Though I disagree with the twisted reasoning of the hotheaded and shallow ato Gebru Asrat who is the current opposition of Weyane, there is one point we can not deny: that, Eritrean ports will only be commercially profitable as a source of revenue only if Ethiopia uses them.
Therefore, both Ethiopia and Eritrea need to share their resources for optimum use, possibly through the inevitable economic and later political integration.
With the rapid extinction of the Eritrean kebesa people, it is likely Eritrea’s fate is dissolution or integration.
Brother or Sister Haqi tezareb,
Indeed just like Sister Lemlem said, you are not very far from the truth. It says a lot about the pathetic condition of the kebessa elite when none of them would ever dare utter on the kebessa plight simply because they fear to jeopardize the “Eritrean identity” constructed of that fake idea “hadnetna”. In other word, identity over existense and land over people! “kebessa” for them is a dirty or scary word that could only be uttered in the privacy (well hidden) of their homes. Finally, as Ethiopia shines we should all shine together as well, but that is with the right, progressive and farsighted new Eritrean leaders.
rother or Sister Haqi Tezareb
You are not very far from the truth because it the Eritreans who are rapidly going in extinction which is also on going process. You can’t see any unity among Eritreans even fighting for their our rights and people how is then that the ports will be used by the Eritreans. Well, this is my prediction.
any issues with Eritrean problem from now on will be solved by the Ethiopians as they have the green light from US and all the Europeans and because of this they will, for sure start to manage and control Eritrea in the coming 2 years or 3 years and believe me none of the opposition party will say anything once Ethiopia takes over, therefore are Eritrean going to change their Identity from Eritrean back to Ethiopians, hammmmm! you never know! but that will be very insulting to the living Eritrean, right!?
History taught us that you can’t suppress people’s voice . The question of Eritreans
interest depends on general will from South to North from West to East .
The Tigrigna -Tigrigni advocates arrogantly dismissed to recognize our people capability
when they feel a threat from outsiders and how they fought hand in hand against common
enemy .
Siye , Asrat , Issayas might represent their political party but the people in Ethiopia
and Eritrea have their say against all of them . These three hate mongers have negative
reputation .
Dear Sister Lemlem,
It is true about Eritreans not being able to “sell their cause” to US and Europeans. The problem starts with the kind of people that have been leading the opposition – Jebha and Shaebia type former teghadelti. They are all more interested in preserving their ghedli legacy (Jebha & Shaebia identities) than preserving Eritrea. And when it comes to the Jebha type, there is an additional baggage : they are still fighting the war of the 80s. With that in mind, the extinction of the ‘kebessa people’ is a minor concern to them all. If so, the fact that these former tegadelti have become the voice of the opposition has produced nothing but disaster. Neither the masses inside Eritrea nor the youth that are fleeing the nation are beholden to ghedli as they used to be before. The other major problem with Eritrean nationalism is that it is simply anti Ethiopian. We have to get over our obsession of Ethiopia and look inward and figure out what we want out of this nation that we have now. Kulu kihalifin kiwegihin’yu really soon sister.
Many years ago there was a people called Tegaru from Tigray. They speak Tigrigna pronaunced differently from region to region.
they were very honest and galant men.
they have governed thier area with other people eith name Agazian. They had very old and long History. People very fear kind and respected.
They respect all the people spescialy those week without difence.
All the people came in yhese area and had good collaboration and brother hood. St. MARY run away from Isreal and she has been in this country , staid with Her son Jesus in this part of this world in peace and harmoney. Mohamed himself sent all his family to this land becouse the Arab pagans want to sumarise them. NEGASH the king of ethiopia resive them and protected them until peace come to thier land.
this country of peacs and hurmony have lost this habite and culture because of some incorrect foreigners.
I am sure still yhere are honest people in that part of the world.
dear writer you have said your aidea, but I don’t agree with you, .
you are living in harmony in England, and you serrow fire to the people of that country Eritreans or ethiopians.
these people they have lived in harmoney and can countinue to live in harmonry but there are people for thier interest to fivided them, and the risult is you live in England any more in your home land, and I am sure you will never come back from the place where you are staying now.
the persone you have answered in these website is not good even for me, yor artivle and his book are similar.
All of you , you are war mongors. These peooke who is suffering needs peace and harmony not a peace of cloth or fack history.
