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Voices of Victims from New York

Yonas Jermano Natti and Maaza Petros Solomon, the son of the soft spoken community leader and daughter of the would be head of state have been to New York to add their voices on behalf

Yonas Jermano Natti and Maaza Petros Solomon, the son of the soft spoken community leader and daughter of the would be head of state have been to New York to add their voices on behalf of their fathers, who are languishing in the underground death camps of the dictatorial PFDJ regime for more than 10 years. Maaza, whose mother, Aster, has also been snatched from her by the PFDJ, is just 14 and says she barely remembers her dad; while Yonas insists that he believes strongly in the rule of law. When you listen to their calm voices, you feel reassured that you were right to have thought Isaias Afewerki was talking to numbers not human-beings, on Sunday 25th September, in Manhattan, New York. Listen to this Voice of Asena ClipAseyeasena-VoiceOfAsena20110927VoicesOfVictimsFromNewYork344.mp3

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  • Temesgen Medhanie September 28, 2011

    Emma,

    The audio clip is not working. It says, “The page you’re looking for could not be found.” Hope you would rectify it. Thanks much.

  • Temesgen Medhanie September 28, 2011

    A generation is coming of age as Eritrea just marked her two decades old milestone. When Aster and Petros tied the knot, their hearts were filled with a shining hope not only to live in an independent, free and democratic Eritrea but to see their children grew up to be productive citizens where they built a nation where their parents left off. As much as the parents were iconic figures in their own right, one would expect their children to live up to a higher expectation as their contribution would be to extend the legacies of the pervious generation in general and their parents’ in particular.

    In an incredible twist of fate however, that doesn’t seem to come to pass. As the fourteen years old Maaza gives us a rare glimpse of her tortured soul in a nostalgic tone, one can not help it but to listen to her otherwise sad but robust spirit with a resigned self. Isaias the sadist; Isaias the vulture; Isaias the killer has cut her off from her parents till the warm touch of her father; till the warm cuddle of her mother recedes into a fading memory. Yonas and Maazza however are not losing hope. They have the elements of justice in history on their side. As much as their respective parents came of age in a troubled and politically turmoiled Eritrea, Yonas and Maaza as well are coming of age as Eritrea is morphing into a just, free and democratic Eritrea. The striking contrast of the two generations is glared as the former fought and bled against a colonial ‘power’, the latter is fighting against a home grown dictatorship with apathetic followers who keep a blind eye as a fourteen years old girl laments and supplicates the heavens to hear a fainting voice of her beloved parents.

    • kozami September 28, 2011

      To Temesgen,

      Above and over your poison laced manipulative sympathy, Eritrean leaders had known them for a life time, ate with them, slept with them, worked and toiled with them and above all, bled with them. For what? For self? not at all. For people and country. For people whose villages were razed to the ground, farmers brutalized, citizens terrorized and a country declared useful for its land but not its inhabitants. They fought and died in bravery, ruthlessly resisted with tenacity that bedeviled their arrogant and ‘armed to the teeth’ adversaries. Yes, for people and country. The bloody and gruesome road from the mount Adal to Asmara hadn’t been a cake walk either. Shadushay worar, Nadow, Fenkil are but few of the finest moments of the unyielding zealousness to put people and country above self and individuals. The road had seen, just like today, many internal enemy collaborators, sell outs, fifth columnists, religious extremists and regionalism and sub-regionalism, democracy and human rights marketeers and constitution fanatics (as if it is the magic wand of mana from the sky). To these reactionaries, everyone was some how blind, ignorant, stupid, non-human… but where did it got them. No one shall wish evil unto others but you shall reap what you have sown too. The so called G-15 and wanna be journalists acted in a foolhardy manner at a time the nation was fighting for survival. The issues pertaining their detention is still part and parcel of what your uncle woyane (if you don’t mis-interpret “agame” yes the “otherwise hounorable people of Tigray”) is sitting on. Your dead on arrival crocodile tears will fool no one. Thousands upon thousands of Eritreans are telling you in no uncertain terms to get lost with this non sense. The writing is on the wall for you to see loud and clear “Eritrea is not for Sale”

