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History maker
Hamid Idris Awate was
born at Gerset, located between Tessenei and Omhajer in southwestern
Eritrea in the year 1910. His father was a peasant and known to own
a rifle. Awate was trained by his father how to use that gun. At
early age, he was a very skillful fighter who achieved great
superiority in the usage of arms and developed a high knighthood
skill that gained him the respect of his generation.
Grown up in a locality that appreciates and values ethical
principles based on honesty and faithfulness, Awate was known to be
a man of moral values and a good example for them to follow, trust
and was a great leader to be obeyed. Read
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THE AKORDET BOMBING INCIDENT OF 1962.
An eye witness – Ato Gebru Kifle of Akordet. 2006
That year when the federation had been dissolved, dignitaries from
Eritrea and Ethiopia were travelling to show the change and
progress. The dignitaries coming to Akordet were persons like
General Abiye Abebe, Bitweded Asfaha Welde Mikel, Melake Selam
Demitros, Dej Hamed Ferej, Dej. Zerom Kifle, General Zere Mariam,
Blata Kumilachew BeleTe from the Emperor’s representative and
ministers and administrators.
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AFRICA CONFIDENTIAL
NOVEMBER 27, 1970
Ethiopia:
The fighting in Eritrea
continues
 Civil
war has now being going on in Ethiopia's northern province of
Eritrea for nearly a decade. Armed rebellion broke out early in the
1960s, prompted by growing dissatisfaction with conditions in
Eritrea after the territory was federated with Ethiopia in 1952.
Ethiopian dissolution of the federation in November, 1962 ended
Eritrea's autonomous status. Since then, true to the general pattern
of guerrilla warfare, the revolt has been characterized by periods
of intense military activity interspersed with periods of inertia.
At the same time, divisive forces within the Eritrean Liberation
Front (ELF) have waxed and waned. There is evidence that, at the
moment, the war is passing through a phase, of heightened activity,
but old rifts are also re-opening in the guerrilla movement.
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 Diary
of the revolution 1961 - 1981
Every single day of of the past 20
years of the protracted armed struggle of the Eritrean people is
studded with momentous events which has lasting effects in the
Revolution and its motive forces. One cannot therefore have any
pretense to present a complete diary of the Eritrean Revolution.
However, mentioning a few events of every year in the last two
decades is quite in order at this anniversary.
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 Count
Du Bisson's Expedition 1863-Eritrea
Count Raoul Du Bisson's
Expedition to Koufit-mutiny of the 4th regiment at Kassala in 1865
The
murder of the Powell family
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The
year 1875 marked the peak of Ismail Pasha's efforts to make a
success of the Sudan. Before examining the unhappy events that
accompanied and followed Egypt's war with Abyssinia, one must recall
three other incidents that occurred in or near Kassala while Ismail
Pasha's star was still in the ascendant.
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 AEROPLANE
HIJACKINGS BY ERITREANS 1969-1971
Eritreans were showing their displeasure of
being governed by Ethiopia. A demonstration in 1958 in Asmera ended
up bloody. In the same year conscious Eritreans in Port Sudan formed
a group for struggling politically to free Eritrea. They sent
persons into Asmera who secretly recruited members and it
progressed.
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 Special
Interview with Issayas Afewerki
Adulis Vol. 1 No 4-5, October-November 1984
Published monthly by the Central Bureau of Foreign
Relations of the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front.
In this, the first of a three-part
special interview , Issayas Afwerki, the Assistant Secretary General
of the Central Committee of the EPLF, gives a succinct appraisal of
the heroic struggle and brilliant achievements of the Eritrean
people during the last five extremely challenging years, an
objective assessment of the role of external intervention and the
prevailing correlation of forces in Eritrea as well as clear
presentation of the front`s policy with regards to
the major national, regional and international issues confronting
the Eritrean libration movement today.
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IN THE BOGOS' COUNTRY (By Mrs. Luisa Reinische)
No date is written and the timing of this writing is in the
early 1890s. The woman I presume is the wife of Leo Reinische,
who has written extensively in Eritrean languages and customs.