Ethiopians and Eritreans are brothers now and will be brothers Tomorrow, they will not be cheated by idiots .
I have heard Mr. Seye Abraha , and he is convinced of what he wrote, only him is convinced but Asab, masawa etc , are ports of the people not of regimes.
All the people now understand how he was cheated by songs and theater by people they fon’t understsnd any thing of thier people and thier land.
they read foregner books , and they tried to apply on these honest people and of them failed and scape far from these place to search people similar to thier madnes.
myself I rispect every one as human being , even all those who have don mistakes and make suffer these honest and religios people of Horn of Africa.
But God is great ,we are obteining His Love and Grace.
All those people God have chossen them to fly from these countries will never come back to these blessed land of Habesha and other tribes.
GOD EILL RESCUE US FROM ALL THE EVILE INTETIONS OF BAD PROPKE
Well said article the war was not about Badme it was about Red sea Gebru Asrat is a war criminal who is responsible for 1998 war. Ethiopians will never leave Eritrea as long as they don’t have Assab. The port of Massawa & Assab is useless if Ethiopia did not use them and they should use it the problem with Eritrean government is they don’t act like government more they function like MAFIA if Isias act like a president Gebru Asrat is secondary to our problem.
Dear Issaias Asfaha,
The answer to your question ‘until when or for how long’ is very simple. UNTIL WE ERIRTEANS STOP BICKERING AND UNITE AGAINST INJUSTICE’ Unfortunately this does not seem to happen in the near future. We love attacking each other instead of our enemy. What we do not see is that a wolf is standing by to grab what he can while we bicker. If we go on like this our ports and maybe our nation will be history! In about 7 months or so Ethiopia will have election and people like Gebru Asrat who have nothing to offer to the Ethiopian people will use our ports as a bargaining chips for position.
So let us stop calling opportunists ‘arrogant’ as we are the arrogant ones who do not look at our weaknesses and creating loop holes on our unity. If we are united they would not even think about our ports let alone to claim them.
Ashgedom
The stupid political maneuvering of Ghebru Asrat and others has nothing to do with
ordinary Tigrean people . The same goes on Eritreans side .
You have a right to disagree with the writer but you don’t have convincing arguments
to object his assertion nor to defend the corrupted WEYANE officials . Do not forget
their role at the time of Badme war , at the end to find themselves isolated from
central government in Addis Ababa . We blame the late prime minister but the main
actors behind the scene were Asrat , Siye and some Weyane high rank officials .
Let’s don’t blame the peoples of Eritrea and Tigray for the current conflict between EPLF/PFDJ & EPRP/TPLF. The leadership of both organizations are to be blamed for their old secret agreements and conspiracies that created the current conflict.
Ahemed Saleh.
Dear brother Saleh, the war of Badme is already over , and all the people have paid very heavy price, and these all acts is becoming history.
actually the situation is different, those who have cause all these mess are starting to create another confusion .
Look Saleh , we have to agree , there is no difference between these people, but we are still fighting and killing our people.
believe, the contradiction between these people is created and we continue to emphasizes it for different reasons , specially for the Ports situated in Red sea.
You have to understand this kind of geography is created by people who are not concerned of that area, and now it is a problem of that region.
we have not to justify history of belonging the red sea of Eritrea , Of Djibouti, Sudan and etc., the question is how to use it and the people get benefit of it.
Eritrea can not use all these coast land , because they have no the capacity to use it, in fact you can see the Eritrean regime want to give it to Russia , Iran for military base not even commercial aim.
do you think Eritrean people will benefit from these various agreement or there is a definite plan to summaries all the Eritreans and find free coast to summaries all the people of horn of Africa.
the Somali government of Said Bare have done the same action in 1970, creating confusion instability in the region and the consequence is what we are seeing.
We are talking and writing what we see and what is happening but we are so stupide that we don’t know what is behind it even if we live in the most developed country and we have heavy degree of all kind of subjects in these world.
Libya is simple example , they came they invaded it and you can see in which condition that country is.
Look in general, what is happening in all Part of Africa , HIVE, EBOLA are human invented disease to summaries Africans, first the black and then the colored like you and me while we are fighting for small issues like boundary and sea which we don’t even use it properly.
