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President Afwerki AND Fear II Dedicated to our fearless hero Brigadier Colonel Sied Ali Hjay (Wedi Ali)

President Afwerki AND Fear II Dedicated to our fearless hero Brigadier Colonel Sied Ali Hjay (Wedi Ali) by Fetsum Abraham   What does a young refugee do after leaving home and reaching the lands of opportunities elsewhere passing through many

President Afwerki AND Fear II

Dedicated to our fearless hero Brigadier Colonel Sied Ali Hjay (Wedi Ali)

by Fetsum Abraham

 

What does a young refugee do after leaving home and reaching the lands of opportunities elsewhere passing through many obstacles in the way? What does a young Eritrean blessed to grow up in the west with the opportunity to be any thing do with his/her time? I do not think “working for a minimum wage” as ultimate goal of life is the right answer for this is becoming a voluntary victim of AFWERKISM. Neither is there an acceptable excuse for a young Eritrean immigrant to miss the opportunity of education in the west; nor can one be rationally justified to criticize the Eritrean regime for failing to educate the people without being a hypocrite. 

Attention: This is my last article on Afwerki and fear. The reason I have been dwelling on his opinion on FORTO is because I want to disclose something important about the president’s psychological makeup that could have been missed in between the lines by the ordinary thinker; though I believe most people get the catch.

Quote of the moment: Spirituality generates selflessness that manifests itself by fearlessness but egoism generates selfishness that only does it by fear.

HISTORY

Ethiopia’s distortion of this brother’s historical account immaterial, our Folk Hero Zerai Deres represented his people’s resistance against European colonialism in the face of Hitler and Mussolini in historically unprecedented heroic style.

Tegadalai Embaye: Mebrahtu G/hiwot sacrificed his life in the commando raid at Asmara Airport in 1984 that decimated the Ethiopian Air force in defense of his people from Ethiopian colonialism; in a surprising fashion to Mengistu, who gave him a decent burial in respect to his heroism.

And destiny assigned brother Wedi Ali to become the symbol of our society’s consistency on the concept of freedom by breaking the silence of his voiceless people through a highly dignified sacrifice. This true Tegadalai has become the icon of Eritrean resistance that cracked the foundation of Afwerkism through selflessness; our symbol of unity against external and internal oppressors, domestic parasites and opportunists, to remain remembered by our people forever.

May ALLAH bless his soul in heaven!

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The president; “Entertain no worry at all, as there was – and does not exist – any reason for being apprehensive…[and] that the government of Eritrea deemed it appropriate to refrain from issuing statements on the matter in haste, as doing so was not only outside of its political culture but also would also mean “serving the ploys of [a] bankrupt enemy quarters”

AFFIRMATION THROUGH NEGATION

The president affirms his fear or apprehension by means of negating the narrative, ladies and gentlemen! Human nature affirms that a target as such cannot help being a little worried or scared because it is a dangerous situation that threatens his/her life. The impulse is an unavoidable instinctual fate of our nature that only a clinically insane person would fail to understand, a dead person cannot feel and an idealist can deny. I do not think any human being including the most enlightened ZEN Master confronts mortality without any emotion, let alone the malignantly individualist product of EGO-CENTRISM, Mr. Afwerki.

Apparently, the mouth can say anything but a person’s practical life tells the real story and psychology attaches it to objective reality. I can try to convince people that I was a teenager but my gray hairs and facial wrinkles will tell them the opposite. The rest will be psychology’s business to categorize me with people who suffer inferiority complex for aging.

Afwerki did not become himself by accident but by extreme fear of death, for heavens sake! Psychology defines selfishness as a cause of fear except he denies it because he considers it a weakness in the face of clear-cut evidence; his extremely tight security and extraordinarily suspicious mentality. 

Apparently, a dictator’s image and reality in this regard do not walk side by side. See how the ‘fearless’ role models of the president ended up and that will tell you how Afwerki will face the dead end by natural and circumstantial factors beyond this articulation; should he refuse to resign soon.

Gadaffi once said “I’m not afraid of Death” in televised interview in 1981 and so did Saddam Hussein many times, but the world witnessed how they ill-substantiated the narrative: each found loaded with a gun respectively in a RAT hole and the Grave Yard. Did not their negation end up affirming the opposing character?

