bunch oflow life thieves!ሁሌ ሻቢያዎችን ሳስብ፤ እንዴት የቆሸሸ መሐረብ ሳይቀር እንደሚሰርቁ ትዝ ይለኝና በህሊናየ ቡቱቶ አርሚ ድቅን ይልብነነኛል።
bunch oflow life thieves!
Re: ሁሌ ሻቢያዎችን ሳስብ፤ እንዴት የቆሸሸ መሐረብ ሳይቀር እንደሚሰርቁ ትዝ ይለኝና በህሊናየ ቡቱቶ አርሚ ድቅን ይልብነነኛል።
ዉሸታም ጨምላቃ! ለማኝ: የለማኝ ልጅ! ማን ያምነሃል: የእባብና የሸርሙጣ ልጅ?
http://dehai.org/conflict/deportees/ERRC.html
A PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE ERITREAN NATIONALS EXPELLED FROM ETHIPIA DURING JUNE-JULY 1998As the various data about the deportees reveal, the cardinal targets of the last two rounds of detention and expulsion have been the relatively well to do. Since their expulsion was sudden and unexpected, as well as because they were deprived of any chance to arrange for the administration and protection of their property, the deported Eritreans have left behind assets and property worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
The tables below show the value and types of property and asset left behind by 1402 of the deportees. The value of this lifelong earned wealth is estimated to be US$ 212,000,000.00. For the sake of convenience, the wealth left behind is presented in two tables, table 5 for property and table 6 for cash left behind by the above deportees.
http://dehai.org/conflict/deportees/ERRC.html
Re: ሁሌ ሻቢያዎችን ሳስብ፤ እንዴት የቆሸሸ መሐረብ ሳይቀር እንደሚሰርቁ ትዝ ይለኝና በህሊናየ ቡቱቶ አርሚ ድቅን ይልብነነኛል።
Out of Alula's Book: TPLF's Reckless Plunder of Southwest Eritrea
Ghidewon Abay Asmerom
June 22, 2000
As the world witness and reads of the willful and wanton destruction of the Eritrean towns of Tessenei, Alighidr, Guluj and Barentu, and the participation of civilian Tigreans in the looting of Eritrean property it needs to be told what Alula did to the very same area 114 years ago.
In 1886 Ras Alula (the army general of King Yohannes IV of Tigray) had ruthlessly and in cold blood massacred about two-thirds (67%) of the Baria and Kunama population of Eritrea. He killed most of the people, looted every item his soldiers could get and took all the cattle of the region. For an account on this one should read Alberto Pollera's "I Baria e I [ deleted ]" (1913) pp. 50-52. Haggai Erlich's, "Ras Alula" pp.101-102 also has a description of what Alula did and why he did it. Here are excerpts from Erlich:
Here is a picture of the destruction as put by an Abyssinian biographer of Alula and quoted by Erlich:
According to the Italian anthropologist, Alberto Pollera, and as quoted by Haggai Alula's main desire was:
Trying to explain as to what could have motivated Alula to raid the Baria and Kunama, Haggai Erlich says the following:
Yes, history has repeated itself. There is a striking similarity between what Alula did over a century ago to southwestern Eritrea and why he did it and what the TPLF leaders are doing in 2000 and why they are doing it in the very same area. It looks as if the TPLF leaders are going by Alula's book. After all Erlich testifies
As the TPLF's agenda to destroy the Eritrean army, capture Asmara and Assab failed to materialize they, out of frustration, and as to not return empty handed decided to loot southwestern Eritrea. They couldn't show a destroyed EPLF army, they couldn't exhibt a humiliated Eritrean army, to make themselves feel better they have to do the evil destruction they did and the world is a witness to that. Though it is not rare for a victorious army to do what the TPLF army did in Tessenei and Barentu, the trail of destruction the Ethiopian army left behind in Eritrea is more of frustration for a failed mission and the lose in human lives it incured than anything else. As they had boasted so much of a victory they cannot show for, they had to invite their population to loot properties. So much so for restoring Tigrean pride. What kind of pride is it that comes by looting and stealing? Only a twisted mind will desire to get pride through theft and vandalism.
Lord have mercy!
