይ ሳዕስዒት ክለባትን ፍሉጥ መንእሰይ ኮነ፡፡ በርሀ ቁመቱ ነዊሕ፣ ምዕሩጉን መልክዐኛን መንእሰይ ስለዝነበረ ንምርኡያት አዋልድ ምፍላጥ ገለ ጸገም ኣይነበሮን፡፡ በርሀ ብተውህቦ እተዓደለ መስሓቕን ተጸዋታይን ብምኻኑ ኣብ ኮፍ ዝበሎ ብብዙሓት ሰባት ተኸቢቡ ክትርእዮ  እተለምደ ኢዩ ኔሩ፡፡

በርሀ ናብ ሰሜን ኣሜሪካ ምስመጸ ብሰባት ዝፍቶን ኪኢላን ከምዝኾነ ዝተረድኡ ህዝባዊ ግምባር ኣብ ኩሉ ንጥፈታት ትሓባባሪ ክኸውን ኣባል  ስሩዕ ህዝባዊ ሓይልታት ገበርዎ፡፡ ቀጺሉ ድማ ኣብ ካናዳ ንሓደ ባንክ ንምዝራፍ ኣብ እተገብረ ዝፈሸለ ፈተነ ቀንዲ ተዋሳኢ ኮነ፡፡ ድሕሪ ምፍሻል እቲ ስርሒት  ድማ ናብ ጣልያን ብምውሳድን ንኣሜሪካ ንኽመጽእ ፍሉይ ደገፍን ምትሕብባርን ሻዕብያ ረኺቡ ኢዩ፡፡

በርሀ ምስብዙሓት ኤርትራውያን ተመሃሮ ሰሜን ኣሜሪካ  ገንዘብ ብምውጻእ ብሚሊዮናት ዝቑጸር ብምእካብ  ንሻዕብያ ብቁጠባዊ መዳያት እግሪ ክተክል ካብዝገበሩ ሒደት ኤርትራውያን ሓደ ኢዩ ኔሩ፡፡ በርሀ ኣብ እተፈላለየ እዋናት ከም ኣብቲ እዋን ዝነበረ መንእሰይ ጸገማት የጓንፎ ኔሩ፡፡ ነዚ ኩሉ ጸገማቱ በዲሁ ድማ ኣብ ሎስአንጀልስ ንኤርትራውያንን፣ ኢትዮጵያውያንን ከምኡውን ንኣሜሪካውያን ኣገልግሎት ዝህብ ዓቢ ሬስቶራንት ብምኽፋት ብንግዱ ኣዝዩ ጽቡቕ ይኸይድ፡፡ ኣብዚ ኩሉ ርክባቱ ምስ ሻዕብያ ከቋርጽ ይግብኦ ኔሩ ይብል፤ ነዚኣ ግን ክገብራ ኣይክአለን ኣይደለየን፡፡ እቲ ንግዱ ክኸስርን ውሉፍ ዘየድሊ ወልፍታትን ድራግን ኪኸውን ሽላታት ሻዕብያ ዓቢ ግደ ኔርዎም እብል፡፡ ድሕሪ ኣብ ክስራንን ወልፍታትን ምውዳቑ ንሜዳ ኪኸይድ ምስተነግሮ፣ ናብ ሜዳ ብምኻድ ናብ ጥዕናኡን ንቡር ሂወትን ምስ ተመልሰ ናብ ቀደም ስራሕ ንግዲ ምስተመልሰ ክልተ ደኳኹን ብምኽፋት ኣዝዩ ጽቡቕ ይኸይድ፤ ነታ ሓንቲ ድኳን ንጓሉ ከተማሕድራ ብምግባር ድማ ብጹቡቕ ከተካይዶ ትጅምር፡፡ በርሀ ብኣውራጃነት ኮነ ብእምነት ብዘይ ኣፈላላይ ንኹሉ ዘተባብዕን ኢዱ ዘርጊሑ ዝሕግዝን ለጋስን ጥዑምን ሰብ  ኢዩ ኔሩ፡፡ ኣነ ክሳዕ ዝፈልጦ ብዛዕባ ነፍስሄር በርሀ ካብቶም ብኣሻሓት ዝቑጸሩ ዘተባብዖም፣ዝሓገዞምን ጽቡቕ ዝወዓለሎምን  ሓደ ሰብ ብዛዕብኡ ዝጸሐፈ ኣይፈልጥን፡፡ ምናልባሽ እቲ ምስ እንዳ ሻዕብያ ዝነበሮ ስሙር ርክብ ንሕና ዘይንፈልጦ ብሰንኪ ሻዕብያ ዝተጋገዮ ነገር ይህሉ ይብል፣ ብዙሕ ዝፈልጦ የብለይን፡፡

