Tag: martyrs day
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In Eritrea, The Leader Is Always Wrong
My people. Know yourself and know your enemy, and don’t be too squeamish to call your adversary an enemy. Eritrea, with its loyalty days. Independence Day is giving way to Martyr’s Day, the sequence appearing to foreshadow Eritrea’s fate: a country independent enough to sacrifice but not sufficiently sovereign to be free: i.e., popular sovereignty,…
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Eritrea-Ethiopia War: Role Reversal
[spider_facebook id=”4″]In prior wars, Ethiopia has used its media and diplomatic contacts to define the war (“Eritrean aggression”), to demand that the world take measures to punish the aggressor and to rally Ethiopians for war. Throughout, much to the frustration of its people, Eritrea was quiet, pledging that truth will eventually surface.The battle that broke…