Eritrea national footballers in Dutch town
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The mayor of a small Dutch town says a group of former Eritrea nationalteam footballers who went missing after a tournament in Uganda in 2012 and sought asylum is now living in his town. Gorinchem Mayor Anton
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The mayor of a small Dutch town says a group of former Eritrea national
team footballers who went missing after a tournament in Uganda in 2012 and sought asylum is now living in his town.
Gorinchem Mayor Anton Barske told public broadcaster NOS on Saturday that the Eritreans have been granted political asylum in the Netherlands and have been housed in the town 75 kilometers (45 miles) south of Amsterdam.
Barske says “there are teams in Gorinchem who are very interested” in the players but that the men’sfirst priority is getting used to life in the Netherlands.
Barske could not immediately be reached for comment.
The group of 17 players and their team doctor disappeared in December 2012 after being eliminated from the east and central African CECAFA Cup.
Gideon May 10, 2014
Congra and best luck for the future guys. The desperate regime will persistently send
more players abroad until it gets one good news as a balancing act. In a country where logic
rendered extinct, fallacies fill in the void. Please keep on training to become more skillful
and competitive at a higher level so that you would represent a new democratic Eritrea in the future.
Fanko May 10, 2014
Yosief Ghebrehiwet responds to Yodita
Yodita and her “elite argument”
Yodita, an excellent commentator at awate.com, argues against my take on the Eritrean elite this way: “Starting from Lenin (the father of all Marxist revolutions?) all struggles were/are LED by elites!!!” But I don’t see how this could be used as a counter-argument against my stand, since I totally agree with her: If there is need for a revolution, then there is nobody but the elite to lead it. But what I am saying is that there was absolutely NO NEED for a revolution in the Eritrean case. So when I am blaming the Eritrean elite, it is for making the Eritrean masses go through a NEEDLESS ghedli journey of 50 years, with all the horrendous sacrifice that such a foolish undertaking entails. That was what my article “The Circular Journey” has been all about.
Yodita makes it seem as if am saying: if the Eritrean Revolution hadn’t been led by the elite, it would have turned to be OK. Not at all! I am not accusing the Eritrean elite for a mismanagement of a revolution that could have gone right, but for having invented a cause that were never there, entirely inspired by their alien colonial aspirations. The Christian elite, repelled by “backward Ethiopia”, wanted to create an Eritrea in the image of colonial Italy; inspired as they were by the false sense of betterment induced by their colonial heritage (Piccola Roma and other “modernity” paraphernalia). The Muslim elite, repelled by “Christian Ethiopia”, set out to create an Eritrea in the image of the Arab world; inspired as they were by all the –isms sprouting in the Arab world (Islamism, pan-Arabism, Gamalism, etc.) Both, of course, had to invent a “colonial oppression” that were never there to justify a revolution that would take them to their alien destinations.
My assessment of the Eritrean revolution is not simply made based on the brutality in ghedli and present day Eritrea. [Nobody in his right mind could claim that the revolutions in Mozambique and Angola were unjustified, even though both went brutally wrong in many ways.] Instead, I am claiming that all that the Eritreans have gone through is a needless sacrifice. At best then, if the Eritrean elite are convinced to give up their alien aspirations, we will end up at the starting point of this insane circular journey, for the sane Eritrea that we will rediscover happens to be a smaller version of Ethiopia in all its components – geographically, demographically, religiously, historically, culturally, etc. (please look at the cake-metaphor I mention in “The Circular Journey II”) The futility of the ghedli journey can then be put as a journey from Big Ethiopia to Little Ethiopia, with all the additional problems that come with that little-ness. Sometimes, at my cynical moments, I entertain this outlandish idea that had the Italians named Eritrea as “Little Ethiopia” (given that they were aiming for the larger colony), the Eritrean elite would have never entertained this circular journey – look what an alien baptism can do to a misguided people!
Yodita also seem to be impressed by all the ghedli virtues: discipline, valor, self-reliance, etc. So are the Mafia; so are the Taliban; so were the Nazis. These content-less “virtues” could be employed by any organization for good or evil purposes; what provides them with content are the “cause” that made them necessary in the first place and the goal they want to achieve – and it is at these two ends that the Eritrean Revolution dismally fails.
Now, to a minor point: although I agree with Yodita on the indispensable role of the elite in necessary revolutions, I don’t agree with some of the examples she brought to prove her point. For instance, I believe that the Russians and the Chinese would have been in a much better shape now without the communist interruption. She wonders “where would the Bolsheviks be without Lenin (an elite)? Where would the Chinese be without Maoism”. If she wants to find out what China would have been without Maosim, she doesn’t have to create a counter factual situation; all she needs to do is look at Japan and South Korea; and more importantly at Taiwan (the same people, the same Confucian ethic).
