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Radio Dimtsi Harnnet Sweden 06.03.2021

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Saturday, 06 March 2021 11:03

መዓልቲ ደቂ ኣንስትዮ እንክንዝክር!

Written by ቤት ጽሕፈት ዜና ሰዲህኤ

ርእሰ-ዓንቀጽ ሰዲህኤ

ደቂ ኣንስትዮ ብቁጽሪ ዘይኮነስ ብተሳትፎን ኣበርክቶን ፍርቂ ኣካል ሕብረተሰብ ብምዃነን ንሳተን ከይተሳተፈኦ ዝዕወት ኩለንተናዊ ናይ ለውጢ መስርሕ የለን። ወሳንነት ግደ ደቂ ኣንስትዮ ኣብ ቃልሲ ጥራይ ዘይኮነ፡ ኣብ ኩሉ ህይወት ወዲ ሰብ ዝንጸባረቕ እዩ። ካብዚ መሰረታዊ ቦታአን ብዝነቐለ 8 መጋቢት ከም ዓለምለኸ መዓልቲ ደቂ ኣንስትዮ ክትኽበር ተወሲና። 8 መጋቢት ናብዚ ደረጃዚ ዝማዕበለት ድሕሪ ነዊሕ ውረድ ደይብን መሪር ቃልስን እዩ። እቲ ናብዚ ዘብጸሐ ታሪኻዊ መስርሕ ኣዝዩ ሰፊሕ ስለ ዝኾነ፡ ካብ ማይ ባሕሪ ብጭልፋ ንምጥቃስ እንተዘይኮይኑ ዘርዚርካ ዝውዳእ ኣይኮነን።

እዛ ዕለት እዚ ቦታ’ዚ ክትሕዝ ዝኸኣለት ኣብታ መዓልቲ ብ1908 ኣብ ሕቡራት መንግስታት ኣሜሪካ ጾታዊ ወጽዓ ብዘንቀሎ ኣስታት 15 ሺሕ ደቂ ኣንስትዮ ዝተሳተፋሉ ምልዕዓል ተራእዩ። ቀንዲ ሕቶ ናይዘን ደቂ ኣንስትዮ፡ ብዛዕባ ማዕረ ክፍሊትን መሰል ምድማጽ ኣብ ግዜ ምርጫን ገደብ ናይ ስራሕ ሰዓታትን ከም ዝነበረ መዛግብቲ ታሪኽ ይሕብሩ። ብሳላዚ ቃልሰን መዓልቲ ደቂ ኣንስትዮ ብ28 ለካቲት 1909 ኣብ ሕቡራት መንግስታት ኣሜሪካ ክትክበር ጀሚራ። ድሕሪዚ ብ1910 ኣብ ከተማ ኮፐንሃገን ካብ 17 ሃገራት ዝተወከላ ኣስታት 100 ደቂ ኣንስትዮ ዝተሳተፋሉ ኮንፈረንስ ተኻይዱ። ዕላማ ናይዚ ኮንፈረንስ ብዛዕባ ድርብ ወጽዓ ደቂ ኣንስትዮን መፍትሒኡን ምዝታይ ነይሩ። ብምቕጻል ብ19 መጋቢት 1911 ኣብ ሃገራት ኦስትሪያ፡ ደንማርክ፡ ጀርመንን ስዊዘርላንድን ዝያዳ ሓደ ሚልዮን ደቂ ኣንስትዮን ደቂ ተባዕትዮን ዝተሳተፍሉ ንማዕርነት ደቂ ኣንስትዮ ዝጠልብ ሰላማዊ ሰልፍታት ተኻየደ። እዚ ምንቅስቓስ ደቂ ኣንስትዮ ኣብ 1914-1918 ቀዳማይ ውግእ ዓለም ጠጠው ንክብል ግደ ነይርዎ። ብድሕሪኡ ኣብ ዝተፈላለዩ ቦታታትን ዝተፈላለየ ዕለታትን ክትዝከር ድሕሪ ምጽናሕ እታ ብ1913 ዝጀመረት 8 መጋቢት ብደረጃ ዓለም ክሳብ ሎሚ ዓለም ለኸ መዓልቲ ደቂ ኣንስትዮ ኮይና ትዝከር ኣላ። ብ1975 ከኣ ንመጀመርያ ግዜ 8 መጋቢት ብደረጃ ሕቡራት ሃገራት ዓለም ብወግዒ ክትክበር ክኢላ።

ደቂ ኣንስትዮ ማዕረ ክፋል ሕብረተሰብ ኣብ ልዕሊ ምዃነን፡ ጓለንስተይቲ መሰረት ሕብረተሰብ ስለ ዝኾነት ናታ ዓወት፡ ናይ መላእ ሕብረተሰብ ዓወት እዩ። “ጓለንስተይቲ ምስትምሃር ሕብረተሰብ ምስትምሃር እዩ” ዝበሃል እውን ወሳኒ ግደ ጓለንስተይቲ ኣብ ኩለመዳያዊ ዕቤት ንምንጽብራቕ እዩ። እዚ ተሳትፎን ማዕርነትን ደቂ ኣንስትዮ ብጭረሖን ድሌትን ዘይኮነ፡ ብግብራዊ ቃልሲ ከም ዝረጋገጽ ተመኩሮ ዘርኣየና እዩ። እቲ ምእንቲ ማዕርነት ደቂ ኣንስትዮ ዝግበር ቃልሲ እንተላይ ብተሳትፎ መላእ ሕብረተሰብ እምበር፡ ብናተን ፍሉይ ኣበርክቶን ጻዕርን ጥራይ ክረጋገጽ ከምዘይክእል ከኣ ካልእ ካብ ተመኩሮ ዘረጋገጽናዮ ሓቂ እዩ።

ግደ ኤርትራውያን ደቂ ኣንስትዮ ኣብቲ ናይ 30 ዓመታት ቃልሲ ንናጽነት ወሳኒ ነይሩ። እንተኾነ ካብ ምዕዋት እቲ ቀዳማይ ምዕራፍ ሓሊፉ ኣርሒቑ ዝጥምት ንቕሓትን ውዳበን ኣይነበረንን። ድሕሪ ናጽነት ኤርትራ መላእ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ በቲ ዲክታተር ኢሳያስ ዝመርሖ ዘሎ ጉጅለ ከም ዝተጠልመ ርዱእ እዩ። ናይቲ ጥልመት ስንብራት ኣብ ልዕሊተን ኣንንጻር ድርብ ወጽዓ ክቃለሳ ዝጸንሓ ደቂ ኣንስትዮ ከም ዝኸብድ ከኣ ብግብሪ ዝተራእየን ዝረአ ዘሎን እዩ።

ታሪኻዊ ኣመጻጽኣን ኣገዳስነትን ዓለምለኸ መዓልቲ ደቂ ኣንስትዮ 8 መጋቢት ነባሪ እዩ። እቲ ዝዝከረሉ ኩነታት ግና ከከምቲ ህልዊ ምዕባለ ናይቲ ዓመት ክፈላለ ናይ ግድን እዩ። ዓምን ቅድሚ ዓምን ዝነበረ ኩነታት ምስ ናይ ሎሚ ዘበን ይፍለ እዩ። እዚ ፍልልያትዚ ከኣ ንኣዘኻኽራ 8 መጋቢት ይጸልዎ። ቀንዲ ዕላማ ምዝካር 8 መጋቢት፡ ደቂኣንስትዮ ከም ፍርቂ ኣካል ሕብረተሰብ ኣብ ኩሉ መዳያት ህይወት ብማዕረ ክሳተፋን መሰል ናይ ተጠቃምነት ክረኽባን ኢዩ። ነዚ ክውን ንምግባር “ንመጻኢ እንታይ ይገበር?” ኣብ ዝብል ዝያዳ ዘድህብ ስራሓት ክሰላሰል ይግባእ። ብመጽርዚ ናይ ሎሚ ዓመት 8 መጋቢት 2021 ኣብ ሃገርና ወጽዓ ህግደፍ ኣብ ልዕሊ ህዝብን ምረት ደቂ ኣንስትዮን ቀጻሊ ኣብ ዝሃለወሉ ኢና ንዝክራ ዘለና። ኮታ ኣብ ርእሲቲ ሱር ሰዲዱ ዝጸንሐ ብዙሕ ገጻት ዘለዎ ጸገም ህዝቢ ተወሳኺ ሕሰም ኣብ ዘለዎ ኢና ንዝክራ ዘለና። ኮረናቫይርስ ዘስዓቦ ቅልውላው ናይቲ ብዙሕ ገጻት ዘለዎ ማሕበረ ቁጠባዊ ጸገም ምድርራብ ዘርኢ እዩ። እዚ ኩሉ ተደሚሩ ኣብ ልዕሊ ኣዴታትን ኣሓትን ዘኸትሎ ኣሉታዊ ሳዕቤን ክሳብ ክንደይ ከቢድ ምዃኑ ንርእዮን ንሰምዖን ዘለና እዩ። ከምቲ “ኣብ ርእሲ ዘላታስ ተወሰኸታ” ዝበሃል ከኣ ኤርትራውያን ኣደታት መንእሰያት ደቀን ተገዲዶም ተዓስኪሮም ኣብ ዘይምልከቶም ውግእ ትግራይ ብምእታዎም ኣብ ኣዝዩ ዓሚቕ ሻቕሎት ኣብ ዘለዋሉ እያ 8 መጋቢት 2021 ትዝከር ዘላ። ነዚ ሻቕሎተን ናብ ግብራዊ ብደሆ ኣንጻር ጉጅለ ህግዲፍ ክቕይረኦ ከኣ ኣብ ቅነ እዛ ተሪኻዊት ዕለት ቃል ክኣትዋ ይግበአን። እዚ ግን ኣብኡ ዝድረት ዘይኮነስ፡ ንመላእ ሕብረተሰብ ዝምልከት ናይ ቃልሲ መጸዋዕታ ምዃኑ ክዝንጋዕ የብሉን።

8 መጋቢት ደቂ ኣንስትዮ ዝሓለፈ ቃልስን ኣብ መስርሕ ዝተዓወተ ሸቶን ንከይርሳዕ ዝዝክራላ እምበር፡ ዝሓለፈ ወጽዓአን ምዝርዛር ከም ቀንዲ ኣጀንዳአን ዝወስዳላ ዕለት ክትከውን ኣይግበኣን። ብኣንጻሩ ናይ ዝሓለፈ ተመኩሮ እሱራት ከይኮና ናብ ብሩህ ማዕረ ተሳተፍነትን ተጠቃምነትን ዝመርሕ መጻኢ መንገዲ ዝጸርጋላ እያ ክትከውን ዝግበኣ። ብጽሒት ደቂ ተባዕትዮ ኣብ ቃልሲ ምእንቲ ማዕርነት ደቂ ኣንስትዮ እውን ኣነኣኢስካ ዝረአ ኣይኮነን። እቲ ወሳኒ ግደ ግና ናተን ናይ ደቂ ኣንስትዮ እዩ። ደቂ ኣንስትዮ ተቓሊሰን ካብቲ ድርብ ወጽዓ ምእንቲ ክወጻ ደቂ ተባዕትዮ ኣብ ጐነን ናይ ምስላፍ ሓላፍነተን ዘይስገር እዩ። ናብዚ ክበቕዓ ከኣ ደቂ ተባዕትዮ መተሃላልኽተን ዘይኮኑ ተደጋገፍተን ምዃኖም ተገንዚበን ነዚ ዘብቅዐን ስልጡን ኣቀራርባን ኣተሓሳስባን ክሕዛ ግድን’ዩ። ደቂ ተባዕትዮ’ውን ካብቲ ጸኒሓዊ ኣመለኻኽታ ወጺኦም፣ ተጠቀምቲ ናይቲ ዲሞክራስያውን ማሕበራውን ለውጢ ምዃኖም ተገንዚቦም ብማዕሪኡ ክስጉሙ ይግባእ።

ኣብ ኤርትራ ምልኪ ኣወጊድካ ብዲሞክራስያዊ ምምሕዳር ንምትካእ ነካይዶ ዘለና ቃልሲ ተሳትፎ ደቂ ኣንስትዮ ናቱ ምኽንያታት እዃ እንተለዎ፣ ድሩት ምዃኑ ካብቲ ቀንዲ ሕጽረታት ኣብ ቅድሚት ዝስራዕ እዩ። ካብዚ ንምውጻእ ዝግበር ጻዕሪ ከኣ ዘይስገር ዓብይ ብደሆ እዩ። ሰልፊ ዲሞክራሲ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ (ሰዲህኤ) ንተሳትፎ ደቂ ኣንስትዮ ወትሩ ፍሉይ ግምት ሂቡ’ዩ ዝሰርሓሉ። በዚ መሰረት ኣብ ፖለቲካዊ መደብ ዕዮኡ ”ሰዲህኤ፡ ደቂ ኣንስትዮ ኤርትራ ልክዕ ከም እዋን ብረታዊ ቃልሲ፡ ጉጅለ ህግዲፍ ንምውጋድ ኣብ ዘይጎነጻዊ ቃልሲ’ውን ብትግሃት ክዋስኣ ዘኽእለን ባይታ ንምጥጣሕ ክሰርሕ እዩ።” ዝብል ኣስፊሩ ኣሎ። ብኸምዚ ደረጃ ግቡእ ቆላሕታ ምሃብ ሓደ ኮይኑ፡ ነዚ ኣብ ግብሪ ምውዓል ከኣ እቲ ቀንዲ ብደሆ እዩ።

8 መጋቢት ዓለምለኸ መዓልቲ ደቂ ኣንስትዮ ንዘለኣለም ትንበር!

ዘለኣለማዊ ክብርን መጐስን ንሰማእታት ኤርትራ

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Thursday, 04 March 2021 20:43

Radio Dimtsi Harnnet Kassel 04.03.2021

Written by Dimtsi Harnnet

Published in Radio

Thursday, 04 March 2021 06:27

Eritrea Liberty Magazine Issue #67

Written by EPDP Information Office

Published in Magazine

Thursday, 04 March 2021 06:19

Eritrea Liberty Magazine Issue #67

Written by EPDP Information Office

Wednesday, 03 March 2021 09:47

ንኤርትራ ኢልና ኢና እንገብሮ

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ካልኣይ ክፋል

ብመሰረቱ መንግስቲ ኤርትራ ኣብ ክልል ትግራይ ዝፍጽሞ ዘሎ ኢሰብኣዊ ተግባራት ኣብ ልዕሊ ካልእ ህዝቢ ዝፍጽሞ ዘሎ ብምዃኑ እንተዘይ ሓዱሽና፡ ኣብ ልዕሊ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ንዓሰርተታት ዓመታት እናፈጸሞ ዝጸንሐ ኢዩ። ንዉልቀ መላኺ ኢሰያስ ግፍዒ፡ ቅትለትን ምብስባስን መለለይታት ናይ ኣመራርሕኡ ኢየን። ኤርትራ ንስልጣኑ ጸቢባቶ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ድማ ስለ ዝወሓዶ ህርፋን ስልጣኑ ንምርዋይ ኢዩ፡ ናይ ምስፍሕፋሕ መደባቱ ኣብ ግብሪ ንምውዓል ኢሉ ኢዩ ነዚ ወራርዚ ኣትይዎ። ከምቲ ገለ ኤርትራውያን ተመጻደቕቲ ዝብልዎ እዚ ኢሰያስ ኣካይድዎ ዘሎ ወራር ምስ ጉዳይ ኣብ ዶባት ዝርከብ መሬት ኤርትራ ምምላስ ዝተሓሓዝ ኣይኮነን።

ኢሰያስ ሕቶ ዶብ ኤርትራ ምስ ኢትዮጵያ ኣብ እዋን ቃልሲ ይኹን ድሕሪ ናጽነት ከም ጉዳይ ርእይዎ ኣይፈልጥን። “ንዶብ ትርጉም ናብ ዘይብሉ ብርኪ ክንሰጋገር ኢና” ኢሉ ዝምድር ዝነበረ ሰብኣይ ኢዩ። ነዚ እምነትዚ ውን ኣይተዓጸፈሉን። መመሊሱ ድኣ የሐድሶ ኣሎ'ምበር። “ህዝቢ ኤርትራን ህዝቢ ኢትዮጵያን ሓደ ህዝቢ ኢዩ። ክልተ ህዝቢ ዝብሎ ነቲ ሓቅን ታሪኽን ዘይፈልጥ ጥራይ ኢዩ” ብማለት ደጊሙ ደጋጊሙ ብምግላጽ ኣብ ኢትዮጵያ ዘለዎ እምነት ኣርእዩና ኢዩ።

ኢሰያስ ነዚ እምነትዚ ኣብ ባይታ ንምትርጓም ይዋሳእ ኣሎ። ነዚ መደብዚ ንምትግባር መሳርሕቱን ዓንቀፍቱን ከላሊ ግድን ስለዝኾነ ድማ ነዚ ኣነጺሩ ይጓዓዝ ኣሎ። ኣብዚ ጉዕዞዚ ቀዳማይ ሚኒስተር ኣቢይን ካልኦት ኣሃዳዊ ስርዓት ኣብ ኢትዮጵያ ክትከል ዝደልዩ፡ ብቐንዱ ከኣ ብሔረ ኣምሓራ መቃልስቱን ፈተውቱን ኮይኖም ኣለዉ። ህዝባዊ ወያነ ሓርነት ትግራይ ዕንቅፋት ናይ መደባቱ ስለዝኾነ ከም ክድምሰስ ዘለዎ ሓይሊ ወሲድዎ ዘሎ ኢዩ። ኣብ ትግራይ ዝኸይድ ዘሎ ውግእ፡ እቲ ቀዳማይ ሸነኹ፡ ብኣቢይ ዝወጸ ኢትዮጵያዊ መደብ ሒዙ ኣሎ። እቲ ካልኣይ ሸነኹ ድማ፡ ብኢሰያስ ዝወጸ ኤርትራዊ መደብ ሓቚፉ ዝኸይድ ዘሎ ኢዩ።

ኩሉ ከምዝርድኦ፡ ኢሰያስ ብዝኽተሎ ፖሊሲ ኣመራርሓ ኣብ ኤርትራ ዝኾነ ክረአ ዝኽእል ምዕባለ ኣይተረኽበን። እኳ ደኣ ኢሰያስ ባዕሉ ከምዝብሎ፡ እቲ ቅድም ዝነበረ ምዕባለታት ሎሚ ከምዘየለን ከምዝፈረሰን ሃገር ንድሕሪት ከምዝተመልሰትን፡ ኣብ ቃለ ምልልሱ ነዚ ክብል ኢዩ ተሰሚዑ "ናይ ቀይሕ ባሕሪ ሉል ተባሂላ እትጽዋዕ ዝነበረት ምጽዋዕ ሎሚ የላን፡ ዝነበረ ፋብሪካታት እንዳ ዓለባ፡ እንዳ ጥርሙዝን ካልኦትን ኩሉ በሪሱ ኢዩ የሎን።" ኢትዮጵያ ተሳዒራ ካብ ኤርትራ ክትውጽእ ከላ ኣብ 1991 እዚ ኣብያተ-ስራሕ ኣብ ደሓን ኩነታት ኢዩ ነይሩ። ኤርትራ ዘይምዕብልትን ዘይቅስንትን ሃገር ኮይና ክትነብር፡ ብዲክታቶር ኢሰያስ ኣፈወርቂ ኮነ ኢሉ ዝተታሕዘ መደብ ኢዩ። ከምቲ ኣብ ኣርብዓታት ምዕራባውያን ገዛእቲ ኤርትራ ብነብሳ ክትነብር ዘይትኽእል ድኻ ሃገር ኢያ፡ ምስ ካልእ ተጸጊዓ ክትከይድ ኣለዋ ብማለት ንናጽነታ ዝጻብእዎ ዝነበሩ፡ ኢሰያስ ውን ኤርትራ ብዘይ ምጽጋዕ ምስ ኢትይጵያ ክትነብር ኣይትኽእልን ዘብል ኩነት እናፈጠረ ኢዩ ክመጽእ ጸኒሑ። ብዘይ ሃገር ዝምርሓሉ ብዘይ መላእ ተሳትፎ ህዝብን ብዘይ ናይ ግዳም ምትሕግጋዝን ክረጋገጽ ዝኽእል ዕቤት ኣብ ዝኾነት ሃገር ኣይተራእየን። ኢሰያስ ኣፈወርቂ ነዚ ሓቂ'ዚ ኪሒዱ ኢዩ ሃገር እመርሕ ኣሎኹ ዝብል ዘሎ። ህዝቢ ኩሉ ጸጋታቱ፡ ዓቕምታቱ፡ ንብረቱን ፍልጠቱን ኣውፊሩ ዝዋስኣሉ ሰርዓት ከይተፈጥረ፡ ኤርትራ ከም ሲንጋፖር ክንገብራ ኢና ኢሉ ዝጀሃረሉ ዝንበረ፡ ብመጽናዕቲ ዘይተሰነየ ጃህራ ምልካዊ ስርዓት ከንቱ ምንባሩ ኣመስኪሩ ኢዩ።

ኢሰያስ ባዕሉ ንዝደቖሳ ሃገር ምስምስ ከቕርበሉ ስለዝደለየ ግን ናይ ኩሉ ሓጥያትን ተሓታትነትን ንህዝባዊ ወያነ ሓርነት ትግራይ ኣሰኪሚዎም። ከምቲ “ብዓለም ዝተገብረልና እገዳ ስጒሚ ከኺደና ኣይከኣለን፡ ሃገርና ክንሃንጽ ኣይከኣልናን” ዝብሎ ዝነበረ፡ ሕጂ እገዳ ምስ ተላዕለሉ ድማ፡ ህወሓት ስጒሚ ከኺዱና ኣይከኣሉን ዓንቂፎምና ይብል ኣሎ። ብዓይኒ ኢሰያስ ኣብ ኤርትራ ምዕባለ ዝመጽእ ወያነ ምስ ዝጠፍኡ ጥራይ ኢዩ ዝብል ዘሎ። እቲ ሓቂ ግን ምዕባለ ናይ ኤርትራ ዝመጽእ ብዓቕሚ ህዝባን ዝወሃቦ ኣመራርሓን ኢዩ። እቲ ሓቂ እዚ ክነሱ፡ ኢሰያስ ግን ክፈልጦን ክጥቀመሉን ኣይደለየን። ወያነ፡ ማእከላይ መንግስቲ ኢዮጵያ ይመርሕሉ ኣብ ዝነበሩ እዋን ዕንቅፋት እንተነይሮም ውን፡ ኣብ ውሽጢ ኢትዮጵያ ብዝተኻየደ ናይ ለውጢ ቃልሲ ደረቶም ሒዞም ኢዮም።

ቀዳማይ ሚኒስተር ኣቢይ ኣብ ኢትዮጵያ ስልጣን ምስ ሓዘ፡ ነቲ ኣብ መንጎ ኤርትራን ኢትዮጵያን ዝነበረ ሽግር መፍትሒ ኢሉ ንዝኣመሞ ኢሰያስ ካብ ተቐበሎ ነዚ መስርሕዚ ምኽታል ኢዩ እቲ ዝግባእ ዝነበረ። ኢሰያስ ገጽ ናይ ወያነ ከይረኣየ ጉዳይ ክልተ ሃገራት ምስ ቀዳማይ ሚኒስተር ኣቢይ ክፈትሕ ዝኽእለሉ መንገዲ ኔርዎ ኢዩ። ሽግራት ክልተ ሃገራት ብቅደም ተኸተል ተሰሪዑ ክፍታሕ ኔርዎ። እቲ ቀዳማይ ዝስራዕ ሽግር ድማ እቲ ከም ምኽኒያት ንዕስራ ዓመታት ኣብ ኩነታት ኣይሰላም ኣይውግእ ዘጽንሐ ጉዳይ ዶብ ክልተ ሃገራት ክፍታሕ ይግባእ ነይሩ። ነዚ ኸኣ መንግስቲ ኤርትራን ፈደራላዊ መንግስቲ ኢትዮጵያን ዝፈትሕዎ ኢዩ ነይሩ። እቲ ክተሓዝ ዝነበሮ መንገዲ እዚ ነይሩ ክነሱ ክልተ መራሕቲ መንግስታት ኤርትራን ኢትዮጵያን ግና ንክልተ ህዝብታትን መንግስታዊ ትካላትን ግሉጽ ብዘይኮነ መንገዲ ንክልተ ሃገራት ዝምልከት ጉዳያት በይኖም ክኸድዎ ተራእዮም። እቲ ቀንዲ መጀመሪ ናይ ምዕራይ ዝምድና ክልተ ሃገራት፡ እቲ ጠንቂ ናይ ሽግራተን ዝነበረ ጉዳይ ዶብ ምፍታሕ ክኸውን'ዩ እቲ ባህርያዊ ዝነበረ። እንተኾነ ግን ክልቲኦም መራሕቲ መንግስታት ነዚ ጎስዮም ካልእ ኣጀንዳ ኢዮም ሒዞም። ኣጀንዳኦም ከኣ ክልቲኦም መራሕቲ ኣብ ዞባና ሓይሎም ዝወጽሉ መደብ ኢዩ ነይሩ። ነዚ ንምትግባር ክኽእሉ ድማ፡ ነቲ ህወሓት ዝመርሖ ኢህወድግ ብዝኽተሎ ዓለመ-ርእይቶ ተመሪሑ ዝኸይድ ዝነበረ ስርዓት ኢትዮጵያ ከፍርስዎ ኣለዎም። ክልቲኦም ኢሰያስን ኣቢይን ከካብ መንቀሊኦም ተበጊሶም ንህዝባዊ ወያነ ሓርነት ትግራይ ንምጥፋእ ሓደ ኮይኖም ክሰርሑ ካብ መጀመርታ ዝተራኸብሉ ግዜ ኢዮም ተበጊሶም።

ዉልቀ መላኺ መራሒ ስርዓት ኤርትራ ዝኾነ ኢሰያስ፡ ብዝተፈላለየ እሙን ናይ ሓበሬታ ምንጭታት ይስማዕ ከምዘሎ፡ ወረራኡ ኣንጻር እቶም ንዓመታት ሕነ ስዕረቱ ክፈዲ፡ ስኑ ነኺስሎም ዝጸንሑ መራሕቲ ህወሓት ጥራይ ኣይኮኑን። ቀንዲ ከም ዕላማ ዝወሰዶ ንምዕባለ ትግራይ ኣዕኒዩ ማዕረ እታ ዝመርሓ ዘሎ ኤርትራ ድቑስቲ ክልል ንምግባራ ኢዩ። ጽልኡ ምስ መራሕቲ ወያነ እንተኔሩ፡ ገበን ኣብ ልዕሊ ህዝቢ ምቕታልን ምብስባስን ምክያድ ደኣ እንታይ ኣምጸኦ? ህዝቢ ሰሪሑ ዝጥቀመሉ ፋብሪካታት፡ ዝግልገለሉ ሆስፒታላትን ዝነብረሉ ህንጻታትን ከዕኑ ዓቢ ገበን ኢዩ።

ከም ኢርትራውያን፡ እዚ ብሰራዊት ኢርትራ ዝፍጸም ዘሎ ተግባራት፡ ኣብ ልዕሊ ጎረቤትና፡ ዓንጋልን ኣዕቋብን ዝተሰደዱ ኤርትራውያን ዝኾነ ህዝቢ ዝፍጽምዎ ዘሎ ስለ ዝኾነ ከሕመናን ክቐንዝወናን ይግባእ። ነቲ በቲ ከነልግሶ እንቃለሶ ዘሎና ጨካን ስርዓት ኢሰያስ ዝፍጸም ዘሎ ተግባራት ክንቃወሞን ክንምክቶን ይግባኣና። ቅኑዕ መርገጽ ምስ መን ይሰርዓና ብዘየገድስ፡ ብስንኩፍ ኣተሓሳስባ ከይተደናገርና ኣንጻር ገበንን ግፍዕን ጠጠው ክንብል ኣሎና። ሎሚ ወይ ልክዕ ከምቶም ሰዓብቲ ህግደፍ ምስቲ ስራሓት ዘይቅዱስ ምሕዝነት ኢሰያስን ኣቢይን ጠጠው ምባል ኢዩ። ወይ ውን ምስቶም ኣብ ዓለም ስለ ፍትሒ ዝቃለሱ ዘለዉ ምስቲ ዝብደል ዘሎ ህዝቢ ትግራይ ምስላፍ ኢዩ።

እቲ ቀንዲ ንዓና ዝምልከት እምበኣር ኢሳያስ ኣብ ዘይምልከቶ ብምእታው ንዝጸንሐ ስቓይ ህዝብና የጋድዶ ስለዘሎ እዩ። ነታ ኣብ ክሳዱ ኣጻዊድናያ ዝጸናሕና መሸንቆቓ ዶብ ሰጊሩ ዝያዳ እትጸበሉ ጨካን ተግባራት የካይድ ኣሎ። ምስዞም ንገበነኛታት ኣቢይን ኢሰያስን ናብ ኣህጉራዊ ቤት ፍርዲ ገበን ንምቕራብ ዝጽዕሩ ዘለዉ ሓቢርና ንቃለስ። ነዛ መቕተሊቱ ዝኾነት መሸንቆቓ ብምስሓብ፡ ኣጽቢብና ትንፋሱ ነሕልፎ። እዚ እንገብሮ ድማ ንህዝባዊ ወያነ ሓርነት ትግራይ ሓሊና ኣይኮነን። ምእንቲ ኤርትራን ህዝባን ኢልና ኢና እንገብሮ።

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Tuesday, 02 March 2021 09:40

ፈጻሚ ሽማግለ ሰዲህኤ ጸብጻባቱ መዚኑ

Written by ቤት ጽሕፈት ዜና ሰዲህኤ

ፈጻሚ ሽማግለ ሰልፊ ዲሞክራሲ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ (ሰዲህኤ)፡ ኣብ ርእስቲ ኣብ ዝተፈላለዩ ግዝያት ከካይዶ ዝጸንሐ ፍሉይ ኣኼባታት፡ ብ28 ለካቲት 2021 ድሕሪ 3ይን ሓድነታውን ጉባአኡ፡ 5ይ ስሩዕ ኣኼባኡ ኣካይዱ። ኣቦመንበር ፈጻሚ ሽማግለ ሰዲህኤ ብጻይ ተስፋይ ወልደሚካኤል (ደጊጋ)፡ ኣብ ምጅማር እቲ ኣኼባ ሓጺር መኽፈቲ ቃል ኣስሚዑ። ኣስዒቡ ከኣ ነቲ ኣቐዲሙ ተዘርጊሑ ዝጸንሐ ናይ ኣኼባ ኣጀንዳ ኣዘኻኺሩ።

ፈጻሚ ሽማግለ ሰዲህኤ ኣብዚ ስሩዕ ኣኼባኡ፡ ኣብ ዝሓለፈ ኣዋርሕ ዝተሰርሑ ሰልፋዊ ዕማማት ዝድህስስ ናይ ኩለን ኣብያተ-ጽሕፈት ጸብጻባት መዚኑን ተመያይጥሉን። እቲ ጸብጻብ ኣብያተ ጽሕፈት ኣቐዲሙ ናብ ኣባላት ፈጻሚ ሽማግለ ተዘርጊሑ ምስ ጸንሐ፡ ብዛዕባ ነፍሲ ወከፍ ጸብጻብ ናይተን ኣብያተ-ጽሕፈት ከኣ ዝርዝራዊ ምይይጥ ኣካይዱ። ኣብቲ ዝተኻየደ ዝርርብ ኣብያተ-ጽሕፈት ብመሰረትቲ ኣቐዲመን ዝተለመኦ፡ እዋናዊ ኣገዳሲ መደብ ስረሓት ከም ዝዓመማን ዝተርፈን ከም ዘሎን ተራእዩ። ምስዚ ብዝተተሓሓዘ ከኣ እቲ ኣኼባ፡ ኣብ ኩለን ኣብያተ-ጽሕፈት እቲ ኣወንታዊ ጐኒ ዝያዳ ጐሊሑ ዝቕጽለሉ፡ እቲ ሕጽረታት ከኣ ዝምላኣሉ ስልትታት ቀይሱ።

