PFDJ Ambassador to South Africa, Salih Omar embarrassed by Eritreans in a meeting
News from Durban (“hara meriet”) Tesfagabir B. Tesfu The so called Ambassador of Eritrea to South Africa, Salih Omar, was embarrassed by the courageous Eritreans living in Durban/South Africa in a foiled meeting he tried to held
News from Durban (“hara meriet”)
Tesfagabir B. Tesfu
The so called Ambassador of Eritrea to South Africa, Salih Omar, was embarrassed by the courageous Eritreans living in Durban/South Africa in a foiled meeting he tried to held on 17/05/2015 at the beach hotel.
When the ambassador told the participants his meeting is about “The challenges and successes of Eritrea from 1998-2015”, he was forcefully reminded to start the meeting with a one minute silence I commemoration to those who perished in the Mediterranean sea. The ambassador pretended he was planning to do it at the end of the meeting but the participants successfully forced him to start the meeting with a one minute silence.
As he tried to continue with the meeting, the participants demanded to get the full agenda and they told him very powerfully that the new Eritrean identity document is not a priority for Eritreans living in exile.
Since the ambassador did not want to reveal the content of the agenda, one of the participants decided to write the agenda and handed it to him. He wrote the agenda as follows:
- The Libya tragedy
- Xenophobia in South Africa
- The demolition of houses in Adi Keih and other areas
- The new Identity Document
- Sanction
- General
When the participant tried to hand the “agenda” to the ambassador, the ambassador smashed the piece of paper and to the dismay of the participants, he said: “Temasegolu” and that kind of utterance was a shock to every participant.
The ambassador was told very clearly he must come aboard of the “Freedom Boat” because he can not just be a puppet of the dictatorial regime while the Eritrean people are suffering to death.
There was a point when the ambassador said: “ab meadi weyane zterekbe weyane eyu, abana bota yeblun” and one of the participants shouted: “I am woyane but allow me to fight for Eritrea, there is nothing wrong with being woyane, you were working with woyane for years and years before independence”
Most of the participants said they are disappointed to hear that the Eritrean regime considers those who gave their life to the mediteranean sea as “ILLEGAL African Migrants” and to the disappointment of the participants, the ambassador said:
“What proof do you have if those perished are Eritreans in deed … etom aba bahri ztelequ Ertrawyan kemzkonu entay meregagetsi alekum” and when one of them said:
“My brother is one of them” – the ambassador didn’t know how to respond.
“We are Eritreans who have no where to go, during the Xenophobic attack in South Africa, you never came in person to enquire about us while the delegates from the Ethiopian embassy came to console their people lamented another disgruntled participant.
The participants reminded him that this is South Africa and it is a democratic country hence they demanded to have a say in the agenda and this argument continued for two solid hours (from 19h00 – 21h00) and when the ambassador made it clear that he was not going to start with the Libya tragedy, more than 95% of the participants walked out of the venue and the ambassador was left only with three participants.
As the participants were leaving the venue, they chanted:
“Durban Hara Meriet Eya” – you cannot come all the way from Pretoria and dictate us, enough is enough!!!”
VIVA DURBAN VIVA!!!
DOWN DOWN DICTATORSHIP!!!
Harnet May 18, 2015
Proud of you Eritreans in South Africa!!! Yes, enough is enough!!! PFDJ – More of this to come your way!
semere 2 May 18, 2015
Good job guys!
Even though the pathetic regime of Isayas is trying to transform Eritrea into slavery, Eritrea is still “ሓራ መረት”.
ERITRAWIT May 18, 2015
The ambassador told the participant his meeting is the challenges and successes about of Eritrea from 1998-2015 waw what might be?
What was his introduction to start with, they build 300 prison,
how many people been prison and kill?
how many people left the country?
how many job they created?
No water No electricity…
I better stop here Well done my Brother and Sister.
che May 18, 2015
lets all standup and do our share for the memory of our great fathers , mothers , brother, sister,uncles and aunt! who had fallen for our dignity.
“YES, enough is enough!!!
hakee May 18, 2015
More than 5,000 migrants, many from the country and its neighbours, have died in the past 18 months trying to cross into Europe.
