Is the Riot in Stockholm over?

I know, I should have written this piece last week while Stockholm was on the spotlight from from China to Spain from Russia to the UK due to the riot which engulfed with hundreds of cars set ablaze in much of the suburbs of the town. One of the reasons why I didn't write about it was I just wanted to see how the events develop and the other reason is that I feel like to sit back and see these episodes as an outsider (who lives far from these areas) and as insider as someone with immigrant background. Since I am not a social scientist, all my perspectives and views are only based on my observations and what I heard from residents affected by these incidents; and they shouldn't be considered

"I Shall Persevere!" Eskinder Nega's Defiant letter from Kality Prison

I shall persevere!

Eskinder Nega.

So that I may do the deed
that my soul has to itself decreed
-Keats.

Individuals can be penalized, made to suffer (oh, how I miss my child) and even killed. But democracy is a destiny of humanity which can not be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.

በርካታ ቁጥር ያላቸው በስዊድን የሚኖሩ ኢትዮጵያውያን የህውሃትን ዘረኛ ፖሊሲ አወገዙ Activists in Sweden call for greater rights

እጅግ በርካታ ቁጥር ያላቸው በስቶክሆልምና አካባቢዋ የሚኖሩ ኢትዮጵያውያንና ትውልደ ኢትዮጵያውያን ዓርብ ሚያዚያ ፬  (አራት) ቀን ፳፻፭ ዓ/ም  እዚህ ስቶክሆልም በሚገኘው የስዊድን የህዝብ ተወካዮች ምክር ቤት ፊት ለፊ ት በመገኘ ት ኢትዮጵያውያ ውስጥ በስልጣን ላይ ያለው የህውሃት መንግስትና በተለያዩ ክልሎ ች የሚገኙ ተከታዮቹ አማርኛ ቋንቋ ተናጋሪዎች ላይ ያነጣጠረውንና ኢሰብዓዊ በሆነ እና ሃላፊነት በጎደለው መልኩ ከቤት ንብረታቸው የማፈናቀል ዘመቻ በማውገዝ ከዚህ ድርጊታቸው እንዲቆጠቡ አሳሰቡ። የኦርቶዶክስና የእስልምና ሃይማኖት ተወካዮች በዚህ ከፍተኛ ቁጥር በነበረው የተቋውሞ ሰልፍ ላይ በመገኘት ይሄንን

Is Sweden relevant to Swedish-Eritreans?

“Sweden is irrelevant" Issais Afewerki, President of Eritrea, Asmara National Palace-Eritrea.

Back then in 2009, this is what Donald Böstrom, a freelance Swedish TV journalist was told when he asked Eritrea's incumbent what kind of relationship his country wants with Sweden. Fast forward 2013! I don't want to make a generalization but as an outsider and from my observation of some actual incidents in Sweden; I was left with no alternative but to assume that there are large numbers of Swedish-Eritreans who consider their home/second country-Sweden- as irrelevant as well. 

These group of people proved my assumption right on Friday afternoon ( March 22, 2013) by attacking me

"I have no plan B": Armenian asylum seeking painter/activist

That's what Armenian asylum seeking painter and activist Narek Aghajanyan told me at the opening of his 8^th exhibition, held last week at a small pizzeria located outside of Gävle, when I asked him what he would do if the Swedish Migration Board rejects the new asylum request he made after his second child was born one month ago. When I posed the same question to his beautiful and giggly wife, she told me

Are Eritreans still Hade Hzbi Hade Lbi, after 20 years of Independence?

Eritreans on Eritreans?

Hade Hzbi Hade Lbi (it means literally One Nation, One Heart in Tigrigna-a Hamitic language spoken both in Ethiopia and Eritrea) was/is a populist catch term used by the ruling Eritrean regime and many Eritreans to mobilize for "freedom" against "colonial" Ethiopia and still used by many PFDJ (People's Front for Democracy & Justice), Eritrea's single party to have unlimited and unfettered control on its people. But for an informed outsider or Eritreans themselves for that matter Hade Hzbi Hade Lbi is just myth which one can find it in the dictionary of PFDJ and its blind hardliner, brainwashed and die-hard supporters. A case in point is the recent triple arson attacks

I walk almost all night: Stockholm's Homeless Person

It was Sunday afternoon (February 17/2013) I was bored sitting at home and then decided to hunt for some stories and went down town at place locally called Medborgareplatsen (citizens place, its literal Swedish meaning) a hub for super trendy cafes/restaurants filled in with rich people with fat-wallets and homeless and or drug/alcohol addicted people are selling Situation Stockholm (local magazine about homeless people) or begging for alms or a few of them boozing on cheap alcohol or roaming around aimlessly. When I came out from the tube

Breaking News Alert! Divine Ethiopian police officers can arrest even those in HEAVEN!