ብዘይካዚ ኣኼባ ፈጻሚ ሽማግለ ነቲ ማእከላይ ባይቶ ሰዲህኤ ብ14 ለካቲትን 2021 ኣብ ዘካየዶ ኣኼባ ዝያዳ ቆላሕታ ሂቡ ዝተመያየጠሉ ዛዕባታት ዝትግበረሉ መንገድታት ኣሚቱ። ምስዚ ብምትሕሓዝ ኣኼባ ነቲ ተጀሚሩ ዘሎ ናይ ኤርትራዊ ደንበ ተቓውሞ ሓይልታት ኣብቲ ዝሰማምዕሉ ሓቢርካ ናይ ምስራሕን ሓድነት ናይ ምርግጋጽን ንምሕያል ኣብ ዘካይድዎ ቃልሲ፡ ሰዲህኤ ከም ናይ ቅድሚ ሕጂ ኩሉ ዝከኣሎ ክገብር ከም ዝኾነ ኣረጋጊጹ። ብምትሕሓዝ ከኣ ብፍላይ እቲ ንኤርትራ ብቐጥታ ዝጸልዋ ኩነታት ኢትዮጵያ-ትግራይ፡ ብሓፈሻ ከኣ ምዕባለታት ዞባና ኣብ ኣዝዩ ተሃዋሲ ደረጃ ኣትዩ ከም ዘሎ ተረዲኡ። ካብዚ ተረድኦዚ ነቒሉ ከኣ ነዚ ምዕባለታት እንዳተኸታተልካ ቀጻሊ ሚዛናት ምግባር ከም ዘድሊ ኣኼባ ኣመልኪቱ።

ኣብ መወዳእታ ኣባላት ሰልፊ ዲሞክራሲ ህዝቢ ኤርትራን ደገፍቲ ሰልፍናን ኣብዚ ኣቲናዮ ዘለና ተሃዋሲ ኩነታት፡ በቲ ሓደ ወገን ዓቕምን ሓድነትን ሰልፊ ኣብ ምሕያል፡ በቲ ካልእ ወገን ከኣ ምስ ኩሎም ሓይልታት ለውጢ ሓቢርካ ዘስርሕ ኩነታት ኣብ ምፍጣር ቃልሶም ከዛይዱ ኣኼባ ጸዊዑ።

Tuesday, 02 March 2021 09:31

ድሕሪ ውግእ ኣብ ትግራይከ?

Written by ኣሮን ናኦድ

ኣይኮነንዶ ክንድዚ ኣብ ትግራይ ካብ ዝጅምር 4ይ ወርሑ ሒዙ ዘሎ ጽዕጹዕ ውግእ፡ ኣብ ንኡስ ጐንጺ እውን ኣሉታዊ ሳዕቤንን ክሳራን ከጋጥም ባህርያዊ እዩ። ደረጃታቱ ደኣ ይፈላለ እምበር ኩሎምቶም ተዋሳእቲ ናይ ውግእ፡ ግዳያት ኣሉታዊ ሳዕቤናት ከም ዝኾኑ ፍሉጥ እዩ። ናይዚ ኣብ ትግራይ ዝካየደ ዘሎን ጌና መዕለቢ ዘይረኸበን ውግእ ዝኸበደ ሳዕቤኑ ብሓፈሻ ኣብ ኢትዮጵያ ብፍላይ ከኣ ኣብ ትግራይ ዝዓርፍ ምዃኑ ርዱእዩ። እዚ ከኣ ካብቲ ዓለም ለኻዊ ሰብኣዊ ትካላትን ፍሉጣት ማዕከናት ዜናን ብኣካል ኣብቲ ውግእ ዝተኻየደሉ ተረኺቦም ዘቕርብዎ ዘለዉ ምስክርነት ምርዳእ ይከኣል።

ኤርትራ ናብቲ ውግእ ዝካየደሉ ዘሎ ቦታ ቀረባ ብምዃና ጥራይ ዘይኮነ፡ ኣብቲ ውግእ ሰራዊታ ዘሰለፈት፡ መሬታ መዋፈሪ ሰራዊት ኢትዮጵያ ክኸውን ዝፈቐደትን መራሒ ናይቲ ንህዝባ ዝገዝእ ዘሎ ጉጅለ፡ ነቲ ውግእ ከም ጉዳዩ ወሲዱ ይምድረሉን ይመርሖን ስለ ዘሎን ካብ ኢትዮጵያን ትግራይን ቀጺላ ናይቲ ውግእ ኣሉታዊ ሳዕቤን እትጐስም ዘላ ሃገር ምዃና ንህዝቢ ኤርትራ ኮነ ንሕብረተሰብ ዓለም ከም ሓድሽ ዝሕበሮም ዘይኮነ፡ ባዕላቶም ዝዕዘብዎ ዘለዉ እዩ። ኤርትራ ሓይልሰባ ይመውት ንብረታ ይበርስ፡ ምስ ህዝቢ ትግራይ ናይ ጽልኢ እሾኽ ይዝረኣን፡ ኣብ ትግራይ ዝነበሩ ስደተኛታት መንእሰያታ ምክልባቶምን ናይቲ ኣሉታዊ ሳዕቤን ግብራዊ መግለጺ እዮም። እቲ ውግእ ጌና ቀጻሊ’ዩ ዘሎ። ቀጻሊ ክሳብ ዝኾነ ከኣ እቲ ኣሉታዊ ሳዕቤን እውን መልክዑ እንዳቀያየረ ምናልባት እውን ንኤርትራዊ ሃገርነት ኣብ ሓደጋ ብዘውድቕ መልክዑ ናይ ምቕጻል ዕድሉ ዕጽዊ ኣይኮነን።

እዚ ሎሚ ኣብ ትግራይ ኣጋጢሙ ዘሎ ሓደጋ ውግእ፡ ከም ዝመጽእ ኣብቲ ብ2018 ኢሳያስ ኣፈወርቅን ዶ/ር ኣብይ ኣሕመድን ዝገበርዎ ናይ መጀመርያ ርክብ ምልክቱ ተራእዩ እዩ። ብፍላይቲ ሽዑ ኢሳያስ “ጸወታ ወያነ ተወዲኡ” ዝበሎ፡ ሓባሪ ጥይት ናይቲ ሎሚ ሰማይ ዓሪጉ ዘሎ ህውከት እዩ። ኣብቲ እቲ ዘይግሉጽ ዝምድና ዝጀመርሉ “ኣብ ምንታይ ጉዳያት እዮም ተሰማሚዖም?” ዝብል ናይ ብዙሓት ሕቶ ነይሩ። ምስዚ ኩሉ ግና እቲ ሓድሽ ዕርክነት ብፍላይ ብወገን ኢሳያስ ኣብ ዙርያ “ምጥፋእ ህወሓት” ዝተሰረተ፡ ኣብ ምፍዳይ ሕነ ዘትከለ ምንባሩ ምግማቱ ዘጸግም ኣይነበረን። እቲ “ድሕሪ ንህወሓት ምድኻምከ?” ዝብል ግና ኣይኮነንዶ ሽዑ ሕጂ እውን መመሊሱ ዝደፍእ ዘሎ ዘይተመለሰ ሕቶ እዩ።

ኣቶ ኢሳያስ ኣፈወርቂ ዝመርሖ ኤርትራዊ ጉጅለ ህግደፍን ዶ/ር ኣብይ ኣሕመድ ዝመርሖ ፈደራላዊ መንግስቲ ኢትዮጵያን ኣብ ምድኻም ህወሓት ብሓደ ክወፍሩ ዘገደድዎም ምኽንያታት ካብ ዝተፈላለዩ ኩርነዓት ዝነቕሉ እዮም። ኢሳያስ ካብቲ ዘይግሁድ ግና ከኣ ነዊሕ ሱር ከም ዘለዎ ዝንገረሉ፡ ካብ ቂምን ቅርሕትን ምስ ህወሓት ዝነቅል እዩ። እንተ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ካብ ቅርሕንቲ ኮነ ካብ ውግእ ክሳራ እምበር መኽሰብ ከም ዘየብሉ ብሩህ እዩ። ኣብ መንጐ ኤርትራን ኢትዮጵያን ድሕሪቲ “ናይ ዶብ” ተሰይሙ ዝተኻየደ ናይ 1998-2001 ውግእ ክፍትሑ ዝግበኦም ጉዳያት ከም ዘለዉ ግና ርዱእ እዩ። እንተኾነ ነዚ ኢሳያስ ዝመረጾ ናይ ልፍንቲ ውግእ ዝዕድሙ ክኾኑ ምኽኑይ ኣይኮነን። ፈድራላዊ መንግስቲ ኢትዮጵያ ከኣ ነብሱ ዝኸለ ናይ “መን ንመን ኣንበርኪኹ ናይ ስልጣን ልዕልና ኣረጋገጸ” ምትህልላኽ ዘንቀሎ ኣንጻር ህወሓት ዘሰለፎ ምኽንያት ነይርዎ። እዚ እውን ካልእ ሕቡእ ኣጀንዳ እንተዘይድረቦ፡ በቲ ኢሳያስ ዝፈሓሶ ናይ ቂም መንገዲ ክተሓዝ ዘገድድ ኣይነበረን።

በዚ ኮነ በቲ፡ ናይ ግዜ ጉዳይ እዩ እምበር፡ እቲ ናይዞም ክልተ ሓቢርካ ኣንጻር ሕወሓት ምኽታት ንካልእ ዛዕባ መድረኽ ከረክብ ናይ ግድን እዩ። ኢሳያስን ኣብይን፡ ኪኖ በዚ ዝተጠቕሰ ምኽንያታት ሓቢርካ ንህወሓት ምውቃዕ ዝጥምት፡ ናይ ሓባር ዕላማ ኣለዎምዶ የብሎምን? ዝገሃደሉ ግዜ ባዕሉ ክመጽእ እዩ። “እንተልይዎምከ ኣብ ምንታይ እዩ?” ዝብል ሕቶ ክኽተል እዩ። ኩልና ከም እንዕዘቦ ኣብዚ እዋንዚ ኣብ ኤርትራን ኢትዮጵያን ዘሎ ፖለቲካዊ ሜዳታት በበይኑ እዩ። ፖለቲካዊ ሜዳ ኤርትራ ካብቲ ዝዓበየ ዓንዲ ዲሞክራሲ ዝኾነ ሕግመንግስቲ ጀሚርካ፡ “ናይ ህዝቢ እዩ” ዘብል ምልክት ዘየብሉ መላኺ እዩ። ፖለቲካዊ ሜዳ ኢትዮጵያ ግና ምስ ኩሉ ሕጽረታቱን ዘንጸላልዎ ዘሎ ሓደጋታትን ብዝምድናዊ ዓይኒ ካብ ናይ ኤርትራ ዝሓሸ ህዝቢ ክጻወተሉ ዝኽእል እዩ። ብመንጽርዚ ኢሳያስ ካብዚ ዝለመዶ ጸቢብን ብሕትውን በይኑ ዝጻወተሉ ሜዳ ወጺኡ ኣብ ካልእ ሜዳ ክጻወት ኣይክእልን እዩ። ዶ/ር ኣብይ ኣሕመድ’ውን ዋላኳ ኣብ ከምቲ ናይ ኤርትራ ጽምዋ ሜዳ ናይ ምጽዋት ድሌት ከም ዘለዎ ምልክታት እንተለዉ፡ ንመጻውቱ ኣብ ከምዚ ዓይነት ሜዳ ኣዕጊቡ ከሰልፎም ዘለዎ ዕድል ካብ ኣዝዩ ጸቢብ ናብ ዘይከኣል ዝምጠጥ እዩ። ስለዚ ክሳብ ክንድዚ ናይ ሓባር መጻወቲ ሜዳ ካብ ዘይሃለዎም፡ እታ ኣንጻር ሕወሓት ዝቐንዐት ተልእኮኦም ወዲኦም ናብ “ደሓን ኩን ደሓን ትረፍ” ኩነት ዝኣትውሉ ዕድል ዕጽዊ ኣይከውንን።