Ghidewon Abay Asmerom
June 22, 2000
As the world witness and reads of the willful and wanton destruction of the Eritrean towns of Tessenei, Alighidr, Guluj and Barentu, and the participation of civilian Tigreans in the looting of Eritrean property it needs to be told what Alula did to the very same area 114 years ago.
In 1886 Ras Alula (the army general of King Yohannes IV of Tigray) had ruthlessly and in cold blood massacred about two-thirds (67%) of the Baria and Kunama population of Eritrea. He killed most of the people, looted every item his soldiers could get and took all the cattle of the region. For an account on this one should read Alberto Pollera's "I Baria e I [ deleted ]" (1913) pp. 50-52. Haggai Erlich's, "Ras Alula" pp.101-102 also has a description of what Alula did and why he did it. Here are excerpts from Erlich:
p. 101On 22 November 1886 the ras [Alula] ordered his army to march some eight miles southwards to the spring of Magalo. There he camped again, frustrated with his inability even to contemplate an attack on Kassala, and therefore ordered the greatest plunder in the history of the Baria tribes. During the last week of November, two-thirds of the people and cattle of the Baria and Kunama north of the Gash were destroyed.
Here is a picture of the destruction as put by an Abyssinian biographer of Alula and quoted by Erlich:
Erlich pp. 101He [Alula] returned, and reached a place which they called Magalo. He stayed there a short time, not very long, and he destroyed the rebels and apostates of that place, and took much spoil and captured many men and women, young men and virgins; he did not leave any cattle, goats or sheep.
According to the Italian anthropologist, Alberto Pollera, and as quoted by Haggai Alula's main desire was:
Ibid. p. 101.to devastate the Baria country to create a deserted buffer zone between the Mahdists and Ethiopia and simultaneously to feed and supply his troops.
Trying to explain as to what could have motivated Alula to raid the Baria and Kunama, Haggai Erlich says the following:
Ibid. p. 102Though so badly in need of the prestige of a victory, Alula knew that to besiege a strongly defended town [Kassala], which was surrounded by Muslim tribesmen, could only lead to his destruction. Frustrated and 'in order not to return empty handed,' he destroyed the long-suffering and unlucky Baria.
doesn't it look familiar?So badly in need of the prestige of a victory and frustrated and in order not to return empty handed
Yes, history has repeated itself. There is a striking similarity between what Alula did over a century ago to southwestern Eritrea and why he did it and what the TPLF leaders are doing in 2000 and why they are doing it in the very same area. It looks as if the TPLF leaders are going by Alula's book. After all Erlich testifies
Ibid. p. xiii.my [Erlich's] book was studied throughout the 1980s in the caves of Tigre, and that the fighters of the TPLF were inspired by his [Alula's] heroism. ... For them he was the national hero. .. as well as the pride of Tigrean history.
As the TPLF's agenda to destroy the Eritrean army, capture Asmara and Assab failed to materialize they, out of frustration, and as to not return empty handed decided to loot southwestern Eritrea. They couldn't show a destroyed EPLF army, they couldn't exhibt a humiliated Eritrean army, to make themselves feel better they have to do the evil destruction they did and the world is a witness to that. Though it is not rare for a victorious army to do what the TPLF army did in Tessenei and Barentu, the trail of destruction the Ethiopian army left behind in Eritrea is more of frustration for a failed mission and the lose in human lives it incured than anything else. As they had boasted so much of a victory they cannot show for, they had to invite their population to loot properties. So much so for restoring Tigrean pride. What kind of pride is it that comes by looting and stealing? Only a twisted mind will desire to get pride through theft and vandalism.
Lord have mercy!
Re: ሁሌ ሻቢያዎችን ሳስብ፤ እንዴት የቆሸሸ መሐረብ ሳይቀር እንደሚሰርቁ ትዝ ይለኝና በህሊናየ ቡቱቶ አርሚ ድቅን ይልብነነኛል።
Meles Zenawi's Own "Little" War of Rape, Looting, and Senseless and Wanton Destruction
By Paulos M. Natnael
June 20, 2000
Now that Ethiopia has managed to invade and occupy undisputed Eritrean territory -- with the help of hundreds of Russian military officers who designed the offensive plans and piloted the newly-purchased SU-25 and 27 fighter planes and MI-24 helicopter gun ships -- it also has managed to pull Eritrea to its level -- to sheer dependency on the charity of the international community to feed its people. A third of Eritrea's 3.5 million has been displaced fleeing the Ethiopian invasion, according to the UN. We have witnessed also the despicable acts of violence by the Ethiopian army in occupied Tokombia, Barentu, Guluj, Ali Gdr, and Tesseney. Soldiers raping 30 year old mothers and 60 year old grandmothers; Looting private homes and small businesses; tanks demolishing government buildings and destroying brand new hotels, gas stations, modern farming equipment, and carrying the rest back to Ethiopia. Senseless violence and wanton destruction!
