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Eritrea rebels say they killed 12 government troops

By Aaron Maasho NAIROBI (Reuters) - Two little known Eritrean rebel groups said on Friday they had killed 12 government soldiers in an early morning attack. The Red Sea Afar Democratic Organisation (RSADO) and the Eritrean National

By Aaron Maasho

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Two little known Eritrean rebel groups said on Friday they had killed 12 government soldiers in an early morning attack.

The Red Sea Afar Democratic Organisation (RSADO) and the Eritrean National Salvation Front said they carried out the raid on Thursday in Kermed, Adi Metras, Ingra Abo, Adi Tela’a and Meshal Akran, all in southern Eritrea.

“The enemy units were engaged for nearly two hours,” the groups claimed in a statement.

“They suffered both human casualties and material losses that included 12 dead and more than 15 wounded, in addition to various types of military hardware.”

The claims were the first since last year when RSADO said it killed 17 intelligence agents and wounded another 37 in an attack on army barracks.

There was no immediate comment from the Eritrean government but authorities in Asmara often dismiss foreign-based opponents as “puppets” acting under the orders of foreign governments.

Eritrea accuses arch-foe Ethiopia of working to destabilise the Red Sea state, while Addis Ababa declared openly in April that it would support Eritrean rebels in a bid to oust President Isaias Afewerki’s administration.

RSADO says its operations are in response to Asmara’s refusal to grant autonomy to the Afar, whose homeland straddles Eritrea, Ethiopia and Djibouti.

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  • Tess October 22, 2011

    Amanuel Eyasu is the most cursed humanbeing ever seen he do not like good thing to hapen to Eritrea i like to know his mental states and his back grawnd.I could not understand little money can change a man to evil.I read all eritrean web but his is different full of lie bad wish to Eritrea and Eritrean people.Wishing war and distraction.You call the Lovely Eritrans MELISHA and COMRO I hope you pay back

  • gasha October 22, 2011

    First of all the picture is not for the rebels the picture is for warsay yikalo put your cruser on the pic and wait for a second.

    • sol October 22, 2011

      Does it matter, they are also Eritreans

  • Barentu October 22, 2011

    Short of full invasion by Ethiopia, this type of news will not solve any except making it worse.
    Gadafi has been deposed and made history mainly because of NATO forces.
    The only “NATO” forces in the region are the Ethiopians. Do not count on the coward Arabs to help in this case.

  • Barentu October 22, 2011

    ሰይቲ ጋዜጠኛ ዳዊት ኢሳቅን ደቃን ኣብ ዝሓለፈ ሰሙን ዝሃብዎ ጋዜጣዊ መግለጺ ሰሚዔ ግርም ኢሉኒ። ኣብ ሽወደን እንዳነበርካን ብገንዘብ፤ ደሞክራስን ትኳቦን ሽወደን እንዳተናበርካንሲ ጸርፊ ንመንግስትን ፕረስን ሽወደን አንታይ ኣምጸኦ፤
    ብተወሳኺ ብናይ ኩሎም ቤተሰብ ዳዊት፥ ኤርትራውያን ጥራይ ዘይኮኑስ ዳርጋ ኩሉ ፍጡር ሰብ፤ ብፍላይ ድማ ኣፍሪቃውያን ሕፍር ኢና ኢልና።
    ንዳዊት ንዓሰርተ ዓመት ኣሲሩ ዘሳቅዮ ዘሎ መንግስቲ ኤርትራ ንስኹም ትኸስዎ ንመንግስቲ ሽወደን፥ እዝስ አንታይ ዓይነት ስጊንጢር እዩ።
    ደምበር እቲ ርእስኹም ንምሕሳብ ትጥቀምሉ ኢኹም፥
    ዝኾነ ኮይኑ፤ ማእሰርቲ ናይ ዳዊት ሕቶ ነጻ ፕረስ መሰልን ፍትሕን እዩ። ነዚ ሕማቅ ኣጋጣሚ፤ ንናይ ወዲሰብ መሰል፤ ናጽነት ፕረስን ፍትሕን ክትቃለሱ ዘይምምራጽኩም ብዙሕ ከጣዕሰኩም እዩ እሞ፥ ልቢ ግበሩ።

  • haben October 22, 2011

    barentu you no body do not talk about wife and dawiet family . first of alll dawit he was not fighting as you discribed. second were ever you w right dawite he do not have idea. so he is in the preson. go instead of him to prision and let your family fight for democracy. and sweden they never feed the family as you said they it worse dawits case so shout your mouth you stone head,

  • Barentu October 22, 2011

    Haben,
    If Eritrea is a worthy place, what the hell are doing in Sweden or United States? Awra Ermias Debesay, whose father is in jail in prison, said “If you think Eritrea is a good place, you go to Sawa and let the Eritreans in Sawa come to Sweden”.
    Stand up for what is right and just, stop lies. Gaddafi was lying and killing people, see he was killed like a dog.
    Every dog has his days.

  • freedom October 22, 2011

    the gurrilas are harvesting what they sow ,expecting the same around the red sea !!!!

  • Haqi tezareb October 22, 2011

    Why is the website – Awate.com that is cheering about the so called old Jebha’s Addis conference for November very quite on the capture and death of the Arab dog Gaddafi?
    They were happy to show about other Arabs being deposed such as Mubarek or Tunisia but they are silent as a rat in water on Gaddafi, the way Ali Abdu’s TV Ere is?
    There is no single Arab leader to cheer they(Assad, Salah, Sadam, Saudi, Bahrain, Kuwait) are all a bunch of servants, crooks and evil starting from the bafoon Gamal Abdel Naser who was Gaddafi’s mentor. Funny, all Arab leaders died as dogs. What is shameful when the old ELFs were trying to copy every Arab tyrant to get some kedami’s left over crumbs.
    It was their slaves and informers making life and death decisions in Eritrea.

    Dogs only give birth to little dogs called pupies.

  • CRY FREEDOM October 22, 2011

    YES HABEN I AGREE WITH YOU. EVERY MAD DOG HAS A DAY. TIME FOR OUR MAD DOG ISAYAS IS COMING VERY SOON, THERE IS NO QUOTATION .FOR HOW LONG ARE WE GOING TO SUFFER? WE ARE HUMAN BEING LIKE OTHERS, I THINK 20 YEARS IS MORE THAN ENOUGH.

  • haben October 22, 2011

    you guys all in assenna writers kedami of meles and his flowers. if you are a men instead talking about issayas and ali abdu they are lions. not like guys ask assalem and writing like hidden rat be a men. you do not know poletices just bla bla. eritrea got our freedoom weather like it or not. the current goverment and our SWAT tigadelte. but you guys i call rat hidden.

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