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Shame on You!! The leaderships of the so called “secular forces”- EPDF (Sagem) and ESNF 
(Dihnet) 
Am boiled, irritated but in vain when the conspirators’ statements of both organizations heard and read. 
“Am writing from an unusual place, Tessenei, the hinter land of our Kunama leader -Badumme Kasu. 
Today, Tesseney (Sanay, as the original inhabitants Kunama used to call) is not the home of the 
indigenous Kunama. As usually, they are pushed off to the out skirts with out compensation. I am 
veteran fighter of ELF/sagem but “retired.” My experiences of Bahti Meskerem’s anniversary vary  from 
place and time. I experienced the forceful expulsion of urban ized Kunama of Barentu town for the burial 
ceremony of Hamid idris Awate. Till today, I never had encoun tered a jubilat Bahti Meskerem for the 
Kunama because the dramas, poems and messages on this event, always, hurts and creates an awkward 
situation for Kunama in Eritrea.  
My experience of 51st anniversary celebration was rather ugly and specifically painful for those living and 
remnants of Takalamba villages. A school boy from the Nara nationality was made to read a poen in 
Arabic that glorifies of Hamed idris Awate’s “courageous” and “herioic” deeds at a Kunama village called 
Takalamba. The residents of this village were pillaged, looted and killed. To day apart from those exiled,  
a very few remnants are in Sumbare village, confined in a small pocket surrounded by Tigre speaking 
Eritreans. The moment they heard the poem, the eyes of over all Kunama  is changed in to pepper. You 
can read a stress on their face and fatigue on their muscles as they used the utmost labor or sweat to 
distance them selves from that scene as soon as possible. It was bad and felt bad as to where I belong.”  
(It’s a testimony of an eye witness from inside Eritrea and translated to English from) 
Behold Eritreans! This is a  personal account of a Kunama from in side Eritrea and written in Kunama 
language. Many an unnecessary expressions are omitted to avoid un necessary perceptions. By the way, 
every Eritrean should know that, whenever a new Septemper 1, approaches, you can read a bad temper, 
stress and discomfort on the face of every Kunama. Let me give you simple examples; at the Akaki 
national conference of 2010, the kunama representatives were with their tears when see the picture of 
Awate. Were up set as they see the work shop made in his name and called the leadership of DMLEK 
and expressed their resentments, call it first? At the Hawassa conference, when brother Mohammed 
Saleh-the representative and member of ELF, read the poem that praised Awate, the entire 19 Kunama 
representatives were in tears and swore to leave the hall. But the leadership has eased. In other words, 
September1 is becoming a challenge for the DMLEK to convince its members and the entire Kunama. To 
day, the entire Kunama, regardless of their political inclination and belief, rallied around their 
organizational statement of DMLEK and ironically the hatred on Awate has sealed off  their internal 
grievance and secondary conflicts which is a blurred reality for dihnet and sagem’s leadership.   As they 
heard the contents of both organizations statements, t hey prefer to remain on their stand, be proud  
Kunama and face any eventualities than to hear the name of Hamed Idris hereafter.  
While facts look as such, the two member organizations EDA,( EPDF and ESNF) to test their loyalty to 
Tadamun and to express their insatiable greed of worshipping their boss,t t he Tadamun, want to twist 
the wrist of DMLEK and Kunama for an apology. On top, derailed from the main stem issue, ignored the 
pain of our Kunama at any anniversary or conference venues of September, want to force us to 

apologize and adorn their “hero.” As t hey have their hero, the Democratic Movement for the Liberation 
of Eritrean Kunama -DMLEK has its own symbolic flag but never pressed to member organizations to 
recognize or accept. Then, why should DMLEK, its members and Kunama be forced to worship the 
symbol they feel bad and painful? Why should DMLEK, Its members and Kunama be forced to take an 
appointment and permission to express their resentment and explain their pain? If they are not willing 
to share our pains, they should even not contemplate to forbid us to express our pains an d pleasures. 
Who gave them the mandate and right to scale our pains? Who is the Thermo meter for  the Kunama 
pain? I say shame on them!! We all know the conspirator theory of these two organizations: Expel all the 
national, ethnic and secular forces from al l Eritrean coalitions and forums and be the sole alternatives 
for the Tadamun forces and to remain life long leading organizations, being first, and propelling and 
promoting minorities to a better positions and ruling behind the curtain is the second, they  used to 
marketing them selves as sole power brokers and contenders at the mercy of the Islamic organizations. 
The leadership of DMLEK,  friendly ethnic organizations and secular forces are totally against the so 
called Sagem-Dihnet satanic axis. The two organizations are hell bents to feel, sense and scale the pain 
of the Kunama. While the reality seems as said, their theory of isolation looks exactly to that of PFDJ. 
DMLEK, as a democrat organization, never intends to impose its priorities on others and ex pects a 
reciprocal approach from. If ready to compromise and want to put the regime’s departure a prior, then,  
come to the terms DMLEK has stipulated to their God Father, Saleh Gadi, and if not leave DMLEK, other 
ethnic, democratic and secular forces alon e. We can be on our selves with or with out all the anti unity, 
anti change, obsolete and depreciated leaderships of the two organizations and their likes. 
Sittal Meram