TPLF Police officer: "it doesn't matter if you're in Washington or heaven; I'll come and get you."

TPLF (Tigray People's Liberation Front) police officers will start soon arresting every journalists on earth including those in heaven.  This surprising and breaking news was revealed yesterday while journalist Solomon Kifle of the Voice of of America-Amharic service (VOA)staff member tried to find about the allegation of Ethiopian Muslims of the capital city Addis Ababa who complained to

Don't MISS Ethiopia's Censorship talent-show!

Those who have talent related to cyber security can come and win the award

A winner will

-Eat dinner with the top management team of INSA

- Get scholarship or

- Create his/her own cyber security organization

- Join INSA

200,000 birr is allocated for the award

Also available at ethio-cer2t.insa.gov.et 

Isn't this advert really dazzling and awesome; just in case you wonder, it's a talent show orchestrated by the Ethiopian Information Security Agency (INSA) alias known by many Ethiopians as Censorship-in-chiefs and Phone trespassers Agency inviting eligible cyber geeks to come up with,

When my SKIN becomes my SIN

It was around 2 o'clock this afternoon, I was waiting for my turn to get medicine from one of the pharmacies here in Stockholm. We were about half a dozen people,  and then this very old and over-weight lady were scrambling to raise her feet in vain supported by another old but not so fragile woman when the automated queuing  machine buzzed their queue number. The old lady whom I guess was a friend/relative/care-giver or whatever was not able to lift up the other one; everybody was just simply watching as something normal or pretending looking somewhere else.

Isreal's war against Ethiopian "Jewish" women

Is History repeating itself in Israel?

It's still fresh in our memory the Holocaust and other inhumane atrocious crimes of Nazi Germany perpetrated against millions of Jews people and other unwanted races to create a pure Aryan race. Hitler and its followers tried everything on the book for the realization of their dreams which among other includes Eugenics, a racist practice which implemented to sterilize Jewish women. Six decades later descendants of the same victims are implementing almost

Eritrea's Information Minister confirms defecting, who's next?

I take Orders, such a lame excuse!

After over two months of secrecy and denials, controversies  surrounding his whereabouts, the Eritrean Information Minister and Issais Afewerki's right-hand man, confirms his defection yesterday to a Swedish tabloid called Expressen. You remember months of media saga about the health of our late beloved prime-minister? It's like father like son:). I don't know if Abdu has a double or still serving as

Part II ESAT's exclusive interview with Johan Persson & Martin Schibbye

ሰላም በያላችሁበት

ባለፈው የፈረንጆቹ ዓመት መስፍን ነጋሽ እና እኔ በህውሃት መንግስት ባልሰሩት ወንጀል ከአንድ ዓመት በላይ ሲንገላቱ ቆይተው በ "ምህረት" ከተለቀቁትና አሁን አገራቸው ገብተው ይሄንን ኢሰብዓዊና ዘግናኝ ተሞክሯቸውን በመጽሃፍ መልክ ለማሳተም በከፍተኛ ሩጫ ላይ ከሚገኙት ሁለቱ ስዊድናውያን ጋዜጠኞች ማለትም ዩዋን ፐርሹን እና ማርቲን ሽብዬ ጋር ያደረግነውን የመጨረሻውን ክፍል ሁለት ቃለምልልስ ይሄን ይመስል ነበር። ማርቲን እና ዩዋን የሶማሌ ክልል ም. ፕሬዚደንት እነሱን በጠመንጃ አፈሙዝ

Are Eritreans really fed-up with their one time “Hero”?

Over the past few days, in  the aftermath of the alleged failed “coup d'etat” attempt on 21st of January 2013 at the Eritrean Ministry of Information which resulted the National TV to be off from the air for whole day, a series of raids and storming of Eritrean embassies in Europe have become a common scene. A case in point, it's to be recalled that the Eritrean Embassy in London was

Eritreans in Sweden rally behind army mutineers back-home

More than two dozen Eritreans who reside in Sweden demonstrated in front of their Embassy in Stockholm early this afternoon today (January 25, 2013) to express support to their fellow countrymen from the Army who tried to occupy