The Ethiopians, particularly these vindictive Weyane regime, their supporters abroad including foreign Ethiopianists, apparently resented Eritrea's success and the self-reliant way of dealing with its own problems. Resented it because primarily Eritrea has proven them wrong. Not only was Eritrea viable economically, but its economy was growing at an amazing annual rate of 7-8% (World Bank estimate) from 1991-1998. Eritrea is not only economically viable but an economically successful state, thank you very much!
Graham Davis, a reporter, wrote last month the following in an article entitled, "Horn of Africa: two bald men fighting over a comb":
Only in Ethiopia do we see the logic (if there is logic in war) twisted beyond recognition. In a democratic country such as the United States of America, Britain, India, or Israel, the head of state - the president or the prime minister - would have been chased out of office and forced to resign in humiliation, had he or she behaved the way PM Meles of Ethiopia has been behaving. Unfortunately, and in spite of Ethiopia's pretensions to the contrary, Ethiopia is not even remotely resembling a democracy.
The parliament of Ethiopia is utilized only for political expediency by the ruling party's "politburo" members - an exclusive club of 5-7 member of the leadership of the Tigray People's Liberation Front(TPLF), some of whom do not even have official position in the government. The foreign minister, Seyoum Mesfin, said he needed to consult his government before giving a final decision whether to accept the 15-point peace package in Algiers on June 8, 2000. Eritrea had accepted the cease-fire agreement unconditionally, despite the fact that it was biased to Ethiopia's favor. The Ethiopians were said to be consulting the "government" including the "elected" parliament. This was all pretension and deception. While Meles and his cohorts pretended to be consulting with the rest of the government, the Ethiopian army was ordered by the same leadership to try and capture, if possible, the Eritrean port of Assab. Thus, fighting raged between June 6-10 and Meles expended thousands of his troops in the process. The Eritrean Defence Forces (EDF) managed to successfully repulse the offensive 37 km from Assab, where the EDF had, by order of the political leadership, withdrawn from its original 71 km border position. This had been verified by diplomats and journalists.
Are We Dealing With The Same Meles Zenawi?
Addressing the Eritrean people at the independence ceremony in Asmara in 1993 after Eritrea declared its independence from Ethiopia following the popular referendum in which 98% of Eritreans said yes to independence, the then-President Meles Zenawi declared,
Eritreans, thus, continue to wonder if this was the same person who told them to forgive and to not dwell on the past for the sake of the two brotherly people of Eritrea and Ethiopia. How glad the Eritrean people were to hear the Ethiopian president say to them 'let's bury the past; for this is a new day.'
Five short years latter, after his government consolidated power in Ethiopia with the help of ethnic Eritreans living in Ethiopia ( 70,000 of whom Meles has since expelled from Ethiopia) and the Eritrean government with its army, the Meles regime's Tigrayan elite in Tigray began encroaching into Eritrean territories. This encroachment, thoroughly documented now, was, inter alia, the cause of this so-called 'border war'. Although the current regime and the Ethiopian elite, blinded by hatred towards the success of Eritreans, tried to twist the truth beyond recognition, it is clear from the documents that have emerged since that the Tigrayan-Ethiopians had been trying to provoke Eritrea into reacting to their encroachment into Eritrean territory and unilaterally demarcating the international, albeit un-demarcated, border in the Badme and Bada region.