The president’s absolute dictatorship aside, his unprovoked revelation that he was not afraid is itself the evidence that he knows he is doing something wrong and that he was afraid of the FORTO uprising, in my commonsense: why talk about fear then if it was immaterial to his state of mind? He certainly affirmed his fear through negation and this happens to be the catch in the president’s psychological makeup that could have been missed in between the lines by the ordinary thinker.

Afwerki finally said “the government would release further necessary information when the appropriate time arrives“, and stopped. But everybody knows that procrastinating issues without time limit has been the norm of his administration to permanently kill the truth without explanation; said appropriate time will never arrive like, for instance, in the case of the EVIDENCE on political prisoners that disappeared without trace 12 years after the promise was given because the “appropriate time has not arrived yet”.

Conclusion

To rap it up; the president’s reaction on FORTO uprising may not directly represent the terrified mind that he could not humanly avoid but it does, indirectly by means of confirming through negation. Fear is the cost of dictatorship like death is the destination of life. Afwerki cannot be a fearless dictator for the first time in history. The more you dictate, the more your fear intensifies. In this case, the president has been ranked in the top of the list on dictatorship for some time. Eritrea has consistently been the most oppressed nation at least 5 times in a row including in 2012, yet heading on to keep the record straight this year. How can this president be in this situation without fear?  Would not his ranking as the worst dictator in fact make him the most fearful of them all, at least theoretically?

Afwerki made a mistake bragging about his absolute fearlessness. This was what his intelligence could produce at its best in so much time for the homework. We did not invite this situation as people: It happened to us as a matter of destiny. All the unconditional support we gave him was not for him to brag on his unprovoked confrontation with the society, immaterial that Eritrea is a nation infested with selfless folk heroes and martyrs. I do not think the president can boast of his fearlessness to the likes of brother General WUCH, a real soldier that managed a lot of battles in our struggle for independence with selfless determination (excuse this hero’s eventual reduction to unconditional servitude of the dictator); let alone to the legendary brother Wedi Ali who opened the door to freedom at the cost of his life?

 

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10 COMMENTS
  • Amanuel February 25, 2013

    Hi Futsum
    There is no rank called Brigadier Colonel as far as the Eritrean Army is concerned. Please review it. It does affect the credibility of your article.

  • pls check brother February 25, 2013

    Correct the birgeder colonel. It is either colonel or birgeder general. Or letenal colonel. There is no birgader colonel in eritre.

  • haile February 25, 2013

    Dear sir
    I do appriciate ur article but some of the information i don’t think is right
    1, how do u know that what mebgstu says to the swut tegadalay he deserves proper burial?
    2, Eplf, did they attack asmara airport and did they manage to burn 31 planes? i think is was fake story most of it
    3, how do u know that wuchu was a hero.? If he was a hero then issayas was a hero then but i believe both both them they were killers
    I think this three points was just make up by pfdj or by eplf or 03 story
    Do u still believe that eplf burned in asmara airport 31 planes? i don’t believe it at all,
    But generally i like the topic.
    Have a nice evening

    • Haile London February 26, 2013

      I think Fitsum’s thought is different. He knows wedi Ali was a colonel before he died and he is giving him a rank of general after he made history. Thus he called him “General Colonel”. As with the operation of Commando at Asmara airport, you are right, all the story is made up at Amberbeb and Hager (ministry Zena). it is not real. But let’s leave it for the time being as real as we can amend all our history in the future.

  • ezana sehay February 25, 2013

    Greetings Futsum!

    I am an avid reader of your work and i might say i find them to be cerebrally informative and enlivening.It is not only your prolific writing but also your intellect and relevance that is admirable.Your devotion to the quest of justice and political freedom on behalf of the Eritrean people is unparalleled.

    Your fight for the democratic right of the people and national integrity is unwavering. However,your prescriptions on haw to achieve them are far from dogmatic, rather pragmatic and rationally balanced. As far as the solution is concerned, You do not dwell on false dichotomy, rather recognize very well, alternate options are a possibility, and so we shouldn’t be exclusive.

