>> Asmara Rose Responds to Saleh Gadi and the Awate Team

>> Lost Souls, TSERE-HAGER/AWIAN

The unexpected and devastating attack on Eritrea by the weyane and their hidden behind the scene co-conspirators in 1998, which rudely interrupted a long awaited euphoria and jubilation that was being enjoyed at the time by the Eritrean people after having finally obtained their freedom and independence, has left the people of Eritrea painfully wounded and temporarily shattered their hopes and dreams.

To add insult to injury, while having kept silent, and pretended to join in the celebrations during the good times which was from 1991 to 1998, individuals calling themselves opposition to the Eritrean leadership, who apparently had been clandestinely conspiring with the enemy, started popping up, and taking advantage of the situation, while the iron was still hot, and while supposedly the victim was still on the ground, started to in their own right to attack, and by so doing rub salt on the already aching wounds of the Eritrean people.

It was most painful to see these so-called opposition take advantage of Eritrea’s post war situation by abandoning her completely and betraying her by siding with the enemy, even, as was later discovered, participating in the actual fight alongside the enemy, in the name of democracy and freedom of speech.

Never in the annals of history, has the world ever witnessed such betrayal, cruelty and callousness toward one’s young country and people by a few individuals who claim to be her citizens. And because they were just a few, Eritrea managed to get up, dust herself, and in the end overcoming all that was conspired against her, see the day when these traitors’ evil intentions would come back to haunt them one by one until they are no more.

What these so-called opposition did to the Eritrean people is abominable and unforgivable. And now, whatever is thrown at them they should just humbly accept without any whining or claiming victimization or demonstrating any holier than thou attitude because their aim and goal never is, and never was, meant for the benefit of the country and her people, since they had to fabricate stories in order to bring up their case.

Now for almost eight years these so-called opposition, under different names and guises have been insulting Eritrea and her people by going to enemy territory to conspire further with the enemy on how to destroy Eritrea and her people. They were lobbying very hard to have the international community sanction and isolate Eritrea by spreading false rumors and bringing fictitious witnesses to their false allegations and claims of what goes on within Eritrea under the present administration, like they did with that notorious article about two non-existent sexually abused called Saba and Gidei who supposedly were to have been raped and abused in Sawa.

In order to write about these two fictitious individuals they had to plagiarize from an article that was written on the BBC website with regards to a very disturbing incident which took place in South Africa where a few months old baby was raped. Now what could be more disturbing than the rape of a baby? How desperate could the opposition have felt in their lack of being able to writer that they had to go searching for salacious articles for the simple reason of after a few change of names and places transferring its disturbing contents on to a seemingly genuine article about Eritrea. Is this any way to help one’s people and country by borrowing ideas and words from others?

For a little while Saba and Gidea were famous on the main so-called opposition websites until they were suddenly stopped on their tracks after someone discovered the BBC article which they were not even clever enough to distance themselves from by at least using some of their own words, but they instead copied it almost verbatim with only a change of names here and there. But then, traitors are not known for their intelligence. Anyways, the rest is history now because after they were exposed we never heard from Saba or Gidei anymore.

So what I am trying to say is that from time to time it is always good to give your enemies a taste of their own poison. Otherwise they will never know the pain they cause to others.

May God bless and protect Eritrea and her resilient, determined and brave people.

Saleh Gadi is barking through his lawyer -

Read here Exclusive the letter from his lawyer
(Saleh Gadi do what you want to do but let us know who are Saba & Giday??)

Read here at www.biddho.com exclusive Saleh Gadi´s, Saleh Younis´ and Tes Agamino´s Nonsense Masterpiece as Saba & Giday from Asmara, Eritrea:

From South Africa to Sawa in Eritrea "how could that be"?