Fast Forward To June 2000
Thousands of Ethiopian soldiers (4125 "actual body count" in 48 hrs at the Assab front) were killed and thousands more wounded after the Prime Minister of Ethiopia (yes, the same Meles Zenawi) unilaterally declared the war with Eritrea "over" on Wednesday May 31, 2000. His declaration was a calculated political move. He wanted to tell the world Ethiopia had won the war and, at the same time, he hoped to obtain the blessing of the world for his occupation of undisputed Eritrean territories. But Meles, this often-described brilliant intellectual, failed to factor into his calculations that his pompous declaration might backfire badly if Eritrea decided not to cooperate with him. Of course Eritrea did not; how could it when its territory was occupied by an army that was raping Eritrean women, looting and destroying towns and villages deliberately and systematically. Therefore, it responded that there would be no cease fire as long as Ethiopian troops occupy undisputed Eritrean territories. Thus the war continued killing thousands more soldiers.
Dr. Martin Luther King wrote: "I am not afraid of the words of the violent but of the silence of the honest." In the second Ethio-Eritrean war, what disheartens Eritreans is the indifference and the deafening silence of the International community. Where is the outrage in Africa and the world when 70,000 Ethiopians of Eritrean origin were stripped of their identity, their hard-earned property confiscated without any due process, and expelled from Ethiopia? Where was ex-President Mandela, for God's sake, when thousands of Ethiopian youth were sent to their death in a "human wave" tactic? Where? And why the silence?
And today, June 20, as Eritreans all over the world and in Eritrea remembered the fallen heroes of the Liberation War as well as this second Ethio-Eritrean conflict, Meles' war in Eritrea seems to be over for now! Or has it? Only time will tell.
By Paulos M. Natnael
June 20, 2000
Now that Ethiopia has managed to invade and occupy undisputed Eritrean territory -- with the help of hundreds of Russian military officers who designed the offensive plans and piloted the newly-purchased SU-25 and 27 fighter planes and MI-24 helicopter gun ships -- it also has managed to pull Eritrea to its level -- to sheer dependency on the charity of the international community to feed its people. A third of Eritrea's 3.5 million has been displaced fleeing the Ethiopian invasion, according to the UN. We have witnessed also the despicable acts of violence by the Ethiopian army in occupied Tokombia, Barentu, Guluj, Ali Gdr, and Tesseney. Soldiers raping 30 year old mothers and 60 year old grandmothers; Looting private homes and small businesses; tanks demolishing government buildings and destroying brand new hotels, gas stations, modern farming equipment, and carrying the rest back to Ethiopia. Senseless violence and wanton destruction!
The Ethiopians, particularly these vindictive Weyane regime, their supporters abroad including foreign Ethiopianists, apparently resented Eritrea's success and the self-reliant way of dealing with its own problems. Resented it because primarily Eritrea has proven them wrong. Not only was Eritrea viable economically, but its economy was growing at an amazing annual rate of 7-8% (World Bank estimate) from 1991-1998. Eritrea is not only economically viable but an economically successful state, thank you very much!
Graham Davis, a reporter, wrote last month the following in an article entitled, "Horn of Africa: two bald men fighting over a comb":
The shameless war-mongers at Walta and other Weyane/Ethiopian Internet sites need to hear what foreigners such as Davis, their guests at posh new hotels such as the Addis Sheraton, are saying about them. Then again, they, the Weyane are shameless, so it does not matter! Why? Because war mongering and beating war-drums is in the soul and blood of the Ethiopian ruling class! They can't survive without it specially when it comes to Eritrea and Eritreans.There's enough food in Ethiopia to feed the population, according to one of the biggest relief agencies. It's just that having lost their cattle in the drought, the herdsmen have no money to buy it. Pay up or die is the sentence pronounced on these unfortunates by some of their own rulers. And if the rest of the world doesn't like it, then by all means be our guest and come and feed them yourself.
Only in Ethiopia do we see the logic (if there is logic in war) twisted beyond recognition. In a democratic country such as the United States of America, Britain, India, or Israel, the head of state - the president or the prime minister - would have been chased out of office and forced to resign in humiliation, had he or she behaved the way PM Meles of Ethiopia has been behaving. Unfortunately, and in spite of Ethiopia's pretensions to the contrary, Ethiopia is not even remotely resembling a democracy.