Land looked Ethiopia have more ships than all the countries who have vast sea coasts including Eritrea.
Kenyans , Sudans, Tanzanians go around Africa except four countries they don’t have shipping Lines. If I am not in Mistake Ethiopia have more shipping Lines behind south Africa, Egypt, Nigeria .
I am mentioning these not to give reason to Ethiopia to have red sea , but coordination and agreement is important between poor countries to develop and use all their efforts to overcome poverty and ignorance of their people instead spending a lot of energy spending a lot of money to buy arms against imaginary enemies of Eritrea , of Sudan , of Ethiopia etc.
you can imagine how our fathers died in Libya, in Ethiopia, Somalia as Italian Askries and helped the Italian colonialist to get empire in Africa. our fathers have no good history in this actions to go to fight against the Libyans, Ethiopians, Somalis, and handle them to the Italian empire while they can not even pass from Abashawe to Combushitato. off course this is not fear history but they have been cheated by the Italians and we were fighting against all brothers in this part of the world.
we have not to be fooled again , to give more chance to the enemies , and we created confusion again for us and for our children. the best thing is to give good chance and educate our children cohabitation with their neighbors in harmony.
I don’t know where do you live but instead talking of all these Asab, Massawa, Massawa , Asab it is not better to think about our destiny as people. If we continue like this after few years we are not going to speak and write because we shall be finished. think my brother territory without people.
If there was not some mad people like SYE and Isias , the issue between Ethiopia and Eritrea was already over .
God help the people of Eritrea and Ethiopia and Give them peace and harmony,
Dear Brothers and sisters
I cannot agree more on what you are saying. But can u please stop using the word “Kebessa”. Do you know that it is a derogatory word? Do you know the meaning? At least let me share you that it is a Tigre word and if you know the meaning you will hate to use it as I do!
Haqi tezareb October 8, 2014
Though I disagree with the twisted reasoning of the hotheaded and shallow ato Gebru Asrat who is the current opposition of Weyane, there is one point we can not deny: that, Eritrean ports will only be commercially profitable as a source of revenue only if Ethiopia uses them.
Therefore, both Ethiopia and Eritrea need to share their resources for optimum use, possibly through the inevitable economic and later political integration.
With the rapid extinction of the Eritrean kebesa people, it is likely Eritrea’s fate is dissolution or integration.
AZ October 9, 2014
wow, you spoke corret and that is what will happen
Ephrem.S October 9, 2014
Brother or Sister Haqi tezareb,
Indeed just like Sister Lemlem said, you are not very far from the truth. It says a lot about the pathetic condition of the kebessa elite when none of them would ever dare utter on the kebessa plight simply because they fear to jeopardize the “Eritrean identity” constructed of that fake idea “hadnetna”. In other word, identity over existense and land over people! “kebessa” for them is a dirty or scary word that could only be uttered in the privacy (well hidden) of their homes. Finally, as Ethiopia shines we should all shine together as well, but that is with the right, progressive and farsighted new Eritrean leaders.
Lemlem October 9, 2014
rother or Sister Haqi Tezareb
You are not very far from the truth because it the Eritreans who are rapidly going in extinction which is also on going process. You can’t see any unity among Eritreans even fighting for their our rights and people how is then that the ports will be used by the Eritreans. Well, this is my prediction.
any issues with Eritrean problem from now on will be solved by the Ethiopians as they have the green light from US and all the Europeans and because of this they will, for sure start to manage and control Eritrea in the coming 2 years or 3 years and believe me none of the opposition party will say anything once Ethiopia takes over, therefore are Eritrean going to change their Identity from Eritrean back to Ethiopians, hammmmm! you never know! but that will be very insulting to the living Eritrean, right!?
ahmed saleh October 9, 2014
History taught us that you can’t suppress people’s voice . The question of Eritreans
interest depends on general will from South to North from West to East .
The Tigrigna -Tigrigni advocates arrogantly dismissed to recognize our people capability
when they feel a threat from outsiders and how they fought hand in hand against common
enemy .
Siye , Asrat , Issayas might represent their political party but the people in Ethiopia
and Eritrea have their say against all of them . These three hate mongers have negative
reputation .
