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By Semere T Habtemariam
For the last two decades, the idea of writing a memoir has been a constant theme in my conversations with both Mesfin Hagos and the late Adhanom Ghebremariam. Both are excellent writers with an impeccable command of the Tigrinya language. To the chagrin of others and myself, both decided to kick the can down the road. Sadly, it is too late for the latter, but I am glad that Mesfin has finally been able to grace us with his much anticipated and needed book. And what a gift it has turned out to be; it is worth the long wait. He has earned the right to look like the cat that ate the canary.

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AgamePoblican,

Both of them became Agame stooges. Adhanom departed while still in service but Mesfin was unfortunate to see the demise of his masters. I doubt if his memoire includes anything related to his treason specially the last one when he and a lot of his cohorts, like meskerem.net, joined the Agame bandwagon. They must have believed the TPLF thugs had what it takes to carry them to Asmara to commit such blunder or as we used to say ባናና ረጊጾም!

I wonder what Mesfin Hagos thinks when he sees videos like the following which shows the Eritrean tigers marching through Adi Grat a day before the Agame surrender in Pretoria.

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[Mesob]

There is no doubt, as a military commander in Gedli, a superb General and Minster of Defense, Mesfin Hagos has no match in his military and political affairs on Eritrea. Issaias is only ahead of him in political organizational affairs, so the second best in military affairs are Petros Solomon, Sibhat Efrem and Gerezgiher Wuchu.
Since I have not read the book, I will maintain my neutrality. Unless Semere habtemariam has grown up into mature and an independent man, I will not buy anything he tries to sell me, because he had been serving as a "useful idiot" of many Jihadi Jebrtis before. Once to sell the Arabization of Eritrea at the expense of Eritrean languages Tigrayt-Tigrinya and its original identity, he shamelessly wrote at the Jeberti's Janjawid website: ... Arabic was part of Eritrea since the time of Abaseid Caliph's. As a useful idiot, he had no courage to mention that since the time of immemorial the Geeze language and its off springs Tigrayt - Tigrinia and many African languages such as Blin, Kunama ... were also spoken in current land called Eritrea. These Eritrean languages have only one home, that is Eritrea ! but the foreign language Arabic peddled by people who are volunteering to be Arab slaves have 24 rich Arab nations as host and as defenders.
The only thing that I will agree right now is its title: An African Revolution Reclaimed
I am glad Mesfin Hagos rejected the title suggested by the Arab slaves which would have been masted as: An Arab Revolution Reclaimed

Brief history of the burning of Eritrean Tigre or Tigrayt books by the Arabist Jebha ELF in order to Arabize Eritrea

• “In the 1970s the ELF leaders were not so innocent from burining literature. In 1978 the Tigre text -books which were prepared for school children within the ELF were also condemned and burnt after the ELF executive committee said that ” teaching in Tigre was not our policy “

http://www.ehrea.org/eduuncivila.php

• The burning of Tigre books – Saleh Ghadi’s account. Below is how the Islamist and Arabist Salih Gadi Johar was exposed while he was trying to cover up and white wash the history of the burning of Eritrean Tigre language books in the late 1970s by Eritrea's Jebha ELF leaders

If there is one human being that would never be suspected of ignorance in matters big and small regarding Jebha, it would be Ghadi. So the idea that somehow he was not in the know regarding the burning of Tigre books in mieda would be a joke. Only he didn’t claim ignorance, but came up with an utterly benign version of it.
Here is the strategy the Awate duo employ in their anesthetizing mission: if any damaging evidence surfaces, deny it; but if the chances of counter-evidence seems to be real, trivialize it.
Here is how Ghadi handled the claim that I made in this article – that Jebha burned all Tigre books:
“Saay Salih Abdu Yonous, this is sounding as if a library was burned. The ‘books’ are actually handwritten, a few pages typed, copies for use as a teaching aid–sort of a curriculum of a few pages. Some of those who wrote it didn’t even speak Tigayet and all those who were pushing Tigrayet in place of Arabic were Tigrinya speakers, including Zemehret. I am not sure but I doubt if few pages reached the duplicator stage. But exaggeration has been the hallmark on such issues.”
His first reaction was: how do I attribute the burning of the Tigre books to Kebessa elite? This is a brilliant move, because if he could do that, the Tigre elites would be absolved of that horrendous sin of burning their language – for that is what the burning of the books symbolized. First, he claimed that it was written by Tigrignas who don’t speak Tigre (or Tigayet, as he calls it)! The idea is to make it seem a preposterous idea from the very beginning. And in doing that, Ghadi found a perfect scapegoat: Zemhret Yohannes! This is a smart move since it would make many of the Kebessa zombies happy, that being part of the ongoing anesthesiology.

Ghadi’s second strategy is to trivialize the incident to an inconsequential point: that it is a matter of few handwritten pages. Think of Jebha that has been printing countless pamphlets suddenly preferring to do it the medieval way, with hand-writing scribes toiling in the candle light, when it comes to books!

Enter Amnuel Hidrat, who spoils this damage control by spilling the beans, telling the Awate duo that the burning concerns 1,500 printed books written by none other than Kerenites (which means that Gadi had heard it before over and over one thousand and one times, as a bed-time story).

Since the spilling of the beans, we have yet to hear from Gadi on this matter. Source asmarino.www:

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... Arabic [IS} part of Eritrea.

Arabic has Semitic roots like Tigrinya, Amharic, Tigrayt, Hebrew, Aramaic and so on. Arabic is no language from Mars.

You need to expand your horizon.