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Eritrea, the Red Sea Paradise!

Eritrea, the Red Sea paradise has never been recognized as a neighbouring country or even as an independent country, because of the Ethiopian occupation until its independence in 1991. However, it was a state before the conspiracy of the Four Power's delegations during their meetings in London and Paris in 1945-1946, when they drafted afterwards the Federal Act of the UN in 1949.

When Italy occupied the area 1869-1889, the Italian colonization named the colony Eritrea in a degree issued on 1 January 1890. The name given to it came from a Greek name for the Red Sea, the Erythraean Sea. The Greek derived the name from the Greek word, Eruthras, which is the name of a Persian person who had lived on one of the Read Sea islands, as one story says. However, it is clear that the Greek meant Erythr or Erythro, which mean red.

More than Million Eritrean had escaped their country because of the Ethiopian occupation to live in Sudan. So the new generations since 1939 (Benito Mussolini, the Fascist dictator of Italy -1922-1943) or earlier than this date were born in Sudan.

The majority of them were well known as Sudanese. They have their nationalities and every document as Sudanese. In addition, some of them had possessed lands and other properties as Sudanese.

When you visit these lands, you will see clearly and very specially on the eastern borders between Sudan and Eritrea how the people are very close to each other, intimate and have family relations in both (Eritra) and Sudan.

Most of them are speaking the same local languages that the people in other regions in Sudan do not understand. Not only that but you cannot even tell who is the Sudanese and who is the Eritrean in most parts of Sudan or in (Eritra) itself. Similarity dominates the scene.

So, I fled when the military coup tumbled the weak and handicapped democracy, confiscated the Sudanese journalist syndicate and banned my office; I escaped to Eritrea not to Egypt for two reasons:

The first reason is that I knew (Eritra) since I was too young and I knew that the colonization powers denied the country its rights for future self-determination. Therefore, when I was journalist in Kuwait, I built strong political relation with the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF), not with the other factions of the Eritrean movements and that was simply because I was secular.

The (EPLF) works with the same orientation. I got in touch with the (EPLF) since 1977-78 and I supported it as journalist to gain more exposure in a very sensitive edge of the press exposure that had not been on the side of the (EPLF).

The second reason was that (Eritra) is more close and intimate. Many people even from my nationality thought I was an Eritrean. (Eritra) is very intimate to the point that, I thought we love each other as Sudanese and Eritrean people very much. I am speaking about the people.

Did I mention that I fled Khartoum to the eastern Sudan when a coup d'etat took over power, confiscated democracy in Sudan and banned my office etc ...? Well, democracy has always the finest tragic practices in Sudan. I would rather say Sudan knows no democracy since what's so called independence. Independence from whom, and WHY? We have got nothing that is so positive out of the Independence! What is the difference between the colonization and the dictatorial governments of those landlords?

The Red Sea Paradise was real paradise that time; and I thought I've opened the escape gateway to other Sudanese who fled their homeland to (Eritra) two, three years after the coup of the dictatorial regime in 1989.

Only a couple of Sudanese were already there when I fled to (Eritra), but two of them only were working in the media. One of them returned lately to Sudan; and the other fled to Ethiopia long time because he was fed up.

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