Unconfirmed sources say that Sophia Tesfamariam now has her own office at the embassy located on New Hampshire Avenue, plus a smaller one at ECCC (Eritrean Community Center) on 601 L Street, NW, Washington, DC. This is the same place that the FBI raided a few years ago.
Sophia’s main activity as a media writer has been against Eritrean dissenters and the Ethiopian Regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
Sophia and the G15
Sophia emerged as a proponent of the Isaias regime in 2001after an open letter by a group now known as G15 the President of Eritrea went public after a disastrous border war with Ethiopia claimed high casualties.
All except three who had at the time were abroad, Ambassador Haile Menkerios, Ambassador Adhanom Gebremariam and Mesfin Hagos, were rounded up on September 26th and have never been heard of since. The 13th signatory, Mohammed Berhan Blata, recanted, stayed with the government and later was allowed to go abroad and settle in Sweden where every now and then contributes articles.
In a pall talk event regarding the “disappeared” 11 Eritreans, she defended the regime’s actions .
Sophia and Saleh Johar
On January 4, 2008 in an article which shocked the Eritrean – American Diaspora, she wrote an article targeting Awate’s controversial webmaster Saleh Gadi (since changed last name to Johar) 19th paragraph, which begins with “In 1977, my source…”
When he sued for defamation, she hired a legal firm and went to a California court where the judge decided that they had no jurisdiction as the plaintiff was residing in Virginia.
She declared victory in the pro Eritrean government website dehai while the plaintiff’s status on the case became an issue as he did not update his supporters on the cause that was regarded as an offense on free speech and a continuing effort by the Eritrean regime trying to silence dissenters in the Diaspora.
Sophia and Sweden
While Sophia ‘celebrated” her victory, she attended a “horn of Africa” meeting in Stockholm where the attendees donated 100.000 Korons for her “legal defense”.
In an interview with a Swedish media, “She was scathing in her criticism against the Swedish involvement. “What is wrong with you Swedish media? Leave us alone, we want to manage our own country by ourselves. Why would you care about Dawit Isaak, one single individual? This campaign will come to nothing", she said to Dagens Nyheter’s journalist Sanna Björling. She continued by questioning what democracy really was.“Who decides what democracy is? We have our own type of democracy! There is no real opposition anyway, they are all runaway thugs, “Sophia Tesfamariam said to DN. For details visit http://mobil.sr.se/site/index.aspx?artikel=3020115
Sophia and Sanctions targeting individuals
A few years ago, her sister Helen Tesfamariam in one of the Eritrean regimes various publicly open humanitarian and social events in the Washington DC area, donated more than $10,000 planned for her wedding to an Eritrean “cause”. When this was reported on websites, Awate's co-founder wrote a satirical article whereby she was given “Platinum” award for her service to the ruling party of Eritrea. It was no surprise then to Metro residents when the divorce was processed quietly.
Sophia invariably has inconsistent articles in which she sometimes has formal flows and then slides into insults and brazen name calling. For some observers, these brazen outbursts are deemed to be her own while the formal ones are the Eritrean Regime’s advisors giving her legal and detailed sources from inside the country. Recently she has progressed into interviews and meetings with Ethiopian opposition groups. http://www.ethiopianreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14551&p=99189
In the process of her service to the now sanctioned regime, she is given credit for “silencing” writers and commentators whose “demise” in the Internet battles with the Diaspora is seen as propaganda value to Isaias’s abhorrence for free media.
Sophia Tesfamariam, whose father was an employee of the Ethiopian Airlines, is believed to have been born in Ethiopia, grew up in several African countries, before the family settled in the Reston Virginia area. She is married with three children and has a bachelor’s degree. There is also speculation she has been given an upgraded version of Tsehai Habtemariam’s position at the Eritrean Embassy. Tsehai left the office to accompany her husband, Howard University’s Surgeon Dr. Haile Mezghebe to Eritrea. Tsehai Habtemariam’s previous official title was “Political Officer” which callers used to hear upon calling her line.
Eritrea has been under a UN imposed Sanction since December 23, 2009. This Sanction has a travel ban on high ranking officials, arms embargo and condition to freeze assets belonging to individuals or firms related thereof.
Observers in the Diaspora see this “hiring” as preemption to the diplomatic void that could be created if Presidential advisors who speak English such as Yemane Ghebreab and Yemane Gebremeskel are prohibited from traveling abroad. While Sophia is at the forefront of the media blitz by the regime, it is claimed the main enforcers of the regime’s campaign of intimidation and blackmail remain behind.