Ephrem.S October 9, 2014
Dear Sister Lemlem,
It is true about Eritreans not being able to “sell their cause” to US and Europeans. The problem starts with the kind of people that have been leading the opposition – Jebha and Shaebia type former teghadelti. They are all more interested in preserving their ghedli legacy (Jebha & Shaebia identities) than preserving Eritrea. And when it comes to the Jebha type, there is an additional baggage : they are still fighting the war of the 80s. With that in mind, the extinction of the ‘kebessa people’ is a minor concern to them all. If so, the fact that these former tegadelti have become the voice of the opposition has produced nothing but disaster. Neither the masses inside Eritrea nor the youth that are fleeing the nation are beholden to ghedli as they used to be before. The other major problem with Eritrean nationalism is that it is simply anti Ethiopian. We have to get over our obsession of Ethiopia and look inward and figure out what we want out of this nation that we have now. Kulu kihalifin kiwegihin’yu really soon sister.
Asghedom Woldeghiorghis October 9, 2014
Many years ago there was a people called Tegaru from Tigray. They speak Tigrigna pronaunced differently from region to region.
they were very honest and galant men.
they have governed thier area with other people eith name Agazian. They had very old and long History. People very fear kind and respected.
They respect all the people spescialy those week without difence.
All the people came in yhese area and had good collaboration and brother hood. St. MARY run away from Isreal and she has been in this country , staid with Her son Jesus in this part of this world in peace and harmoney. Mohamed himself sent all his family to this land becouse the Arab pagans want to sumarise them. NEGASH the king of ethiopia resive them and protected them until peace come to thier land.
this country of peacs and hurmony have lost this habite and culture because of some incorrect foreigners.
I am sure still yhere are honest people in that part of the world.
dear writer you have said your aidea, but I don’t agree with you, .
you are living in harmony in England, and you serrow fire to the people of that country Eritreans or ethiopians.
these people they have lived in harmoney and can countinue to live in harmonry but there are people for thier interest to fivided them, and the risult is you live in England any more in your home land, and I am sure you will never come back from the place where you are staying now.
the persone you have answered in these website is not good even for me, yor artivle and his book are similar.
All of you , you are war mongors. These peooke who is suffering needs peace and harmony not a peace of cloth or fack history.
Ethiopians and Eritreans are brothers now and will be brothers Tomorrow, they will not be cheated by idiots .
I have heard Mr. Seye Abraha , and he is convinced of what he wrote, only him is convinced but Asab, masawa etc , are ports of the people not of regimes.
All the people now understand how he was cheated by songs and theater by people they fon’t understsnd any thing of thier people and thier land.
they read foregner books , and they tried to apply on these honest people and of them failed and scape far from these place to search people similar to thier madnes.
myself I rispect every one as human being , even all those who have don mistakes and make suffer these honest and religios people of Horn of Africa.
But God is great ,we are obteining His Love and Grace.
All those people God have chossen them to fly from these countries will never come back to these blessed land of Habesha and other tribes.
GOD EILL RESCUE US FROM ALL THE EVILE INTETIONS OF BAD PROPKE
Hakim October 9, 2014
Well said article the war was not about Badme it was about Red sea Gebru Asrat is a war criminal who is responsible for 1998 war. Ethiopians will never leave Eritrea as long as they don’t have Assab. The port of Massawa & Assab is useless if Ethiopia did not use them and they should use it the problem with Eritrean government is they don’t act like government more they function like MAFIA if Isias act like a president Gebru Asrat is secondary to our problem.
Mehret October 9, 2014
Dear Issaias Asfaha,
The answer to your question ‘until when or for how long’ is very simple. UNTIL WE ERIRTEANS STOP BICKERING AND UNITE AGAINST INJUSTICE’ Unfortunately this does not seem to happen in the near future. We love attacking each other instead of our enemy. What we do not see is that a wolf is standing by to grab what he can while we bicker. If we go on like this our ports and maybe our nation will be history! In about 7 months or so Ethiopia will have election and people like Gebru Asrat who have nothing to offer to the Ethiopian people will use our ports as a bargaining chips for position.
So let us stop calling opportunists ‘arrogant’ as we are the arrogant ones who do not look at our weaknesses and creating loop holes on our unity. If we are united they would not even think about our ports let alone to claim them.
ahmed saleh October 9, 2014
Ashgedom
The stupid political maneuvering of Ghebru Asrat and others has nothing to do with
ordinary Tigrean people . The same goes on Eritreans side .
