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JUSTICE AND ALI ABDU

Dedicated to RAESI TESSEMA by Fetsum Abraham RAESI TESSEMA: I leave the historical details of this spiritualist icon of justice for people to learn from any possible sources. Raesi Tessema, was, however the governor of Akeleguzai once

Dedicated to RAESI TESSEMA

by Fetsum Abraham

RAESI TESSEMA: I leave the historical details of this spiritualist icon of justice for people to learn from any possible sources. Raesi Tessema, was, however the governor of Akeleguzai once upon a time in his generation where the communal justice system of the era was traditionally under the jurisdiction of his authority. This man faced a very intricate problem that tested his perception of justice as a matter of destiny: his son killed a person and his case came to his table for judgment. The appropriate punishment for such a crime in that province was Capital Punishment (“The lawful infliction of death as a punishment; the death penalty against the criminal”). As devastating as it was, this blessed gentleman delivered such a verdict by means of hanging against his son. He was said to have stayed throughout the process of his son’s death reading his Bible and praying at home.

 

One cannot bless the self with inner integrity and peace of mind higher than this mark of spirituality dear Eritreans!  Fairness is colorless and has no ethnicity and religion. This father figure gave impartial justice because that was his political philosophy: justice was his concept of life and he lived it practically by choice. He overcame the temptation of bias by arresting his ego in favor of fairness and lost a son as a result by his own judgment.

 

I am dignified to dedicate this article to RAESI TESSEMA, the figure of SELFLESSNESS and FAIRNESS especially at this point in the Eritrean experience where justice has died to defend humanity. In the progression, I remind people to be careful from passing a verdict on someone without evidence. We have to learn something from the spiritual integrity of RAESI TESSEMA on the value of a human life: that JUSTICE IS NOT UNLESS CONSISTEN!!

Fellow Eritreans;

I briefly displayed my opinion on the question of Ali Abdu in at least two of my past articles, but I felt like sharing my thoughts on this controversial subject with a better detail especially after I read the reaction of some concerned Eritreans to the following paragraph in my article “HILINA”.

 

In that article I said this:  “I can not justify the fate of Eritrean liberators Ugbe Abraha and Mahmood Sherifo who were forced to commit suicide or die in prison just for asking the implementation of our constitution. I despise to live in Eritrea where its liberators such as Dr. Asefaw, General Tekeste Haile and even brother Ali Addu can not live in because of senseless injustice. I do not want to be an Eritrean in an Eritrea that jails and kills its makers because I do not deserve it as much. I cannot do it without being selfish. I just do not want to be an Eritrean for the sake of identity. It breaks down at this fundamental contradiction of the concept in my conditionally pacifist outlook of life.”

 

•       Quiet a few good brothers and sisters did not want Ali Abdu in the list and actually expressed their honest opinions about my statement. I appreciate the positive feedback very much so and I partially justify the collective reaction with respect. Here is my GUILTY WITH EXPLANATION plea to those I promised to respond in the forum.

 

•       Let me try to get the “I despise to live in Eritrea where its liberators such as Dr. Asefaw,  General Tekeste Haile and even brother Ali Addu can not live in because of senseless injustice” out of the way first. If the notion that Tegadelti secured the Eritrean independence is either acceptable or correct, then my conclusion that Ali Abdu contributed to the liberation of the country is consistent with the hypothesis because he was a TEGADALAI. Having been Tegadalai is the only requirement here for being a “liberator” in my understanding. Therefore, Ali qualifies for this status (liberator) without a problem.

My personal opinion of Ali Abdu is negative. This man served the Afwerki regime as his best man in the circle. Many people have been hurt by his negative contribution in the Eritrean society. We know, however, that Eritrea is managed under absolute dictatorship by the worse dictator in the world: a tight political condition that does not allow any one to do anything without his approval. There is no room for modulating, modifying or amending a centralized idea that radiates from the presidential office in Asmara. The dictator has total control over the society and he alone decides what to do in the country. Under such a highly secretive and overly suspicious structure, no employee can work independently: one must follow the instructions without hesitation. This is the case to all servants of the system including the Ambassadors, Ministers and the Generals. They are restricted to only do what they are told to do. In a way, they have been robbed of their individuality substantially, but by choice: some of them conform to this humiliation and others leave the system behind when they get the chance.

There is no doubt that Ali Abdu (Former MINISTER of INFORMATION) was a dedicated servant of the Eritrean regime; probably the closest and most obedient man to Afwerki as well. Unconfirmed sources of information say that he was molded to be the most powerful politician under the president and was more important than the Generals and all Ministers combined. This Minister was, nevertheless, incapable of taking any action outside the dictator’s instructions similar to all individuals in the government.

