PS: in case you read this above and asked yourself “I wondered whatever happened to founding father Mohammed Ali Omaro?”, I will give you one guess:
https://t.co/VWXiS3DzY9
So, in many ways #PFDJ is worse. And #Eritreans need to find inspiration for their resistance from their history, especially the history that is censored by the govt of #Eritrea.
Neither #Ethiopia|s HSI nor Mengistu Hailemariam arrested mom and dads and aunts because they couldn’t account for the whereabouts of their grown, adult children.
Isaias Afwerkis father lived in Asmara, unmolested by Mengistu, despite his sons role as Enemy of the State.
This is a typical conversation in #Eritrean YouTube interviews where the interviewers asks his/her guest to give background info and it soon becomes an Exodus story:
That was on my 2nd arrest, no wait it was the 3rd… after my 4th wait my 5th attempt to escape….
The similarity between #PFDJ and occupying powers:
For my generation, it was Political Consciousness 101, Week 2, when we learned there had been 7 assassination attempts on his life.
Contrast that with victims of #PFDJ. The abuse is so frequent people actually lose count:
But first an intermission from a principled opposition member, Abrar Osman, who never succumbed to #PFDJ bribes (including Raimoc award for his classic Shama Bel song) and chose life in exile over Wedo Geba-ism:
These are just spoonful from the Great #Eritrean Diaspora (which remained connected to #Eritrea by the passion to change it for the better.
Is it really right to compare life under occupying powers with life under an #Eritrea|n government? I am glad you asked
…returned to #Eritrea after independence, was part of the Referendum Commission, and the Constitution Commission. He later joined the Arrested Without Due Process club and died in a #PFDJ Prison.
4. Taha Mohammed Nour: I hear some of you saying well #Sudan… #Egypt….that’s almost #Eritrea. How about #Europe: you can’t fight from Europe: that’s too far! Somebody forgot to say that to Taha Mohammed Nour, a lawyer in #Italy and co-founder of ELF…
You can learn more about Welwel in a book our friend Dawit Mesfin wrote. Yes, you, in the back with the big Afro? Yes, I will tell them it’s available in English at Amazon: you wrote it, you should know.
https://t.co/rHI7LU9uF3
…and the Eritrean Student Union didn’t spend all its days in the library: it attacked the #Ethiopian embassy in Cairo, #Egypt resulting in #Ethiopian complaint that #Egyptian intelligence was assisting the students to attack Mother #Ethiopia.
2. Idris Mohammed Adem: born in #Sudan (his father was a soldier in the Sudan army), raised in #Eritrea, Idris Mohammed Adem was Chairman of #Eritrea|n Parliament. Demoted, he was an activist in Akordat, until his exile to #Egypt where he joined Eritrean Student Union….
… playing a crucial role in raising the political awareness of the people and organizing them to protest against Emperor Haile Selasse’s violations of the Federal Act which had given #Eritreans rights then not granted to #Ethiopians. The leadership assigned to organize Asmara: