Unless We Remember, We Cannot Understand!
#EritreaAt30: Least we can do is remembering the enforcedly disappeared & the ongoing suffering of their families.
Feb 21, 2021 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
▶️Remembering z late Adhanom Gebremariam👇
Remembering #Eritrea|s Conscience Prisoners is also about #Eritrea|s exiled political leaders – alive & dead, people (& their remains) who remain separated from their families, people & nation b/c of their dissenting political views.
Continued, on Biography of Adhanom:
1972 – 1991: Covered with scars - large & small, Adhanom's body bear witness to z many skirmishes, battles & wars that he participated in or directed as rank & file fighter, platoon leader, battalion & brigade commander, all z way up to
Feb 20, 2021 • 25 tweets • 8 min read
▶️Remembering 48 young men & women massacred at #AdiAbeto in 4 Nov 2004..👇
Remembering is also about few days in #Eritrea|s contemporary history, days that witnessed a barbarity that’s too horrific to imagine - almost beyond human imagination,
something that’s too painful to contemplate &, thus, self-serving to deny & forget. And, this is exactly why we must make a deliberate & conscious effort to remember z 4th of Nov 2004!
At z end of z 1998-2000 border war, #Eritrea|s 18-months National Service program mutated