The Minister was recently interviewed and the Eritrean political life accordingly appears like “….he and the other ministers do not have to know anything about what happened [to] Dawit [Issac] and other imprisoned journalists and politicians.”

                        In Ali’s words; “Neither I nor any other minister dared to ask what happened to Dawit Isaak. It is taboo to ask about things that are not related to one’s job to do. There is an old guerrilla culture in the country. It carries out orders without asking why, he says. Ali Abdu says it is routine to suspected dissidents arrested without court papers, without any documentation. Those who do the work, oral orders. Sometimes, there is over the phone and in coded language. They are afraid of being intercepted by Western intelligence services.

Comment

Eritrean government officials including the second strongest man of power in this discussion were and are simply symbolic puppets no better that mobile statues with a collective human mind owned by the absolute dictator, the only man that counts in the Eritrean society. The seemingly big individuals in the entire political structure of the country serve only as the boss’s material objects conditioned to transmit his mind without a say like remote controlled robots. There is no hard copy documentation in the working environment for no record should be traced in the future about the crimes done behind the screen.  One is called to do or say something by phone and he does it; and another bites the dust!!! This conclusion is in harmony with Ali Abdu’s short but precise interview.

 

The question is what the government officials do in Asmara and elsewhere at large?

 

The so-called Eritrean Cabinet of Ministers and Ambassadors are actually socio- economic parasites that get paid for the sake of formality literally without a job.

 

Here are examples to this effect:

Yemane Gebreab, is for instance the Head of Political Affairs and Presidential Adviser at the People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ).  His main job is to preach Afwerkism (the political philosophy of the party). But how can he teach anyone a non-documented philosophy only known to the president?  His other responsibility is to advice the president. But how can he advice an absolute dictator who “knows every thing”  and does not want to be advised?  In short, Yemane Gebreab has nothing to do in his daily life in Eritrea except chilling around and getting paid dearly for it.

Girma Asmerom is an Eritrean Ambassador to the African Union in Addis Ababa. He is the only Eritrean politician in Ethiopia who lives isolated from the massive Eritrean people and the opposition groups there; similar to the most internationally isolated president in Asmara (excuse Bashir for his recent visit). With no contact with Eritreans, Girma has nothing to do with any type of communal or social activities in that country.

 

Clearly, Ambassador Girma’s main job is diplomacy but no foreign country wants to do diplomacy with isolated and sanctioned Eritrea that is not even allowed to be an IGAD member yet. Therefore, he does not have any diplomatic assignment to do in Addis. His role may then be waiting for AU meetings to paraphrase his boss’s messages (the monotonous border stuff) without any input and modification from his mind. This brother is chilling as well in isolation in Addis with out a job. I cannot tell you how he kills his time but he has a lot of it and money to do whatever he wants to do.

 

The same thing applies to the Eritrea’s Ambassador to the United Nations Araya Desta. All he has to do in New York is attending meetings whenever applicable and transmitting the same issue concerning the border misunderstanding with Ethiopia probably from the same document that was exhausted in the platform for the last 12 years. This brother is chilling like the others as well with nothing else to do in the City.

 

What appears to be going on is that the president is stretched to the limit controlling everything and the officials are idly sitting around draining their brains. They may then go to the office to do whatever they want to do (probably playing cards, computer games, taking naps or even boozing a bit) and go back home when the time is up. As this mode of operation deeply infiltrates the group, one may not have to go to work all together since there is nothing to do except waiting for orders from above, which can be done with the help of wireless telephones from anywhere in the city (Café, Bar, etc)

 

It is a comfortable life out there folks in terms of rest and money! Plenty of time to enjoy life and to sleep around, but this comes with a heavy cost in terms of mental deterioration; chronic sense of uselessness specially when they are not allowed to read books and discuss things that do not conform to Afwerkism. What do you do without the freedom to read and write? Where do you enhance your creativity in the absence of these rights? For how long can you rationally live in such a condition and how much boozing can the body sustain? Life loses its essence without motion, the brain rusts and the duplicative mind becomes unproductive making the victim a walking zombie without purpose.

 

In such a setup Ali could have only been used as a transmission medium of instructions from the president to other officials under his superficial authority. One would still guess though, that Ali Abdu would be the first person to know the most sensitive matters of the country by virtue of being the INFORMATION MINISTER and the closest man to the boss! But this assumption was contradicted by his recent interview to the surprise of many observers. The extremely secretive nature of the regime would not allow this: On the burning issue of Dawit Issac, for instance, Ali Abdu said that;

“..he is sorry about what happened Dawit Isaak and other journalists. But it is only the president himself and his closest security that has information about Isaak. Not even the police chief know anything about it.”