      • Maazza September 28, 2011

        Kozami,

        I would, so to speak, give my eye to know what really makes you tick the way you do in favour of an oppressive, killer system! It most certainly cannot be the love of freedom and truth and justice. You have, I imagine, a very strong motivation that blinds you and portrays you as a potential killer yourself. Those who twist and distort real facts to suit their blind greed for either power or money do it over, so to speak, the cadavers of others (the innocent ones). You seem to write well so you must be of the calibre of Ghideon and Sophia T. who are a shame to themselves, their families and off-springs, their country and the whole of humanity at large. Greed, greed and greed, is the stufff you guys are made from. You dare to insult Temesgen as manupulative but what are you? I cringe with shame because you exist, because you support a system that detest education and development, who believe in equality by subtraction, i.e. killing all individual initiatives, be it educational excellence and business enterprises. HIGDEF’s obsession with collectivizing everything like sheep and controlling everybody’s life like a sycopath does with his vicitim, this is not only acceptable to you, you glorify in it. You seem to be educated but you are a curse to humanity since you are unable to use your god-given natural endowment of love for freedom and justice. You, like Yemane Monkey, are a lier and a traitor and a killer of the historical legacy left by our martyrs.

        I could go on and on but I will stop since you are an ‘awKo abed’. You are bent to play a negative and destructive role. You have made your choice but if you can try to redeem yourself. You are a shame. Myselot Tehaseb!

        Those seemingly educated people like ‘Kozami’ (zeKozem yifterelka!!) are those that I vehemently detest in Eritrea of our times. They do stinck to high heaven. They are the system itself no matter where they are. They endorse a government that employs slavery and pays a monthly salary of Nacfa 400 ($10 in real value) for a months toil, come rain or come shine, under the guise of national service. Need I say more to this Kozami guy who unashamedly wants to lecture to us about what is wrong or right?

        Before closing I would like to quote Dr. Martin Luther King: ‘There is something in the soul of mankind that CRAVES for freedom’. This craving for truth and freedom is very accelerated now due to the advance in comminications technology which can reach the globe in minutes. The indicator is up for voices to be heard and tyranies to be trodden. It is a cosmic law!! With even the education you seem to have had, if you choose to serve killer systems, you will be bashed and smashed. It is inevitable.

        Assena: thank you very much for giving me a forum to say the above and breath a little. Thank you.
        Maazza

        • Temesgen Medhanie September 28, 2011

          Maazaa haftey,

          What can I say, you’re one of a kind. No doubt. Your flawless and incredible command of the English language is an envy to an on-looker. The forum is proud of you. As for the Qozami dude, he ain’t in your league. He should be put back on a leash. I actually read a note that says, “Please call this number if you find a wandering dog”. For real.

      • belezet September 28, 2011

        Kozami,

        There is a reason why laws and separation of power exist, to keep humans (e.g., those with totalitarian tendency) honest. We have two sets of claims surrounding the G11, journalists and all the prisoners of conscience case. On the one side, PFDJ government claims that war heroes (G11) who have given 30 years of their lives to bring about Eritrean independence, have colluded with weyane (which by the way are EPLF project gone awry) and CIA to throw all their hard work away for reasons that PFDJ has yet to explain. On the other side, the accused have not been given the chance to defend themselves in an independent court. What little we know if through their open letter and interviews they gave to independent media prior to their detention. Nothing they said in their letter or the interviews points to treason or capitulation. All they asked for was for a meeting and dialogue to discussed urgent issues concerning the senseless war that claimed 20,000 young lives and untold material loss for the nascent nation, implementation of the ratified constitution and election. All their demands were not only reasonable and timely, but it is what we fought 30 years of war and sacrificed 65,000 plus young men and women for. Importantly, we the citizens, at least those of us that believe in the rule of law and are aware of human fallibility, cannot just take the word of the PFDJ and accept its accusations of renown heroes for its face values. Until the accused are given their day in court, we are left with no option than to believe the accusations have no ground to stand on and the detentions are illegal. The issue is simple. The detainees and the detainers are fallible humans. The only way we can find out which of the group is honest and right, independent courts must be involved to sort things out. If you think that is asking too much, after we paid a heavy price to institute justice in our country, you are either yourself colluding with the accusers and have a stake in the power they hold, or are clueless of the impetus that sparked the Eritrean war for independence.