ትኽ ትንፋስ ኢሳያስን ጀነራላቱን ዝነበረ በርሀ ካብ አሜሪካ ክሳዕ ዝጥረዝ ማእሰርቲ ምስ ኣጓነፎ እንታይ ጸገም ረኺቡካ ኣይበልዎን፡፡ ካብ ኣሜሪካ ንኽጥረዝ ምኽንያት ዝኾኖ፡ ሓደ ኤርትራዊ ብብደዔ ንኻሊእ ኤርትራዊ ክጸርፎ ምስ ሰምዐ ኣዝዩ ብምቑጣዕ ነቲ ተጻራፋይ ብቴስታ የንህሎ። ንበርሀ ኣነን ሓደ ሓውን ነገርካ ከየቃናዕካ ናብ ዓዲ ኣይትኺድ ንሕና ብሽምግልና ክንኣልዮ ኢና እንዳበልናዮ ኣመና ኣብ ሻዕብያ ይኣምን ስለ ዝነበረ ከይሰምዓና ንዓዲ አምርሐ፡፡ እቲ ተሃርመ ዕርቂ እናደለየ እቲ ዓቢ ሓዉ ዕጭ ሓንፈፍኩ ስርሑ ከርእዮ ኢየ እናበለ ክፍክር ይነብር፡፡ ግደፍ እንዳተባህለን እንዳተለመነን በርሀ ምስተመልሰ  ናብ FBI ሕሉፍ ታሪኹን ሰብ ሃሪሙ ተሰዊሩ ከምዝነበረን ብምንጋር ክእሰር ጌርዎ፡፡ ዳርጋ ኣብ ሎስኣንጀልስ ንበርሀ ዘይፈልጥ ኣይነበረን፤ ኣብ ጊዜ ማእሰርቱን ቤት ፍርዲ ምምልላሱን እንትርፊ ገለ ሾውዓተ ንኸውን የዕርኽቱ ዝመላለስ ሰብ ኣይነበረን፡፡ እዚ ንበርሀ ኣዝዩ የሕዝኖ ኔሩ፡፡ ብዙሕ እዋን መጽሓፍ ቅዱሱ የንብብን ብኡ ድማ ምጽንናዕ ይረክብ ከምዝነበረውን ነጊሩኒ ኔሩ፤ ካብ ማእሰርቲ ወጺኡ  ድሕሪ ንዓዲ ብክልተ ወተሃደራት ኣመሪካ ተዓጂቡ ምጥራዙ፡ ንጀነራላትን ሰብ ስልጣን ሻዕብያን  ኣብ ደቡብ ሱዳን፣ጁባ የካይደሎም ዝነበረ ብብዙሕ ዝቑጸር ትካላት ንግዲ ካብ እተጸበይዎ ንላዕሊ ዕዉት እኳ እንተነበረ ኣብ ደቡብ ሱዳን ዘጋጠመ ቅልውላው እቲ ልሙድ እቶት ምስጎደሎም ጻዕጻዕ ከብሎምን ካብ በርሀ ክደሊዎ ከም እተሃንደዱን ነፍሱ ትጭነቕ ከምዘላን ኣብ ኬንያ ንሓጺር እዋን ኣብ እተራኸብናሉ እዋን ኣተንቢሁለይ ኔሩ፡፡ ድሓር ኣብ ዓዲ ኣብ ወርሒ 11 2015 ምእሳሩ ሰሚዕና፡፡ እቲ ዘገርም ናብቲ እተጠረዘሉ ምድሪ ዳግም  ከምእተመልሰ ኣምሲልካ ምቕራብ እዩ፡፡  በዚ ይኹን በቲ ኣብታ ብዙሕ እተቐመጠላን ብዙሕ ዝረኣየላን ሃገረ ኣሜሪካ ክኣ ሐመድ ለቢሱ ተባሂሉ፡፡ እዚ ሕንቂልሒንቂሊተይ ሓቁ ክሳብ ዝወጽእ ንጊዜ ንግደፎ፡፡ እቲ በላዕ ሕድርን፣ ነውራምን መንግስቲ ህግደፍ ይትረፍዶ ንሬሳ ንብሂወት ዘለዉ’ውን ክብርን ኣፍልጦን ዘይህብ፤ ነቶም ብዘይ ነግፈረግ ተወፍዮም ገዛእ ርእሶም ኣሕሊፎም ዝቖምሉ ከዳዕን ጠላምን ምኳኑ ኣብ እዋን  ብረታዊ ቃልስን ድሕሪ ነጻነትን ደጋጊሙ የግህዶ ከምዘሎ ኢና ነስተብህል፡፡ ናይ ቀረባ እዋን ሕሉፍ ታሪኽ ናይዝጊ ጭቡጥ ኣብነት ኢዩ፡፡ ሕጅስ  ኣይኣክልንዶ፧