            Comment

            This testimony discloses the extent this most important Minister of his time was irrelevant in the Eritrean political arena, ladies and gentlemen!

Ali finally left the regime that stole his intelligence and conditioned him to work against the people for many years. This defection should naturally situate him in the side of the resistance by default logic in my opinion. It at least qualifies him for AMNESTY in future Eritrea through a procedure by which the concept is practically reduced to reality. “Repentance for Forgiveness” is one factor that should play a big role in our society’s forward mobility drive (like in many other societies with similar experience), should it be found relevant to Ali Abdu’s situation. It can even get to the point of serious contradiction between him and the society should there be questionable violations relevant to the issue. In any case; Amnesty and Reconciliation will take care of justice in his case in transparent Eritrea (I hope everyone understands the necessity of RECONCILIATION to the Eritrean society, although this crucial process has also been suppressed by this president for so long.)

            JUSTICE

            •  A civilized justice arrangement must be fair to the two opposing sides under its jurisdiction. Here is actually where the integrity of a given justice system is measured in reference to objectivity. Someone states the following to that effect;

 

Aside from the related requirement of proof beyond a reasonable doubt, the presumption of innocence is largely symbolic. The reality is that no defendant would face trial unless somebody—the crime victim, the prosecutor, a police officer—believed that the defendant was guilty of a crime. After the government has presented enough evidence to constitute Probable Cause to believe that the defendant has committed a crime, the accused need not be treated as if he or she was innocent of a crime, and the defendant may be jailed with the approval of the court. Nevertheless, the presumption of innocence is essential to the criminal process. The mere mention of the phrase presumed innocent keeps judges and juries focused on the ultimate issue at hand in a criminal case: whether the prosecution has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the alleged acts. ”

 

Human life is a serious issue and civilized societies deal with its activities in such a civilized manner. In short, an accused is innocent until proven guilty by a fair justice system or until an accuser proves him guilty in a fair justice system. It cannot be clearer than this. This perception is the mark in so far as Eritrea Vs Ali Abdu is concerned. Our individual feelings and opinions on this brother do not matter unless we substantiate his crimes materially. One cannot do this without being an Afwerkist where ANARCHIC JUSTICE can subjugate any citizen in the country for no reason or without explanation; a proof, any other rational means of understanding or documentation.

 


CONCLUSION

Apparently, emotional discharge is something that understandably takes place because of what is happening in the country, but giving a verdict based on it is a crime. I cannot convict Ali Abdu without evidence and a due process no matter how I feel about him. Once I trespass this line of fairness, I have voluntarily given up my right to defend myself from any accuser. Neither can I vindicate him from the charges without a due process that asserts his innocence but every step in this issue has to be legalized to be JUST and to acquire popular validity. Time will tell the answer!

The fact remains that every judgment I pass on an individual directly affects my individual right. If I convict Ali Abdu without evidence, I will automatically lose my right to defend myself whenever I am accused including my right to complain about being at the mercy of anyone that wants to hurt me by means of unsubstantiated accusation. We cannot promote democracy and human rights without defending the essence of fairness, since democracy does not work in the absence of justice.

As the subject stands at this point in time, I fully believe Ali Abdu deserves the benefit of the doubt and his accusers carry the burden of proof, consistent to the most fundamental theory of NEUTRAL JUSTICE that we are trying to achieve in Eritrea. Ali Abdu, therefore stays innocent until proven guilty. Should the people of Eritrea establish a criminal case against him, they must prove it in court first where he can defend himself lawfully and leave the rest to the justice system. This is what we expect to see should his case materialize in democratic Eritrea. For now, I think we will benefit more by accepting him to the Resistance. Please use your democratic right to participate and comment on this article in accordance to how it grabs you in the mind!!!!

Ali Abdu’s Quietism

              Other than that, I am surprised by Ali Abdu’s brief exposure to the public and his disappearance then after. He may not have too much to tell based on how his working condition had been but I believe this man can help the resistance a lot and can even vindicate himself from the clouds of doubt through fearless participation in the struggle for freedom from the grip of dictatorship. I appreciate the information he gave on the fate of Dawit Issac, a sad story of a young Journalist who disappeared without trace in Afwerkist Eritrea, but what is next? Why is he quiet at the time we are waiting to hear more from him? I do not think this is a constructive approach. To me, his silence after defection is more bothersome than his servitude to the dictator when he was under. Once again, patience is a virtue!

