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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
  • Saharti February 10, 2013

    Ali Abdu is a criminal, so is Yemane Ghebreab and Ghirma Asmerom and all PFDJ lackeys. PFDJ is a system. A system is composed of many selfish and opportunist individuals, not just the leader. Issayas cannot not do anything with without the thousands of Ali Abdus of Eritrea who are corrupt, ruthless, evil, opportunist, narcissistic and power hungry. Eritrea is not short of such people. If we forgive them all and forget about the destruction they have caused what signal are we sending….you talking about Ras Tesssema and how he allowed his murderer son to be hanged and you praising Ras Tessema for his justice, but then why do you want us to be un-just when it comes to Ali Abdu by forgiving him….it would be injustice to forgive a PFDJ killer like Ali Abdu..so please don’t get carried away and try to be modern or try to be Eritrean Ghandi…nobody is going to agree with you for standing up for Ali Abdu…use your time to write for some better purpose, use your pen to destroy the PFDJ, not to advocate for its forgiveness

    • samuel February 11, 2013

      Selam Seharti
      You said “narcissistic”? Can’t articulate it better.

      Selam

  • Amazed February 10, 2013

    Brother Fitsum .
    I always enjoy your article. Very civilized thoughts and analysis . One thing that I want to say about Ali Abdus silence . As we all know his immediate family members are In jail. They are in jail as collateral to shut him up. If he opens his mouth, exposing where the dictator keeps the skeletons. Ali’s family will be added to the skeleton collection. That is why we are not gonna hear much from ALI .

    • ahmed saleh February 11, 2013

      Amazed
      Ali Abdu as we heard about his character , he is selfish with zero morality . How come he left
      his own loved ones behind to monsters he knows best their capability of intentional harm for revenge .
      Do not forget he was in that circle when they use to arrest parents because their son run away from
      their hand . You never know he might make a deal with ISSAYAS too ; give me my family and I destroy
      the secrets and keep my mouth shut . Who knows ” RESAH ALEM ” .

  • belay nega February 10, 2013

    FETSUM
    THERE ARE GOOD SIMILARITY AMONG RAS TESSEMA AND P.E.A AS HIS KIDS ARE BEING TREATED LIKE ANY ERITREAN
    GHIRMA ASMEROM IS AMBASSADOR IN OAU WHICH UNFORTUNATLY IS LOCATED IN ETHIOPIA THE MAIN FOE OF ERITREA WHO DISGRESFULLY CHASED ERITREANS.
    IN ERITREA IF YOU ARE RESOURCEFUL ENOUGH THERE IS NO RULE WHO FORBIDS YOU TO READ

    ALL THE ABOVE GUYS YOU MENTIONED THEY WERE OLD AND EDUCATED ENOUGH TO PREDICT THE POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCE OF THEIR INTENTION WHEN THEY WERE JOINING THE E.P.L.F
    IN THE CASE OF ALI HE WAS OLD AND EDUCATED ENOUGH TOO TO TELL THE CHARACTER OF THE GOV ESPECIALLY AFTER 2001, INSTEAD HE USED A LOT OF PEOPLE AS A LADDER TO PROVE HIS LOYALITY TO BE THE VOICE OF THE GOV.

    WE ERITREANS WE ARE VERY MUCH USED TO POINTING FINGERS
    -HAILESSELASSIE
    -DERG
    -P.E.A
    – ????
    THIS IS HIGH TIME TO ACCEPT THE REAL PROBLEM WE SUFFERING FROM AND FIND THE SOLUTION.

    WE CANNOT SPEND WHAT WE CANNOT AFFORD TO LOOSE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

    • ahmed saleh February 11, 2013

      Belay
      You mention them all except Weyane , what is up ? Fair is fair .

  • Dawit Meconen February 10, 2013

    Isaias Afewerqi has been an enigma for many Eritreans for many decades. We know he was born in Eritrea from Tgaru parents. Nevertheless, he joined Eritrean Liberation Movement, not however during easy times but difficult, the Qiada Al Ama era, reputed to have massacred many highlanders presumed agents of Ethiopia. However, Isaias Afewerqi not only survived but also was brought to the leadership and ultimately sent to Communist China to undergo military training.