“ኣብቲ ናይ ክሳብ ሕጂ ናይ ፖለቲካ ቁማር መን ተዓዊቱ? ኣብ ቀጻሊ ቁማርከ?” ዝብል ብዙሓት ዝዛረብሉ ዘለዉ እዩ። በቲ ሓደ ወገን ክሳብ ሕጂ ኣብ ዘሎ መስርሕ ኢሳያስ ቁማር በሊዑ ንመንግስቲ ኣብይ ኣብ ዘይወጾ ዓዘቕቲ ደቕዲቕዎ ዝብሉ ኣለዉ። በቲ ካልእ ወገን ከኣ፡ እቶም ንህወሓት ከም ዓንዲ ሕቖ ኤርትራ ንደርጊ ስዒርካ ናጽነት ኣብ ምርግጋጽ ቆጺሮም፡ ብጥልመት ዝኸሱዋ ዝነበሩ ኢትዮጵያውያን ዝተፈልየ ርኢቶ ኣለዎም። ንሱ ከኣ፡ ድሕሪ ሕጂ እቲ ካብ ኣንጻር ደርጊ ምቅላስ ጀሚርካ ክሳብ ምርግጋጽ ልኡላውነት ኤርትራ ሓቢሩ ዝተቓለሰ ሓይሊ ኤርትራን ትግራይን ኣብዚ ውግእዚ ተዳምዩ እዩ። ድሕሪ ሕጂ ሓቢሩ ኣንጻርና ናብ ዘይስለፈሉ ደረጃ ኣብ ምውራዱ ስለ ዝተዓውትና ነቲ ቁማር ንሕና ኢና በሊዕናዮ በሃልቲ እዮም። ወገን ኣብይ ኣሕመድ ምስዚኣቶም ኣሎዶ የሎን ኣብ ምዕባለ ዝረአ እዩ። ናይ ኤርትራ ልኡላውነት ብኤርትራዊ ዝመጸን ዝዕቀብን ምዃኑኳ ርዱእ እንተኾነ፡ እዚ ምህዞዚ’ውን ብዓይኒ ስግኣት ዘይረአ ኣይኮነን።

ኣብዚ ውጽኢቱ ኣብ መጻኢ ዝረአ ሕልኽልኽ፡ ኢሳያስ ኣብ ዝበለዖ ቁማር ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ረብሓ የብሉን። ኢሳያስ ቁማር ክብላዕ እንከሎ ከኣ፡ ሳዕቤኑ ኣብ ኢሳያስን ጉጅለኡን ዝድረት ዘይኮነ፡ ናብ ልኡላዊት ኤርትራን ህዝባን ዝመጣጠር ምዃኑ ከቶ ክንዝንገዖ ኣይግበኣናን። ንእኩይ ኣተሓሳስባ ኢሳያስን ጉጅለኡን ኣብቲ ንሱ ዝመርጾ ሜዳ ጥራይ ዘይኮነ፡ ኣብ ኩሉ ዘዝኣተዎ ኣቲና ክንቃለሶ ዝግበና ከኣ ካብዚ ብምንቃል እዩ።

Monday, 01 March 2021 22:05

Ethiopia rebuffs US call to pull outside forces from Tigray

Written by ASSOCIATED PRESS AP

PUBLISHED 7:59 AM ET Mar. 01, 2021

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ethiopia's government is rebuffing calls by the United States to withdraw troops from the embattled Tigray region.

In response to U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken's call for Ethiopia to immediately withdraw troops from Tigray, Ethiopia's foreign ministry said that it is an issue to be decided by the Addis Ababa government, not a foreign power.

“It should be clear that such matters are the sole responsibility of the Ethiopian government,” Ethiopia's foreign ministry said in a statement issued Sunday. “The Ethiopian government, like any government of a sovereign nation, has in place various organizing principles in its federal and regional structures which are solely accountable only to the Ethiopian people.”

No foreign country should try to “dictate a sovereign nation’s internal affairs,” said the Ethiopian statement.

Alarm is growing over the fate of Tigray's 6 million people as fierce fighting reportedly continues between Ethiopian and allied forces and those supporting the now-fugitive Tigray leaders who once dominated Ethiopia’s government.

The United Nations in its latest humanitarian report on the situation in Tigray says the "humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate" as fighting intensifies across the northern region.

“Aid workers on the ground have reported hearing gunshots from the main cities, including in Mekelle and Shire,” the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported on Sunday. “Residents and aid workers on the ground continue reporting incidents of house searches and indiscriminate looting, including of household items, farming equipment, ambulances and office vehicles, allegedly by various armed actors.”

No one knows how many thousands of civilians have been killed. Humanitarian officials have warned that a growing number of people might be starving to death in Tigray.

Accounts of atrocities by Ethiopian and allied forces against residents of Tigray were detailed in reports by The Associated Press and by Amnesty International. Ethiopia’s federal government and regional officials in Tigray both believe that each other’s governments are illegitimate after the pandemic disrupted elections.

Source=Ethiopia rebuffs US call to pull outside forces from Tigray (baynews9.com)

Monday, 01 March 2021 19:29

Radio Dimtsi Harnnet Sweden 27.02.2021

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Sunday, 28 February 2021 22:34

ንኤርትራ ኢልና ኢና እንገብሮ

Written by ኣሰፋው በርሀ

ኣብ ጥሩፍ ኣተሓሳስባ እንተ ኲንካ ወይ’ውን ብክቱር ጽልኢ እንተተዋሒጥካ ንዝፍጠር ተረኽቦታት ሚዛናውነት ብዘለዎ ክትግምግሞ ኣጸጋሚ ኢዩ። እዚ ኣብዚ እዋንዚ ኣብ ትግራይ ተፈጢሩ ዘሎ ተረኽቦ ኣብ ምምዛኑን ኣብ ኣተሓሕዛኡን ኣብ ኤርትራውያን ፍልልይ ዝፈጠረሉ ዘሎ ምኽኒያት’ውን ብዛዕባቲ ኩነታትን ተዋሳእቱን ቅኑዕ መረዳእታን ሚዛንን ዘይምህላው ምዃኑ ክንግንዘቦ ዝከኣል ኢዩ።

ህዝቢ ኤርትራን ህዝቢ ኢትዮጵያን ረርእሶም ዝኸኣሉ ክልተ ናጻ ህዝብታት ኢዮም። ንርእሶም ጥራይ ዘገድሶም፡ ማንም ክኣትዎ ዘይክእል ናይ ባዕላቶም ልዑላውነትን ክብርን ኣለዎም። ሃገራቶም ከመይ የመሓድሩን የማዕብሉን ናይ ባዕላቶም ጉዳይ ኢዩ። ነዚ ሓቅታትዚ ኩሉ ሰብ ክኣምነሉን ከኽብሮን ዝግባእ ኢዩ ድማ። ነዚ ጥሒሱ ዝኸይድ ውልቀ-ሰብ ዲዩ ጉጅለ፡ ውድብ ዲዩ መንግስቲ ነዚ ንምኽባር ተባሂሉ ብዝተቐመጠ ሕጊ ተሓታቲ ኢዩ ዝኸውን።

ከም ኤርትራውያን፡ ኣየናይ ሃይማኖት ንኣምን፡ ኣየናይ ፖለቲካዊ ኣተሓሳስባ ንኽተል፡ ኣየናይ ቋንቋ ንዛረብ፡ ወድና ጓልና፡ ሰብኣይና ሰበይትና ንልዑላውነት ሃገርናን ንወሳንነት ህዝብናን ኣብ ጉዳይ ሃገር ዝግህስ ግዳማዊ ሓይሊ ምስ ዝመጽእ መከትቱን ተቓወምቱን ኢና። ብዓንደ- ርእሱ እቲ ከቢድ መስዋእቲ ዝኸፈልናሉ ቃልሲ ነዚ ክብሪ'ዚ ኢዩ። በዚ ልክዕ ድማ፡ ከምቲ ኣብ ልዕሌና ክፍጸም ዘይንደልዮ ኣብ ልዕሊ ካልኦት ህዝብታት እውን ክፍጸም ኣይንደልዮን። ንነብስኻ እትደልዮ ፍትሒ፡ ንካልኦት ክንፈጎም ከሎ ክትርኢ ትም ምባል ዘይፍትሓዊ ኢዩ ዝኸውን።

ዝተፈላለያ መንግስታት ኣብ ሓድሕደን ንመትከል ጣልቃ ዘይምእታው ዝሰማማዓሉ ምኽንያት ንልዕልነት ህዝቢ ኣብ ጉዳይ ሃገር ኣብ ዋጋ ዕዳጋ ዘይኣቱ ከምዝኾነ ንምርግጋጽ እየን። እዚ ኣብ ኢትዮጵያ፡ ኣብ ክልል ትግራይ ተፈጢሩ ዘሎ ኩነታት ጉዳይ ኢትዮጵያውያን ኢዩ። ንኢትዮጵያውያን ባዕሎም ክፈትሕዎ ክግደፍ ይግባእ። እቲ ዝኸውን ዘሎ ግን መራሒ መንግስቲ ኤርትራ ጉዳይ ኢትዮጵያ ጉዳይና ኢዩ ብማለት ብሙሉእ ዓቕሙ ኣትይዎ ይርከብ። በየናይ መለክዒ ኢዩ ጉዳይ ኢትዮጵያ ጉዳይ ኤርትራ ክኸውን? ክልተ ናጻ ሃገራት? ክልተ ናጻ ህዝብታትዶ ኣይኮናን? እቲ ሓቂ ከምኡ ክነሱ መንግስቲ ኤርትራ በዚ ኣትይዎ ዘሎ መጠን ኣብ ጉዳይ ኢትዮጵያ ምእታዉ ሰብኣውን ሕጋውን ግህሰት ኢዩ ዝፍጽም ዘሎ። ነዚ ንህዝቢ ኤርትራ ዘየርብሕን ዘነውርን ተግባር ብቐዳምነት ክቃወሞ ዘለዎ ድማ፡ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ኢዩ። ብዓይኒ ህዝባውን ሰብኣውን መሰል ኣብ ልዕሊ ህዝቢ ትግራይ ብመንግስቲ ኤርትራ ዝፍጸም ዘሎ ዘነውር ተግባራት ብኹሉ ኤርትራዊ ክኹነን ዘለዎ ኢዩ።