Noting his conditions, the health personnel collaborated and extended their support to him by providing him accommodation to sleep with them (as the temperature is relatively better outside than in the underground cell and there is fresh air outside) and supplied him food from their own rations which were relatively better than the food provided to the prisoners. Later in that night, the prison officer (now I forgot his name) who was next in rank to “Wedi Granite” in authority learned that the health personnel had collaborated with the patient and he was very much angry that Kibrom had been staying outside the underground cell. He threatened the health personnel with punishment for their actions and ordered Kibrom to be returned to the underground cell. 
Sources from Asmara (Eritrea) indicate that the Afwerki administration has been on a panic mood since the day the UN has passed the resolution to impose sanctions on Eritrea. President Isaias Afwerki has fallen into old proven tactics that served him well in times of crisis. Information leaked out from Colonel Tesfaldet Habteselasie office (President’s Office) indicate that as a number of people that have been sidelined for a long time (in the Orwellian language of the PFDJ ruling party, “frozen”) are being “reactivated” to resume important posts, various reshufflings are also being made.
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so, DO SOME THING, DO SOMETHING! and SOME THING IS BETTER THAN NOTHING..
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U r true Eritrean dear.I wish these so called opposition dogs could love their country as u and other Eritreans do.
They r sitting with enemy government and telling me they will rule me better.Go to hell dogs! Sophia a great Eritrean we youngsters r all behind u! God Bless u dear
Down to traitors!
[MR BADU 01, - ANGEL 1, - and WEDI ASMERA 07}
WRITING LIES AND SPREADING RUMOURS, PICTURES WITH NO ANY TRUTH IS A BIG SIN AND IT IS AGAINEST ALMIGHTY GOD RULE. SO LIES AND DISTORTING, AND RUMORING AND DISTRUBITING nonsese mails AGAINEST SOMEONES IMAGE UNDER WHAT EVER CONDITIONS WILL NOT WORK. how ever the woyane puppets must in advance you should know is that THE HORN OF AFRICA COMMUNITIES ARE NOW EMERGING - COMING UP FASTLY AND STRONGLY. LONG LIVE TO OUR HORN AFRICAN COMMUNITIES, ( the new power with new NEWS on the way. ethiopian , eritrean , sudan, kenya, djibuti uganda, tanzania, somalia ) bye bye woyane for ever.
Gentle readers ,
What you guys who wrote to me through my e-mail address have showed me is that the level of their inmaturity, and how much uncivilized poor minded you are all . It is well proven and logic that no body has to expect good and reliable things that one can learn or get some thing good from this Weyane financed ( by our poor Ethiopian money ) web site. Any visitor can understand this web site is prepared purely for insulting only. Even they dont know to whom they are insulting OR CRYING MAY BE FOR HILARY CLINTON ? -or rather it is a commercial site whom its management are working for living only.
It is crystal clear to any visitor that the way the writers use to write their screen is pointless even I thing they don’t know to whom they are addressing their foolish and maleducated insults. Personally I don’t wish to visit this web site because as known to all it a web site use to be called a rude web site.
The truth is, from what a close friend of mine whom he has shared me a lot of mysterious stories about the Woyane’s regime evil tactics that one can’t imagine. He is a very polite fellow born in Shire endaselassie a town located at the Tigre province (The so called KLL Tigrai) but currently living abroad now he has joined our EPPF (Ethiopian people’s party front) lately.
Dear readers I come to know deeply many fake stories that are manufactured by these underground dark covered black hearted groups how they prepare their tale tale stories specially stories pointing against the Ethiopian opposition forces and the Eretria people and their leaders.
Today it is well known for every one who visit this website as the majority who use to write through this web site are purely from the people of Adwa, whom they are formed and regrouped by the beggar Melese Zenawi the black twisted hearted Shorty and kinky man working in underground offices guided directly from the ministry of information to function their evil propaganda through their asmarino web site as an invisible community.
These mafia like invisible groups with no known addressee are well budgeted and are operated by the woyane embassy cliques in certain known countries and these invisible persons but mostly are known to many of us are earning a lump sum of money and special bonuses specially for those who work hard to spread rumors,
Such as going places where the refugees are dwelling and funding them with and some gifts and money specially for those cooperating with them for attending the show with the video cameras as well interviews with sound and picture recording system as if it is HAPPENING TRUE and writing with them unfounded stories, building or developing a false pictures mostly prepared by the computer graphic system, recording unfounded fake stories accompanied with pictures against the Ethiopian different fighting fronts as well against the Eritrean people.
