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Fetsum: ZEYTERFELKA GASHAS ATSEBIKA SAAMO EYUTINEGER Question of the moment: Quote of the moment: ‘I have decided never to dominate or be dominated by external mind, only to learn from and coexist with it. My outlook of nature

Fetsum: ZEYTERFELKA GASHAS ATSEBIKA SAAMO EYUTINEGER

Question of the moment:

Quote of the moment: ‘I have decided never to dominate or be dominated by external mind, only to learn from and coexist with it. My outlook of nature is my life that I will never compromise for any personal advantage or imposed philosophy. I have an independent mind: I am a universal human being without ethnic identity and religion that neutrally radiates my subjective views with no intention to convince or dictate‘

Message of the moment: “I don’t think it is right for [anyone] to tell people to stay away from Wedi Vacaro. You do have the right to ask what they have to offer to Wedi Vacaro’s movement. Wedi Vacaro needs every Eritrean with good intentions to help him. Wedi Vacaro is doing no other oppositions ever tried to do. That is speaking directly to Eritrean people. When one speaks to others, that means he/she is open to ideas as well. I don’t believe challenging Wedi Vacaro’s movement on issues is going to hurt this promising movement. I believe only a movement with hidden agenda will be afraid of well intended challenges. More ideas will lead to solve more problems and cover more grounds. It is like doing brainstorming to find good solutions.” Genet
From the Forum:
Genet: “Dear Festum; about the two points you pointed out, I found #1 to be most essential for the survival of Wedi Vacaro’s unity movement. The magic idea is to have “centralized body”. To have participant held accountable via updates and reports of work progress. Some people may say, “centralization” is like doing things like PFDJ’s leaders. I disagree. Because common sense tells us centralization can be used effectively to prevent a movement from braking apart. I believe, all these oppositions and youth movements could use centralized body to prevent from coughing up splinter groups all over the place. The #2 point Fetsum pointed out is very important as well. Accepting the formation of “Transitional Gov” should be a reality for all oppositions. There is no other way to have a hold of this madness of movements, explosions. All political oppositions should be encouraged to participate. “
Response: Yes Genet, a brilliant analysis as usual. Bob Morley said;”emancipate yourself from mental slavery” in favor of INDEPENDENT MIND! I appreciate your independent mind and agree with your “centralization” theory 100%. He needs sub-centralized hubs that work under a high level centralizing body that checks and balances the activities of the committees to make the movement effective. Performance evaluation and progress report, plus future plans and assignment distribution to members of the committees and their respective community elements available to assist: all these need a statistically efficient centralized infrastructure by creative and capable individuals as you pointed out very well. How else do you do this then? A Transitional Government is however the only tested solution to the current Eritrean situation and its zeal for democracy.
Meretse Asmelash: “We understand that no one can change the past. I believe we can face the future by acting what is right today. In this case- based on your experience, knowledge and understanding you have every right to advise anyone, be it a leader of movement(organization), youth, grassroots, ….you name it for only one purpose; WE DO NOT WANT TO MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE AGAIN. No more green light for the rat or rats. By now, we should have learned a good lesson from the wisdom “prevention is better than cure” and I hope the good old doctor (Wedi Vacaro) is listening to your advise as well as to the valuable comments. We are part of his good movement and he needs to pay attention to the outer circle too. At present time could see so many locusts in nature flying here and there with PAINTED BUTTERFLY WINGS? Did hear their whistle as they fly around “WE ARE THE BRIDGE”? Really? Since when? This is why we should all stay vigilant. “
Comment: Cleverly articulated and I agree: our bitter past experience should serve us to do the right thing this time. The brother’s independent mind says that we need to protect ourselves before we get sick again and spend the rest of life searching for medication from outside. The protection time is right now and the type of mind that does the magic is the INDEPENDENT: we will continue the struggle accordingly. The fact remains that any mass based movement must be ready to communicate with the people and answer questions as they come. You cannot sleep on people’s questions and assume representing them because you are required to answer every question and deal with anything that comes at you. You can’t lead a movement and keep quiet on the questions of the people: this is the Shabia way of doing things that we don’t want to experience any more. This was the biggest problem of the opposition forces and you know how badly they lost the people. Vacarro must become transparent because failure has always been the fate of organizations that ignore the concerns of the people.
Zufana: “Brother Fetsum: I would urge you to keep communicating and also to be on good terms with brother/father Vacarro’s movement please.”
