Selam P. Natnael and everyone,
Paulos, I find your writings now and in the past interesting and
inviting as well.
Very few books about our history of struggle have been in the market
so far. It is my hope too that many more will follow from all sides.
This is not even just a tip of the iceberg yet.
But any book that reaches our hands will definitely be challenged by
one or the other as containing misrepresentation and the author
accused of being one sided, a basher and so on. Well, challenge is
good in a way that we will always be diging for the truth. I don't
advocate
to believe what any book that pops up says. But where does it end?
Will we (the public) ever know the TRUE history of our 30 years
struggle?
Which side will it come from and how will we know?
Those who wrote books/articles and those who will do so in the
future
are former or present members or supporters of one or the other
front.
In my opinion, there is no Eritrean who is neutral unless he/she
knows
nothing and/or doesn't care at all about what Eritrea had to go
through
except, of course, those too young to know. And one who doesn't
know
or doesn't care does not write books. Can we expect the future
writers,
from both ELF and EPLF, to get together and write history they both
can agree upon to avoid rejection by the other? If they do this
would not be
writing history the way it was but the way they want it. After all,
history
can not be compromised or altered to meet ones desires.
So who is willing and qualified to write the true story of our
struggle?
Some one, regardless of his/her political affiliation, to write our
history,
and I mean the truth, nothing but the truth. If not, I am afraid,
except
those who have been there and seen it all, the rest of us will be
left
in the dark, as far as history is concerned. And, If that is the
case,
then I will have to satisfy myself by believing whom I want to.
And now, Paulos, the million dollar guess: I would have said you
have
been there, specially reading your Amharic proverb "yewega biresa
yetewega ayresa". But since you said how you know all that is "from
a
very intense history lessons given by equally intense instructors"
(if I can take it literally) then don't you think Alamin
could fit well in that category
of instructors?
Sincerely,
Tesfai Kahsai
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