..Asmarino.com is a "fraudulent" website.
Tesfalidet Meharena (Chairman & CIO of Asmarino.com) in a message by e-mail to biddho.com

Biddho.com Investigative Report
There can never be any truth found in plagiarism

"as long as psychos like him continue to spread their venom against Eritrea and its people, we have no choice but to remain vigilant and expose their mendacity ruthlessly." Warsay Eritrawi

After Warsay Eritrawi's recent article "Inside Dr. Taddesse's Wasted Mind" of July 21 2002 exposing with evidence and proof that T.A. Tadesse is a big time plagiarizer and a crook, we now have further evidence to believe that he might also have been the author of "Rape and Torture and cover-up of innocent girls in sawa" the article that was posted at Asmarino.com on May 5, 2002 supposedly written by two individuals from Asmara, who went by the names of Saba & Giday. The question is, has he done it with, or without the knowledge of Asmarino.com? Can Asmarino.com tell us, with a straight face, that they did indeed receive the article from Asmara or was it from New Jersey? What does Asmarino.com have to say about it? How can they explain to us that Saba and Giday needed to plagiarize in order to put forward their rape case? What else did they fabricate? Only Asmarino.com knows the answer to all this.

Here screenshots from our video during our second stay in Sawa (Summer 2002):
Soon a video of a concert with Wedi Tukabo recorded by Biddho Team will be published here.

SAWA Eritrea 2002 -Pictures by Biddho.com

With his fabricated article Cr. T.A. Tadesse, with the help of Asmarino.com wanted to agitate, and humiliate Eritreans who live both abroad and at home. Why would Asmarino.com accept to publish such an article without any evidence? Do they not have any responsibility for what they publish? Whose responsibility is it when people plagiarize and paste it in another form in order to blemish the name of another nation and people?

We must not forget that Cr. Tadesse and Asmarino.com are in the same boat...



"as long as psychos like him continue to spread their venom against Eritrea and its people, we have no choice but to remain vigilant and expose their mendacity ruthlessly." Warsay Eritrawi

In his latest article "Inside Dr. Taddesse's Wasted Mind" Warsay Eritrawi baptizes T.A. Taddesse as a crook and a plagiarizer and prefixes his name with a Cr. (for crook) instead of the usual Dr. which we will also follow from now on.

We all remember how Cr. Tadesse fabricated a poll some time back, and now Warsay Eritrawi has exposed him even further on his recent talk of a fictitious fact finding deligation from Asmara and their fictitious reports. In another instance there was also a fictitious co-author, that the crook created. And last, but not least Warsay has caught the crook red handed in plagiarizing. Here is Warsay Eritrawi in his own words:

"the points he gives in the "Ground Rules for Effective Conflict Resolution" are not his: they were lifted, verbatim and without attribution, from the Web. Click here and check for yourself I then checked if the points he gives on what he calls "mediation capabilities" are not his. Unsurprisingly, I found out that most of them were also plagiarized and were lifted, word for word, again without attribution as you can check for yourself by clicking here. Both pages, I might add, do the decent thing and give the original source. " Warsay Eritrawi

Having said all that, here we have in our hands what looks like an identical track record behavior of the crook regarding the case of the Saba and Giday incident, which shows that the article which supposedly was from Asmara has been copied verbatim from a BBC correspondent's findings regarding a very disturbing rape which took place in South Africa. The question is, why, and how would alleged raped victims from Eritrea need to plagiarize their reports from a South African report? Who but the notorious Cr. Taddesse, archenemy of Eritrea, would be in a position to do that especially with the dirty track record he already has? Here are our findings and we leave it to the reader to judge for themselves.

We have also done our own little thorough investigation at Sawa and Asmara, and have successfully come to the conclusion that no two people who went by those names, or even any other name, ever wrote or sent letters through the internet to Asmarino. So this leaves us to believe that this fabricated article was published only through the support and acceptance of Asmarino, despite its fraudulent nature.

(1) EXCERPTS from BBC plagiarized by.......?

Rape is endemic in South Africa.
in this the police, politicians, sociologists and rape survivors all agree. There is a silent war going on, a war against women and children.
It is a fact that a woman born in South Africa has a greater chance of being raped, than learning how to read.

rape is not a new phenomenon in South African society, but it is becoming more common.

As the HIV pandemic becomes an Aids pandemic, rape can also be a death sentence. In South Africa you have a culture where men believe that they are sexually entitled to women. You don't get rape in a situation where you don't have massive gender inequalities.

One of the key problems in this country is that people who commit rape don't think they are doing anything wrong."

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(2) BBC World: Africa Tuesday, 9 April, 2002, 11:25 GMT 12:25 UK Rape - silent war on SA women South Africans are mobilising against sexual violence By the BBC's Carolyn Dempster Johannesburg Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/ africa/1909220.stm ? Rape is endemic in South Africa. On this the police, politicians, sociologists and rape survivors all agree. There is a silent war going on, a war against women and children. It is a fact that a woman born in South Africa has a greater chance of being raped, than learning how to read. One in four girls faces the prospect of being raped before the age of 16 according to the child support group, Childline. Sexual violence pervades society, with one of the highest reported rates of rape in the world, and an alarmingly high incidence of domestic violence and child abuse. The official crime statistics tell only part of the story. In 1994, the year South Africa became a democracy, 18,801 cases of rape were reported. By 2001 that figure had risen to 24,892. The South African Police Service readily admits that even though there is now a greater awareness of the problem, more stringent penalties, and better policing, the vast majority of rapes and attempted rapes still go unreported and unpunished. During a recent parliamentary debate on child abuse in South Africa, it was reported that there has been a 400% increase in the sexual violence against children over the past decade. Baby rape The majority of the victims are 12 years old or younger. Many of the perpetrators are themselves children. "Baby Tshepang" was just 9 months old when she was brutally raped in the Northern Cape town of Louisvale in the early hours of 27 October, 2001. Baby rape is not a new phenomenon in South African society, but it is becoming more common. One possible reason, say Aids activists, is the myth, widespread in southern Africa, that sex with a child or baby will rid a man of HIV or Aids. Rapists don't think they are doing anything wrong. Dr Rachel Jewkes South Africa already has more than 4.5 million people living with HIV, more than any other country in the world. As the HIV pandemic becomes an Aids pandemic, rape can also be a death sentence. So why is it so bad? At the root of the problem, says Dr Rachel Jewkes, a senior scientist with the South African Medical Research Council, is men's attitude towards women. "In South Africa you have a culture where men believe that they are sexually entitled to women. You don't get rape in a situation where you don't have massive gender inequalities. One of the key problems in this country is that people who commit rape don't think they are doing anything wrong." 'Can't say no' Her findings are borne out by the experience of Rose Tamae, a survivor of gang rape, who is HIV positive, and counsels abused women and children in the sprawling township of Orange Farm which lies across the highway from Soweto, west of Johannesburg. With the Aids pandemic, rape can be a death sentence "In our culture, as a woman, you don't say no to a man. Sex is not open for discussion," she says. "So they think they can do as they like. "In a place like Orange Farm, where most people are unemployed, and the women have to go looking for work far away, often the children are left at home in the care of men, or strangers. "They are vulnerable. In one case a little girl was being given food in return for sex, and she didn't want to go home empty-handed to her mother, who had Aids and was sick. " Apartheid legacy A "culture of violence" has also been a dominant feature of South African society for decades, say sociologists, and it has spawned attitudes which are tolerant of sexual violence. South Africa's Deputy President Jacob Zuma blames apartheid for "sowing the seeds for the breakdown of the institution of the family." He believes that the molestation of children and infants today is a symptom of this degeneration. Zuma blames apartheid for family breakdown Apartheid HAS left a damaged society in its wake, but the criminal justice system is also failing women and children in South Africa. Out of the 24,892 rapes reported last year, only 1,797 resulted in successful convictions. To its credit the government, and South African society, is responding to the scourge. The justice system has prioritised sexual offences with a review of the law and stiffer sentences. Police officers are being trained to care for rape survivors. Many private hospitals now offer specialized rape care and counselling, and insurance companies have introduced policies for rape survivors to enable them to afford expensive anti-retroviral drug treatment to reduce the risk of contracting HIV and Aids.