YG
nati May 10, 2014
Fanko,
what is wrong with you, man? what does yosief has to do with the Eritrean team in Holland? do you intend to disrupt our discussion here? if you love yosief this much go to his website. as far as i know he is stirring anti-Eritrean sentiment and that is a dangerous route. on top of that the issues he raises are irrelevant because our question now is NOT whether we want independence or not. it is how do we SAVE OUR PEOPLE AND OUR BELOVED HOMELAND NOW!so leave us alone, fanko. or rather get lost. after iseyas yosief is public enemy number 2. these two should cross over to our neighbor to the south.
Bloko May 11, 2014
Hey Fanko,
If articles are written somewhere else, there is no need to re-post them here in their entirety. If anyone wants to read them they can go there.
But if you can’t resist, just send the link only.
abdu May 11, 2014
Bloko
You’re absoultly right and i can’t agree more than u ……
ahmed omer May 11, 2014
FANKO
You are about Ethiopia like became lime Scandinavian countries We know Ethiopia and what is going on there who is in power what is of discriminations going on the Amara’s Job is continuing by TEGARO keep all your Advise to yourself and do not kill us by your MUM ETHIOPIA .
nati May 10, 2014
Fanko,
what is wrong with you, man? what does yosief has to do with the Eritrean team in Holland? do you intend to disrupt our discussion here? if you love yosief this much go to his website. as far as i know he is stirring anti-Eritrean sentiment and that is a dangerous route. on top of that the issues he raises are irrelevant because our question now is NOT whether we want independence or not. it is how do we SAVE OUR PEOPLE AND OUR BELOVED HOMELAND NOW!so leave us alone, fanko. or rather get lost. after iseyas yosief is public enemy number 2. these two should cross over to our neighbor to the south.
nati May 10, 2014
congratulations my brothers! i wish you all the best of luck.
daniel habte May 10, 2014
Eritreans have become the only nation that would like to come back and seen as visiting tourists in their home country. talking of the refuge crisis and the come back for sawa ceremonies 🙂
Dala ksha May 10, 2014
Some people are using this massage board for spreading their agenda of their mama Ethiopia,to bad the massage board allowing them to go deep inside our case.
Suleiman Salim May 11, 2014
Do you mean to say the agenda of Mekele,Hawassa and Debre-zeit?
Sorobeti May 11, 2014
Sulaiman Salim
I hope the fate of your family members who are assigned by DIA and serving him in different levels, will not be like the fate of menka’, yemin, Ibrahim Afa, Solomon Weldemariam, the G 15, Abdella Jabir, Mustafa Nurhussain, ‘Umar Tawill, Vinak etc.
Suleiman Salim May 11, 2014
Your family members too are serving Eritrea in different levels. You are Eritrean, aren’t you?
Sorobeti May 11, 2014
No, some of my family members are detained since 1996 for their faith and disappeared and some my family members are enslaved in the slavery service.
ahmed omer May 11, 2014
Sulieman if this is your real name and if you are real Eritrean or you are from DEMHET why I saying this because you do no a bout Eritrean history I that why Hgdef has gave you commenting JOBon asena .
selam May 11, 2014
I opppse the regime but i can’t conguratulate sich a humilayion.
Semira May 11, 2014
Thank the peace loving Hollanders for granting political asylum to all Eritreans in the Dutch Land.
A friend in need is a real friend indeed.
Congratulations Eritrean national soccer players in the Dutch town You stood for what you believe in. You represented Eritrean people and you stood against the mad dog tyrant dictator Isayas wedi Berad, his blind followers HIGDEF and his burned flag.
We will liberate our land and our people.
Let freedom ring in Senhit, Keren!
Let freedom ring in Akeleguzay, Adi keyih!
Let freedom ring in Denkel, Asseb!
Let freedom ring in Barka, akurdet!
Let freedom ring in Sahil Nakfa!
Let freedom ring in Seraye, Adi Ugri!
Let freedom ring in Hamassien, Asmera!
Let freedom ring in Semhar, Massawa!
Let freedom ring allover Eritrea.
Eritrea will be free soon.
Our original Eritrean Liberation Flag, Semayawit Banderana will be allover Eritrea!
Shighey abbey ala?
Holland besiha ala!
Shighey abbey ala?
Netherland besiha ala!
berie haqi May 11, 2014
ኣየ ኩርኩሮ መሰሶ ኣብ ጽዒሮም ዝሃነጹöካ ኣደራሽ ዓዲ ጓና ኰንካስ ቱታ :
Semira May 11, 2014
AS Finishing Touch
GOD
Sent to Eritrea The Dutch.
Thanks to all the peace loving Hollanders for grating political asylum to all Eritreans in the Dutch Land.
A friend in need is a real friend indeed.
Congratulations To all Eritrean national footballers in the Dutch town.