Editorials

               

National Unity Is Our Central

and Democratic Objective

ELF-RC Information and Cultural Office

(23/2/2005)

Making Sound Strategic Solutions

The Nharnet Team:

(Feb 12, 2005)

In Search of a Victory Strategy

By Nharnet Team (Feb 9, 2005)

Recollections of a Prisoner:

By  Nharnet Team (Feb 6, 2005)

February : Dates in Eritrean History

Nharnet Team (Feb 6, 2005)

Tough and Complex

Challenges Ahead for EDA 

The ELF-RC Information and

Cultural Office (1/2/2005)

Blocco Indipendenza

and Khartoum Meeting of the Opposition:

What Similarities?

Woldeyesus Ammar (Jan 18, 2005

A Broad Coalition, A winning Formula

Nharnet Team (Jan 15, 2005)

From the Experiences of the

Eritrean Liberation Army (ELA)

Part VIII and Final

By Nharnet Team (Jan 13, 2005)

Eritrea’s Transition Phase

From Dictatorship to Democracy

The ELF-RC Information &

Cultural Office, 13/01/2005

January : Some Dates in Eritrean History

Nharnet Team (Jan. 8, 2005)

The Eritrean Opposition:

What New Year Resolutions?

Nharnet Team (December 31, 2004)

As The Wheel Turns

Nharnet Team (December 1st, 2004)

For ELF-RC Members

And Supporters,  1st of December Is

Eritrean Martyrs’ Day

Nharnet Team (December 1st, 2004)

Opposition Demonstration in Washington DC

The Nharnet Team (November 23, 2004)

Saleh Eyay:

Member of a Remarkable

Generation that Was

By Woldeyesus Ammar

(November 14, 2004)

Eritrea Today:

Agonizing Indices of Misery

Nharnet Editorial (November 6, 2004)

November: Dates in Eritrean History

(And a Reading on ‘Waala’ Biet Giorghis)

Nharnet Team (November 4, 2004)

ELF-RC Information Office

Denies Allegations by Herui Tedla

Nharnet Team (October 30, 2004)

Let’s Not Give Room

To ‘Warlordism’ in Eritrea

 Nharnet Editorial (October 28, 2004)

From the Experiences of the ELA  (Part V)

The Nharnet Team (October 21, 2004)

The Need for Credible and Acceptable Coalition of the Opposition

The ELF-RC Information and Cultural Office

18.10.2004

At  33rd Anniversary  of

The 1971 Congress, ELF-RC

Described as ‘Dynamic Democracy’

Nharnet Team, 14 October 2004

Forging a United Patriotic Opposition

Nharnet Team, October 10, 2004

From the Experiences of the ELA (Part IV)

The Nharnet Team (6/10/2004)

How Veterans Told the Story of the First 10 Years of ELA

The Nharnet Team (October 1, 2004)

Changing Times and Changing Roles

Nharnet Editorial (October 1, 2004)

From the Experiences of the ELA (Part III)

The Nharnet Team (30/9/2004)

Three Years Ago Today

Nharnet Editorial (19/9/2004)

From the Experiences of the ELA (Part II)

(12/9/2004)

The Speaker of ELF-RC, Ibrahim Mohamed Ali, Urges Eritrean Politicians To Admit  Past Mistakes, Excesses

 (10/9/2004)

September 1st Puts Public Trust to the Test

(1/9/2004)

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بقلم / ابراهيم محمد علي

RC Speaker Urges Libya’s Colonel Gadafy

(30/8/2004)

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CONCLUDING STATEMENT:

ARABIC  ENGLISH       TIGRINIA
 

March

Important Dates in Eritrean History

By Nharnet Team (March 9, 2005)

 

Important Dates Between 1867-1896

  • March 1867: First Italian agricultural concession established at Shietel, south of Keren, by Padre Stella under the authority of Degiat Hailu of Hamassien.

  • 15 March 1888: The railway line reached from Massawa to Sahati in Samhar.

  • 22 March 1889: Italian forces occupied Agametta near the Eritrean coast.

  • 1 March 1896: 2,000 Eritreans died at the Battle of Adua from among 8 battalions made Eritrean fighters. Of those who were captured, 500 were subjected to painful amputation of their right arms and left legs before they were sent back to Eritrea.

 

Important Dates Between 1907-1937

  • 25 March 1907: First batch of Eritrean youth sent to Somalia to fight Italy’s war for expanding its colonial empire.

  • 7 March 1932: The Agordat-Biscia line of the railway completed.

  • 18 March 1937: Inauguration of the Asmara-Massawa cable line (Teleferica).

 

Important Dates Between 1949-1958

  • 18 March 1949: Abdelkadir Kabire assassinated in Asmara by paid killers.

  • 14 March 1952:  Dehai Eritra issue 22 of that date charged. Editor Saleh Mohamoud and Elias teklu detained. Re published as of 5 March 1954.

  • 10-13 March 1958: General strike of Eritrean workers in Asmara and other Eritrean towns.

 

Important Dates Between 1964-1999

  • 15 March 1964: The Battle of Togoruba in which the ELA confronted in battle for the first time the regular Ethiopian army in Eritrea after the defeat of the police and special forces deployed by the occupying power, Ethiopia.

  • 9 March 1975: The Black Sunday in Agordat in which nearly 200 innocent civilians were massacred by the Ethiopian army.

  • 15 March 1994:  The dictatorial regime in Asmara named 50-person commission for drafting a constitution after banning and excluding all the other Eritrean political organizations.

  • March 1999: Eritrean opposition organizations held lengthy discussions and reached an agreement with a minimum programme to form an umbrella organization called the Alliance of Eritrean National Forces (AENF). The same alliance in October 2002 included two controversial clauses in its charter and was renamed the ENA, which, since 22 January 2005 has started to be called the Eritrean Democratic Alliance (EDA). 

 

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