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, an outspoken military officer and former wrestler, has ruled the former British colony with an iron fist since seizing power in 1994. (AFP Photo) Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, an outspoken military officer and former wrestler, has ruled the former British colony with an iron fist since seizing power in 1994. (AFP Photo)
GAMBIAN President Yahya Jammeh has berated families sending migrants on perilous journeys across the Mediterranean Sea, suggesting they are not “true Muslims”.
More than 5,000 migrants, many from Muslim-majority Gambia and its neighbours, have died in the past 18 months trying to cross into Europe, and African leaders have been criticised for not speaking out on the issue.
Jammeh broke his public silence late Thursday, acknowledging in an address on state-run television that “there were many funerals in the country a few weeks ago because a lot of people died in the Mediterranean”.
“Those who paid for their sons and daughters to embark on this risky journey claimed their children would have died if they were still around,” he said.
“But if these people are true Muslims and really believe in what they are saying, then they should equally believe that their sons and daughters could have made it at home if they were ready to invest and work.”
For years Libya has been a stepping stone for Africans seeking to get to Europe, fleeing conflict, economic hardship and instability often in rickety, unseaworthy vessels.
But the number of deaths has risen dramatically as boats operated by smugglers have capsized off Libya’s coast, triggering alarm among European leaders seeking to halt the flow.
The UNHCR, the United Nations’ refugee agency, estimates that around 60,000 men, women and children had braved the Mediterranean so far this year, more than 1,800 perishing in the attempt.
“We all saw on television Europeans complaining of economic hardship, yet still people in this country would pay for their sons and daughters to go and die in the Mediterranean Sea,” Jammeh said.
The president did not announce any proposals for solving the crisis but suggested that the kind of work migrants were undertaking in Europe was already available at home.
“Some parents do not mind how their children earn their income in Europe, all they are interested in is the remittance sent to them,” he said.
Jammeh, an outspoken military officer and former wrestler, has ruled the former British colony with an iron fist since seizing power in 1994.
The regime is frequently berated for human rights abuses, extra-judicial killings, torture and the muzzling of journalists.
Sixty percent of the population live in “multi-dimensional poverty”, a third surviving on $1.25 or less a day, according to the UN’s 2013 Human Development Report. (AFP)
Tes May 18, 2015
Hakee?
Hold on hold on!!!what are justifying? Are you telling us it is not only we are exposed to tragedy in sea escaping slavery? What is to do with this topic to rise gambia issue here?
You are disgusting!!!Hakee yehkika!!
Berhane May 18, 2015
So what!!! This has nothing to do with the area. By showing and telling the Sad story Eritrean people are so scared and could not even talk about their country
bravo May 18, 2015
Weldone my combatriots in S.Africa. We should not give a platform to these janda Shaebia to confuse us. Enough is enough! This is the list we can do. I know that Eritreans in Durban are well organised and very resistant to z dictator. Weldone again and keep up your struggle.
bravo May 18, 2015
Weldone my combatriots in S.Africa. We should not give a platform to these janda Shaebia to confuse us. Enough is enough! This is the least we can do. I know that Eritreans in Durban are well organised and very resistant to z dictator. Weldone again and keep up your struggle.
YERHWO May 18, 2015
DR. RUSSUM SUMMED IT UP!
ALEWUNA! ALEWANA!
ALLLEWUNA! ALLLLEWANA!
THANK YOU DURBAN.
Simon G. May 18, 2015
Good job guys!
His priority is how to steal the illegal diamond money from SA. He is as useless as the other so called unqualified Eritrean ambassadors? I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t know what their offices supposed to do, if someone has audited them.
Berhane May 18, 2015
Manner less, sedi, ignorant like his masters Essayas. You can tell he is fed like Hasema his brain is the same he has no way to think any better why would not stand for Essayas and be so rude to his people. Believe me he will be called and will defect like the others. Will live in a hide forever if he is not jailed.. Ere Eritrea entay ze teregmet adi eya bejakatkum neziom tebekul!!!!!!!