Time Machine No. 001 - Eritrea Police Force - 1951: Extracts from a discussion between Supt. of Police L.M. Braine and shifta leader Ghebry Tesfazien
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Eritrea Police Force - 1951 Extracts from a discussion between Supt. of Police L.M. Braine and shifta leader Ghebry Tesfazien
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thank you for enlighting us with the documents, they speak for themselves.
Keep this record because we will revisit this statement as more information is released.
The main question rose by many that Kremti and many of you is running away from answering is – why did your friend on the "Awate" website hiding by the alias “Ali Salim” tarnish the name of Shifta Ghebre Tesfazion? Why? What was he trying to accomplish?
Anyhow, forget Shifta Awate because the Kunama people had already spoken and the coming documents will shed light on who were behind the destruction and "depredation" on the Kunama people
Just tell us why the man behind the Awate website chose to tarnish the name of Shifta Ghebre Tesfazion without even mentioning his "accomplishments " against the fascist Italians? What was his motive?
Shiftas were from every part of Eritrea but why did "Awate" web site chose Shifta Ghebre to demonize the entire highland Eritreans?
The Kunamas were never persecuted or killed by Awate. It is all fiction that is being fabricated by the descendants of the ANDNET and the COMMANDOES to cover up their shameful past. In fact, they are being percuted, killed, and chased out of their land nowadays by the same descendants of the traitors.
Eritreans have long ago been cured of SECTARIANISM, and are ready to face the present and the future together whatever it may be regardless of the wishes of the offspring of the traitors.
They will handle their language, and other national issues as did their elders on the eve of the federation.
Please let us differentiate between a shifta and a rebel.
Martyr Hamid Idris Awate was never a SHIFTA who is a BANDIT that lives on marauding, plundering, and robbing.
Martyr Hamid was a REBEL/AMETSEGNA/HIGEWET who took the law into his hands first under the British to defend his people from the attacks of the ANDNET SHIFTAs, and then during the Ethiopian occupation TO LIBERATE HIS COUNTRY from the occupiers.
The ethnicists, religious bigots, and mass murderers were the ANDNET SHIFTAS, THE COMMANDOES. and the traitors who sold Eritrea. And now it is their descendants who are still incessantly working hard to polarize Eritrea on regional and religious lines. Too bad for them; Eritreans have been cured of those diseases.
It is the descendants of the traitors who sold Eritrea and forced it to spend more than 3 ( three ) decades to fight for liberating itself from their masters who are MUDDLE-HEADED and CONVOLUTED without knowing any sense of belonging, because they are untrustworthy and both themselves and Eritreans know it..
MARTYR HAMID IDRIS AWATE and GENERATIONS OF HIS FOLLLOWERS had a VERY CLEAR VISION of DEFENDING JUSTICE and LIBERTY in their BELOVED ERITREA.
If destroying the cosy life of the traitors with their mother Ethiopia is theft, so be it . All free Eritreans are proud of that.
Who liberated Eritrea?
Eritrea was liberated by the cumulative efforts of all Eritreans starting with MARTYR HERO HAMID IDRIS AWATE and his 13 ( thirteen ) companions, one of whom FAID earned the honour of being the first to fall in the armed struggle for Eritrean liberation, and ending with those who finally chased out the Ethiopians.
The sons and daughters of the traitors did not liberate Eritrea. They either flooded the job markets of the Middle East or fled to the WEST. They were also the AWOL .
The rest of us were either fighting in the battle field or toiling to support families and the fighters.
It is you, who should be ashamed of to elevate a notorious Shifta murderer and a genocider of the unarmed Kunama people and many others as a "hero".
It is you who should be ashamed for hoisting a murderer as a “hero” on the bodies and burned down villages of the most marginalized and subjugated Kunama people.
It is you who rejected your own languages and heritage to appease your Arab masters in the name of religion that should be ashamed after all the sacrifice paid by the Eritrean war dead, a majority of them highland Christians whom you used them against the only Christians in the region, just to insult them later.
The Kunama did what any human being could do, fight back. The more you the supporters of this genocider criminal open your stinking mouth to defend this evil, the more you expose your rotten and fossilized minds.
Hagherawi,
You somewhat got it right when you said, “Two generation of Eritreans went on his [Awate’s] track and paid a heavy price to liberate their country”. But therein lies the problem: the result clearly shows what it means for a nation to follow the footsteps of an ethnicist, religious bigot and mass murderer; and for that, a mute when it comes to articulating his “vision”, however muddle-headed and convoluted those were.
But there is a riddle for you, Hagherawi: it happens that more sons and daughters of the fathers “loyal to imperial Ethiopia” – as you are trying derisively to put it – died by following Awate’s footsteps than those who are fanatically trying to claim him now as their own. I wish they didn’t, but that happens to be the case.