        • kozami September 28, 2011

          Belezet:

          I agree completely with your points as specified, and hope and pray that not only they get fair trial but also due leniency commiserate of time served and their outstanding contribution to the Eritrean Struggle.

          Meaza:

          Try to be level headed for a change. You are frustrated to the point of paranoia, however the more you tend to be that way, the deeper you will be sinking in arrogance and utter bunkum.

          • kabUK September 28, 2011

            After reading your first comment on the article, i am amazed how you can accuse Meaza of paranoia for..Your boss is killing and imprisoning people for years on end without any evidence and you chose to go along with the story of the killer for fear that they might conspire with the wyanes and the CIA to sell Eritrea if they are let out? tell me ho is paranoid now?

            Thank you Assenna for being the voice of the voiceless.. the dictator and his cheerleaders can imprison these heroes but they can never make us forget them thanks to you.

          • Maazza September 28, 2011

            Kozami

            I am frustrated. You got that right! To a point of paranoia is your interpretation and may reflect your own inner state of being.

            Part of my frustration emanates from the absence of fairness of ‘educated’ guys like you. You address an event of 10 years of harsh imprisonment (with some of them already dead!) as if it is a rather normal phenomenon. I wonder how frustrated and insane with paranoia you would be if it had happened to you or your loved ones.

            You say ‘Eritrea is not for sale’ as if Eritrea is an object. Eritrea is its people. Do you really believe those who are rotting in prison for the last ten years tried to sell Eritrea? I believe they were dedicated to the struggle and helped bring about our independence and in 2001, they wanted to crown the achievement with a better platform of governance and accountability. They could have continued to be part of the rulling clique for the rest of their existence, but chose to meet chanllenges that could have resulted in a different Eritrea today.

            I would like to ask you some questions: Are you happy with the state of things in present Eritrea? Are you willing to wait three decades before there will be any change towards democratisation? Do you endorse the idea of being one of the smallest countries and having the largest army in Africa? Are you satisfied with Isayas’s mal-governance and non-accountability? Is it normal for hoards of young people to defy the shoot to kill policy and face death in an attempt to escape a life without any hope?

            You say ‘the nation was fighting for survival’ but who wanted the war and refused all approaches to arbitration? Who is using the war and its aftermath to hang on to absolute power? Why were those who opted for a solution of the crisis through diplomacy considered temberkeckti and the war monger a hero? Is he now himself a temberkackay because of his attempt (and failure) in diplomacy at the UN?

            Depending on your answers to these questions, I may not mind being a frustrated person to a point of paranoia rather than being the ‘cool’, balanced, composed person you pretend to be. And bunkum? what does it mean?

          • belezet September 28, 2011

            Kozami,

            Your earlier statement that sparked my reply read “The so called G-15 and wanna be journalists acted in a foolhardy manner at a time the nation was fighting for survival. The issues pertaining their detention is still part and parcel of what your uncle woyane (if you don’t mis-interpret “agame” yes the “otherwise hounorable people of Tigray”) is sitting on. Your dead on arrival crocodile tears will fool no one. ” implying that their “acts” is what earned them indefinite detention and disappearance. You recent statement “I agree completely with your points as specified, and hope and pray that not only they get fair trial but also due leniency commiserate of time served and their outstanding contribution to the Eritrean Struggle.” seems to imply that your conscience compels you to acknowledge that something has gone awry in Eritrea. I applaud you for that. But, you have to go one step forward and work to keep the government accountable by demanding that it brings the detainees to court IMMEDIATELY. At the minimum, you should demand that it grants the families of the detainees the visitation rights. If they are already deceased, notify their families in a dignified manner and turn the remains for a proper burial. That is what many of us have been asking for over 10 years now, and as you are well aware, we have been labeled “weyane” and “kedaat” for it.