በርሀ ንዱሩዕ፣ንሸሪፎ፣ንበራኽን ንወዲ ሰለሙንን ካልኦትን ብዙሕ እዋን ሕንቕንቕ እንዳበለ ይዝክሮም ኔሩ፡፡ ንገዛእ ርእሱ ግን ኣብ መራሕቲ ኤርትራ ትምክሕትን እምነትን ስለዝነበሮ ሓደ መዓልቲ ህግደፍ ብሞቊሕ ተኣሲሩ ድሕሪ ሓሙሽተ ወርሒ ሂወቱ ከምእትሓልፍ ፈጺሙ ኣይገመተን፡፡

ንናይ ልዕሊ  ሳላሳ ዓመታት ዓርከይን ሓወይን በርሀ ኹሎም ቤተሰብን፣ዝፈትዋ ጓሉን ብዓልቲ ቤቱን  ናፍቆት ኣብኦም ዘይጸገቡ ውሉዱን ዓቢ ሓዉን  ፈተውትን ኣዕሩኹን  እቲ ንኢዮብ ዝደበሰ ኣምላኽ ይደብስኩምን የጸናናዓኩምን፡፡

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  • stefanos temolso May 17, 2016

    ሓደ ግዜ (ቅድሚ 10 ዓመት ኣቢሉ ኣብ ኣምሰራ ጀምስ ወይ በርሀ፡ ንኢሰያስ ከምዚ ይብሎ፡ “ንውጩስ ‘ክትሰምዖ ዘሰክፍ ኣውራጃዊ ዘረባታት (ክደግሞ ኣይደልንየ ነቲ ጸያፍ ቃላት ውጩ) ስለምንታይ ዘይትገንሖ?” ኢሉዎ። ኢሰያስ ግን ኣብ ክንዲ ብጥዑም መልሓስ ዝምልሰሉ፡ “ኣነስ ምዕቡል ኣሜሪካዊ ትመስለኒ ኔርካ፡” ኢሉዎ። ሽዑ ጄምስ ኣይመለሰን ትም ኢሉ። እዚ እቲ መራሕ መኪና ዘዕለሎ ሰብ ዝነገረኒ እዩ። ኢሰያስ ነቶም መሓዙተይ ወይ ኣዕሩኽተይ ዝብሎም ከም መታወኒ እዩ ዝቘጽሮም። ንተዓዘብ ንፓፓዮ፡ ደሱ፡ ሃብተጼን፡ ዓንደሚካኤል ካሕሳይ ወዘተ ዘጋጠመ። ብዝኾነ ንጀምስ ነፍሱ ይምሓር እብል።

  • samuel May 17, 2016

    ዝኸ በርካ ዶክተር ምስግና ፡ ንበሩ ጀምስ ዝሃብካዮ ክብሪ እናመስገንኩ፡ በርሀ ኣብ ጥቓ ንያላ ሆተል ትርከብ መሬት ብህግደፍ ተዋሂባቶ ንመጥፊኡ ተጠቒሞምላ፡፡

