It has been a long time since my last post and many things have happened ever since: some personal and some public but mostly sad or worrying. I will skip the exclusively personal and will take your sympathy as implicit in the time you will spend reading. Thank You! I am happy to see SJG back in action after the…
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Disclaimer: Say you are telling a friend in Adi-Qontsi about an argument you had with an ugly woman in Siberia, who had long nails. Your next-door neighbor (you never mentioned her name) jumps in and starts explaining. Applying simple logic: (a) your neighbor thinks she is ugly; (b) she has long nails; or (c) she is up to something. The…
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ABSTRACT In this article, I intend to do four things: (a) Defend the position of the Tigrigna elite in our struggle by arguing that their missteps be excused for reasons of the “Ethio-Fixation Disorder” (EFD). (b) Touch on the argument that the Eritrean struggle is a package of good and bad and that no Eritrean (lowlander or highlander) can claim…
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OFF TOPIC This year 2015 – my new year and that of family and friends, was clouded by the sudden deaths of at least two great landmarks in the way many of us have come to know and approach Eritrean politics. The first in my case, was the loss of Yassin Mender, who, as far as I know, had distanced…
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Background: I am not someone who is ruled by some “dictatorial chauvinistic regime” running my mind. I am of the belief, however, that women have ways of getting things into your head if you are a man simply because only the survivalist concerns that they raise (when they are serious and acting feminist) are true and cannot be ignored because…
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In this article we will try to understand and justify what might have happened to Eastern Bejastan but from a distance and in a way that I hope is more engaging. It is a bit weird to try to talk about something without talking about it. You shouldn’t take these things seriously anyway. What should excite you (scares me) is…
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I look left and right before I post this. For some reason, I tend to receive a hail of unhappy e-mails from people you would least expect would oppose what I say, that somehow manage to send me into another run of hibernation. It was more fun writing as a ghost. I didn’t care what people said because I could…
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Eritreans as you know are unique especially in their courtesy towards one another and towards others. For example, if a Muslim is taken to jail by a Christian, another Muslim cannot state the fact without digging some Christian name from jail books and reassuring the jailer that it is OK because these things happen at random. In a cross-eyed move,…
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Dear Awate, “Does the Planned DC Demonstration Support Inciting Ethnic Hate and Ethnic violence against the Tigrinya?” Four Ethnic Organizations and a number of websites that support them are engaged in spewing hate and inciting ethnic violence against the “TIGRIGNA” (bebihade feliTnayom ale’na). EDA does; do you? Confess before we get into some Dick Cheney style enhanced techniques. I need to…
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A few weeks ago, our debate started by setting a more serious and frank tone to the issues that were being discussed Hishikhshukh style around kitchen tables among close confidants in almost every Eritrean gathering with two diametrically opposed motivations and justifications depending on the ethnic or religious backgrounds of those involved. The first phase of this debate basically did nothing more…