            The intelligent and educated person that you seem to be, you cannot possibly agree with such label regardless of your level of loyalty to the PFDJ. Importantly, why would you support a government that refuses to grant basic rights to our heroes? I will not even bother expanding the topic to cover other well-documented human rights violations for which the PFDJ is well known, but I would like to share with you that opposing a well entrenched and powerful regime such as the PFDJ is neither fun nor financially rewarding, as many supporters of the regime assert. It has required a lot of personal sacrifices on our part. Most of us have not been able to visit our aging parents or attend their funerals, are unable to claim our inheritance, and cannot visit our beautiful nation to show our young children the place of our origin. Some had even participated in the 30 years war and have sacrificed their youth and their limbs in the hope of bringing a just system for the people of Eritrea. Our only solace is that we are responding to our moral and national obligation, much like our martyrs did when they raised arms against successive brutal Ethiopian regimes. In addition, we are confident that history will vindicate us, and at the minimum , we will be remembered for refusing to contribute to the misery of our people. No matter how many convoluted rationale is given by many to justify the conditions under which the Eritrean people is forced to live, all evidences point not to a government liked and elected by the people living inside Eritrea, but to one that is being sustained by irresponsible and selfish diaspora Eritreans that view Eritrea a touristic attraction or retirement place. Very sad and painful to watch!

            Imagine a nation whose leaders reign unchecked and categorize heroes and ordinary citizens as “TRAITORS” because they dare to question indisputable abuse of power. That is what is going on in Eritrea and is the behavior many whether willingly or naively have been supporting for many years. If we have to depend on the labels the regime appends on us, Eritrea has become a nation of “traitors”. Treason is an offense punishable by death in many countries and that’s why laws governing it are very strict. For instance, in the US, only one person had been found guilty of treason in the past 50 years. To conclude, “hoping” for 10 plus years is counterintuitive and disingenuous. Still, if you are sincere about your last reply, he least you can demand that the PFDJ regime release the prisoners immediately! Otherwise, you should withdraw your support, For, not speaking out for justice OPENLY, tantamount to being an accomplice to injustice.

      • Temesgen Medhanie September 28, 2011

        Kozami (Qozami),

        When the rest is an old and tired feel-good rhetoric and a daily dry hymn of Dehai.org (read Dehai.orgy), I should I admit that one thing has caught my attention. You said, “The so called G-15 and wanna be journalists acted in a foolhardy manner at a time when the nation was fighting for survival.” After I read the line I had to lean back and repose for a second to make sure I was not in a stand-up comedy club. No kidding. If cool heads wrapped up in principle and integrity are to prevail, you should in the first place look Isaias in the eye and ask him why he started the war in the first place? It is as simple as that. But as coward and gutless as you are, you could never stand up to Isaias when he bulls you around and asks you to dance to his tune on any floor he points his hands on. Men and women of integrity and principle see things as they are and aspire the rest of us as we fight tyranny till kingdom comes. That is precisely the difference between the likes of Ghideon-Sofia and the otherwise heroes who are rotting in a valley of darkness. When the latter stood up to Isaias to get to the bottom of the truth as Isaias subjected nineteen thousand souls to death, you opted to bury your pathetic head in the sands and lick Isaias’ boots as he builds more prisons, render the productive youth flee the country in droves and destroy the halall heart of the Eritrean people beyond repair.

