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Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, making them question their own memory, perception, and sanity. Using persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying, it attempts to destabilize the victim and delegitimize the victim’s belief.” The term originates…

To say the sanctions on Eritrea are “politically motivated” is to state the obvious because all sanctions are politically motivated.  The question is: does the Government of Eritrea have the political chops to navigate its way in a political world?  The answer, very clearly, is it does not.  But the government and its supporters have…

Years ago, my friend Saleh Gadi Johar, who was trying to explain to a self-described nationalist why Eritrea needs an opposition instead of having people work with the government to correct its mistakes, said “Opposition is natural. Even supernatural: even God has an opposition and they are called atheists.” I remember that statement when the…

Introduction This letter is a call for correction, a call for peaceful and democratic dialogue, a call for strengthening and consolidation, a call for unity, a call for the rule of law and for justice, through peaceful and legal ways and means. For some time now, regular meetings [of the Central Council and the National…

TwgaH’mo: Why and why now? By Saleh AA Younis July 7, 2000 (published at asmarino.com under a column entitled “Once Upon A Dawn”) Like many Eritreans, I grew up in an extended family that included siblings, cousins and grandparents. Whether I know it or not, all of them, I am sure, have left their indelible…