Excript from Past and Present,
Negarritt-Gazette 89E (NG89E) January 01 2005
What is the meaning of silence?
circle life of the EPLF.
The other side of silence versus exposure is hiding valuable
information from the
people of
prolong his existence of self-advantage and his Master’s life to
stay in authority.
That means GMH is hiding all the present and past
conspiracies and crimes of the insideclosed-
circle life of the EPLF. Imagine how many Eritreans
lost their lives since the
inception of the EPLF for the legacy of PIA. Imagine how many Eritreans have
become disabled mentally or physically or both. If GMH is
unwilling to tell the truth
of
his personal experience of the inside-closed-circle life of the EPLF, then
there is
only one option to think about. This one option, is to think is
that GMH is directly or
indirectly but deliberately to be blamed for hiding the facts needed
to be exposed to
the Eritrean public. Surely, this is to opt with hindsight of
the political interpretation
that GMH is doing it for the purpose of cover up and of
self-survival as well as of PIA
as
highlighted earlier.
As a result, NG89E strongly criticises
GMH’s failure to accept to say: ‘I have learned
a
huge lesson. Now I have to stand up for what is right’. His insisting on
divulging is
as
if someone is deliberately keeping his cards close to his chest for fear that
his
Master PIA will withdraw the title and authority of ‘Ende Rassie’ as well as reject
him from clinging to power after PIA.
All this will not help GMH if a thing is to be rectified. It
is worth to think that every
act that occurred in the Eritrean struggle for independence is
important. It is the
highest time to reflect and be critical to the self. GMH’s life is a part of Eritrean
history because it is and was a part of our people’s life. Therefore,
what is essentially
needed, is the whiteness and purity of his heart in all
dimensions.
It is worth noting to remember the words of the Italian
sculptor and painter, Michael Angelo: ‘Trifles make
perfection, but perfection is no trifle’. In contrast, what is needed from GMH is
clarity, candour, transparency,
accountability and competence and not silence,
conspiracy and hostility against each other or the ELF as a whole.
In light of the above arguments and explanations, one thing
NG89E can’t resist telling
GMH is that to bear in mind that the clock is ticking
against him with every step his
foot lands at a different angle, which is rarely the kind of
angle nature intended, and
that every footfall could lead to a sprain, fracture or fall.
This is an anatomical
analysis that describes the political realities and possibilities in
the past.
Now the time seems to be ripe so that politicians do the job
squarely and efficiently. If
GMH learns to welcome new experience,
he will find he can cope with a wide variety
of
situations in new and helpful ways. But the fact is that GMH does not look to
be. If
he
is to remain the driving force within his party or other Eritrean parties,
first, he
must prove a pill too bitter for him to swallow. This is that
NG89E asks GMH to spell
out the following events without any reservation:
A. How GMH feels today when he thinks or reflects back, just
to mention a few
examples, about:
1. The Eritrean civil war, i.e. killing each other between
EPLF and ELF in 1960s
– 1980s?
2. The documentary agreement between PIA and the CIA in
or Alla – Seled - Berazio in the 1960s - 1970s, perhaps even later?
3. The death of Abraham Tewolde in
Alla, Egela-Hames, Akele-Guzai in 1960s?
4. The killing of Eritrean students, known as ‘Deki Kebessa’ in the ELF in
1960s?
5. The killing and imprisoning of innocent fighters /Tegaldeti/ in 1970s – 1980s
being called Menka-E members?
Those dead ones came to the war field
voluntarily to fight the Ethiopian Imperial Rule in order to fulfil their dreams
of
were labelled by the EPLF leadership
as Extreme Leftists (Huluf
Tsegemawian) and Extreme Rightists (Huluf Yemanawian). This was because
of
their demand to see the implementation of democracy in practice within the
rule of the EPLF.
6. The death of Woldemichael Haile (Wedi Haile
or Te-ame Haile) in 1977?
7. The death of Amanuel Flanssa (Wedi Keshi)
in 1970s?
8. The death of Betsaiy Goitom Berhe in 1970s?
9. The death of Ibrahim Affa in 1980s?
10. The death of Solomon Woldemariam
in 1980s?