You have a right to disagree with the writer but you don’t have convincing arguments
to object his assertion nor to defend the corrupted WEYANE officials . Do not forget
their role at the time of Badme war , at the end to find themselves isolated from
central government in Addis Ababa . We blame the late prime minister but the main
actors behind the scene were Asrat , Siye and some Weyane high rank officials .
ሓውኻ ኣበይ ኣሎ? October 9, 2014
Let’s don’t blame the peoples of Eritrea and Tigray for the current conflict between EPLF/PFDJ & EPRP/TPLF. The leadership of both organizations are to be blamed for their old secret agreements and conspiracies that created the current conflict.
Yohannes October 10, 2014
Ahemed Saleh.
Dear brother Saleh, the war of Badme is already over , and all the people have paid very heavy price, and these all acts is becoming history.
actually the situation is different, those who have cause all these mess are starting to create another confusion .
Look Saleh , we have to agree , there is no difference between these people, but we are still fighting and killing our people.
believe, the contradiction between these people is created and we continue to emphasizes it for different reasons , specially for the Ports situated in Red sea.
You have to understand this kind of geography is created by people who are not concerned of that area, and now it is a problem of that region.
we have not to justify history of belonging the red sea of Eritrea , Of Djibouti, Sudan and etc., the question is how to use it and the people get benefit of it.
Eritrea can not use all these coast land , because they have no the capacity to use it, in fact you can see the Eritrean regime want to give it to Russia , Iran for military base not even commercial aim.
do you think Eritrean people will benefit from these various agreement or there is a definite plan to summaries all the Eritreans and find free coast to summaries all the people of horn of Africa.
the Somali government of Said Bare have done the same action in 1970, creating confusion instability in the region and the consequence is what we are seeing.
We are talking and writing what we see and what is happening but we are so stupide that we don’t know what is behind it even if we live in the most developed country and we have heavy degree of all kind of subjects in these world.
Libya is simple example , they came they invaded it and you can see in which condition that country is.
Look in general, what is happening in all Part of Africa , HIVE, EBOLA are human invented disease to summaries Africans, first the black and then the colored like you and me while we are fighting for small issues like boundary and sea which we don’t even use it properly.
Land looked Ethiopia have more ships than all the countries who have vast sea coasts including Eritrea.
Kenyans , Sudans, Tanzanians go around Africa except four countries they don’t have shipping Lines. If I am not in Mistake Ethiopia have more shipping Lines behind south Africa, Egypt, Nigeria .
I am mentioning these not to give reason to Ethiopia to have red sea , but coordination and agreement is important between poor countries to develop and use all their efforts to overcome poverty and ignorance of their people instead spending a lot of energy spending a lot of money to buy arms against imaginary enemies of Eritrea , of Sudan , of Ethiopia etc.
you can imagine how our fathers died in Libya, in Ethiopia, Somalia as Italian Askries and helped the Italian colonialist to get empire in Africa. our fathers have no good history in this actions to go to fight against the Libyans, Ethiopians, Somalis, and handle them to the Italian empire while they can not even pass from Abashawe to Combushitato. off course this is not fear history but they have been cheated by the Italians and we were fighting against all brothers in this part of the world.
we have not to be fooled again , to give more chance to the enemies , and we created confusion again for us and for our children. the best thing is to give good chance and educate our children cohabitation with their neighbors in harmony.
I don’t know where do you live but instead talking of all these Asab, Massawa, Massawa , Asab it is not better to think about our destiny as people. If we continue like this after few years we are not going to speak and write because we shall be finished. think my brother territory without people.
If there was not some mad people like SYE and Isias , the issue between Ethiopia and Eritrea was already over .
God help the people of Eritrea and Ethiopia and Give them peace and harmony,
sossena October 10, 2014
Dear Brothers and sisters
I cannot agree more on what you are saying. But can u please stop using the word “Kebessa”. Do you know that it is a derogatory word? Do you know the meaning? At least let me share you that it is a Tigre word and if you know the meaning you will hate to use it as I do!
Yohannes October 10, 2014
please my sister sossana can you tell me what it does mean Kebessa in Tigre, in Tigrigna means high land .
please can tell me what does it mean