መሰረታዊ ድሌታትን መነባብሮን ናይ ህዝቡ ውሑስ ክገብር ዘይከኣለ መንግስቲ፡ ክንደይ ናይ ሃገር ምምራሕ ዋኒን ከሰላስልስ ይትረፍ ክጅምሮ ውን ዘይበቕዐ ከምዚ ዝኣመሰለ መጠነ-ሰፊሕ ኢድ ኣእታውነት ከካይድ ናይ ኣእምሮ ዘለዎ ተግባር ኣይኮነን። ናይ ዝሓለፈ ውግእ ቁስሊ በሰላ ንዘየሕወየ ህዝቢ መሊስካ ናብ ዘይረብሓሉ ኲናት ምጥባስ ኣብ ህዝቢ ሓልዮት ዘይምርኣይ ኢዩ። ነቲ ኣብ ውሽጢ ሃገር ኣብ ልዕሊ ህዝብና ዘውርዶ ዘሎ በደል ዶብ ሰጊሩ ንከቐጽሎ ክንደይ መንእሰይ ገንሸል ከም ዝኸውን መሳኪን ወለዲ ዝጽብጽብዎ ጥራይ ኢዩ ዝኸውን። ብዓይኒ ቁጠባ ክረአ ከሎ ውን እዚ መንግስቲ ኤርትራ ንግጉይ ፖሊሲኡ ኣብ ትግራይ ንምትግባር ዘባኽኖ ዘሎ ቁጠባ ብዋጋ ምምሕያሽ መነባብሮ ህዝቢ ኤርትራ ዝኸዶ ዘሎ ምዃኑ ዘይርድኦ ሰብ ክህሉ ኣይክእልን። እዚ ዝጠፍእ ዘሎ ገንዘብ ብሰንኪ ስእነት ሕክምና ንዝሞቱ ዘለዉ መድሃኒት ተገዚእሉ እንተዝኸውን ህዝቢ ክንደይ ምስተጠቕመ። ህዝቢ ግብሪ ከፊሉ ዝኣከቦ ገንዘብ ኣብ ዘይመዓልኡ ክጠፍእ ክንዕዘብ ከሎና፡ ኩልና ንሃገርና እንሓሊ ኤርትራውያን ክንቃወሞ ዝግባእ ተግባር ኢዩ።

እዚ ብሓፈሻኡ ንኹሉ ኤርትራዊ ዝምልከት ኮይኑ፡ ብፍላይ ኤርትራውያን ተዋሳእቲ ፖለቲካ ክጥምትዎ ዝህልዎም ካልእ ጉዳያት ውን ኣሎ። ከምቲ ዲክታቶር ኢስያስ ስልጣኑ ንምድልዳልን ንምስፍሕፋሕን ብዞና (ንሱ ክምዝብሎ ድማ ጎደቦ) ዝሓስብ፡ ፖለቲካዊ ተቓወምቲውን ብክንድኡ ደረጃ ክሓስቡ ክኽእሉ ኣለዎም። ተቓወምቲ ሓይልታት እግሮም ዝረግጽሉ እሙን ቦታ ምርካብ ክጽገምሉ ካብ ዝጸንሑ ጉዳያት እዩ። ኣብ ዝሓለፈ ነዊሕ ዓመታት ናጽነታዊ ቃልሲ፡ ሱዳን ከም ሓንቲ መናሃርያ ቃልሲ እትውሰድ ሃገር ኢያ ነይራ። ድሕሪ ናጽነት ግን፡ ከምኡ ኮይና ክትቅጽል ኣይከኣለትን። ከም መርገጺ እግሪ ኮይና ክትርከብ ዝኸኣለት ኢትዮጵያ ኢያ። ተቓወምቲ ሓይልታት ኤርትራ ዓቕሞም ብዘፍቀደሎም ካብ መሬት ትግራይ እናወፈሩ ፖለቲካዊ ስራሓቶም ከካይዱ ጸኒሖም ኢዮም። ናይ ተቓወምቲ ሓይልታት ኣብ ትግራይ ምንባርን ካብኡ ወወፊርካ ኣብ ውሽጢ ኤርትራ ፖለቲካዊ ንጥፈታት ምክያድን ንመንግስቲ ህግድፍ ካብ መንጸሮር ዝፈጥርሉ ጉዳያት ኢዩ ነይሩ። ነዚ ኣብ ውሽጢ ትግራይ ዝነበረ ኤርትራዊ ተቓዉሞ ንምብታን ናቱ ሃሱሳትን ሰለይትን ብምልኣኽ ፈተነታቱ ኣካይዱ ኢዩ።

ምምሕዳር ህግደፍ ኣብ ልዕሊ'ቲ ዝነበሮ ካልእ ቅርሕንታቱ፡ መንግስቲ ትግራይ ንተቓወምቲ ብዝሃቦ ሓገዝ ብኢሰያስ ከም ቀዳማይ ጸላኢ ኣቑጺርዎ ኢዩ። ኢሰያስ ምስ ቀዳማይ ሚኒስተር ኣቢይ ኣሕመድ ንመንግስቲ ትግራይ (ህወሓት) ክድምስስ ክብገስ ከሎ፡ ንእግረ መንገዱ ኣብ ትግራይ ንዘለዉ ተቓወምቲ ሓይልታት ኤርትራ ውን ከምኡ ንምጥፋእ ኢዩ። ፖለቲካዊ ተቓወምቲ ከስተብህልሉ ዘለዎም ነገር ትግራይ ሰፈር ተቓወምቲ ምንባራ እዩ። መዕቆቢት ናይ ካብ ስቓይን ሞትን ሃዲሞም ዝመጹ፡ ብኣማኢት ኣሽሓት ዝቑጸሩ ስደተኛታት ኤርትራውያን እውን ነይራ። ገዝኡን ስፍርኡን ከፍርስ ንዝመጽእ ጸላኢ ኣንኳይ'ዶ ወዲ ሰብ፡ እንስሳታት ከይተረፉ ይከላኸሉ ኢዮም። ንምልካዊ ስርዓት ኢሰያስ ዝቃወም ውልቀ ሰብ ዲዩ ውድብ ነዚ ኣብ ትግራይ ዝካየድ ዘሎ ጽዩፍ ተግባራት ካልእስ ይትረፍ እሞ ብሰብኣውነት ክንኩንኖን ክንምክቶን ዝግባእ ኢዩ። እዚ ድማ ንትግራይ ኢልና እንገብሮ ዘይኮነስ ከም ኤርትራውያን ንርእስና ኢልና ኢና እንገብሮ።

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Sunday, 28 February 2021 11:11

Massacre in the mountains – yet another Tigray massacre

Written by Eritrea Hub

FEBRUARY 27, 2021 ERITREA HUB ETHIOPIA, NEWS

“A group of Eritrean soldiers opened fire on Maryam Dengelat church while hundreds of congregants were celebrating mass, eyewitnesses say. People tried to flee on foot, scrambling up cliff paths to neighboring villages. The troops followed, spraying the mountainside with bullets.”

Massacre in the mountains

They thought they’d be safe at a church. Then the soldiers arrived

Source: CNN

By Bethlehem Feleke, Eliza Mackintosh, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Katie Polglase

Updated 1141 GMT (1941 HKT) February 27, 2021

All of the witnesses to this massacre have been given pseudonyms at their request due to fears of retribution.

Abraham began burying the bodies in the morning and didn’t stop until nightfall.

The corpses, some dressed in white church robes drenched in blood, were scattered in arid fields, scrubby farmlands and a dry riverbed. Others had been shot on their doorsteps with their hands bound with belts. Among the dead were priests, old men, women, entire families and a group of more than 20 Sunday school children, some as young as 14, according to eyewitnesses, parents and their teacher.

Abraham recognized some of the children immediately. They were from his town in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, Edaga Hamus, and had also fled fighting there two weeks earlier. As clashes raged, Abraham and his family, along with hundreds of other displaced people, escaped to Dengelat, a nearby village in a craggy valley ringed by steep, rust-colored cliffs. They sought shelter at Maryam Dengelat, a historic monastery complex famed for a centuries-old, rock-hewn church.

How a religious festival turned into a massacre

On November 30, they were joined by scores of religious pilgrims for the Orthodox festival of Tsion Maryam, an annual feast to mark the day Ethiopians believe the Ark of the Covenant was brought to the country from Jerusalem. The holy day was a welcome respite from weeks of violence, but it would not last.

A group of Eritrean soldiers opened fire on Maryam Dengelat church while hundreds of congregants were celebrating mass, eyewitnesses say. People tried to flee on foot, scrambling up cliff paths to neighboring villages. The troops followed, spraying the mountainside with bullets.

A CNN investigation drawing on interviews with 12 eyewitnesses, more than 20 relatives of the survivors and photographic evidence sheds light on what happened next.

The soldiers went door to door, dragging people from their homes. Mothers were forced to tie up their sons. A pregnant woman was shot, her husband killed. Some of the survivors hid under the bodies of the dead.

The mayhem continued for three days, with soldiers slaughtering local residents, displaced people and pilgrims. Finally, on December 2, the soldiers allowed informal burials to take place, but threatened to kill anyone they saw mourning. Abraham volunteered.

Under their watchful eyes, he held back tears as he sorted through the bodies of children and teenagers, collecting identity cards from pockets and making meticulous notes about their clothing or hairstyle. Some were completely unrecognizable, having been shot in the face, Abraham said.

Then he covered their bodies with earth and thorny tree branches, praying that they wouldn’t be washed away, or carried off by prowling hyenas and circling vultures. Finally he placed their shoes on top of the burial mounds, so he could return with their parents to identify them.

One was Yohannes Yosef, who was just 15.

“Their hands were tied … young children … we saw them everywhere. There was an elderly man who had been killed on the road, an 80-something-year-old man. And the young kids they killed on the street in the open. I’ve never seen a massacre like this and I don’t want to [again],” Abraham said.

“We only survived by the grace of God.”

Abraham said he buried more than 50 people that day, but estimates more than 100 died in the assault.

Yohannes Yosef, 15, was killed in the attack.

They’re among thousands of civilians believed to have been killed since November, when Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 for resolving a long-running conflict with neighboring Eritrea, launched a major military operation against the political party that governs the Tigray region. He accused the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which ruled Ethiopia for nearly three decades before Abiy took office in 2018, of attacking a government military base and trying to steal weapons. The TPLF denies the claim.

The conflict is the culmination of escalating tensions between the two sides, and the most dire of several recent ethno-nationalist clashes in Africa’s second-most populous country.

After seizing control of Tigray’s main cities in late November, Abiy declared victory and maintained that no civilians were harmed in the offensive. Abiy has also denied that soldiers from Eritrea crossed into Tigray to support Ethiopian forces.

