Selamat sebna!
Salih as much as I like your ideas, I think your memory gave way to
Paulos this time. Paulos I am amazed by your knowledge of history. You seem
to know the twists and turns of our straggle. Keep it up brother.
Dawit email: dmeasho@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Paulos Natnael wrote:
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> Believe me SaleH, you memory is playing tricks on you, or maybe it's mine.
> In any case, let me relate some history from "defective" memory:-)
>
> In 1977 when most of our cities were liberated, controlled either by the ELF
> or EPLF, the voluntary participation of young people in the fronts
> continued. In the ELF, the "Falul Movement" which emerged around January
> 1977 had a devastating effect on the Front as thousand its fighters defected
> (or forced to defect because they were attacked by the ELF forces, which is
> another story) to the EPLF later that year. This situation coupled with the
> enemy's recapture (in the middle of 1978) of the cities and towns produced a
> more negative effect to the moral of the fighters and a few thousand more of
> ELF fighters again left "Mieda" either for Sudan or Ethiopia. It was a time
> when battlions were short a company, and companies were short platoons. It
> was then (I would say starting early 1978) the ELF decided to forcibly
> conscript. And that is when the EPLF particularly in the Hamasien area
> started the campaign of ridicule. The EPLF was much more stronger than the
> ELF at that stage even after the furious battles to capture and later defend
> the cities. Enough of writing from memory for today!
>
> Paulos.
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> >What do I say, Paulos. Well, I guess maybe my mind is playing tricks
> >on me. Since I wasn't relating the story second-hand, I thought I was
> >fairly certain that it was the EPLF that first started forced
> >consciption. I am certain of this because there was a truly memorable,
> >venomous critique that appeared in ELF newsletters about the subject.
> >It was so memorable, one of my friends--a ex-ELF cadre--has it
> >memorized and will, at times, blurt it out to show off his
> >Tigrigna-prowess. It goes like this (loose translation offered for
> >Mary and other Tigrigna non-speakers):
> >
> > B' Har-gots-gotsn der-gots-gotsn (through hustle and bustle)
> > z-te-aka-Kebe Hylee (power hatched)
> > Ab Sinkufin tehawasin (in weak and incapacitated)
> > medreK (stage)
> > k'shltemn k'gltemn (to collapse and to disintegrate)
> > ny Gdin y-Kewin:: (is a certainty)
> >
> >Translation: "It is inevitable that a power-base hatched through hustle
> >and bustle will, in periods of inactivity and incapacity, disintegrate
> >and collapse." Hardly prophetic, huh?
> >
> >So, brother Paulos, what do you say?
> >
> >Saleh
> >
> >PS: Tekie, a response to your tough questions is coming up. But I have
> >to collect my thoughs for a while...
> >
> >
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