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139 COMMENTS
  • Thomas February 12, 2013

    correction:

    About the weyana name calling game, ask your master dia because he was the one who was sleeping with them, surprise before our independence and until 1998.

  • Thomas February 12, 2013

    Zelku dia (response to the other Fitsum’s article “President’s Grandma…..),

    Sorry, I was not there to respond in a timely manner, but here you go below:

    Usually, I don’t respond to your kind because I know you are here to defend our number one enemy who is working from inside out to destroy everything we have. DIA has successfully made our nation weak by isolating the nation from the rest of the world. By destroying the fabric of our identity that is our culture and our identity. The image of our nation has tarnished because of this crazy dictator & his followers like you.

    About the weyana name calling game, ask your master dia because he is the one who was sleeping with them, surprise before our independence and after independence until 1998. He brags about training the weyena to work with him and eliminate the jebhas (ELF). Remember the Jebha’s were independence fighters who were fighting neck to neck with our former enemies, the Derg (ethiopians). But remember it was at this time that DIA decided to trust the weyanes (the ethiopians). Now again, the Kinijit (derg reminants)and the enemies of Eritrea who still believe and dream of retaking asseb has become the best friends of DIA and shuttling to making another scene of comeback. So, what is up with your addiction of the weyane name calling. You should be assumed of talking about the weyane and try to make a topic out of that. We have a series internal enemy and unless that is resolved we will be the next somalia in the horn of africa. No worries about our border, we now have our independent nation where the whole world knows where our country is. Eritrea became a member of the UN and with her border clearly marked and all of that.

    About the weyanes again, please tell your mind 10 times and learn that Meles said all the way from our independence until the day he died that Assab is deep inside Eritrea; and that is its owners are Eritreans. But then, who is disagreeing with him (the Kinijit the ethiopian who are taking training as we speak by Issays—–isn’t that ironic). I think you will know when your mind is treated from dementia.

    We have a leader who is not different from the ethiopian derg regime leader or killers such as Mengstu, Haileslasie…..

    I know you have too many unanswered questions and please take those questions to Ali Abdu, former dia’s information minister. I am sure he will tell you why he run away before he was executed by dia. I am saying this because you are imitating exactly all the things you having saying. He feed you and made to live in a state of denial. Please take my advice and find him talk to him. This time, he will give you the right medication.

  • jonah February 12, 2013

    Good Article.
    As Eritrean we have been isolated and regulated minimal role in the global village for at least 40 years. We forget we are one of the poorest countries in the world. If you look the poorest neighborhood’s in a major city.. a common trait is loss of hope, lack of a sense of community, and dislike for law and order. In eritrea, we haven’t had genuine law and order… it is law and practice of guerilla movement based in Nakfa. How many ministers have college education? Anyway, it is our first government and it was not good.
    Our next government will be better because you can’t get worst the current one.
    If we are going to benefit from this bad experience and turn it into something “positive” we need to form or start thinking about something like South africa truth commission.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_and_Reconciliation_Commission_(South_Africa)

  • Fact-is-Fact February 12, 2013

    The writer failed himself in all departments in a big way ! this article is simply rubbish, detached from Eritrea’s reality. This article forces readers to say to the writer, man, you watching too much western TV courts. what you stated “justice, court, fairness, proven guilty…’ has been a utopia world to our people under the grips of PFDJ and his KEY henchmen the likes of Ali Abdu.

    Just because KEY figures of the system (Ali Abdu, Naizghi Kiflu, the likes of Mesfun Hagos, and others) fled Eritrea one way or the other doesn’t necessarily mean they now are free of the crimes that they helped take place whether they knew the crimes or not. They were the order takers of order “A” and the order exectors of “B thru Z” ! That simple! These are people who knowingly stayed put with the system for so long while countless crimes were and have been committed. Ali Abdu has been a Minister Of Information the key propaganda outlet of the system for over 12 years. So how is that you see this man as a simple ordinary, low-level thug? To talk about fairness, justice, freedom of speech is a good thing if it is in its rightful place and is sensible but just writing for the sake of writing at the expense of over 4 million oppressed people in itself is crime of conscience.

    How is that with your same teary pencil you accuse (rightly so) of PFDJ leader Isaias Afewerk “Afewerkism” in all his mother evil acts against our people, but suddenly you become a lawyer to the very key henchmen that he uses? And Ali Abdu being one of the most notorious that had remained one of the arch strategist and executors of PFDJ propaganda machine that darkened, frustrated the soul of our people.

