Response to Ali Abdu

From Sewit G.Tensae

For the record I am “He” not “She” and yes as you said, I was speaking on behalf of most Eritreans ,who used their valuable time for better things, unlike me unfortunate ,attended the meeting to listen from a bigot, I repeat “Bigot” politician (as it was referred in your Webster dictionary) to a passionate propaganda for mercy.

You said you are not going to argue the success or the failure of the meeting in Boston. But you would be the first one to comment if the meeting was productive as you or the collaborators dreamed, unless you have changed your name if you were in the meeting.

You said the ambassador wants to be challenged by PFDJ members and the audience can have a better picture of his ideas and that was the reason that he wished Dr.Tesfai to be in the meeting.

I am always skeptical when I hear stories about he said or she said, at the same time doubtful, if I didn’t see it or listen to it personally. But you can’t tell what had being said in the meeting that I attended physically. You can’t tell me also he was wishing to be challenged by Dr Tesfai to a corrigible discussion . You will have a better picture or understanding if I explain to you in Tigrina as it has being said ,even though you already made up your mind to judge him the way. He said “ABZIA ENDOMO AYHLUN DR. TESFAI HIJI” !!! while he was moving his head up and down and pointing his fingers to the audience . If this does make him a bigot, what is bigotry then? Again pictures don’t lie it is on the Video, if you decided to view.

One thing that made me laugh is, when you said you have talk to Mr. Adhanom one on one, “as you stated” he told you people are not corrupted naturally, but the system makes them corrupt. This is another cheap propaganda by the X Ambassador. Mr, Ali Abdu, how come you did not have guts to tell him or reminded him he was part of the system if in deed it was corrupted system? What exactly you did with the X ambassador (just to listen to him what he tells you) is what exactly we experienced and witnessed here in Boston. The people who sponsored him did not have a guts to tell him, he “is/was” wrong except one .He was part of the system, part of the government and yet sadly, he is their representative then ,and their ambassador now. Then who was he referring to but himself when he said corrupted system.

It was a mistake on our part to attend the meeting, believing Mr. X. ambassador was going to be challenged by so many questions from the sponsors. We thought we might learn something new, because the sponsors were the ones who were looking for more clarification than us , which we decided to wait and see till time comes for discussion . It was a mistake also on our part not knowing the X ambassador was on a special treatment as an official ambassador. He was dined, whisked, transported for five days with land cruiser, and stayed five days and nights at the most expensive hotel in Boston at the cost of ????.

We remained hesitant, if there was a third party involved sponsoring him the way he was treated, unlike our official ambassador Girma Asmerom, he has to come and go the next day when he came. Time will tell for every thing.

You said You found him very intelligent, heroic and most of all very reasonable. Well, I don’t disagree with the first two points you have mentioned, but I totally disagree with his “reasonability ”

a) A reasonable person does not stay in the most expensive hotel for five days at the expense of some one.

b) A reasonable person does not hold a separate meeting to the public and to his sponsors.

c) A reasonable person does not ask a question from a cafeteria through a cellular phone to find out how many attendee are present, how many of them are PFDJ and how many of them are such and such prior to the minutes left, to the scheduled propaganda. It was a dirty game that all of our heroes fought against , but it becomes a tool now to a collapsed heroes. There is so many things we witnessed and engorged to bring it into a discussion as issue , because GIZI U SLE ZEYKONE . What we care now is how to secure our strength and unity, every thing else will come and go as a history ,GN- YETAZAZBENA ALO. As we to call him the X ambassador is a reasonable, he has to give us more reasons beside what we heard him “preaching” us in Boston for his sole political survival. Based on the facts that I gave you, if you decided to call him he is a reasonable person, it is your own opinion, but Mr. Abdu, I can only compare you with him as “ one coin ,with a different symbol on both sides.”

Mr. Ali, nine out of ten, you “probably” be one of those, with or with out a reason wants to question the GoE, before the birth of the so called G’s. Now all of a sudden, to become a supporter of the reformers just because they stood against the GeO, in your say “PIA” is not reasonable either . As you seems to be a person of a reason , give us reasons , why you think PIA is decorator or corrupted, while all the reformers are saying ,he is a good leader to lead the country, but he is a dictator. You can’t have both ways. He is a good leader if he is on their side, and he a bad leader when he stood with his people, right? What a scenario?

You said if Mr. Abdela Jabir can cut his throat for being traitor as he put it , imagine what he is capable of doing to others. Mr. Abdu, do not make it difficult yourself to understand to an easy expression. As you love “to grade” any fourth grader can understand it .It is easy and simple to understand what he meant, if you do not want to create another avenue.( GUAL MENGEDI) for what he said . Mr. Abdela Jabir is telling you, betraying your motherland is the worst thing some one can do, and if it was him, he preferred to head cut off is “patriotic” explanation, and he is telling you how serious is crimes like that. By saying so, it shouldn’t make him look as criminal either.

Isn’t that our Tegadelti said BEJA HAGER or KULU DHRI HAGER , what do they real mean ? Does this expression for the love of their country justifies them to be called cruel or criminals? Make no mistake, in the country that you believed there is democracy, espionage, betrayal, giving information from your own country to a second party could result in life imprisonment up to capital punishment. Why every issue is a big issue in Eritrea? While the exemplary countries are exercising it . Don’t get me wrong, I am not for it, but I am giving you an example that you already know, but chose to mislead us.

Wetru Awet Nhafash

Sewit G.Tensae

Sewit G.Tensae is the sole bearer of the responsibility for this article.