11. The death of Issias Tewolde (Wodi Flanssa)
in 1980s?
12. The death of Tesfa-Giorghis Georgo (Wedi Georgo),
13. The imprisonment of fighters after the event of
demonstration that took place
in
14. The death of the physically handicapped fighters (Akale Senkulan Tegadelti)
in Mai-Habar 1994?
15. The abuse of our females from Tegadelti
and civilians since decades?
16. The execution of ca 150 Eritrean prisoners on June 18
and 19, 1997 in the
outskirts of
17. The imprisonment of close comrades, i.e. the Government
Ministers, called
the G-11, on September 18 2000?
18. The current death of the youth and adults in Addi Abbetto in November 2004.
They were composed of civilians and Tegadelti?
19. and many more?
B. How would GMH describe the above deaths to the public:
murder (as a first hand
murder, or second hand murder) slaughter, friendly killing or
shooting, natural death,
etc.? And how would GMH justify the death of each individual?
C. Can GMH tell the Eritrean people about the selection
criteria of squads in
organising the process of hujjum
wars in the past? Who made decisions on
who
should go to die (similar to euthanasia: involuntarily sentence to
death)? Who was
allowed to stay to serve the interest of the leaders within the
EPLF? C1) Can GMH
tell us today, whether those Eritrean fighters were, in reality,
suicide bombers or not?
C2) Did they give their consent when they were asked to do
the job of ‘hujjum’? Were
they voluntarily giving their names to go for ‘hujjum’? Or C3) were they forced to do
so
because a democratic right of questioning and answering was not an issue at all
and
that there were no criteria at all? Or C4) as the EPLF
exploiting and commanding
motto insists, ‘do the
job first and then ask’, or face a military discipline’.
That means someone asks when he dies. Such a military
exploiting measure was
barbaric, unrealistic, impossible, immoral, unethical, and inhumane
despicable and
inexcusable act.
By the way, what is hujjum? Hujjum is originally an
Arabic word. It may have a
different meaning than this version. However, according the Eritrean
EPLF military
use, experience and perception of it, it means that a soldier
fights the enemy in an
open way by giving his / her life to be martyr. In its practice,
it was a forced martyr
and not voluntary because the soldier was chosen by the leader
to act in such a
manner to accomplish the military message with great probability
of dying. If the
chosen soldier did not accept the command of his / her leader, he
/ she should face a
military action. Even today this behaviour
is exercised in the battle field. The
evidence is the recent border war with
today an individual is not chosen but a unit or units (‘ganta’ in Tigrigna) as a whole.
One ‘ganta’ has three units. Each unit has 16-20 members. Three units
make up one
‘ganta’
of 40-60 members of fighters. One ‘ganta’ from a
company or battalion is
chosen respectively, for every necessary occasion to be a martyr,
for example, to clear
away a mined area to create a loop or a passage for use to run
away from or attack an
enemy position. Such a circumstance, obviously, presents and
demonstrates the
occurrence of deliberate death with great probability.
D. Can GMH tell us about the land ownership system, the ‘selling
or buying criteria’
and their processes in the Region of his past administration in
which our people still
blame his management in the South Zone of Eritrea?
E. Can GMH tell us about how the gender issue in
when our females have become slavers of the male dominance
culture within the
authority positions of the PFDJ.
F. Can GMH tell us who was a real CIA agent in
G. Can GMH tell us who was preaching to the Eritrean people,
saying we are fighting
against Ethiopian rule and all other types of capitalism,
imperialism of the Western
World and Zionism of
H. Can GMH tell us about who was getting medical treatment
in the care of the
Israelites in the heartland of
I. Can GMH tell us of how many Eritreans
were allegedly accused of beings agents of
Imperialism and Zionism, and then sentenced to death?
J. Can GMH tell us who have been the gamblers and alcoholics
in the secret pubs of
K. Can GMH tell us about the hidden agenda between the EPLF
and TPLF in the
1980s and 1990s as well as between PIA and
1990s?