Selam Kahsai,
I do not have answers to the quetisons you posed but I find them relevant
an interesting. If it is not already being done could it help if the
historians also write where the different liberation groups cooperated
with each other.
Sealm and ridette for all of us.
Salome Gebre-Egzaibher
On Fri, 2 May 1997, Kahsai, Tesfai wrote:
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> Selam P. Natnael and everyone,
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> Paulos, I find your writings now and in the past interesting and
> inviting as well.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Sincerely,
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> Tesfai Kahsai
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