Al-Nahda
What Time Is It, Part 2 (A Satire)
By Saleh AA Younis - Mar 19, 2002   
 ....in the words of the African Hero, Amilcar Cabral, “Mask no difficulties, tell no lies.”  Words to live by.   On the other hand, in the words of an Eritrean hero, General Sebhat Ephrem, “Did you see anything?  No.  Did you hear anything? No.”   Also words to live by.  See you same time next Tuesday.   Remember, we are on except when we are off.
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The Language of Authoritarians
By Saleh AA Younis - Mar 07, 2002   

In this language, you can’t even begin a joke with: “Why did the chicken cross the street?”   The chicken didn’t cross the street; the street was crossed by the chicken.   Well then, let’s ask the street. When the passive Anglicized Tigrigna is translated to English, we get the always-hilarious phrase “it is to be remembered….” a standby of every Shabia media outlet.   It is to be remembered that the phrase “it is to be remembered” is used often to re-enforce manufactured or false memory.

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One Nation Under "G1"
By Saleh AA Younis - Feb 20, 2002   

What Eritrea is suffering from is not because of the “political prostitutes.”  Political prostitutes at least pay attention to what their customer wants and they want as many customers as they can get. ...What Eritrea is suffering from—and it has a National Assembly full of it—is that new Eritrean breed, one that was nurtured by past colonialists.   The one whose sole aim in life was to please The Boss; the one that kissed the ground Emperor Haile Selassie walked on and memorized two Amharic words: “ishi getaye.”   That toadying, always-scared, timid, apprehensive gentle soul.   The one that we had come to believe had been eliminated by our armed struggle. The breed is the Eritrean Political Eunuch.  

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Of Mimes & Men
By Saleh AA Younis - Feb 08, 2002   
Article comments on the work of the 14th session of Eritrea's "National Assembly"...The Chairman’s report suggests that had the G-15 learned from their lessons and humbled themselves, they would have been forgiven.   Would high crimes like treason be brushed off just like that if the person learns to prostrate before the Chairman?  What does that say about the power of the Chairman?  What does that say about the credibility of his claims?
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What Time Is It? (Episode 1)
By Saleh AA Younis - Jul 30, 2001   
Following on this fine journalism practice of Hadas Ertra, we sent him to interview all our dignitaries, celebrities and our politicians.  We asked him to do one thing: go to your subjects, at exactly one o’clock in the afternoon, their local time, (1:00 PM) and ask one simple question: “What Time Is It?”     These are the answers he brought back.
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