    Ali Abdu is THE man who played the fundamental key role in deafening, saturating an entire society with confusing floods of information, misinformation, disinformation, so they remain confused and saturated and demoralized. Do you even know and realize how, in the last 21 years, the few that includes Ali Abdu live lavishly in Eritrea while the rest of Eritrea is still poverty stricken. Forget rest of Eritrea. Even those who were part of the struggle who you expect get the fair share of the lion haven’t got a thing.

    And if you accuse Isaias Afewerki, rightly so, then you cannot skip Ali Abdu. As a matter of a fact, even his brother Saleh AA Younis, by extension, is now committing crime by hiding a criminal. Poor Eritrea. Saleh AA Younis, part of the elites of Eritrea, have been shading his crocodile tears for years to get name and fame, and suddenly his naked ass is now exposed where he stands. He even had a ball to rant at Assena.com and Asmarino.com the fact that they stand by the people. Asmarino.com was the one that provided him a home to spill his passion of writing when he was challenged at Dehai.org and had to escape as early as 2000. And soon enough, he ditched Asmarino.com and went along with his wild tenakasay Gadi.

    I wonder now how those elite, educated Eritreans who shower his website and praise him as “prolific” writer would act? I wonder if their conscience this time rings a bell and helps them see what he is all along, a hypocrite who just loves to write pretending that he is for the people. If he had been, then, he would have fit to your “Rassi Tesema” story. ! But Eritrea is cursed for not having sensible educated bunch!

    but what a commentator “Haile” said is what it can be said over and over:

    …”The Clinton administration did not denounce the 1994 Rwandan genocide as genocide. The BBC journalist asked the spokesman that how many killings were needed to have one genocide. By the same token, what types of crimes do we need in order to list Ali Abdu in the criminals list? ” … EXACTLY !

    • Asgedom Abraham February 12, 2013

      Fitsum in a typically awrajawi fashion is afraid of Ali Abdu.

      Fitsum ab nHamassien mSraf ‘yu zbelH::

  • Zebib February 12, 2013

    Dear demo.archive.assenna.com

    Much as we appreciate (1) your principle to tolerate everyone to express himself/herself freely without any censorship, and (2) much as subjects like Zelku_dea help us to see through the types who bend backwards for DIA and Hgdef (they seem mentally deranged and extremely vulgar from how they write!), I wish you would refuse insulting comments to appear because they are beyond offensive, they are obscene! There should be the minimum acceptable.

    It is educational to see what they are really like when confronted with truth from right and left and to watch them behave like when we used to spray DDT to eliminate flies around October back home, but they communicate such garbage that one cannot even feel pity for them, you just simply despise them. They don’t even seem to love and respect DIA and Hgdef to portray themselves gentlemanly and as ambassadors of the system. Instead, the more they face the truth, the more nutty and vulgar they get. This is one trait that is consistent about them. They are so eager to hurt your feeling for thinking differently than they do, they reveal their real nature, which always comes out awfully repulsive. They are nothing but a bundle of hate!

    When he insults Sarah the way he does, he insults all of us Deleyti Fithi!!

    • Asgedom Abraham February 12, 2013

      If it walks like a duck, acts like a duck then it is a duck. That is the message of Zelku_dea.

      • sarah February 12, 2013

        Zelku and Asgedom,
        The truth hurts, doesn’t it? you both are indeed good representatives of the disgusting system that has zero tolerance to a different opinion! A system that hears only its own sound! What a pity!

        • Asgedom Abraham February 12, 2013

          Sarah,

          Your problem is that you do not choose your words carefully. You can not be with and against Eritrea at the same time.

          • Zelku_dea February 12, 2013

            Asgedom,

            Very true!
            Mind you, this is the woman who calls the Eritrean women as a whole “PROMOSCIOUS BITCHES

  • Fact-is-Fact February 12, 2013

    Zebib,
    You also have to understand the magnitude of work that Assena.com is engaged at. Look how it is all over to get the ongoing coverage out to the wider public inside & outside Eritrea. Assena.com cannot practically, realistically sit and babysit every comment out there. rubbiish, selfish People who care less will do it anyways, as theirs is purely seeking for a daily dose gossip/insult to pimp their foul-mouth-drenched soul. so focus not on them. if they had been outraged for their people and go nuts, it is onething but…not them.

    • Asgedom Abraham February 12, 2013

      Foul-mouth-drenched soul? That describes aptly the anti-Eritrean criminals and Woyane paid agents.