But the fighting has raged on in rural and mountainous areas where the TPLF and its armed supporters are reportedly hiding out, resisting Abiy’s drive to consolidate power. The violence has spilled over into local communities, catching civilians in the crossfire and triggering what the United Nations refugee agency has called the worst flight of refugees from the region in two decades.

The UN special adviser on genocide prevention said in early February that the organization had received multiple reports of “extrajudicial killings, sexual violence, looting, mass executions and impeded humanitarian access.”

Many of those abuses have been blamed on Eritrean soldiers, whose presence on the ground suggests that Abiy’s much-lauded peace deal with Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki set the stage for the two sides to wage war against the TPLF — their mutual enemy.

The US State Department, in a statement to CNN, called for Eritrean forces to be “withdrawn from Tigray immediately,” citing credible reports of their involvement in “deeply troubling conduct.” In response to CNN’s findings, the spokesperson said “reports of a massacre at Maryam Dengelat are gravely concerning and demand an independent investigation.”

Ethiopia responded to CNN’s request for comment with a statement that did not directly address the attack in Dengelat. The government said it would “continue bringing all perpetrators to justice following thorough investigations into alleged crimes in the region,” but gave no details about those investigations.

“They were taking them barefoot and killing them in front of their mothers”

Rahwa

CNN has reached out for comment to Eritrea, which has yet to respond. On Friday, the government vehemently denied its soldiers had committed atrocities during another massacre in Tigray reported by Amnesty International.

The TPLF said in a statement to CNN that its forces were nowhere near Dengelat at the time of the massacre. It rejected that the victims could have been mistaken for being TPLF and called for a UN investigation to hold all sides accountable for atrocities committed during the conflict.

Still, the situation inside the country remains opaque. Ethiopia’s government has severely restricted access to journalists and prevented most aid from reaching areas beyond the government’s control, making it challenging to verify accounts from survivors. And an intermittent communications blackout during the fighting has effectively blocked the war from the world’s eyes.

Now that curtain is being pulled back, as witnesses fleeing parts of Tigray reach internet access and phone lines are restored. They detail a disastrous conflict that has given rise to ethnic violence, including attacks on churches and mosques.

For months, rumors spread of a grisly assault on an Orthodox church in Dengelat. A list of the dead began circulating on social media in early December, shared among the Tigrayan diaspora. Then photos of the deceased, including young children, started cropping up online.

Through a network of activists and relatives, CNN tracked down eyewitnesses to the attack. In countless phone calls — many disconnected and dropped — Abraham and others provided the most detailed account of the deadly massacre to date.

Eyewitnesses said that the festival started much as it had any other year. Footage of the celebrations from 2019 shows priests dressed in white ceremonial robes and crowns, carrying crosses aloft, leading hundreds of people in prayer at Maryam Dengelat church. The faithful sang, danced and ululated in unison.

As prayers concluded in the early hours of November 30, Abraham looked out from the hilltop where the church is perched to see troops arriving by foot, followed by more soldiers in trucks. At first, they were peaceful, he said. They were invited to eat, and rested under the shade of a tree grove.

But, as congregants were celebrating mass around midday, shelling and gunfire erupted, sending people fleeing up mountain paths and into nearby homes.

Desta, who helped with preparations for the festival, said he was at the church when troops arrived at the village entrance, blocking off the road and firing shots. He heard people screaming and fled, running up Ziqallay mountainside. From the rocky plateau he surveyed the chaos playing out below.

We could see people running here and there … [the soldiers] were killing everyone who was coming from the church,” Desta said.

Eight eyewitnesses said they could tell the troops were Eritrean, based on their uniforms and dialect. Some speculated that soldiers were meting out revenge by targeting young men, assuming they were members of the TPLF forces or allied local militias. But Abraham and others maintained there were no militia in Dengelat or the church.

Marta, who was visiting Dengelat for the holiday, says she left the church with her husband Biniam after morning prayers. As the newlyweds walked back to their relative’s home, a stream of people began sprinting up the hill, shouting that soldiers were rounding people up in the village.

Biniam, left, and Marta on their wedding day.

She recalled the horrifying moment soldiers arrived at their house, shooting into the compound and calling out: “Come out, come out you b*tches.” Marta said they went outside holding their identity cards aloft, saying “we’re civilians.” But the troops opened fire anyway, hitting Biniam, his sister and several others.

“I was holding Bini, he wasn’t dead … I thought he was going to survive, but he died [in my arms].

The couple had just been married in October. Marta found out after the massacre that she was pregnant.

After the soldiers left, Marta, who said she was shot in the hand, helped drag the seven bodies inside, so that the hyenas wouldn’t eat them. “We slept near the bodies … and we couldn’t bury them because they [the soldiers] were still there,” she said.

(Clockwise from left) Isayas Asgedom, Isaaq Isayas Asgedom, Arsema Yemane, Biniam Yemane and Alemtsahay Asgedom were all killed at the house where Marta was staying.

Marta and other eyewitnesses described soldiers going house to house through Dengelat, dragging people outside, binding their hands or asking others to do so, and then shooting them.

Rahwa, who was part of the Sunday school group from Edaga Hamus and left Dengelat earlier than others, managing to escape being killed, said mothers were forced to tie up their sons.

“They were ordering their mothers to tie their sons’ hands. They were taking them barefoot and killing them in front of their mothers,” Rahwa said eyewitnesses told her.

Samuel, another eyewitness, said that he had eaten and drank with the soldiers before they came to his house, which is just behind the church, and killed his relatives. He said he survived by hiding underneath one of their bodies for hours.

“They started pushing the people out of their houses and they were killing all children, women and old men. After they killed them outside their houses, they were looting and taking all the property,” Samuel said.

As the violence raged, hundreds of people remained in the church hall. In a lull in the gunfire, priests advised those who could to go home, ushering them outside. Several of the priests were killed as they left the church, Abraham said.

With nowhere to run to, Abraham sheltered inside Maryam Dengelat, lying on the floor as artillery pounded the tin roof. “We lost hope and we decided to stay and die at the church. We didn’t try to run,” he said.

Two days later, the troops called parishioners down from the church to deal with the dead. Abraham said he and five other men spent the day burying bodies, including those from Marta’s household and the Sunday school children. But the troops forbid them from burying bodies at the church, in line with Orthodox tradition, and forced them to make mass graves instead — a practice that has been described elsewhere in Tigray.

“… most of them were eaten by vultures before they got buried, it was horrible”

Tedros

Abraham shared photos and videos of the grave sites, which CNN geolocated to Dengelat with the help of satellite image analysis from several experts. The analysis was unable to conclusively identify individual graves, which witnesses said were shallow, but one expert said there were signs that parts of the landscape had changed.

The initial bloodshed was followed by a period of two tense weeks, Abraham said. Soldiers stayed in the area in several encampments, stealing cars, burning crops and killing livestock before eventually moving on.

Tedros, who was born in Dengelat and traveled there after the soldiers had left, said that the village smelled of death and that vultures were circling over the mountains, a sign that there may be more bodies left uncounted there.

“Some of them were also killed in the far fields while they were trying to escape and most of them were eaten by vultures before they got buried, it was horrible. [The soldiers] tied them and killed them in front of their doors, and they shot them in the head just to save bullets,” he said.

Tedros visited the burial grounds described by eyewitnesses and said he saw cracks in the church walls where artillery hit. In interviews with villagers and family members, he compiled a death toll of more than 70 people.

The families hope that the names of their loved ones, which Tedros, Abraham and others risked their lives to record, will eventually be read out at a traditional funeral ceremony at the Maryam Dengelat church — rare closure in an ongoing conflict.

Three months after the massacre, the graves in Dengelat are a daily reminder of the bloodshed for the survivors who remain in the village. But it has not yet been safe enough to rebury the bodies of those who died, and that reality is weighing on them.

This story has been updated.

Sunday, 28 February 2021 11:07

Ethiopia’s War Leads to Ethnic Cleansing in Tigray Region, U.S. Report Says

Written by Martin Plaut

FEBRUARY 27, 2021 MARTIN PLAUT ETHIOPIA, NEWS, TIGRAY

An internal U.S. government report found that people in Tigray are being driven from their homes in a war begun by Ethiopia, an American ally — posing President Biden’s first major test in Africa.

By Declan Walsh

Published Feb. 26, 2021Updated Feb. 27, 2021

NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopian officials and allied militia fighters are leading a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing in Tigray, the war-torn region in northern Ethiopia, according to an internal United States government report obtained by The New York Times.

The report, written earlier this month, documents in stark terms a land of looted houses and deserted villages where tens of thousands of people are unaccounted for.

Fighters and officials from the neighboring Amhara region of Ethiopia, who entered Tigray in support of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, are “deliberately and efficiently rendering Western Tigray ethnically homogeneous through the organized use of force and intimidation,” the report says.

“Whole villages were severely damaged or completely erased,” the report said.

In a second report, published Friday, Amnesty International said that soldiers from Eritrea had systematically killed hundreds of Tigrayan civilians in the ancient city of Axum over a 10-day period in November, shooting some of them in the streets.

The worsening situation in Tigray — where Mr. Abiy, winner of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, launched a surprise military offensive in November — is shaping up to be the Biden administration’s first major test in Africa. Former President Donald J. Trump paid little attention to the continent and never visited it, but President Joseph R. Biden has promised a more engaged approach.

Credit…Tyler Hicks/The New York Times

In a call with President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya on Thursday, Mr. Biden brought up the Tigray crisis. The two leaders discussed “the deteriorating humanitarian and human rights crises in Ethiopia’s Tigray region and the need to prevent further loss of life and ensure humanitarian access,” a White House statement said.

But thus far Mr. Biden and other American officials have been reluctant to openly criticize Mr. Abiy’s conduct of the war, while European leaders and United Nations officials, worried about reports of widespread atrocities, have been increasingly outspoken.

On Tuesday a European Union envoy, Finland’s foreign minister, Pekka Haavisto, told reporters the situation in Tigray was “very out of control,” after returning from a fact-finding trip to Ethiopia and Sudan. The bloc suspended $110 million in aid to Ethiopia at the start of the conflict, and last month the E.U.’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, warned of possible war crimes in Tigray and said that the crisis was “unsettling” the entire region.

Mr. Abiy’s office also claimed that Ethiopia has given “unfettered” access to international aid groups in Tigray — in contrast with U.N. officials who estimate that just 20 percent of the region can be reached by aid groups because of government-imposed restrictions.

The new U.S. Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken, spoke with Mr. Ahmed by phone on Feb. 4 and urged him to allow humanitarian access to Tigray, the State Department said.

Alex de Waal, an expert on the Horn of Africa at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, said it is time for the United States to urgently focus on the crisis in Tigray, before more atrocities are committed and the humanitarian crisis lurches toward a famine.

“What is needed is political leadership at the highest level, and that means the U.S.,” he said.

When the United States assumes the chair of the United Nations Security Council in March, Mr. de Waal said, it should use that position to bring international pressure to bear on the belligerents to step back from a ruinous conflict.