(3) In Neon plagiarazed from BBC May 05, 2002 Rape torture and cover-up of innocent girls in sawa. Saba & Giday Asmara, Eritrea. Source: http://news.asmarino.com/Information/ 2002/05/SabaGiday_5_5.asp ? In Eritrea, there is a silent war going on, a war against women and girls. Torture and rape is an endemic in Eritrea. It is a fact that a woman born in Eritrea has a greater chance of being raped than learning how to read. This is one extremely disturbing story of a young girl who was tortured and raped in front of many security officers while she was traveling to visit her brother who was serving in the national service (sawa). "Baby Tsgehana" was just 17 years old when she was brutally raped in a detention camp near the town of Teseney in the night of Monday, March 29, 2002 by an Army Officer who was in charge of the detention camp. All she can remember is that one of his eyes is blind and they called him "Wedi Bilen", but his real name was unknown, at least to the prisoners. After she refused to have sex with him, he brutally tortured her by pulling her hair, smashing her head against the prison wall and hitting her with the back of his gun. All her screams fell on deaf ears of all the other officers At the time when she spoke to us about the trauma she suffered, she did not know whether she was HIV positive and/or pregnant. As the HIV pandemic becomes an AIDS pandemic, rape can also be a death sentence. She also saw the detention, torture and rape of many ordinary citizens like herself who were just traveling to Teseney accused of allegedly ?trying to escape to Sudan?. The other officers deliberately ignore the groaning and wailing of all the women they hear every day. May be they were afraid of the severe punishment they would get if they raise a voice. She said, one day, one soldier from warsay came to give some headache medicine to one young girl who was ceaselessly crying. He was whipped many times while bending down on his knees. Usually the punishments to the soldiers include kneeling on sand and or stones, in the hot sun or rain. When she told us these horrific events, she was so overwhelmed with emotion, she threw her forehead on her lap, and, sobbing loud, wept with such weeping that all those who were listening to her story wept with her. At the same time, we all felt the pains of the young girl that was raped both by those who claim to be ?freedom fighters? and the system that ignores such vicious acts of barbarism. There is no doubt the man that raped these young girls is a menace to society. How can a man rape and torture such young girls and then expect to walk free while his victims are left helpless and agonized? Only in Eritrea. The trauma they endure because of this man is unquestionable. He should be kept well away and locked up for life. But that is not the case. Despite numerous complaints against him, he is still a free man in charge of the women?s detention camp in one checkpoint near Teseney. It is unfortunate that many Eritrean women advocates of human rights are more entangled in politics of their own agendas and power struggles than fighting these barbaric acts of rape. In the face of such atrocities against many women, only few have spoken on behalf of women?s rights. The chance of a good-looking girl being raped by her army commander is very high. Their brutal handiwork is recorded in chilling detail in the women?s mounting reports and confirmed by thousands of impregnated young girls, many of whom still in their teens. The women?s testimonies are perhaps the most devastating and damning accounts of brutalities, never seen or heard in any recorded history of Eritrea. There is no longer any room for a doubt; these devastations are, by all accounts, unprecedented in savagery towards women and young girls. People that say ?it is not that bad in Eritrea? have either never lived through the military services (sawa) there, or have never left to find out how women and young girls live in within the army. All the recurring reports by many women and young girls yielded nothing but inexplicable dismissals. An earlier independent report by human rights groups, such us the U.S. reports on human rights in Eritrea, was also dismissed as an exaggeration. However, the inaction of the government and the PFDJ administration speaks for itself. Usually, the testimonies of those affected have to be taken as the basis for initiating legal action against the accused. But, many of the women in the army and civilians, some of them barely teenagers, are too traumatized to recount the horrors they have suffered. Only a handful of young girls were able to file a lawsuit against their army commanders. But, despite many victims coming forth with mounting evidences and witnesses, even actually naming the culprits, most of the cased do not pass beyond the perpetrators themselves. What is even more frustrating is the cumbersome legal procedures the victims have to go through. Usually, the very rapists themselves are the perpetrators of the crime, the judges and the prosecutors. The criminals have occupied the position of the protector and the guard. There is no doubt that these beasts have ruined the lives of a whole generation of Eritrean women who may never recover from the trauma of rape, torture and general abuses. These animals need to be held accountable. No one can justify the abduction and rape of civilians. What is urgently needed is counseling and immediate medical attention, and above all, assurance of protection from their attackers. Yet, in much of the reporting of these women, in most cases, victims have remained largely invisible. The same indifference shown to them by their army commanders is shared by the central PFDJ government officials. The president himself, when asked, sarcastically scorning the situation, replied with this outrageous comment to the public: ?I have sent 1000 girls but they came back 2000?, implying that they came back with unplanned pregnancies and