Here is a lesson for you, Hagherawi: you cannot create a nation when all that you want from the other half is sacrifice, and only sacrifice. There has to be more, much more; and there is not the slightest bit of movement towards that positive direction from you and the likes of you. Instead, all that I see is a movement towards the opposite direction. Your hatred for those who have sacrificed the most shows no boundary; it has surpassed the negative feeling you had towards the Amharas. If it required independence (separation) for you to be satisfied regarding the latter, what would it take for you to feel satisfied regarding the former? I could thing of a lot of nasty things, but for sure nation-building isn’t one of them.
It is often said a nation’s character is to be seen not by how it treats its strong but its weak. From your comments before, it is clear that you want to be seen as a defender of ethnic minorities; and that would be fine, if you could only follow it up. Yet, you want to create a nation by making a hero of a man that committed genocide in broad daylight on one of those very ethnic groups – the Kunama. Sacrifice the Kunama for the better good – is that what it is all about?
Hagherawi, whatever your intentions are, nation-building (are Hagherawinet) isn’t one of them..
YG
"… to justify their long absence from the struggle."
This is similar to a thief and a liar calling his victim "a thief".
Who liberated Eritrea, and in the process got killed and maimed? How many percent of you participated in the liberation war?
You were Absent Without Leave (AWOL) and were spectators on the sidelines, vacationing in Islamic paradises such as Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Kuwait (Gadi) etc. When crunch time arrives you and your numerous dependants quietly move to the West to freeload welfare cheques and to use the free Health Service.
I understand many might be disappointed by the practices of Ghebry, Asfaha W/mechaeel and Andinet Party, but this doesn't mean that it is the end of the world; do good things and difiently you will make a history that all of us will be proud way.
The strategy many takes to erase the shameful history that inflicted them, I think it is wrong. As far as they think that they wish to make all Eritreans are shiftas and create equality in being a shifta, then the curse will hunt them generation after generation. Commenters don't waste your time defending shiftas, think about constructing a new history that you will become proud of.
Sure! None of his partners in crime will call him by that name as that will be self-accusatory.
" … except those whose families were in the payroll of the Ethiopians …"
Guilt by association! "Hitler, Charles Manson, Shoko, Asahara, Jim Jones believed 1+1 =2. Do you believe that 1+1 =2? Then you must be like those bad people"
Ecorrenti, you are a pathetic time waster. First you must learn how to reason logically.
"… Awate was a reasonably educated man who was well known by both the British and the Italians."
May I ask what his education was? In a madrassa? Hatred of non-believers? Ethnic cleansing?
"… a giant like Awate who always fought for noble causes would not stoop to killing a child."
Let us assume he was a "giant", although this is unproven. Does it follow that he is incapable of religious and ethnic motivated mass murder? May I list some well known examples to demonstrate this possibility?
tsibuk nabra nisinkulatna!!
Then they started incriminating the glorious patriotic deeds of the freedom fighters to justify their long absence from the struggle.
Well, I do not have to waste my time, because there will come a day when the dust will settle, and clear Eritrean history will emerge no matter how hard the traitors try to smear the reputation of our heroes whatever their CREED, BREED, OR STEAD.
Regards
The main question rose by many that you are still running away from, like a child soldier from ELF’s TsbaH Camp from answering is – why did your friend on the Awate website hiding by the alias “Ali Salim” tarnish the name of Harbegna Ghebray Tesfazion? Why? What was he trying to accomplish? By the way, if “Shifta” Ghebray is not Harbegna, who else deserves the title?
Anyhow, forget Shifta Awate because the Kunama people had already spoken. Just tell us why the man behind the Awate website tarnished the name of Harbegna Ghebray Tesfazion without even mentioning his patriotic accomplishments ’ against the fascist Italians? What was his motive?
You have been defending this man and his website “Awate” as a “credible” witness in many occasions with your "photo" memory :) …
1. You sound very desperate to sell the marauding Shifta Awate to Eritreans at any cost. If you want to know who Shifta Awate was, ask the Kunama people who were his victims and who raised arms against after the genocide the Jebha Janjawid and Awate committed on the unarmed Kunama people. The Kunama people have spoken. There is no better witness than the people.
The Kunama people who are still living in Eritrea and the Kunama people living in the refugee camps in Wa’ela Nehbi in Ethiopia can attest to this fact under oath. He was just another Janjawid just like those tribal Janjawids that are burning and roaming in Darfur, no more, no less.
2. Whatever you do or fiction you invent, you and your likes will never change this historical fact. Idris Awate was a notorious, cruel and crude monster to many people, especially to the Kunama population. The Kunama people and every Eritrean should demand that no monument or any sign that glorifies this monster should be built, not only in traditional Kunama land but also in any part of Eritrea. You are repeating the fiction invented and retold many times in the tea rooms of kessela and Khartoum as “history”, just like some deranged people who say "Hitler was a saint".
If you want to be respected like any people in this planet, first respect others and their pain.
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