    The question we must ask is: what did he do to be welcomed and to gain their complete trust when many other university students like him were said to have been executed?

    Before we embark answering the question, this guy was executing many University students branding them as enemy agents after he splitered from ELF and built EPLF.

    I think we can now connect the dots as to why Qiada Alma welcomed and trusted him so much and sent him to Communst China to undergo military training. The answer is: that it is possible that he gave them wrong information about his fellow University students with express purpose of putting them to death.

    Soon after he returned from Communist China, Isaias Afewerqi splinters from ELF to from his organization with firm determination to remain authority at all cost and writes N’hnan Elamanan to explain the reason for the split. His reason: Because Qiada Al Ama is reactionary muslim organization that murders Christians, and he targetted it for liquidation.

    Qiada Al Ama did not murder him. As a matter of fact, it elevated him as one of its leaders and sent him abroad to study further for more responsiblity. He was extremely trusted individual. Why then did he turn around and accused Qiada Al Ama, his benefactor, and shedded crocodile tears for the Christians, his victims?

    The cold-blooded unscrupulous nature of Isaias Afewerqi is amply revealed here and this has been the very nature exhibited itself throughout his life. He does not have any qualm or scruple not only to dehumanize his friends but to wipe them out if he thinks they are on his way. He does not have permanent comrades but permanent mission. He defamed Qiada Al Ama, not that they harmed him in any way, but by so doing to gain the trust of the Christians and to use them as cannon fodders in the course of achieving his secret mission.

    But what is his permanent secret mission?

    • belay nega February 10, 2013

      DAWIT
      IF YOU ARE SATISFIED WITH HOLDING ERITREAN IDENTITY YOU OWE P.E.A

      • Zebib February 11, 2013

        belay nega

        First of all, I wish you would use normal small letters and not caps as they appear aggressive and inflated. Write with normal letters, like everybody else, and if you have something substantial to say people will stop and read it. Secondly, people whose identity is Eritrean do not owe it to one single man you call PEA but to the whole nation, to themselves, their sons and daughters, particularly those who sacrificed their prime lives to being about freedom and justice (like that of Raesi Tessema). Your PEA is but one person, who it now turns out has a very dubious legacy on the trail of the struggle. The extremely secretive, Mafia style, organization he so deligently and tirelessly worked for is dripping with water all over the planet. Eritreans at home and aborad (scattered all over the planet) are beginning to get correctly informed that it was the cunning and greed for power of one single man (your PEA)the reason of their predicament. Many who were part of the system are now letting it all hatch and everyday we are getting over informed about the nature of one signle man who would want us to believe that we all owe him our identity but contrarily is responsible for our misery as a people.

        I for now have come to associate your name in the forum as a shallow contributor who is unable to communicate in more than five lines all in caps to reveal his servile nature and gets agitated when he is faced with those who want light, transparency, freedom, equality and justice.

        You truly should be ashamed of yourself if you are an adult person with some education. We do ouselves a lot of physical, emotional, psychological (not to mention the most important which is spiritual) harm when we do not listen to our inner self which does not err.

        You are tsemam Hade derfu. In short, you are a complete bore.

        • belay nega February 11, 2013

          MY OBJECTIVE IS TO STATE THE FACT NOT SHOWOFF

      • Dawit Meconen February 11, 2013

        belay,
        That is what you think, a shallow thought.I was an Eritrean long before Isaias’s grandfather came to Eritrea running from justice for having murdered a person in Tembien, Tigrai, and I will remain Eritrean long after Isaias Afewerqi met his fate in the gallows.

        • belay nega February 11, 2013

          DAWIT
          TO BE FAIR ME AND YOU WE ARE BORN ETHIOPIANS
          DESPITE THE CONSEQUENCE THANKS TO E.P.L.F UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF ESSAYAS AFEWORKI WE TURNED ERITREANS

    • Asgedom Abraham February 11, 2013

      Dawit is brainwashed by Abdallah Idris.

  • uas 17 February 10, 2013

    I had a friend who had a close friend who led him through Barka to Sudan. He defines his friend as cruel and sense less, and he was watching to this cruel man closely observe him. I said why? Because when I see somthing cruel thing happens, I will run, and save my life.
    Brothers, Isn’t that what Ali Abdu did? Due to his closeness to Afewerki, and his readyness to run, managed to fly.