በስዊድን የሚገኘው የኢትዮጵያ ስደተኞች ማህበር ድረገጽ ሃክ ተደረገ

ተቀማጭነቱ በስዊድን አገር የሆነው የኢትዮጵያ ስደተኞች ማህበር ድረገጽ ከጥቂት ሳምንታት በፊት በህውሃት መንግስት ሃክ ተደረገ/ተጠቃ (እባካችሁ ሃክ የሚለውን የእንግሊዘኛ ቃል ሊተካ የሚችል የአማርኛ ቃል የምታውቁ ካላችሁ ተባበሩኝ) ። ድረገጹ በሞሮኮ መንግስት ሃክ እንደተደረገ/እንደተጠቃ በእንግሊዘኛ የተጻፈ ጽሁፍና እንዲሁም በአረብኛ ቋንቋ የተደገፈ የጥቂት ሰከንዶች መልእክት የተቀመጠ ሲሆን የሞሮኮ መንግስት ድረገጹን ሃክ ለማድረግ/ለማጥቃት ያነሳሳው ምክንያት

ESAT Yesamintu EngIda Martin and Johan part I Ethiopia

 ሰላም ወገኖች ( the English version will follow for our friends who don't understand Amharic) ይሄንን አስደሳች ዜና ሳቀርብ ከፍተኛ የሆነ ክብርና ደስታ  ይሰማኛል። ከመስፍን ነጋሽ የአዲስነገር ኦንላይን ዋና አዘጋጅ ጋር በመሆን ባሳለፍነው የፈረንጆቹ ዓመት ኢትዮጵያ ውስጥ ለ14 ወራት ባልሰሩት ወንጀል በቃሊቲ እስር ቤት እንዲሰቃዩ ከተደረጉ በኋላ የተፈቱትና አሁን  አገራችው ገብተው በነጻነት ከሚንቀሳቀሱት ሁለቱ ስዊድናውያን ጋዜጠኞች ማለትም ዩዋን ፐርሹን እና ማርቲን ሺብዪ ጋር ያደረግነው ቃለምልልስ አምስተርዳም በሚገኙት የኢሳት ቲቪ ባልደረቦች ያላሰለሰ ትብብርና ጥረት እነሆ

Ethiopian Refugees' website hacked by Morocco, Really?

Moroccan Kingdom vs Ethiopian Refugees in Sweden

This world is really getting bizarre everyday and now a days nothing seems to amaze me; but this one which I'm talking about, baffles me a lot. Why would a Moroccan Kingdom which has nothing to do with Ethiopian political asylum seekers in Sweden, hacks their website? 

This happened a few weeks ago and one of our members told me to check it out ( I thought he was joking); even though I've seen strangers' names in our web-admins' list a few months ago, I never thought they would go this far. I checked it out et voila,

Destroy a Refugee's camera, NO PROBLEM Sir!

My Best Souvenirs from Sweden 

I don't know where and from when I should start but soon, it'll be eight years since I was forced to leave all that I've built all my life, my career, family friends and above all my beloved country due to an unfortunate incident that happened to me to "live" in Sweden. Being a refugee and to live in a very far away country wasn't my choice; if it was the case I could have had done (like three of my Ethiopian classmates) it when I came to Europe/Finland for the first time in the 1998 to study Special Education. One of our fellow Ethiopian classmate was attacked by four skin-heads

የእናት ቤት ይሻላል ዘንጋዳ ደረቁ

ያሰኛል ይሄን ከዚህ በታች ያለውን የአንዲት በዴንማርክ አገር ለሚገኙ ግለሰቦች በጉዲፈቻነት ተስጥታ በወላጆቿ ናፍቆት የተነሳ በአሳዛኝና ልብ በሚሰብር ሁኔታ እየተሰቃየች ያለች ጨቅላ ወገናችንን ህይወት በቅንጭቡ የሚያሳይ ምስል ለተመለከተ:: ስሟ ማሾ ሁሴን ይባላል ከታናሽ ወንድሟ ጋር በጉዲፈቻነት የተሰጡት ከ ሁለት ዓመታት በፊት ሲሆን በጣም የሚያሳዝነውና የሚያስገርመው ወላጆቻቸው በህይወት የሚኖሩ መሆናቸው ነው:: ዛሬ ማሾ (ስምን መልዓክ ያወጣዋል ነው ወይስ ነበር) እንኳን ማሾ ሆና ለሌላው ብርሀን ልስትለግስ ቀርቶ ጋዟ አልቆባት ለመጥፋት ጭልጭል የምትል ኩራዝ መስላ ያ ፍልቅልቅ እና ሳቂታ የልጅነት ወዟ ተሟጦ ልቧ በናፍቆትና በሀዘን ተሰብሮ ዴንማርክ አገር በሚገኝ ወላጅ አልባ ህጻናት ማሳደጊያ ውስጥ ሳትወድ በግድ የመከራ ገፈት ከታናሽ ወንድሟ ጋር በመጋት ላይ ትገኛለች:: ወላጆቿ እሷንና ወንድሟን በጉዲፈቻነት እንዲሰጡ የተገደዱት በወቅቱ ሀኪማቸው በደማቸው