Author: saay
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What Eritrea Must Do Now To Close All Venues To War
There are reasons to believe that Prime Minister Abiy’s address to the Ethiopian parliamentarians on the Red Sea is a rationale for war. The address went above and beyond the concerns of a land-locked nation demanding its rights guaranteed by United Nations Law of the Sea Convention (UNCLOS); it insisted on re-litigating an issue considered…
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How 9/18 Changed Eritrea Forever
On September 18 & 19, 2001, the Government of Eritrea enforced the disappearance of a group of Eritreans who had called for reform, and the reporters who reported on them. This article is not about them as individuals or their suffering families, but about how the country’s trajectory changed dramatically for the worse as a…
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Yowhannes Tquabo Reinterprets Victory and the Masses
“Victory to the Masses” is a phrase that the EPLF can truly say it invented. So I argued, at least, with an Ethiopian on Twitter, for reasons I thought were nationalistic then–wasted time, now. No matter how catchy, it is, after all, the blueprint for tyranny. It’s like any other “Power To The People” movement:…
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NTT-on-GiE: Final Assessment
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We Can Matter If We Want To
This is about Eritrea. But since Eritrea’s sole agenda has been Ethiopia for two years now, we have to begin there, with our neighbors down south. Have you ever tried to discuss a conflict, any conflict? It always ends up being a case of each one trying to take back the starting point to an…
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Dr Newitol – War & Carnage Edition
151: Tura Mantusa from Durame, Kambata: Hi Dr Newitol! Are you an actual doctor who heals people or do you have one of those degrees that tells us you have gotten a credential about something you have no idea about, like a doctorate in conflict-resolution, which doesn’t resolve conflicts? Dr Newitol: Ah, it’s going to…
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The Great Realignment or Primal Scream
Engineered by a coalition of revolutionaries, infiltrators, civil rights activists and not-a- small contribution from Eritrea’s ruling party, People’s Front for Democracy & Justice (PFDJ), the overthrow of an entrenched Ethiopian political party, Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), was supposed to herald Ethiopia’s Great Realignment. Instead, they ended up transforming Ethiopia from an ethnic-federalism dominated…
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Eritrea On The Eve of 31st Independence
There is a parable, commonly attributed to activist Irving Zola: two friends are at a picnic, by the river, and they hear the sound of a child drowning. They jump in, successfully rescue the child, and are going back to the river bank, and they hear another drowning voice, rescue, return…then another. “Wait, where are…
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Enter The Judge, Exit The Veterans
For Eritrea and Ethiopia, 2021 was an eventful year, which is to say a frequent shower-upper guest showed up to screech hello: hello back, WAR. And although there are contestants still arguing with the non-existent referee that he blew the Game Over whistle prematurely, it appears people are eager for finality to something that won’t…
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On GiE: People Come, Organizations Go, Values Remain
“What are the new Eritrean questions that have been neither asked nor answered during our Revolution and, in fact, going back to the 1940s” ~ Historian Samuel Emaha This is my 3rd article on the Government-in-Exile (GiE) proposal. The first (It’s Time for a Unity Government In Exile) dealt with introduction of the concept and…
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National Taskforce Team Concept Note on Government-in-Exile
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Fleshing Out Our Unity Government In Exile
The response to the proposal for A Unity Government In Exile has been extremely positive and encouraging. As a follow-up, after several weeks of consultations and a “listening tour”, in this edition, the following questions will be addressed: 1. Why Government In Exile? 2. If one is needed, why with the EPLF-legacy and ELF-legacy only?…