  • T.Yitbarek May 17, 2016

    “መን ይመስክር ዝነበረ መንከ የርድእ ዝቐበረ”
    17, 2016

    (በርሀ (ጄምስ) መሓረና ሙሉእ ሂወቱ ብሻዕብያ ዝተዓሸወን መስርሒ ዝኾነን ዘፍቅሮ ሓወይን ዓርከይን ስኢነ)።

    ሞት ክናና ንበርሀ ማሕራይ፥ አውን ወሲዳ። ድክተር ምስግና ኣነውን ኣብ ኣስመራ ቅድሚ ናብ ቃኘው ምአታዉ፥ ን ክልተ ዓመት ዝ ኣክል ብሓባር ኣብ 9ይን 10ይ ክፍሊ፥ ኣብቲ አዋን ቤ/ት ቀዳማዊ ሃይለ ስላሴ ተባሂሉ ዝስዋዕ ዝነበረ ካልኣይ ደረጃ ቤ/ት ጥቓ ቃጆው ዝነበረ ብሓባር ስለዝነበርና ሕያውነቱን ተሳዋተይ መን አሰይ ከምዝነበረ አዝከረኒ፡ ኣብ ክሊፎርኒያ ከይደ ብዛዕባኡ ሓቲተሉ ግን ኣይትራኸቡ ኢሉና ኣምላኽ ከይረኸብኩዎ ናብ ኤውሮጵ ተመሊሰ። ንበርሀ ዑፍ አውን ትበኽየሉ፡ አንተበልኩ ምግናን ኣይመስለኒን።
    ንሞት ከልካሊ ስለዘይርከባ ኢለ ግን ሞት ናይ በርሀ ማሕራይ ብዘይ ዘረባ ሓዚነ ግን ተቐቢልዮ። አግዚኣብሄር ነብሱ ይምሓራ፡ መንግስቲ ኣምላኽ ድማ ትቀበሎ፡ ኣሜን። ኣብ ሱሳታት መማህርቱ ነበር።
    ተስፋዝጊ

  • sara May 17, 2016

    it is very sad story. hgdf always kills its own supporters. They never learn from others until they are killed by hgdf.

    • k.tewolde May 18, 2016

      I don’t want to sound like a broken record,but the tyrant is a carnivorous primate who scavenges on his own young, keeps his meal always close by.’Hegdefatitis’ is a deadly affliction, it gravitates you towards your predator, it is a suicide pill.RIP the deceased.

  • failed nation May 17, 2016

    ምንም እኳ ዝኾነ ሰብ ክመውት እንከሎ ክንሓዝን ዝግብኣና እንተኾነ ብዝበለጸ ዘሕዝኑ እቶም ምንም በደል ዘይብሎም መንእሰያት ኤርትራ ሸፋቱን ከም በርሀ ዝኣመሰሉ ተሓባበርቶምን ዘምጽእዎ ነጻነት ዝሽሙ ባርነት ዝሳቐዩ ዘለዉ እዩ ።እወ ንቤተሰቡን ኣዕሩኹን ጽንዓት ይሃቦም።

    • AHMED SALEH !!! May 17, 2016

      I have nothing to say against weak mentality . Always complaining ,
      whining and crying like spoiled kid .
      If you know this person I am sure you react differently . I met him
      couple times in our community Center when visiting the city . The way
      he connect socially with Eritreans and the story I heard about him was
      interesting man . People who know him speak with admiration that is
      why he was well known figure . The case of Bank robbery where Biniam
      found hanged in his cell has it’s own secrets .
      So please control your emotion and show a little maturity than keep
      barking shefatu – shefatu because you felt embarrassed for not joining
      people’s struggle like others at same age . Your mama Ethiopia Shefatu
      snatched back Eritrean identity to hand over its owners . Get over it .

  • Selam May 17, 2016

    U.S. deports Eritrean for bank robbery 32 years ago
    By Jane Sims, Free Press Justice Reporter
    August 3, 2006

    Alan Keutsch, left, now a retired London police constable , arrested a gun-toting Mahrai after a car chase. Credit: Derek Ruittan/The London Free Press. Mahrai’s photo credit: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
    Insisting a young man who robbed a bank in London 32 years ago had links to a guerrilla group, the powerful U.S. Homeland Security sends him packing to Eritrea – for good.
    It’s not every day a special agent from U.S. Homeland Security calls the Middlesex Crown attorney’s office at the London courthouse.

    Or that he would be asking about a 31-year-old crime.

    Middlesex Crown attorney Geoff Beasley was intrigued when the caller was patched to him in March 2005 concerning a 1974 bank robbery.

    A special agent wanted information about Berhe Mahrai, a 54-year-old Eritrean who had three businesses in the Los Angeles area. Homeland Security had detained him in Los Angeles. The agent wanted to check for possible terrorist links.

    When Mahrai was a student in Dayton, Ohio, he had been convicted of robbing a Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce branch in downtown London, the agent explained.

    The money, the agent said, was earmarked for an insurgency called the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF), which was fighting for independence from Ethiopia during a lengthy civil war.

    Mahrai had been sent back to Ethiopia by Canadian authorities but with a bit of skill and luck had ducked out of his deportation.

    Instead, he had been living in the United States, establishing successful businesses and returning periodically to his home country, the now-independent Eritrea.