The parliament of Ethiopia is utilized only for political expediency by the ruling party's "politburo" members - an exclusive club of 5-7 member of the leadership of the Tigray People's Liberation Front(TPLF), some of whom do not even have official position in the government. The foreign minister, Seyoum Mesfin, said he needed to consult his government before giving a final decision whether to accept the 15-point peace package in Algiers on June 8, 2000. Eritrea had accepted the cease-fire agreement unconditionally, despite the fact that it was biased to Ethiopia's favor. The Ethiopians were said to be consulting the "government" including the "elected" parliament. This was all pretension and deception. While Meles and his cohorts pretended to be consulting with the rest of the government, the Ethiopian army was ordered by the same leadership to try and capture, if possible, the Eritrean port of Assab. Thus, fighting raged between June 6-10 and Meles expended thousands of his troops in the process. The Eritrean Defence Forces (EDF) managed to successfully repulse the offensive 37 km from Assab, where the EDF had, by order of the political leadership, withdrawn from its original 71 km border position. This had been verified by diplomats and journalists.
Are We Dealing With The Same Meles Zenawi?
Addressing the Eritrean people at the independence ceremony in Asmara in 1993 after Eritrea declared its independence from Ethiopia following the popular referendum in which 98% of Eritreans said yes to independence, the then-President Meles Zenawi declared,
It's safe to assume that almost every Eritrean who attended the ceremony or saw the footage on TV or on video afterwards was touched by the Ethiopian head-of-state's words. This writer remembers how, as Meles Zenawi spoke, the video zoomed towards the disabled war veterans on wheel chairs who were seated in front of the VIPs. They were applauding Meles' words.I just spoke to you representing Ethiopia, and now I speak to you as a comrade. I ask you not to scratch your wounds.
Eritreans, thus, continue to wonder if this was the same person who told them to forgive and to not dwell on the past for the sake of the two brotherly people of Eritrea and Ethiopia. How glad the Eritrean people were to hear the Ethiopian president say to them 'let's bury the past; for this is a new day.'
Five short years latter, after his government consolidated power in Ethiopia with the help of ethnic Eritreans living in Ethiopia ( 70,000 of whom Meles has since expelled from Ethiopia) and the Eritrean government with its army, the Meles regime's Tigrayan elite in Tigray began encroaching into Eritrean territories. This encroachment, thoroughly documented now, was, inter alia, the cause of this so-called 'border war'. Although the current regime and the Ethiopian elite, blinded by hatred towards the success of Eritreans, tried to twist the truth beyond recognition, it is clear from the documents that have emerged since that the Tigrayan-Ethiopians had been trying to provoke Eritrea into reacting to their encroachment into Eritrean territory and unilaterally demarcating the international, albeit un-demarcated, border in the Badme and Bada region.
Fast Forward To June 2000
Thousands of Ethiopian soldiers (4125 "actual body count" in 48 hrs at the Assab front) were killed and thousands more wounded after the Prime Minister of Ethiopia (yes, the same Meles Zenawi) unilaterally declared the war with Eritrea "over" on Wednesday May 31, 2000. His declaration was a calculated political move. He wanted to tell the world Ethiopia had won the war and, at the same time, he hoped to obtain the blessing of the world for his occupation of undisputed Eritrean territories. But Meles, this often-described brilliant intellectual, failed to factor into his calculations that his pompous declaration might backfire badly if Eritrea decided not to cooperate with him. Of course Eritrea did not; how could it when its territory was occupied by an army that was raping Eritrean women, looting and destroying towns and villages deliberately and systematically. Therefore, it responded that there would be no cease fire as long as Ethiopian troops occupy undisputed Eritrean territories. Thus the war continued killing thousands more soldiers.
Dr. Martin Luther King wrote: "I am not afraid of the words of the violent but of the silence of the honest." In the second Ethio-Eritrean war, what disheartens Eritreans is the indifference and the deafening silence of the International community. Where is the outrage in Africa and the world when 70,000 Ethiopians of Eritrean origin were stripped of their identity, their hard-earned property confiscated without any due process, and expelled from Ethiopia? Where was ex-President Mandela, for God's sake, when thousands of Ethiopian youth were sent to their death in a "human wave" tactic? Where? And why the silence?
And today, June 20, as Eritreans all over the world and in Eritrea remembered the fallen heroes of the Liberation War as well as this second Ethio-Eritrean conflict, Meles' war in Eritrea seems to be over for now! Or has it? Only time will tell.