Response: Dear Zufana, you have nothing to worry about this and trust me that we will not make a mistake here! I relate to Wedi Vacarro as my role model of love and compassion for me to ever wish him the best in this hard road to unity. That is why I discuss him here with all of you participants. I can never have any reason to be in bad terms with him and whatever I freely discuss here has nothing personal to do with this beautiful and hardworking brother. This does not mean I have to blindly follow him though for there is no relationship between my independent life and the brother’s movement except common interest on the Eritrean dilemma. Ideological coexistence is the issue here as far as I understand and we will certainly peacefully coexist because I support him from the heart.
The best way we can express love and respect for him is making him aware of our honest observation about his movement so that we may use its foundation as a ladder for future democratic Eritrea upon correction: and the best way we can hurt his movement is denying him information on what we see through silence or falsely patronizing him for any personal reason there may be. It hurts to see him fail like many other promising movements in the past: I want to see my brother act immediately to filter out his movement before it blows away with the wind! I believe we are communicating with him together through this forum and I hope he reads us: I am in very good spiritual terms with him but there is no mind for me to stagnate and no time to waste because life must move on! I have been like this for a long time my dear Zufana and you can see this concept of my life from the many articles I have been writing before the brother came across our lives. One of them says: “Experience has thought me never to worship and blindly follow any party that claims representing the Eritrean people. It has taught me to be careful about individuals and movements and to peacefully challenge them using the principles of genuine democracy. I will continue to use my inherent freedom of expression to the fullest of my capacity without any prejudice and fear.”
Kifle Nerayo : “Dear Fitsum; Eritreans’ Unity has been elusive. All [movements] could not succeed because not mainly by disunity, but also by lack of setting the means and end clearly. I mean to assist and encourage you in your responses that setting the objective is of paramount importance to our quest for unity and strength for persistent work on dislodging the dictator and save our people and country. I see the end of the tunnel to our unity through the elements displayed by Vacaro. Please bear with our ignorance and helpless comments and persist tirelessly to your perceived course of actions. Thank you, brother.”
Response: Brother; you said something interesting in the highlighted portion of your wisdom. I and few other activists in the forum believe this assessment is correct: nothing so far is available in writing or clear explanation and the setup as we see it today remains obscure because of this problem. There is light at the end of the tunnel no matter what and everything will be okay but we need to face reality to be in a better position in this struggle for freedom in Eritrea.
Further, there is no ignorant and helpless comment that I can ignore because no such comment comes out of human commonsense unless intentionally processed with a negative mind. Every commonsense has its own unique potential that can uniquely affect society in the long run. I cannot do anything without your ideas and yours was brilliant: It impressed me enough to share it with people here in the forum.
In accordance with our discussion, rationality states that you don’t kill a dying regime before you clearly define your future unless you don’t mind condemning your society to another long follow-up suffering. You repair the problems of the resistance first to guarantee everlasting peace in our society if time allows it to be. Removing the walking dead regime is not the current Eritrean challenge in my opinion because it has already committed suicide; organizing a transitional government before its departure is. Then who? Has a good answer, which is any Eritrean can do better than this parasite as long as elected to serve by the people. Then what? Is the question we must prepare for! We don’t want a fragile unity for another dictator to take advantage of and ride the horse alone like they stole our freedom taking advantage of our conformist unified struggle for independence. In so sharing, every individually organized force in our society is a potential recipe for dictatorship by default probability (I am not affirmatively saying they are) but only if one rejects unity for democracy or left unorganized under a common umbrella for transitional government most preferably before post-Afwerki Eritrea.

Further; none of the existing opposition forces under the leadership of former EPLF fighters can use Vacarro’s past attachment with the regime as excuse to hurt his struggle for unity for they themselves brought us this dictatorship by direct participation in the front and also because most Eritreans including myself rallied behind EPLF before and after independence until our respective points of departure down the road. I have heard this contradictory argument from individuals in the opposition groups and it does not make sense at all. You don’t throw rocks at any one from behind a glass door position!