    But his luck ran out on Feb. 17, 2005, when he was identified in a routine computer background check as an immigration offender while re-entering the U.S. at a Los Angeles airport.

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) needed to build a case to have Mahrai removed from the U.S., primarily because of his alleged involvement with the guerrilla organization. And with the added might given to the agency in the days after 9/11, it had Mahrai in its crosshairs.

    Beasley promised to check the records, but there was nothing left in the Crown’s office. He called both London and Ottawa police — Mahrai had also robbed a bank in Ottawa– and federal parole officials.

    All that London police had were a few notebooks and some vivid memories.

    By the time Beasley had approval to get more information, Mahrai had already waived his rights and agreed to return to his homeland.

    And for the next few months, the Los Angeles businessperson would sit and wait in jail for his chance to go home.

    Sent back to Eritrea

    Mahrai was put on an airplane last September from California and sent back home to Eritrea for good.

    With two American immigration officials with him, he was flown back to Eritrea after seven months in custody.

    Homeland Security pointed to the arrest and removal as evidence that its enhanced security measures since the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, are keeping America safer.

    “The lesson in this is that those who fail to reveal their true past can expect to experience the full weight of the law,” John Salter, chief counsel for ICE in Los Angeles, said in a news release.

    Homeland Security believed Mahrai had been part of the ELF. That was still a relevant piece of evidence in its investigation, even though Eritrea had become independent in 1991.

    Bank robberies involving Mahrai in London, Toronto and Ottawa were linked to the organization’s fundraising activities. But from the California detention centre where he was held, Mahrai denied any connection to the insurgent group.

    “It (ties to the Eritrean guerrilla organization) was a lie. Nobody say that. It was the media or one person (who said) that,” he said before his extradition.

    “It was just crazy. We (he and Benian Kifle, the co-accused in the London robbery) wanted to get rich.”

    His frustration with the deportation process was palpable.

    “Am I in America or a Third World country?” he asked. “I thought I was in Ethiopia and the Sudan.”

    Back in the U.S. again

    If Mahrai was worried about his residency status once he escaped deportation in 1976, he never let it stop him from continuing with his life in the U.S.

    In 1976, he stepped off an airplane at LaGuardia Airport in New York and headed back to Dayton, Ohio.

    His American wife had divorced him while he was serving his sentence in a Kingston prison.

    He picked up a job at a Stop-N-Go convenience store, called himself James and worked there until 1979.

    Then, he said, he pulled up stakes and went to Los Angeles.

    He worked in a liquor store, then opened a restaurant. He was able to secure a liquor licence for the establishment.

    His business grew and soon he had secured two liquor stores with the restaurant. His reputation grew within the Eritrean community. Jordan, his now 35-year-old daughter from another relationship, worked with him.

    In 1987, he applied for a re-entry permit because his mother was ill in Eritrea and he needed to ensure his residency status should he leave for six months.

    “They had a lot of documents on him from 1975, but they didn’t have their file in order,” said his lawyer, Jesse Moorman.

    Instead of checking his background, his application was simply processed without question.

    He was also able to renew his green card.

    In 1991, with Eritrean independence, he began to travel back and forth more freely to his former country, spending several weeks at a time there.

    The same year, he applied for naturalization in the U.S. Because of a staggering backlog of applications, he would wait 11 years before finding out he would be turned down.

    In the meantime, he travelled freely. He married in Eritrea and has three young children there. He even took them to the U.S. several times.

    Moorman said that, in theory, U.S. officials should have caught up with Mahrai long go.

    “Now they did catch him and they’re making a big fanfare of it,” he said. “He’s a nice man. He just did a crazy thing when he was young.”

    Citizenship request denied

    In a letter sent to Mahrai on June 12, 2002, he was advised by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service his application for citizenship was denied because of his criminal convictions.

    In June 2004, he tried again. This time, his case was sent to ICE.

    The government agency knew where Mahrai was living and where he was working.

    “We eventually would have got him,” said Lou Rhodi, assistant special agent in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the U.S. “He was one of the next on our list.”

    But it was Mahrai’s February 2005 arrival in Los Angeles from Eritrea that lit up the computer screen. He was taken into custody and questioned about his alleged terrorism links.

    Mahrai chose not to fight extradition and waived his rights.

    In May 2005, just hours before he was to leave the U.S., he was arrested while in detention related to an assault charge laid against him in December 2004.

    Jordan said her father had been in a scuffle with an unruly customer. He was supposed to appear in court in April, but missed the court date because he was incarcerated.

    It took three more months before that charge was processed and his flight home was arranged.