They creating all means or searching of every distorting unfounded events with the images of the Ethiopian opposition factions leaders, Eritrean government leaders, and by paying thousands of dollars for getting such weak minded people at the refugee camps and show them through the ETV. as what we use to observed their pictures and their cheap written messages that they display or propagate with the false stories even against their own Tigrean liberation fighting forces and the Eretria people. I have a very vast true stories about woyane and its hired puppets and will follow soon.
More stories will follow
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She should know that even in america she can be executed for the crimes she is committing. She is free in america as long as she is working peacefully, but there the law is there if she is preferring to work as a mercenary of the mad dog Isaias.
She should take care of her children , as they will face social isolation as result of the shameful acts of their sick minded mother Sofia.
Victory to the masses!!!
Belih
SWhat she is doing is a reflection of her personal frustration from her own private life, but sooner or later she will be executed for the crimes is doing against the people & the nation of eritrea.
There is a say in amharic " Yewega Biresam yetewega ayresam " , So we will never forget the crimes being committed by rude creature like sophia tesfamariam,
she is doing all these crimes as a reflection of the ways she was raised,
Victory to the masses!!!
down fall to PFDJ junta & its allies!!!
FEW OF THE WOYANES AND FEW OF THEIR BOOTS HAVE LOST THEIR CONTROL.... THEIR MAIN TARGET IS INSULING ERITREA AND ITS PEOPLE... POOR WOYANE'S LITTLE SONS.
YOU LIKE IT OR NOT ERITREANS ARE ERITREANS AND ERITREANS ARE PROUD OF THEIR COUNTRY AND THEIR PEOPLE. ERITREAN WHERE EVER HE/SHE IS HE/SHE SUPPORTS HIS / HER COUNTRY HIS / HER PEOPLE HIS / HER GOVERNMENT. THERFORE ALL
TO THE DEAD WOYANE half MAN and brainless taffla
THE CROOKS IF THEY STAY ON CRYING IT IS NOTHING FOR ERITREANS. SO YOU BETTER GO FOR your Q TO GET the HANDOUTS AND SOME MONEY TO BE USED FOR your INTERNET. . WRITE AS FAR AS YOU CAN... INSULT AS MUCH AS YOU CAN - WRITE FAKE STORIES AS MUCH AS YOU CAN AT THE END ALL YOUR TRIES ARE NOTHING JUST AS WE SEE LIKE A WIND BLOW.... ERITREA HAS NOT A FOOLISH PEOPLE SUCH AS LIKE WOYANES NAME TAFFLA
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For the former mighty HGDeF to expect support from Omar al Beshir of Sudan, i.e. a convicted criminal Jihadist who committed atrocities against the proud moslems of Darfur in it self shows how low Issaias and the HGDeFites have hit.
Omar al Beshir of Sudan had already voted for the sanctions of Eritrea in IGAD along all members by abstaining and not opposing the issue to go through the AU and the UN.
Poor Issaias can not find even one credible friend to defend him, neither China nor Russia, not even the African Union or the Arabs.
I never expected that Issaias would hit this low, very low. Get ready the worst is coming.
There is no doubt that Eritrea is the worst place to live in this planet. How do we know? Its promising young citizens - the Warsays - are all voting not only on both hands but also on both feet by walking all the way to Israel, Libya or Ethiopia even with the shoot-to-kill HGDeFite orders at the borders.
Eritrea is not good enough to its young citizens, that is the reason even the ardent HGDeFites like Sophia and Ghideon Abay, the Gojamie, do not want to go back and teach maths or English in Asmara University, oops ? I mean Mai Nefhi college and will never take thier children back to Eritrea to live for good.
Issaias and the HGDefites will simply end up as the biggest losers just like Sadam Husien and the Baath Party of Iraq.
we eritrean support our government 100%
no eritrean oppostion in eritrea.
all you guys are weyane/tplf agent
all you guys are tigrain.
guess what tigrain we are comming after
ethiopian & eritrean joining hand to wipe tigrain out from the face of the earth.
listen what ethiopian saying about the tigrains
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/27126
http://www.ginbot7.org/
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Eritreans it looks like our struggle will continue forever from within and from without.
agame/ weyane tigray will get wipe out from the face of the earth.
we, eritrean & ethiopian working together to wipe agame from the face of the earth.
we eritrean working with ethiopian.
we will get you agame . cave you out from your cave.
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/27126
http://www.ginbot7.org/
:D :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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