    • Zebib February 12, 2013

      I hear you Fact-is-Fact and thank you for taking the trouble.

    • fetsum abraham February 12, 2013

      Zebib, Sara and Fact is fact;
      As difficult as it may be; please do not personalize the offense of the two redundant minded individuals (Asgedom, Zelku). Their presence here is unavoidable and we should use them as entertainment without response. Their idiocy here is necessary to our struggle for decency, because they represent the regime’s concept of life (abuse, rudeness, anger etc). It shows how shallow all of them are: they do not deserve your emotion at all:they have no mind quality to be taken seriously; use them as toys for a break (like a commercial break in TV).

      tnx

  • Fact-is-Fact February 12, 2013

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide
    Media propaganda – is powerful and Ali Abdu has done more than his fair share! In Rwanda, a visible genocide took place and those who played key roles in the media are paying the price. In Eritrea the invisible unregistered small & big crimes have been committed and the media outlet led by none other than Ali Abdu ensured that nothing is reported to the mass. Now, let alone Eritrea’s media outlet, even Awate.com totally kept it -I see nothing I hear nothing- when the Sinai crimes, the human trafficking on Eritreans has been taking place at the threshold of its Gedab nose. In fact, it needs no digging to do to uncover the visible. Just plain simple to copy and paste and report. Yet, it chose not to. why? many parameters to look at to construct the equation!

    so no sensible, exposed person tell the world that Ali Abdu is “innocent until proven guilty” After all, Ali Abdu as a Minister that led his Ministry to play a key role in the blackmailing of the G15 – by propagating all kinda accusations, that includes treason.

  • Eretrawit February 12, 2013

    Terrorists killed US Ambassador to Libya. In Turkey, a suicide bomber attacked the US embassy in Istanbul. Americans on a daily basis are exposed to news about violence in public institutions. However, regardless of how worthy, legitimate a cause may appear to be, Americans will not condone, tolerate or accept any individual, group or organization when force or, the threat of force is used to impose an agenda or further a cause. Not a single American will tolerate, let alone try to spin it in any way shape, if, for example, a group of Americans storm into the headquarters of the Voice of America with tanks and demand their grievances heard live on the air at gunpoint. Furthermore, if a single individual comes out in support of such an act, try to justify it somehow; it is unacceptable offense.

    For over a decade, Dan Connell has tried to incite chaos in Eritrea unsuccessfully. He has campaigned against the people of Eritrea by working with the enemies of Eritrea hired by the genocidal regime in Ethiopia. These are Ethiopians such as Selam Kidane, according to the BBC, migrated to England from Ethiopia with her sister at the age of 16. Her father and husband served as Ethiopian soldiers during the dictatorial Derg Regime and killed many Eritreans. Connell is working with Meron Estifanos and Elsa Chyrum who publicly admitted to have paid human traffickers in the Sinai. Selam Kidane, Dan Connell et al have made numerous trips to Addis Ababa and met with Ethiopian authorities.

    In the name of democracy, freedom of press, religion and a host of other causes, Dan Connell have set up activities, organized meetings, and campaigned against the people and government of Eritrea as well as companies that are working in Eritrea from Canada, the US and other Western Countries. These are companies working to better the living standards of the people of Eritrea. He has made it a personal mission to see Eritrea destabilized and the government of Eritrea toppled regardless of the distance he traveled and doors he knocked.

    Eritreans are tolerant people that tolerated Dan Connell’s opportunism for a long time when he sold books, received payments for lectures, publications and appearances as expert of Eritrea and related matters, on their name. Over the last 5 years, he has played active role, essentially leading the fight against the people and government of Eritrea by acting more priest than the pope. Lately however, Connell has amped-up his rhetoric and misinformation campaign against Eritrea to the international community about events that took or, did not take place on January 21.

    Dan Connell exaggerates and misleads with the hopes of creating a momentum. To that end, he has been organizing, recruiting and assisting all the anti-Eritrean groups and individuals. Ahead of a rally his group conducted in front of the Eritrean Embassy in DC on 2/08/13, Connell met with Elsa Chyrum in Boston and, in the day of the rally, Connell was a keynote speaker in Seattle to this very group. This is evidence that Dan Connell is not a journalist reporting, or an outside observer; he in effect, has taken a leadership role with a mission to dethrone the government of Eritrea.