        Your condescending and patronizing response is disgusting to say the least when you said, “I wish they will receive a speedy and a fair trial.” When Diru’E has already lost his eye sight; when Oqbe Abraha lost his life to asthma; when Joshua took his own life out of utter desperation; when Sherifo died in rat infested cell; when Dawit is on a verge of losing his mind, how chekan and a cold hearted individual can you be to make a mockery of their othewise precious lives? I would bet on anything, if a survey was to be conducted on who are the kindest people in the world, there is no doubt that, the Eritrean people would stand out. And of course, you and the new breeds of Isaias are the exception.

        • kozami September 28, 2011

          Temesgen;

          You can rant to your heart’s delight on account of your make belief stories and sweeping generalizations. But it is as clear as day light to the impartial observer that the Eritrean people have relegated you to the dust bin of irrelevancies, commiserate of the recycled trash you are peddling. Your likes can invent who died and who lost their mind and spew it to the NGO’s, who in turn publish it as ‘credible report’ for you to base your fallacious arguments. Let’s call it green politicking or fully Recycled! Of course, you KNOW who started the war, You KNOW why the the political fallout with in GOE following the war, You Know who is where and how…I suggest you keep “leaning back” a little more and tell us how Eritrea managed to survive though all the lies and vilification thus far. You are a user and manipulator, you may be fooled in thinking Eritrean’s will fall for this bunkum (empty and insincere claptrap), wake up and smell the coffee, sir.

          • Temesgen Medhanie September 28, 2011

            Qozami,

            It shouldn’t be too surprising as you parrot Isaias raw and dry when you said, “….invent who died and who lost their mind and spew it to the NGOs……”. A few days ago in an interview with VOA, Isaias ‘chastised’ the guy when Isaias told him to use his own head instead of coming up with a list of questions presented to him by special interest groups and foreign powers. As much as it was a reminiscent of his erstwhile Al Jazeera interview, here you are defending Isaias verbatim when you deny the ugly reality of the incarcerated and deceased great Eritrean personalities. Why is it incredibly difficult to tell the truth when it is deceptively simple to set the records straight? That is, if the prisoners are well and dandy as you are telling us with a straight face, why don’t you allow their loved ones to have an access to them? Why is it so difficult? Why? But of course, a bizarre mind set that has sustained for over forty years, it would take more than a miracle to see it changing its courses. As the old adage has it, “Nab zeysem’Aka gereb or da’Ero ayt’maHlel.”

      • Temesgen Medhanie September 28, 2011

        Kozami (Qozami),

        When the rest is an old and tired feel-good rhetoric and a daily dry hymn of Dehai.org (read Dehai.orgy), I should admit that one thing has caught my attention. You said, “The so called G-15 and wanna be journalists acted in a foolhardy manner at a time when the nation was fighting for survival.” After I read the line I had to lean back and repose for a second to make sure I was not in a stand-up comedy club. No kidding. If cool heads wrapped up in principle and integrity are to prevail, you should in the first place look Isaias in the eye and ask him why he started the war in the first place? It is as simple as that. But as coward and gutless as you are, you could never stand up to Isaias when he bulls you around and asks you to dance to his tune on any floor he points his hands on. Men and women of integrity and principle see things as they are and aspire the rest of us as we fight tyranny till kingdom comes. That is precisely the difference between the likes of Ghideon-Sofia and the otherwise heroes who are rotting in a valley of darkness. When the latter stood up to Isaias to get to the bottom of the truth as Isaias subjected nineteen thousand souls to death, you opted to bury your pathetic head in the sands and lick Isaias’ boots as he builds more prisons, render the productive youth flee the country in droves and destroy the halall heart of the Eritrean people beyond repair.

        Your condescending and patronizing response is disgusting to say the least when you said, “I wish they receive a speedy and a fair trial.” When Diru’E has already lost his eye sight; when Oqbe Abraha lost his life to asthma; when Joshua took his own life out of utter desperation; when Sherifo died in rat infested cell; when Dawit is on a verge of losing his mind, how chekan and a cold hearted individual can you be to make a mockery of their othewise precious lives? I would bet on anything, if a survey was to be conducted on who the kindest people in the world are, there is no doubt that, the Eritrean people would stand out. And of course, you and the new breeds of Isaias are the exception.