  • ruth February 10, 2013

    Brother Fitsum;as usual very simple and very beautiful article.Concerning brother Ali Abdu you said it best;with the good example of Rasi Tessema the greatest embodiment of our ancestors sense of justice and fairness:which is disappearing from the Eritrean terminology since the culture of Sahal become the norm in our life.Let’s open our heart and our hand to all Eritreans who run away from the gripe of Isaias Afeworki’s open air prison called Eritrea today;including brother Ali Abdu.Remember there are a lot of current Eritrean ministers and Generals waiting for the right time to run as fast as they can away from that evil man DIA.All of us are victims.

  • Kalighe February 10, 2013

    “The question we must ask is: what did he do to be welcomed and to gain their complete trust when many other university students like him were said to have been executed?”

    Dawit Meconen

    Unfortunately, there are no details about the alleged killings of university students. But if one innocent person was killed that is enough for people to ask why it happened and to know the truth.
    Having said that, Iseyas was not the only Highlander to be sent to china, cuba, syria and iraq.
    Besides, there were many Highlanders who joined the ELF from it’s early years and I saw some of them in seventies in different leadership positions. In 1978, I met an old man, probably in his late sixties. If I recall well I think his name was Abraha. I was told he joined the ELF in early sixties, he came from Addis Abeba. He used to teach Morse code. The story circulated by Iseyas that the ELF targeted specifically Christians may not be true. The truth is slightly different. The ELF leadership targeted many dissenting groups such as, elements from Marya tribe, Ubel Movement, who were from Beni Amer tribes or those suspected of being send by Ethiopia to infiltrated it. The ELF leadership of the era had done a lot of severe mistakes the victims of which were sometimes innocent people everywhere in Eritrea who happened to be Afar, Tigrigna, Saho, Kunama etc. but I doubt there was any religious persecution against Christians. Many of those who joined the ELF in sixties were young peasants whose villages were burned or family members killed by Ethiopia and it’s collaborators. It was not easy for such people to have an idealistic view of the world that some of us now think they should have.
    The ELF knew well that siding with Taroa against ZenaDeghle in Akeleguzai would be a grave mistake. It did it’s best to avoid those who joined it’s ranks to be involved.
    The case of Siriat Addis is one of many such cases of alleged crimes committed in sixties and should be investigated as soon as the regime of Iseyas is gone.

    • Asgedom Abraham February 11, 2013

      You are a brainwashed apologist. Racist people use similar tactis to yours.

      • Kalighe February 11, 2013

        “You are a brainwashed apologist. Racist people use similar tactis to yours.”

        Asgedom Abraham

        I am neither brainwashed nor apologist,I want know the truth like every one else. But some people like you want believe what they feel may have happened, the reality may be different. Just to give you I idea how wrong you are with you assumption: when the ELF sent a delegation to meet Iseyas and his group in Alaa, in that delegation alone out of about seven people there was only one Muslim. There rest were all Christians. We are talking about the time when Iseyas was preaching ‘Ama is killing Christian intellectuals’ story. I am not saying ELF did not kill Christians but they are not the only ones the ELF has killed nor was the motive was because they were Christians. It was not about Muslims killing Christians. Muslims killed by ELF are hundred times more that Christians. In the same way, Christians killed by EPLF are more than Muslims killed in the same organization. The killings were mostly politically motivated. As far as I know there were no sectarian killings so to speak of. We will know all about these when hopefully when the mad man is gone and truth and reconciliation committee is established, so stop insulting and try to understand what went wrong without resorting to insults.

        • Asgedom Abraham February 12, 2013

          ” Muslims killed by ELF are hundred times more that Christians. ”

          That doesn’t say anything. The fact remains that Jebha killed christians for sectarian reasons.

  • GULLIBLE PEOPLE February 10, 2013

    Brother Fitsum, Part 1
    (I am green when it comes to retrieving e-mail adresses, I wanted to send you mail,but I could n´t ,please help ,because most writers put it at the end of the article,how do I retrieve your email adress?)