    For most Eritreans it is obvious what Dan Connell is trying to achieve. He wants to remain relevant, appear informed about matters pertaining to Eritrea; most importantly however, he wants to give impression that he has connection inside Eritrea. Dan Connell has been very active appearing on TV, talk shows and writing articles. He does all this to make money. However, what caught the attention of this author are the statements below from an article in one of the anti-Eritrean website that he posted; he said,

    “The soldiers who occupied the information ministry were fed up with their dictatorship and wanted everyone to know it. So they marched into the state-run TV studios — there are no private media — and broadcast a call for implementation of a constitution ratified 16 years ago but still gathering dust, and the release of political prisoners, of which there are as many as 10,000. Then they went back to their barracks. Arrests followed, but the message was out.”

    One can raise many questions about the statement above like, what are your sources, what did they occupy, and what does occupy mean? How do you know if they are soldiers? Most importantly however, why is Dan Connell trying to justify a criminal terrorist act by attacking the government of Eritrea? Would Mr. Connell, regardless of how solid a cause, try to justify such an act, say for example, American soldiers storm US government communication center in the US or elsewhere?

    It is unfathomable that Dan Connell will ever consider endorsing such a heinous act committed by American against US interest. When it comes to Eritrea however, he is the expert, a pundit, a Caucasian know it all-humanitarian expert, activist, pro-democracy advocate, intellectual, lecturer and professor that could preach to poor African illiterates, and educate them justice.

    Dan Connell threw every insult, talking point, defamation campaign-rhetoric against the people and government of Eritrea without reservation. On his article, Connell labeled Eritrea as the worst small country on earth. The question is why Dan Connell is so desperate and what is he trying to achieve.

    Is human right a concern for Dan Connell? Why does not he pressure the US and Ethiopian governments to implement the final and binding EEBC decision, why not be judicious in his approach and urge Ethiopia to withdraw from sovereign Eritrean territories? Would that not, help bring some stability, foster growth and economic cooperation between the countries in the region? Peace and cooperation between Eritrea and Ethiopia could help the displaced populations of both nations and stabilize the populations. Should that not be a prerequisite for justice, if that truly is what Connell seeks? Furthermore, why is Connell concerned about, as he called it, a “tiny country,” and tries to exaggerate a nonevent when millions of Muslims are demonstrating regularly in the streets of Addis in Ethiopia?

    The reality, Dan Connell is a greedy Westerner that tries to perpetuate the legacy of slavery in the name of justice. Democracy and human rights have become code names in Western circles pushing for the re-colonization of Africa in a quest to bleed dry the resources of Africa. Dan Connell’s job is to mold the narrative of Africa that is hungry, bloody, corrupt and unstable riddled by coups. In addition, and always, only the West, led by individual-saviors from the west, say Dan Connell can save Africa. What a sham…

    On his article, Dan Connell dared to describe Eritrea as “feisty.” Dan Connell is very disrespectful of the people of Eritrea. The people of Eritrea are astute, clever, brilliant and yes, feisty in need, ferocious in defense of their country. Trying to minimize Eritrea as a tiny sliver of a nation is disingenuous. Since, Eritrea is much larger than many Western countries like England. And yes, Eritreans are far beyond the understanding of the greed-laden imagination of Dan Connell. There is no coup or uprising in Eritrea and there will never be.

    The trajectory of Eritrea is far different from other nations in Africa. Eritreans knew what they want, pursued what they wanted and achieved what they wanted by paying in blood. The political makeup of the people of Eritrea is different from other African countries. Eritreans will never give independence they toiled and died for, to empty street-rhetoric of an old shyster.

    Furthermore, just to appease their overhyped exuberance, Eritrea’s military is a tested organ that withstood decades of internationally conceived warfare and assaults designed to annihilate Eritrea from existence. Eritrea is a nation amongst nations with the most sophisticated armies of the world! Eritrea has the most disciplined and educated army that is part of the society. On February 9, Eritrea celebrated the 23 anniversary of Operation Fenkil. Operation Fenkil is a military miracle that uprooted Ethiopian existence from the Red Sea city of Massawa that paved way for the independence of Eritrea. The victory is evidence of Eritreans wit, bravery, valor and unmatched military fit.

    Clearly, Dan Connell deluded himself into thinking that he is an expert on Eritrea just because Eritrea’s leadership, at one time, gave him access as a journalist to interview them. Sadly, Dan thinks that he can remote-control a rebellion using few confused and disgruntled lost souls.

    In closing, to demonstrate how confused Connell’s approach, attitude and descriptions are; quoting him,

    “But feisty little Eritrea, which got its independence from Ethiopia in 1991 after defeating successive US- and Soviet-backed armies in a 30-year war, has never fit the mold of postcolonial African states, and it was not doing so now.”