        • Maazza September 28, 2011

          Belezet,

          Your pen name says it all, you are zbelezet! You come through so crystal clear, and your writing is so correct and clean, you give us an opportunity to witness what higher education can do when the soul is justice oriented.

          Personally, my tendency and temperament is normally expressed vide extreme harshness towards those who knowingly and deliberately trun deaf ears and blind eyes in front of glaring facts (like Kozami). I nevertheless appreciate your extremely correct approach because it exudes superiority and clarity. The power of your message and its tone made Kozami take a step backward. This is quite an achievement with those arrogant delusional types! Although as the saying goes, one cannot change the spots in a leopard’s skin, your approach stimulated and softened Kozami to be quasi apologetic.

          Temesgen,

          Qozami, as you baptized him, would like to give lessons on who started the last war
          with Ethiopia! I suppose we will never fathom what makes a person like him take the reasons given by the unelected present rullers of Eritrea as the word of God. Much has been written and said, thanks to the advent of the net, on what really happened surrounding the war and yet an educated man like Qozami is insulting because, like him, we do not endorse everything the unlwaful gang oppressing our people trumpets.

          Kozami

          Some of us use pen names because we are aware and afraid of what hegdef can do in wrath. But you, why do you use a pen name when you vouch for the system? Are you hiding from your conscience and afraid of the people????

          • belezet September 29, 2011

            Meazza,

            Thank you for the compliments. Your message and Temesghen’s is crystal clear as well and I completely understand your frustration, and why you might not choose patience when dealing with supporters of the regime. We are dealing with an incredibly hard situation that rattles our nerves to the core and at times, it is hard to keep our poise. Ultimately, what matters, however, is that we have opted to stand up to injustice when indifference was a much easier personal choice:).

            Keep it up!

      • selam September 29, 2011

        TO KOZAMI

        The so called G-15 and wanna be journalists acted in a foolhardy manner at a time the nation was fighting for survival. and ……The road had seen, just like today, many internal enemy collaborators, sell outs, fifth columnists, religious extremists and regionalism and sub-regionalism, democracy and human rights marketeers and constitution fanatics (as if it is the magic wand of mana from the sky)….. To these reactionaries……..
        “This time it is really sad and unbelievable to see these phrases from Eritreans when truth is shining like day light. You are right Kozami the nation was fighting for survival but who was foolhardily acting against it? To tell frankly and honestly it is Isayas and Wedi Efrem. I am stating their names cause I was there bleeding to tears and I would have called others who were collaborating but these two were the key figures and stumbling block for the brave who want to defend act appropriately. God willing history will show you tomorrow what I am say today.
        finally I would have said a lot but it would be enough to say please kozami don’t rewriting old fashioned EPLF propaganda. Yiakhlo hizbina.

        I would like to thank Temeghen and Maazza for presenting the facts eloquently.

      • gerimuna September 29, 2011

        I believe you live in the West and have a taste of fairness, justice, democracy and comprehension unless you are brainwashed with the green book of the tyranny that preaches it to cover up his crimes or you are a dead bit. Then, I wonder that you have a gut to vent such malicious accusation and intricacies sown to confuse justice against the very people who did more than the Greedy Mafiose. Did you see mister what FIA lloke like when he came to Asmara from Meda first time(Western actor, Ofcourse he was hiding in well build caves and eat porridge with butter) and did you see others such as Berhane G/E. Then it may as well be led by Kisha according your feeble reasoning. Please, I wish you you grow up or I don’t have choice but to consider you as criminal as your master in the same footing.

      • ny September 29, 2011

        I guess ur foaming for nothing, the point is every one deserves fair trial , in case of eri. Its not a gov. Instutition that we witness today, but bunch of mafias, who in ther 20 yrs reign n beyond decided to run the country. With the rule of the jungle. These r orwelians. They have no concept of human respect or for that matter they don’t value any one but them selves. Go to hell with ur pfdj crones.

