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⏺︎ ☕ Fun Facts You Didn't Know About Eritrea ☕ ⏺︎ ☔
⏭︎ Before the US decided to illegally incorporate the nation of Eritrea to its African neo-colony Ethiopia in 1952, Eritrea had the second-largest economy and was the most developed nation in Africa next to South Africa.
⏭︎ During the 10 years of British military administration of Eritrea from 1941 to 1950, all the heavy equipment at Eritrean ports were dismantled and moved to Britain or its other colonies elsewhere, in a brazen robbery scheme of staggering proportions!
⏭︎ Self-driving Cable Cars also called Aerial Tramway, or Ropeway, suspended in the air from a cable stretched 115 Kilometers from Asmara to Massawa was the longest in the world. Merchants and traders sent their products from Asmara to Massawa, and vice versa, using the Teleferica.
⏭︎ Eritrea was the first country in the world to use battery-operated trucks that were widely used for collecting garbage in Asmara. The US that forced Eritrea to become part of its neo-colony Ethiopia in order to build the Kagnew station in Asmara, the biggest US intelligence network in the world, moved most of the Eritrean battery-operated trucks to California, but a few remained in the country until the Derg regime came to power in Ethiopia in 1974.
Derg officials didn't like the battery-operated trucks. "If they are real trucks they should take fuel and make noise," they reasoned. Something that moved without making noise aroused their suspicion, so, sadly, they blew up the trucks, one by one, until they were all gone.
⏭︎ A young Eritrean man walking home carrying his guitar after a church service was stopped by Derg soldiers from Tigray who asked, "what is that you're carrying?", to which he replied "የሙዚቃ መሳሪያ ነው።", and in a flash the agame soldiers aimed their guns at the young man and ordered him to come with them to the Derg station and brought him in front of their commander claiming that they had caught him carrying "መሳሪያ." After laughing his a$$ off, the Amharic-speaking commander asked the young man to play a couple of tunes on the guitar to alleviate the morbid fear that the guitar had caused to his agame soldiers. See what we had to deal with!
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Re: ⏺︎ Fun Facts You Didn't Know About Eritrea ⏺︎
I like how you pride Eritrea for its Italian Colonial Developments
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We can't help it.
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Prostitution is illegal in Eritrea.
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Cairo 1940.
A few Italian built concrete building makes Tigrinyas feel good about themselves.
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Re: ⏺︎ ☕ Fun Facts You Didn't Know About Eritrea ☕ ⏺︎ ☔
In Ethiopia, we live in the present.
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Re: ⏺︎ ☕ Fun Facts You Didn't Know About Eritrea ☕ ⏺︎ ☔
- We refuse to be
What you wanted us to be
We are what we are
That's the way it's going to be. (Bob Marley)
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During the time the great nation of Eritrea was enjoying the second-largest economy in Africa, tens of thousands of agame migrated to Eritrea as day laborers, farm workers, cattle herders and domestic helpers. Keep in mind that the agame could have worked in other parts of Ethiopia, but the horrific genocidal crimes Yohaness IV had committed was still fresh in the mind of Ethiopians that the agame were not welcome anywhere in Ethiopia.
But the Eritrean people who believe in giving a person a second chance had allowed agame migrants to work and thrive in the country, but no sooner had we learned that a leopard cannot change its spots, especially with the arrival of Derg forces in Eritrea whose scorched earth policy was carried out by none other than the inferiority complexed agame enlisted in its ranks as "አብዮት ጥበቃ," given carte blanche to kill, rape and loot the Eritrean people as they pleased. ባጎረስኩ እጄ ተነከስኩ!
We figured, the root cause of agame's inferiority complex towards Eritreans, and their savage behavior towards those who had given them a second chance to redemption in particular, was a result of decades of neglect and abandonment they felt by the Ethiopian people that, we decided to correct their behavior by integrating them into the general Ethiopian population by pushing their stroller through the gates of Arat Kilo in 1991.
It did not surprise us when, 7 years later, the unrepentant and ungrateful agame invaded Eritrea in 1998 – once bitten twice shy, and they burned their bridges behind them, forever! It is rumored that, President Isaias returned from his China trip carrying a blueprint for The Great Wall of China. Erecting a permanent barrier is the only solution to avoid conflicts between humans and wild animals that cannot be domesticated. I do feel sorry however for the Ethiopian people who have no choice but to live with these people. ከአጋም የተጠጋ ቁልቋል ዘላለም ሲያለቅስ ይኖራል።
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