babies, deliberately overlooking the magnitude of the atrocities that women in the military services suffer by his army commanders. On one another occasion, it was strutted off to what one official called that PFDJ is too busy with "other obligations," as if there were something more pressing than the torture and rape women and girls. Thus, women are condemned to silence while their attackers walk free. Because of this reason, women are terrified to serve in the military services and there are many thousands of them that are draft-evaders. One other alternative they have is to flee to Sudan or other country. Despite the rampant rape cases, ironically, the press refrains from reporting the true extent of the violence against women. May be, the rigorous campaign of intimidation and imprisonment of journalists by the government has a lot to do with the silence of the media. One journalist who was serving in the army was threatened with his life by the security forces if he ever publishes such reports. Nevertheless, some of the exiled reporters and opposition groups have started touching on this pressing topic, albeit briefly, while busying themselves with other political issues that serve their own interests. On the one hand, with rape so endemic in Eritrea, on the other hand, when people are too busy with self-serving political issues, how can the limited support from the people make a worthwhile impact on the Eritrean women?s issues? Indeed, Shaebia and its affiliates have always been long on rhetoric on the glorious role that women have played for the freedom of our nation. Surely, they cannot justify, in the name of the national values they claim to represent, the violation of innocent women and girls. So why is it so bad? At the root of the problem is men's attitude towards women. You don't get rape in a situation where you don't have massive gender inequalities. In Eritrea you have a culture where men believe that they are sexually entitled to women. Women battering, abduction, rape, and sexual harassment and many other forms of violence against women and girls are widespread. One of the key problems in this country is that people who commit rape don't think they are doing anything wrong. Rape is not a new phenomenon in Eritrean society, but it is becoming more and more common. What has happened to a society in which such horrific crimes take place unnoticed? The thought of the struggle of countless people for freedom of Eritrea comes to mind. Where is that freedom? A 19 old Ghenet who finally managed to escape to Sudan wrote us a letter recounting her heartbreaking experience of sawa: ?All that I can say about this to the critics of people like me who leave, is, when I grew up, we used to sleep with our windows open. We did not live behind a 8 foot wall with razor wire and an electric fence. Our front door opens right onto a street in downtown Asmara. There is no security gate. I park my car in the street. In my entire life in Eritrea, I have never heard of anyone being raped or robbed at the gunpoint. But, when I joined the army, it was different story. We were constantly harassed and disrespected especially by the commanding officers. One day one officer asked me to sleep with him. When I refused, he ordered me to a heavy labor. He finally managed to rob my innocence. I wish I were never born to see that day. I wish I surrendered even to the enemy. The enemies did not even rape my friends that were prisoners of war in the enemy?s camps. After all my complaints fell on deaf ears and every legal avenues I took turned to dead ends, I decided to escape to Sudan.? The war is partly to blame for this mess, but the government cannot continue to use that as a scapegoat. Other wise, as the situation gets from bad to worst daily, the government will always have some kind of alibi. Educating the people specially the army is what minimum the government can do. But if they always cover-up this reality, it will not get worst. It is the single best thing that they could do. The Eritrean Security Service readily admits that even though there is now a greater awareness of the problem, more severe penalties, and better policing, the vast majority of rapes and attempted rapes still go unreported and unpunished. Because, many of the perpetrators are themselves the security officers. The pulling of female soldiers from the front lines has greatly reduced the number of rape victims, unwanted pregnancies and the spread of venereal diseases. But, the government has to do a lot more than that to protect its citizens. Obviously, the prevailing justice system has failed miserably in registering these numerous rape cases. The government has done little or nothing to curb such widespread violence against women and young girls. Medical examination of most of the raped victims had not been conducted. The government, and Eritrean society, should respond to the scourge. The justice system should prioritize sexual offences with a review of the law and stiffer sentences should be passed. Security officers should be trained to care for rape survivors. Immediate counseling and medical attention should be given to the rape victims. They key solutions in combating sexual violence lies in: ? Education ? greater community responsibility for members' actions ? better policing ? harsher sentences ? reform of criminal justice system We call on all advocates of human rights irrespective of their party affiliations, to take up this issue of rape and torture of young girls in Eritrea. Advocated of women?s rights all over the country as well as women in diasporas should show their disgust and protest to the PFDJ?s handling of these vicious beasts that prey on innocent young girls. Saba & Giday Asmara, Eritrea. Saba & Giday contributed and has sole responsibility for the content on this page. For comments you can contact the writer by e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

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