  • Taddesse T Gebremussie September 28, 2011

    Isayas Afewerki and his pant will pay the price it is amater of time. When light comes dark disapirce ,when Eritrean opposition come to gether ,Isayas supporters will disapir with in days. Bcouse they are laiyers with no root.

  • Paradiso September 28, 2011

    The children of Jermano Natti, Petros and Aster, sherifo, and all the rest of Eritrea will always be proud of their selfless parents.
    Any person who commits injustice to other human beings will be remembered as evil and criminal by the coming generations forever and ever, so will be cursed their chidren and their off springs.
    Our forefathers used to curse the evil, the twisted mind maniac and the blood thirsty among them as “may you give birth to a monkey”. abHagotatnan enotatnan kragemu kelewu: “hbey wled” yblu nerom:
    The children and the grand children of the evil and cruel will be insulted for generations and they will be ashamed of their fathers.
    Who are the present fathers that will be shunned and shamed by their children?
    Not the children of the prisoners and the dead because the children of Biteweded, Sherifo, Aster, Petros, Fesehaye Joshouwa, DruE, Natti or Kekia … will always walk with their head up and with pride.
    So will the family and supporters of Patriarch Anthonios, qesh Fithum, Dr. Kiflu G. Meskel … will walk with pride for generations.

  • solomon araya berhe September 28, 2011

    immidiate release eritrean political prisoners and journalists with out any preconditions….

  • kozami September 28, 2011

    In the heels of recently desiminated public house cleaning between a certain Habtom Yohannes and Michael Abraha regarding a forged petition, one can draw a sharp contrast with the Hawey, Haftey Mekmesmesi Temesgen and Meaza’s bizzar conjucture of a new meaning to the word “agame” The former case illustrates one of principle that guides an individual’s actions and pronouncements. Where as the latter goes to show a betreyal of deception articulated through honey laced arrogance and mischief. Tigrayan communities in the UK met Meles Zenawi in London in the spring of 1991. And their first concern was not the unfolding changes that were taking place in their country at the time, but their bitterness at the drogatory treatment meted out on them by inconsiderate Eritrean’s calling them Agame. A word reserved for people of Tigray origine and intended to dehumanize their person and identity. Yet, Meaza and Temesgen rub in the wound with insult by telling them porkies. Principle is the mother of integrity guy’s, without which you are literaly good for nothing. Agame is a racial slur, nothing more or less.

    • Maazza September 28, 2011

      Arrogance is when one declares with absolute certainity ‘Agame is a racial slur, nothing more or less.’. Since we all know what it may mean, you are entitled to believe whatever suits you and wallow in distorting facts.

      What does ‘a betreyal of deception articulated through honey laced arrogance and mischief.’ mean? I laughed out loud and couldn’t make head or tail out of it. Sounds big and complex but void of meaning. I guess you are too sophisticaed for me.

  • Alex Antony September 28, 2011

    I want to kill Esaias Afwerki period.

  • Bryan Cooper September 28, 2011

    All Eritrean should come togerther to overthrow this dictetor. This is not the governmetn they deserve. The people who sacrificed for independence war will grief if they see this regime, and they are soul is griefing. This is not about Esaias Afwerki but this is about Eritrean people.

  • Bryan Cooper September 28, 2011

    All Eritrean should come togerther to overthrow this dictetor. This is not the governmetn they deserve. The people who sacrificed for independence war will grief if they see this regime, and they are soul is griefing. This is not about Esaias Afwerki but this is about Eritrean people.

  • kozami September 28, 2011

    Meaza;

    You said in earlier post the crowed receiving PIA “scared” you, You called me “potential Killer” for disagreeing with your views and threatened I would be “smashed” and “bashed”…. I think it is “fair” to sense a degree of paranoia in such a behavior.

    As to your Q’s…I shall answer them fully soon.

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