Some of the opposition forces in my long observation have a problem with unity and therefore our weakly bonded forces in the EDA could not produce all inclusive unity. It is clear that external interference is necessary to temporarily unite them all under a transitional government for democracy: that interference is the INDEPENDENT MIND of the society!
As it stands, the Vacarroian movement appears neutral (independent of the opposition forces), the reason it was expected to be the best place to start for us towards that objective. It will have to be better organized with the best minds of the community, however, in order to succeed and emotional support alone cannot help it without rational input. Our effort should then focus to help Vacarro not though unconditional flirtation but through constructive confrontation.

Tripping out on my brother’s movement my mind contemplates the following idea. According to Physics, it takes lesser energy to have a moving body keeping on moving than moving a body at rest because the first has momentum and the second does not.
Momentum = Mass X Velocity, (Mass being the weight of an object in motion and velocity being the DISTANCE the mass moves per TIME)
I believe everything in nature is mathematically related no matter how abstract it may seem to be: so do the Vacarroian movement and its momentum!
Analogically speaking;
Vacorrian Momentum = The unity Movement X Its Activities, meaning that the momentum of the movement depends on its forward motion through concrete activities.
As you know the effect of the movement was strong in all freedom loving Eritreans and the momentum was promising at the time he was actively touring with his new idea in the US. I hope it is as such in many places. But momentum does not exist without motion or significant follow up activities because it depends on it. I of course can only talk about DC where I live: The movement in DC is now motionless and there is zero activity. Plugging that into the formula,
Vacorrian Momentum = The unity Movement X Activities = The Movement X (0) = 0

Mathematically; the movement’s momentum is zero in DC. I don’t know what is going on elsewhere but there is nothing visible here in DC and the movement only exists in theory. The fact remains that there is immediate homework for his team to fix here in DC before the momentum touches down for good because once he lets it go this way, his movement will naturally die out soon: we humbly remind our brother to understand this consequence because the issue is time sensitive (it has already been close to 4 months since our brother left us with hope and nothing after). Every day passing unanswered takes something away from the momentum and this should be obvious to all of us from experience.