With the occupation of that large
and natural mountain fortress which is the Bogos' country, the
Italians have seized for the port of Massawa not only a sanitary
station, but also a territory which will produce them sufficient
means of substance for their African army. To this be added that
they now possess a great portion of the very ancient commercial
route that from the times of the Ptolomais and the roman
emperors was used for the transportation of the central African
products to the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. Sahel is the name
of that vast plain which extends north of Massawa, between the
sea and the first lines of the Abyssinian highlands.
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THE FIRST 10 YEARS OF THE ERITREAN
REVOLUTION
Mohamed Ibrahim
Bahdurai, now aged about 55 years, is one of the few surviving
pioneer fighters of the Eritrean Liberation Amy (ELA), the armed
wing of the ELF, who took part in the 20 years of the armed
struggle of the Eritrean people. Talking about the initial
years of the revolution, he says: "We hoped when there was
little to hope, and confronted the Ethiopians virtually without
adequate arms and munitions. We were fully armed with the
absolute conviction in the final victory of the just cause and
history will not attest that we were wrong". In the following
item, presented in the original question and answer form, ELA
veteran Mohamed Bahdurai narrates some of the experiences of the
Eritrean Revolution during the first decade, 1961 to 1971.
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OUR STRUGGLE AND ITS GOALS
We have for a long time been making an effort to publicize
our revolutionary stand and our
views on the political conditions of our country. We do
realize, however, that our statements
have not been reaching all appropriate
audiences due to the shortage of funds and other means
necessary for the task.
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The Ethiopian-
Egyptian War: 1874 –1876
Egypt
emerged as a powerful force in Africa during the latter stages
of the decline of the Ottoman (Turkish) Empire. In the second
half of the 19th century, an ambitious and energetic new Khedive
negotiated with the Ottomans to take control of Egypt. He
intended to create an Egyptian African empire by swallowing up
Sudan and Ethiopia.
For this purpose he recruited a large army staffed with European
officers and Confederate officers from the American Civil War
which had ended 10 years earlier. These officers were sent to
Ethiopia, and the following accounts of the Battles of Gundet
and Gura are drawn in large part from their diaries and other
notes. The accounts are extracted from an article published in
the Journal African Affairs in 193x by A.E. Robinson This
account is useful as it presents a different perspective on the
Ethiopia-Egypt conflict. Other accounts of these battles from
Ethiopian and other sources can be found in the biography of Ras
Alula and in general histories of Ethiopia.
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THE HISTORY OF
ERITREA
OTHMAN SALEH SABBY
Library of Congress
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Othman Saleh Sabby is one of the most prominent founders of the
Eritrean Liberation Front and one of its most distinguished
leaders. He is the official spokesman for the external mission
of the Popular Liberation Forces, and also a founding member of
its joint commission with the Revolutionary Council.
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BIBLIOTHECA
ABESSINICA
STUDIES CONCERNING THE
LANGUAGES, LITERATURE AND HISTORY OF ABYSSINIA
Edited by Dr. E. LITTMANN
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TSAADA WEDI LAMZAIT
Tsaada Midhan Tesfa Gebru (Gebru of Bet Gebru) was a
famous person in his tribe. He was called wedi Lamzait because his
mother was from the Lamza people. He lived in the 1600s Ihave
assumed, because he is the brother of my 13th forefather.
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The Zaul people
By Aida Kidane
The Zaul of Eritrea are an Agaw group and are now found spread out
in many areas, about 55 villages and towns. In most villages the
Zauls entered as migrants as most were migrating north from Debarua
where they had split up.
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ISKIRNA
TALYAN
An Eritrean Askari in Italian Rule
The Massawa Symposium
’Secessionists and CIA Connection’
Tesfa Mikel Giorgio 1982, Amarina
ELF Military Activities: 1968-1969
Bad men of the Borders: Shum and Shifta
in North Ethiopia in the 19th century.
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AGAINST ALL ODDS ‘FAMINE’
DAN CONNELL
Post Card “Eritrea 1945”
Printed in Eritrea by Francescana P. P. Asmara
Ato Gebru Kifle audio recorded memory
of the Second World War.
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