    Businesses in Eritrea

    Unlike many illegal immigrants who find themselves on the way home, Mahrai is lucky. He has started businesses in Eritrea. He has a home and a family there

    “This one is not so sad,” said Moorman, who has represented countless immigration cases. “I’m really sorry to break up his life (in the U.S.), (but I’ve) had much more disturbing than this.”

    Jordan, who was frustrated with the time it took to remove her father from detention, said her father has paid for his crimes of 30 years ago.

    “I don’t like him to go this way,” she said. “But in a way, (I’m) happy. He has friends and family.”

    Deported Again

    A telephone conversation with Mahrai while he was in custody awaiting deportation was brief and left many questions.

    He didn’t have a chance to say if he knew what happened to his fellow bank robbers in London, Ottawa and Toronto. He recalled the police officers in London had treated him well. Canadians, he said, “are beautiful people.”

    He sounded philosophical about his plight.

    “I really love my country (Eritrea). It is a new country and I want to help build my new country, so I’m not really crazy to stay here (in the U.S.),” he said.

    “Even though I love America — don’t get me wrong, I love this country, it gave me opportunity — I always loved (Eritrea) and I just want to go there.”

    As for the robberies in London and the alleged ties to the ELF, he continues to deny them.

    “I was a young man doing crazy things,” he told The Free Press.

    “I never wanted to hurt anybody. I’m a good human being.”

    • AHMED SALEH !!! May 17, 2016

      The whole point that we can’t understand is the way they betray their close associates . Berhe James story define Issayas’s evil intention
      even toward his long time close friends . After incident of G15 only
      naive people couldn’t learn to stay away from his circle . Sheriffo ,
      Selomon and Durue happened to be trusted companions in his many years
      in Ghedli life . Silence them to suppress secrets before revealed .
      Didn’t our eye witness account alarm us to think for own safety ?
      Does it make a sense to take risk and put yourself in danger ?
      James may had unreserved love to his country but after he noticed
      suspicious activity I wish he settled somewhere in safe place . He
      own business and his daughter can support his financial needs .
      We are just expressing our dismay but I think that was final destiny
      to die and bury at his homeland .

    • Genet May 18, 2016

      Thank you Selam for giving us a clearer picture of ‘james’ life history.

  • Berhe Tensea May 17, 2016

    PFDJ or or the inner circle of Shaebia, always uses and discards it own supporters, that why, many others and I call them zombies .
    As far as PFDJ and Isu the Tembenay is concerned any body who is serving him like a use and throw material.
    Even the people who are called ministers or generals like the hopeless Sebhat Ephrem are just shoe shiners of Iseyas with no real real power whatsoever.
    The officials and generals are mostly depressed and with zero self confidence, and are always on self medication. Their medication drinking every day to hide their shame and pain for being cowards or as our people say SHEYENTI AB SEREOM.

  • Berhe Tensea May 17, 2016

    PFDJ or or the inner circle of Shaebia, always uses and discards it own supporters, that why, many others and I call them zombies .
    As far as PFDJ and Isu the Tembenay is concerned any body who is serving him like a use and throw material.
    Even the people who are called ministers or generals like the hopeless Sebhat Ephrem are just shoe shiners of Iseyas with no real real power whatsoever.
    The officials and generals are mostly depressed and with zero self confidence, and are always on self medication. Their medication drinking every day to hide their shame and pain for being cowards or as our people say SHEYENTI AB SEREOM.
    Wedi Vacaro RIP, called the sereom zefethu, that is exactly who they are.

  • Khalid May 18, 2016

    It’s unfortunate that many who served Iseyas and his group, or continue to do so, do not seem to see what is happening to others, the jailing, killing, disappearances …
    Then one day, it happens also to them. When they disappear in the dungeons of the regime, they are quickly forgotten, because very few people have sympathies for them.
    In the end they are killed by the very people they have been serving.

    My his soul rest in peace.

  • Wedibashai May 18, 2016

    I thought that Assenna was the voice of people who are suffering by PFDJ, but it sounds like idiot people like James also get attention by the voice of victims? I never met him in person, but he was one of the stupid people who supported DIA even during the investment forum that they prepared in Asmara recently, maybe two years ago. This is crazy that you guys bring as a big deal. DIA can tell his journalists to report whatever he wants them to say, but people like James should never be brought in th voice of the public like Assenna because you guys could have so many other topics to cover. I’m sorry to the family if that has happened, but not to James who helped DIA to stay in power until the day of his arrest.

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