I can only pray for God to help Vacarro expedite the effectiveness of his movement in this direction before TIME neutralizes his movement but we should not wait for repair idly. We just cannot do more than this remotely!! Our independent mind must continue making us more creative without depending on any movement. For us, life moves on and we will continue using our autonomous intelligence and spirituality to serve our people with our limited capacity!
Let us build a close relationship between us: let our number inflate for others in the resistance to feel our presence and give independent minds a chance to involve. The harder we work as a family in this project, the better chance we have to settle on a comprehensive philosophy of unification and the sooner we can present our collective case to our people. Awareness on the concept of genuine democracy is important here: Our success rate depends on how honestly well we do our homework academically because the cleaner in this aspect, the stronger we can unanimously challenge unity-defying forces in the opposition camp behind substantial international support.
At the bottom-line, there is only one concept of DEMOCRACY and no room for any opposition group to misunderstand or change it without intention to dominate power illegally. There is only one road for a society to move from dictatorship to democracy: Transitional government. Sooner or later, Eritrea can only be democratized via this road map because it is the only bridge humankind knows going from dictatorship to democracy. How long it will take us to make it is a good question to ask but ZEYTERFELKA GASHAS ATSEBIKA SAAMO EYUTINEGER. There are different sociopolitical ideas, however, that our opposition forces can freely adopt to help our society but the people must have the ultimate right to choose what they want through democratic election from here on. The unification movement should dispatch from this fundamental understanding of building a peaceful and strong nation ahead, hopefully we will soon better understand Vacarro’s movement if this was the case or not. Yet, we should continue organizing ourselves for whatever academic challenges our struggle may face from the all inclusive resistance in the near future.
You don’t want to enter Asmara without at least starting this preparation because neither Vacarro nor you can stop whatever may take place in the country including civil war in this situation. Eritrea cannot help being a stage of unpredictable confrontation for power between the existing thirty something organized groups with all of us involuntarily recycling our remotely observer status for ages to come if the brother lets this opportunity slip away without concretely reconfiguring his movement! This makes it necessary for the collective independent mind to organize for checking and balancing our political situation ahead but only if we develop our relationship closer.
This unity drive is double sided: it serves the society for ever in our proposal’s condition or terribly jeopardizes it otherwise. Now is the time for us all to leave no void for being taken for a ride again. The lousier and porous we unite without clear objective beyond overthrowing the government the better the ambitious forces in the opposition camp with hidden agendas take advantage of our efforts to dictate political power by force. Remember that mother-nature (death) can resolve the stalemate between the people and the dictator but we are responsible for producing a transitional government to democracy before or after his departure or at least for starting to develop the relationship between free minded Eritreans for democracy in order to impartially influence the future political situation of our motherland. The experimentation period is over for us Eritreans after 22 years of suffering under this dictatorship. Eritrea cannot afford another political mess and we must make sure in unison that nothing but democracy flourishes in our nation after this regime dies out of the society. The prerequisite for success is hard working for it today through close relationship between the independent minded Eritreans.
In conclusion, I willingly and unconditionally united with the Shabias during the struggle because they had a clear objective (ERITREAN INDEPENDENCE). Remember that we are not fighting for independence now but for freedom and democracy, meaning that our question today is democracy.  I want to see the whole objective of the movement before fully accommodating it.
I seriously believe that we Eritreans do not need unity to overthrow the dying regime but we need it to define the future political life of our country. Every Eritrean must ask why we need unity, what type of unity and to what end? We need to ask “where is the unity taking us?”And the movement has the responsibility to answer this clearly. If the answer of the unifiers is just to remove the regime and face whatever we may face after, as it currently seems to be; I am not part of it because this objective does not need unity at all. You can worship if you want but please don’t pressurize me to do the same. Accept my individual democratic right to stick with this school of thought and I will accept yours whichever way it may go. If their answer is to democratize the country, the next question is how? Because we have over thirty organized groups including the government claiming the same thing without telling us how to bring it about. If it has a clear road map to democracy, then it must show it in writing: only on this condition do I want to be counted in. The movement must give us its agenda as to how it plans to go with this rout but there is no democracy without description that I can either trust or believe. This is not about trusting a movement but being careful for the sake of the people based on the consecutive Eritrean experience of betrayal on this subject matter. This is rather checking and balancing it on the merit of its democratic content. I have been an animal for blindly following the Shabias and the regime but I am not one any longer to blindly accept something obscure on how to bring democracy in Eritrea; nor do I feel comfortable on why they shy spelling it out for us in accordance to the universally accepted concept of transforming a society from dictatorship to democracy! My position here is “thank you but no”.
I thank the people contacting me to discuss the current challenges on the ground and want to tell you all that you are helping me tremendously to voice your concerns through my articles. I appreciate all participants ahead for working hard to strengthen the relationship of independent minded Eritreans through discussion in the forum. What I write here comes from many minds in our community and we are keeping brother Vacarro posted on our concern as much as we can through this medium; and we can only hope that he refines his movement with our concerns in mind! Please keep calling me for whatever reason at 202-702-3977.

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  • Zufana February 10, 2014

    Ato Belay Nega (reisi tanika).

    Ato belay well known for his short wit and weird analysis/phrases is definitely going to come back with a “where is the evidence” of all these Maths lies! Ato belay you have got yourself a real awesome match/opponent on your hand and shall we simply say a knockout on first round as we would not want you to go into a second round with a heavyweight Mr Mighty.

    • belay nega February 11, 2014

      Zufana[Ghenet]

      ዎዮ ደአ አደኺ ቀልቀል ክወጻ ክብላ: ካብ መቀመጭኤን ስለ ዝወለዳኺ: እቲ ቀልቀል ዝኾነ ጉዳይ ኤርትራ ተዋሃሂዱኪ’ምበር: አነስ አፍንጫይ ዓጽየ ስል ዝጽሕፍ ነዊሕ ክጸንሕ አይክእልን እየ::

  • Genet-orginal February 12, 2014

    babu
    You sound a bit pessimist. Yes, The PFDJ and Isayas regime is worst than Derg, if you ask many Eritreans. But this is not the time to be pessimist. The PFDJ regime’s argument is also that it could be worst. As far as we, Eritreans concern, we will take our chances. In order to increase our odds of change for the better, we have to work together and work harder. We need to be cautious, but not pessimist. I am not sure what you are getting at, when you said, Free speaking person doesn’t necessarily mean free thinker…” How about we say, free thinker are free from within and they are not afraid to speak freely. Is that possible, you are trying to say that free thinker are not necessarily open minded? or they may not necessarily be inclusive? Please clarify. Thanks.
    Genet-O

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