    Eritrea is a decent sized nation with decent people that got its independence in 1991 after defeating successive US- and Soviet-backed Ethiopian armies in a 30-year war. The people of Eritrea do not fit the mold of postcolonial African states that fall prey to western trickery easily. Hence, it is delusional for a person such as Dan Connell to dream of such a heist to a nation and people that defy all odds and build a truly independent nation.

    Dan is a bad gambler because he threw away the trust that placed him on a global map for an ill- conceived immoral agenda. No matter how much he tries to spin things, Eritrea will always stand firm, for it is, planted in blood, firmly. Hence, in a greater scheme of things, Dan Connell will not amount to nothing just another noise in the jungle.

    Wetru Awet N-Hafash

    • belay nega February 11, 2013

      well said

    • Senait February 12, 2013

      Eretrawit,
      It was wise of you if you restrict dumping this garbage to Dehai.org

    • Forto 2013 February 12, 2013

      @Eritrawit YOU VERY SICK MAN.Before yor wrote such a garbage thing you should take your medication like brother Zelku Dia said you need help.

      • belay nega February 11, 2013

        it is you who need medicine for sleeping

    • Zebib February 12, 2013

      Eretrawit,

      You should go to Dehai or Meskerem to post your pack of lies. Here, we love Porf. Dan Connell, a Tegadalai and a true friend of the Eritrean oppressed people. You are not welcome here and your propaganda (supplied to you by your masters) stinks to high heaven. Shame on you,who ever you are. You have sold your RUH to the devil!

    • Zelku_dea February 12, 2013

      Eritrawit,

      Thank you.

      But, I don’t think the Anatsu Woyanie have the brains or heart or the will to get it.

      But, you rock sister!

  • Thomas February 12, 2013

    Zelku Dia,

    You are out of control man!! I suggest you to take your medication and comebach with sanity. You are all over it and so out of control. I am really sorry I did not know I was talking with a mentally challenged and a disturbed person. I wish you to get well, MEN!!

    • Asgedom Abraham February 12, 2013

      Thomas,

      That is very arrogant of you.

    • Zelku_dea February 12, 2013

      Thomy Boy,

      You got to remind me when I took the time to talk with an ordinary loser like you? I mean, excuse me, but – you are a simple and ordinary good for nothing anachiwa woyanie – who wastes his life – barking “dictator”, and imagines a lot of crimes by Eri Gov (No clear explanation of what the crimes are, or provide evidence to support them etc.. But regardless). Again excuse me, but you sound like those tiny,(very minute) low life, who shamelessly call themselves “opposition” (HA!) without any clear reason or justification for opposing. Oh, we have a name for you. We call you the “tiny Anatsu Woyanie” (Compare that with the top gun Anatsu Woyanies, you know what I mean?)

      I normally do not pay attention to the likes of you. Like I said, you are an ordinary looser, and you don’t bring any harm, no matter how loud you bark. I normally pounce on those who seem to slip way off, like the author of this article (Funny hat) – or you have to be one with acute hate deep in your heart, or a deep subordination tendencies to Ethiopians, or one with Unionist tendencies. On top of that if you have a faulty mouth like that woman “SARAH” (aka.”PROMOSCIOUS BITCH”,….her words, not mine)

  • Marsa gulbub February 12, 2013

    Brother Fetsum I was listening to a radio station in Halifax to an interview by Naz with Meron and selam about human trafficiking and about the letter that was sent from the president to the U.N concerning human trafficking. After the interview there was a Q and A during which Naz (the host) said he had recieved new information from Eritrea that those being arrested now are relateded to the human trafficking. Here we go again as history has shown us anytime Isaias Afewerki’s power is threatened he continutes to frame his opponents by manipulating the siutuation at the time, it happened for (Menkaa) in 1972-1973 it happened in 1992 then in 2001 the G15, he framed them as collaborators of Wayane the same thing is happening right now, the January 21st revolt by our noble brothers are being set-up as human trafficers please we need to shed a light on what is really going on in our country, in this age of information/technology we must let him know that he cannot continue decieve the people. Do not be surprised if the Hgdf click continue to spread rumours about this. we must all be on alert, we cannot let it happen again.

    • Asgedom Abraham February 12, 2013

      Menka’E? When are you awrajawyan going to stop talking about Menaka’E?

      Let the rule of law do its job.

    • fetsum abraham February 12, 2013

      DEAR MARSA;
      Deception has become the mode of operation in Eritrea. The good think is, however, there are people like u who don’t let any deception slip in undetected. There are sick, what can u do brother. Keep up the fight until..

      Tnx

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