Mr. Abiy launched the Tigray campaign on Nov. 4 following months of tension with the regional ruling party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which ruled Ethiopia with a tight grip for almost three decades until Mr. Abiy came to power in 2018.

Credit…Eduardo Soteras/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

But many of the worst abuses of the war have been blamed not on the Ethiopian military or the T.P.L.F. — whose armed wing is now known as the Tigray Defense Forces — but on the irregular and undeclared forces that have rallied behind Mr. Abiy’s military campaign.

Within weeks of the start of the conflict came the first reports that soldiers from Eritrea —Ethiopia’s bitter rival until the two countries reached a peace deal in 2018 — had quietly crossed into Tigray to assist Mr. Abiy’s overstretched federal forces.

In western Tigray ethnic fighters from Amhara — a region with a long rivalry with Tigray — flooded in, quickly helping Mr. Abiy capture the area.

Now it is the Eritreans and Amhara fighters who face the most serious accusations including rape, plunder and massacres that, experts say, could constitute war crimes.

The American government report about the situation in western Tigray, an area now largely controlled by Amhara militias, documents in vivid terms what it describes as an apparent campaign to force out the ethnic Tigrayan population under the cover of war.

The report documents how in several towns ethnic Tigrayans had been attacked and had their homes pillaged and burned. Some had fled into the bush; others crossed illegally into Sudan and still others had been rounded up and forcibly relocated to other parts of Tigray, the report said.

Credit…Eduardo Soteras/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

In contrast, towns with a majority Amharan population were thriving, with bustling shops, bars and restaurants, the report said.

The American report is not the first accusation of ethnic cleansing since the Tigray crisis erupted. But it does highlight how U.S. officials are quietly documenting those abuses, and reporting them to superiors in Washington.

The looming specter of mass hunger is also driving the sense of urgency over Tigray. At least 4.5 million people in the region urgently need food aid, according to the Tigray Emergency Coordination Center, which is run by Ethiopia’s federal government. Ethiopian officials say that some people have already died.

A document from Tigray’s regional government dated Feb. 2 and obtained by The Times notes that 21 people starved to death in the eastern Tigray district of Gulomokeda. Such numbers could be just the tip of the iceberg, aid officials warned.

“Today it could be one, two or three, but you know after a month it means thousands,” Abera Tola, the president of the Ethiopian Red Cross Society, told reporters earlier this month. “After two months it will be tens of thousands.”

The political outrage over Tigray, though, especially among European lawmakers, is being fueled by the growing tide of accounts of human rights abuses.

The Amnesty International report published Friday asserts that Eritrean soldiers conducted house-to-house searches in Axum in November, shooting civilians in the street and conducting extrajudicial executions of men and boys. When the shooting stopped, residents who tried to remove the bodies from the street were fired upon, the report says.

Amnesty said the massacre was likely a crime against humanity. Eritrea’s information minister, Yemane G. Meskel, rejected the report, calling it “transparently unprofessional.”

Axum, a city of ancient ruins and churches, holds great significance to followers of the Ethiopian Orthodox faith. When the Eritrean soldiers relented and allowed the bodies to be collected, hundreds were piled up in churches, including the Church of St. Mary of Zion, where many Ethiopians believe that the ark of the covenant — said to hold the tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments — is housed.

Saturday, 27 February 2021 11:06

Amnesty International accuses Eritrean troops of killing hundreds of civilians in the holy city of Axum

Written by Eritrea Hub

FEBRUARY 26, 2021 ERITREA HUB ETHIOPIA, NEWS, TIGRAY

Amnesty International has released a comprehensive, compelling report detailing the killing of hundreds of civilians in the Tigrayan city of Axum.

This story has been carried several times by Eritrea Hub, most recently on 20th February. On 12 January this year the Axum massacre was raised in the British Parliament, by Lord David Alton.

Gradually the picture emerging has been clarified and is now unambiguous.

The Amnesty report makes grim reading: the details are horrifying.

Human Rights Watch are finalising their own report, which will be published next week. The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission is also publishing a report on the Axum massacre.

The Ethiopian government appointed interim administration of Tigray is attempting to distance itself from the actions of Eritrean troops. Alula Habteab, who heads the interim administration’s construction, road and transport department, appeared to openly criticise soldiers from Eritrea, as well as the neighbouring Amhara region, for their actions during the conflict.

“There were armies from a neighbouring country and a neighbouring region who wanted to take advantage of the war’s objective of law enforcement,” he told state media. “These forces have inflicted more damage than the war itself.”

The full report can be found here: The Massacre in Axum – AFR 25.3730.2021. Below is the summary.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PRESS RELEASE

Embargoed for release until 00:01 GMT on 26 February 2021

Ethiopia: Eritrean troops’ massacre of hundreds of Axum civilians may amount to crime against humanity

Amnesty International interviewed 41 survivors and witnesses to mass killings in November
Troops carried out extrajudicial executions, indiscriminate shelling and widespread looting
Satellite imagery analysis shows evidence consistent with new burial sites

Eritrean troops fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray state systematically killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in the northern city of Axum on 28-29 November 2020, opening fire in the streets and conducting house-to-house raids in a massacre that may amount to a crime against humanity, Amnesty International said today in a new report.

Amnesty International spoke to 41 survivors and witnesses – including in-person interviews with recently arrived refugees in eastern Sudan and phone interviews with people in Axum – as well as 20 others with knowledge of the events. They consistently described extrajudicial executions, indiscriminate shelling and widespread looting after Ethiopian and Eritrean troops led an offensive to take control of the city amid the conflict with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in mid-November.

Satellite imagery analysis by the organization’s Crisis Evidence Lab corroborates reports of indiscriminate shelling and mass looting, as well as identifies signs of new mass burials near two of the city’s churches.

“The evidence is compelling and points to a chilling conclusion. Ethiopian and Eritrean troops carried out multiple war crimes in their offensive to take control of Axum. Above and beyond that, Eritrean troops went on a rampage and systematically killed hundreds of civilians in cold blood, which appears to constitute crimes against humanity,” said Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International’s Director for East and Southern Africa.

“This atrocity ranks among the worst documented so far in this conflict. Besides the soaring death toll, Axum’s residents were plunged into days of collective trauma amid violence, mourning and mass burials.”

The mass killings came just before the annual celebration at Axum Tsion Mariam, a major Ethiopian Orthodox Christian festival on 30 November, compounding the trauma by casting a pall over an annual event that typically draws many pilgrims and tourists to the sacred city.

Large-scale military offensive

On 19 November 2020, Ethiopian and Eritrean military forces took control of Axum in a large-scale offensive, killing and displacing civilians with indiscriminate shelling and shooting.

In the nine days that followed, the Eritrean military engaged in widespread looting of civilian property and extrajudicial executions.

Witnesses could easily identify the Eritrean forces. They drove vehicles with Eritrean license plates, wore distinctive camouflage and footwear used by the Eritrean army and spoke Arabic or a dialect of Tigrinya not spoken in Ethiopia. Some bore the ritual facial scars of the Ben Amir, an ethnic group absent from Ethiopia. Finally, some of the soldiers made no secret of their identity; they openly told residents they were Eritrean.

‘All we could see were dead bodies and people crying’

According to witnesses, the Eritrean troops unleashed the worst of the violence on 28-29 November. The onslaught came directly after a small band of pro-TPLF militiamen attacked the soldiers’ base on Mai Koho mountain on the morning of 28 November. The militiamen were armed with rifles and supported by residents brandishing improvised weapons, including sticks, knives and stones.

Sustained gunfire can be heard ringing out across the city in a video recorded early that day from several locations at the bottom of the mountain.

A 22-year-old man who wanted to bring food to the militia told Amnesty International: “The Eritrean soldiers were trained but the young residents didn’t even know how to shoot… a lot of the [local] fighters started running away and dropped their weapons. The Eritrean soldiers came into the city and started killing randomly.”

Survivors and witnesses said Eritrean forces deliberately and wantonly shot at civilians from about 4pm onwards on 28 November.

According to residents, the victims carried no weapons and many were running away from the soldiers when they were shot. One man who hid in an unfinished building said he saw a group of six Eritrean soldiers kill a neighbour with a vehicle-mounted heavy machine-gun on the street near the Mana Hotel: “He was standing. I think he was confused. They were probably around 10 metres from him. They shot him in the head.”

A 21-year-old male resident said: “I saw a lot of people dead on the street. Even my uncle’s family. Six of his family members were killed. So many people were killed.”

The killings left Axum’s streets and cobblestone plazas strewn with bodies. One man who had run out of the city returned at night after the shooting stopped. “All we could see on the streets were dead bodies and people crying,” he said.

On 29 November, Eritrean soldiers shot at anyone who tried to move the bodies of those killed.

The soldiers also continued to carry out house-to-house raids, hunting down and killing adult men, as well as some teenage boys and a smaller number of women. One man said he watched through his window and saw six men killed in the street outside his house on 29 November. He said the soldiers lined them up and shot from behind, using a light-machine gun to kill several at a time with a single bullet.

Interviewees named scores of people they knew who were killed, and Amnesty International has collected the names of more than 240 of the victims. The organization has been unable to independently verify the overall death toll, but consistent witness testimonies and corroborating evidence make it plausible that hundreds of residents were killed.

Burying the dead

Most of the burials took place on 30 November, but the process of collecting and burying the bodies lasted several days.

Many residents said they volunteered to move the bodies on carts, in batches of five to 10 at a time; one said he transported 45 bodies. Residents estimate that several hundred people were buried in the aftermath of the massacre, and they attended funerals at several churches where scores were buried. Hundreds were buried at the largest funeral, held at the complex that includes the Arba’etu Ensessa church and the Axum Tsion St Mariam Church.

Amnesty International’s Crisis Evidence Lab geolocated a video showing people carrying a dead man on a stretcher in Da’Ero Ela Plaza (14.129918, 38.717113), towards Arba’etu Ensessa church. High-resolution satellite imagery from 13 December shows disturbed earth consistent with recent graves around the Arba’etu Ensessa and the Abune Aregawi churches.

Intimidation and looting

In the days following the burials, the Eritrean army rounded up hundreds of residents in different parts of the city. They beat some of the men, threatening them with a new round of revenge killings if they resisted.

Axum residents witnessed a surge in the Eritrean army’s looting during this period, targeting stores, public buildings including a hospital, and private homes. Luxury goods and vehicles were widely looted, as well as medication, furniture, household items, food, and drink.

International humanitarian law (the laws of war) prohibits deliberate targeting of civilians, indiscriminate attacks, and pillage (looting). Violations of these rules constitute war crimes. Unlawful killings that form part of a widespread or systematic attack against a civilian population are crimes against humanity.

“As a matter of urgency, there must be a UN-led investigation into the grave violations in Axum. Those suspected of responsibility for war crimes or crimes against humanity must be prosecuted in fair trials and victims and their families must receive full reparation,” said Deprose Muchena.

“We repeat our call on the Ethiopian government to grant full and unimpeded access across Tigray for humanitarian, human rights, and media organizations.”