    Scholars like yourself are those who have helped Eritreans rediscover their mojo that was missing since independence.

    Awet nhafash!

  • Aman February 25, 2013

    Tegadelti of all levels who staged a protest in the earlier 90s, disabled Tegadelti who demanded a better treatment, the 15 seb-sltan who questioned the master’s leadership, University union leaders who dared to raise their voices, journalists who tried to practice democracy – these all were whistle blowers for change. For. Someone who have known the devil long enough – it all was like chasing the wild goose.
    A dictator is born not made. A devil is a devil you can’t make an angel out of one. It is just fool’s errand. Can’t anyone see that he,the dictator,the self-appointed president,the killer,the monster is unable to function in democracy – he was made that way. No need telling that the Eritrean struggle for independence was full of heros who devoted their precious livestock the fathe land and the cause. Tesfay Temnewo,gedim tegadalay with a brain, described him (the dictator)as a capable political and military leader and a better choice among the others to head the movement. Well, he,the dictator proved to be a good leader of the movement to the very end of the struggle. What he did behind the curtain and his true nature were tribal or none existence to 99.98% of the Eritrean. 21 years after that same monster is still a monster as he was 40 years ago.
    Having said that, whoever is seeking democracy from The self appointed butcher president is nothing but naive and shall die in vain.
    The dictator has cloned and placed smaller replicates (dictators)in every corners of the country who are more hungrily ducking the people blood everyday and for many years to come if something is not done to stop them – but refrain from making the same mistakes for a million times. You got to SILENCE and GET RID of the small dictators

  • Aman February 25, 2013

    Tegadelti of all levels who staged a protest in the earlier 90s, disabled Tegadelti who demanded a better treatment, the 15 seb-sltan who questioned the master’s leadership, University union leaders who dared to raise their voices, journalists who tried to practice democracy – these all were whistle blowers for change. For. Someone who have known the devil long enough – it all was like chasing the wild goose.
    A dictator is born not made. A devil is a devil you can’t make an angel out of one. It is just fool’s errand. Can’t anyone see that he,the dictator,the self-appointed president,the killer,the monster is unable to function in democracy – he was made that way. No need telling that the Eritrean struggle for independence was full of heros who devoted their precious lives to the father land and the cause. Tesfay Temnewo,gedim tegadalay with a brain, described him (the dictator)as a capable political and military leader and a better choice among the others to head the movement. Well, he,the dictator proved to be a good leader of the movement to the very end of the struggle. What he did behind the curtain and his true nature were tribal or none existence to 99.98% of the Eritrean. 21 years after that same monster is still a monster as he was 40 years ago.
    Having said that, whoever is seeking democracy from The self appointed butcher president is nothing but naive and shall die in vain.
    The dictator has cloned and placed smaller replicates (dictators)in every corners of the country who are more hungrily ducking the people blood everyday and for many years to come if something is not done to stop them – but refrain from making the same mistakes for a million times. You got to SILENCE and GET RID of the small dictators and then ask not for it but get the power from the hands of the dictator back to where it belongs – THE PEOPLE OF ERITREA.

  • samson February 26, 2013

    YOUR ARTICLES ARE A WAKE UP CALL TO THE INTELLECTUALS IN ERITREA….HOW CAN THEY FORSAKE THIS UNIQUE COUNTRY OF HEROES. WE HAVE PAID DEARLY TO LEAVE IT TO THIS INSANE LEADER.

  • 2013Forto2013 February 26, 2013

    Aman, I agree 99% !! 🙂 🙂

  • Yousuf February 26, 2013

    The attempted but unsuccessful coup” in Asmara just recently clearly exhibits the one-time dormant sorrow and anger of the people. The world is now noticing that the chair of Isaias is shaking. Some of his close allies in the regime are now starting to defect from the leadership. His interview in 2010 with Reuters East Africa Bureau Chief, Andrew Cawthorne, closely showcased his very dictatorial behaviour regarding democracy, development, election and diplomacy. He said, “I will not do a job that I believe is not desirable”, which in the other way means, whatever he feels is a job to be done, even what he thinks in his dreams, has to be done.

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