In contrast, Eritrea’s ruling party is on a constant path of “Tesfiya” (purification): in his last interview, PIA stated that those who advocate demarcation and those who say “let’s learn from our recent history and go slow” are wiseguys and know-nothings who should be challenged. We can talk about the need for Eritrea to be flexible (theory) but the TPLF practices it: just yesterday, it reconciled with itself: members who had been arrested or kicked out in previous power squabbles were welcomed. Your assessment of TPLF (descending) is not supported by the facts. If TPLF said half the things Abiy and Lemma say, we would be filing complaints with the UN about how our sovereignty is being threatened.Ĥ. The most relevant part (to me) is that the so-called Team Lemma (whose reform in Ethiopia I greatly admire) has been very coy about the Red Sea and very blunt about its ambitions to have naval forces. Since we Eritreans have had a long history of miscalculation (resulting in 20 out of the last 28 years in some kind of war or sanction or both), perhaps it is time for us to humble ourselves and acknowledge we don’t know Ethiopia as much as we think we do. Some of the most militant Qey Bahrachn are not Amhara or Tigrayan: they are Gurage, Oromo (Team Lemma), Gamo, Weliyta, Sidama, etc. But this is our ignorance of Ethiopia talking. Our (Eritrean) problem is we think anyone who speaks Amharic is Amhara. I believe your characterization of Qey Bahrachn (“our Red Sea”) as emanating from Tigrayan and Amhara elites is characteristically Eritrean and also wrong. And will do so for as long as the culture of Isaias Afwerki reigns.ģ. Because the culture of telling casual lies (we have assembly we treasure all our artists we are done with war) continues unabated. But it is happening now for the same reason it was denied before: it serves the interests of the governments. they sang Osman Abdulrahim’s “quxri slki.”) or Yemane Barya’s song welcoming the Eritrean National Assembly (now non-existent) how we conducted Hjum on the Ethiopian enemy (Zemach) or how we are few but we always defeat our enemies (wedi Tkul.) Peace–the absence of war, the facilitation of people and goods–is a great thing. Almost all who interviewed them are state employees (Ethiopian state media.) They are welcomed by government officials and hosted at government-owned facilities where they can sing songs of people prevented from entering Eritrea (eg.
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Even the much ballyhooed “people-to-people” Eritrean cultural troupe concert now underway in Ethiopia is that between government employees. The rapprochement between Eritrea and Ethiopia is a rapprochement of governments and their supporters. Abbysinia is simply the core of Ethiopia and to define Ethiopia by reference to “Abyssinia” is akin to foreigners referring to the US as “yankees.”Ģ. Irreconcilable would be, for example, capitalism vs communism or theism vs atheism. True, they are a sea apart (geographically) but there is much shared history, not to mention faith (assuming the Islamic identity of Ethiopia is not superficial) between the two. There is nothing irreconcilable between the “cultures, faiths” of Ethiopia and the Middle East.
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Th following is a comment at the Awate Forum in reply to Semere Tesfai’s comment linked here.ġ.