History has proved that rights are things that you have to fight for. Thanks for the PFDJ regime that they eventually have persuaded the majority of Eritreans that rights are not conferred but they have to struggle for. What a slap in the face! As a consequence the Eritrean youth has been subjected to misery […]
First, I would like to thank those who helped compile this information. The first question posed to PIA (President Isayas Afewerki) during his most recent interview was about his health. PIA told us that his health had never been in better shape. We will leave his health to his Qatari doctors, but it is our […]
By Carol Sanders, Winnipeg Free Press April 30, 2011 WINNIPEG — On her application to come to Canada, the 24-year-old new mother wrote: “I’d rather die than return home” to Eritrea. Sadly Rahwa Teklegergish did last month, along with her nine-month-old baby Esey. The mom and her infant son were among six Winnipeg-sponsored refugees who […]
By Shankar Vedantam Yohannes Michael Tekle’s journey to the United States began after his sister was drafted into the Eritrean army and, he said, ordered to serve as a sex slave for a high-ranking official. When she refused, she was imprisoned for six months. Soon afterward, a senior military officer went to Tekle’s school and […]
By TRICIA REDEKER HEPNER The world’s attention is understandably fixed on the post-tsunami nuclear disaster unfolding in Japan and the equally seismic political transformations shaking North Africa and the Middle East. Much speculation swirls around the impact of these events regionally and globally. Will fallout reach the shores of Europe and North America? Will more […]
By Fesseha Nair How can popular uprisings win the dictatorship or how can one organize the winner? Many leaders of the modern waves of democratic transition turned to Professor Gene Sharp’s books on transition to democracy and how to struggle the dictatorship. Winning the dictatorship and building democracy requires control of the mental process to […]
In today’s materially obsesses world, it seems strange to see both the words ‘altruistic and selfish’ associated with the Eritrean opposition forces for democratic change altogether. Perhaps there are lessons to draw from the ongoing struggle against the PFDJ’s regime where recently whilst some were demanding and calling for freedom for prisoners of conscience, rule […]
By Fesseha Nair “Active support or acquiescence of the military is the key to any viable and sustained political transition to democracy” Monshipouri We have been observing the role played by the military in Tunisia and Egypt siding with the popular uprisings against the dictators and dictatorship on one side, and we just […]
Unless our watches and clocks are continuously synchronized with the Atomic Clock, our watches & clocks are out of sync with others. But again, we don’t need to know if the time shown in our watches and clocks are absolutely correct as long as it is able to tell time approximately to what everybody else’s […]
By Fesseha Nair The wave for democratic change is spreading all over the world since the “Arab Awakening” or sometimes called “Arab Spring” started. The Eritrean pro-democracy forces have been ahead of these popular uprisings in the Northern Africa and the Middle East countries since many years back. There are some indicators that the Eritrean […]