    Now,back to the issue at hand , in my humble opinion when you put,the phrase “Repentance for Forgiveness”, you summed it up.To practice that, we need to be sure of our objectives & principles..our identity & if we love the people or just the geographical integrity of the country ,our actions speak volumes !!!, when people raised half a billion for a “border” war that not a single person from diaspora that I know have gone to participate,Yet when it comes to help peoples suffering our silence is deafening.There is no one to blackmail us, saying ,”if you do not help the victims of Sinai ,you are not Eritrean”.Actually to the contrary ,my heroiness like ,Dr. Alganesh ,Chyrum & M. Stifanos are painted with a negative brush.
    The Gedlis that pride themselves on self sufficiency “struggled/bandited)” robbing food of the mouth of the children of peasants ,where the peasants can barely feed their family.They were indirectly blackmailed to stand on the side of banditry ,sugarcoated as gedli.they force the kids of the peasants in to banditry,…then the peasants have to be on their kids side.My father is from Dimbezan ,Hamasien :the land is not fertile .the Peasant father has to leave his family to plough another land hundreds of Kilometres away ,close to the sea,called “Bahri weridu”.AN ERITREAN DOES NOT DIE STANDING, until now. The peasant parent does this to barely feed his family,and this uncles of mine have high serotonin level ,that they were super happy ,that they were teased as hillbillies,which is not taken offensively.Until the liberators came to relieve them from their happiness.They never requested to be saved, the semi intellectuals had to tell them that they were opressed .throwing their children in literal fire for c**p.The rest is history still happenning…continues..

    • fetsum abraham February 11, 2013

      brother, here it is
      fetsum.abraham@hotmail.com

      • GULLIBLE PEOPLE February 11, 2013

        Thank you

        • ahmed saleh February 11, 2013

          Fetsum
          I will contact you too soon to surprise you , for good though .

          • belay nega February 11, 2013

            WHAT A CRASH SEE YOU IN MECCA

    • belay nega February 11, 2013

      GULLIBLE PEOPLE
      IF YOU ARE AUTHENTIC ETHIOPIAN YOU ARE DOING GOOD JOB
      IF YOU ARE TRYING TO BE ETHIOPIAN BY APPLICATION I GRANT YOU IN THE EYES OF ETHIOPIANS EACH AND EVERY ERITREAN IS CONSIDERED A TISSUE INFECTED BY CANCER TO GET RID OFF ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS.

  • GULLIBLE PEOPLE February 11, 2013

    part 2…I know the emotion aided by bi-polarism takes me side ways.I was trying to explain the recipe for forgiveness & reconcilation.If I were Ali Abdu why would I come infront to be welcomed by an axe ,by people in the diaspora who were willingly strengthenning Isaiasism until few years ago ? I BELIEVE YOUR(FITSUM) APPROACH WOULD ENCOURAGE RECONCILATION,and encourage brother Ali Abdu to come forward.more than the fake nationalists who want to lynch him like a 1900s african American brother.
    Brother Fitsum ,even our hatred & resentment is fake..those who bad mouth Tigrawot of Tigray & Amhara are the ones to attend their (Ethiopians) church on Fasika..etc.. I am not against it .I love my Ethiopian brethren…
    Thev problem is ,I did not experience it in my family ,but we the Tigrinya speakers have real opinion that we reserve for home & another one for public (“herd mentality consumption).HOW CAN WE JUDGE BROTHER ABDU “FAIRLY” WHEN WHAT WE CLAIM TO BELIEVE IS NOT BASED ON “FAIRNESS” . ERITREANISM IS FORK-FED TO US.
    Now ,in the eyes of many ,you ,Bro. Fitsum have lost 55.6 of your Eritreaness by being fair on Abdu,which is equivalent to be fair to all peoples of Eritrea.We Eritreans are not stupid or unintelligent,but ,we are judged by our weakness than our strength. cont…

  • Eritrean February 11, 2013

    Who is nationalist? The people who support a dictator or those who stand against wrong and fight for justice?

    • belay nega February 11, 2013

      EVERY BODY WHO DOES NOT KNOW THE CONSEQUENCE OF HIS INTENTION IS NATIONALIST

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