One of the places I had visited last October when I went to the field to attend a meeting by the Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF) was the town of Humera, Ethiopia. For obvious reasons, I could not actually enter the town, but I was right at the Tekeze River, which serves as the border. It was tempting to grab an AK-47 from one of the EPPF fighters who were accompanying me and unload it on the Woyanne military post that was a few meters away from me.
The trip to Humera was an extremely emotional experience for me — looking at my own country from across a river. Woyanne made millions of Ethiopians like me strangers to their country, while sucking the life blood of the nation. The trip made me more determined than ever to muster every energy and knowledge I have to fight and remove this cancer from Ethiopia. – Elias Kifle
I have produced the following video about my trip to Humera.
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Elias, what can I say but to thank you not only for opening our eyes to the many possiblities but also for you being an example and showing us what it takes to to get rid of Wayane!
Now, at the very list what we could do for our brave, genuine and so intellegent brother Elias Kifle, is, in my opinon, to honor him with ER’s person of the year!
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December 11th, 2009 at 12:58 AM
NOT MORE THAN 20 LIKE ELIAS KIFLE CAN GET RID OF WEYANE BUT…
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December 11th, 2009 at 2:06 AM
Elias, if we get about hundred of your kind, weyanne would have been history long time ago. Thank you but take care! This stupid beggars are cowards.
daniel
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December 11th, 2009 at 3:34 AM
Hi I will tell you this you and I have a lot in common; the we think and even the way we hate woyanne. I always read your site. Keep it up one day I will see you in our motherland.
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December 11th, 2009 at 3:40 AM
You are the best. To thank you in any golden word Would still remain understatement. Keep it up.
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December 11th, 2009 at 3:56 AM
I am with Yigermal Elias for person of the year!
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December 11th, 2009 at 7:13 AM
Hi Elias you used a great truism and wording that was so…touching…we are with you and all ya fighters….history will record you like your uncle…
Look at the link below and how do u see the idea?
http://debrebirhan.blogspot.com/2009/12/nominate-bertukan-for-nobel-peace-prize.html
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December 11th, 2009 at 8:03 AM
Is EPPF controlling Humera or TPLF ? I wish you added audio on your video footage and it is maybe for security reason ?
By the way what is the implication of this footage. Geography class or else ?
Where is the boundary between Ethiopia and Sudan ? Does the TPLF forces put check poing on the boundary or what ? I know very well that Isaias does not condone the boundary deal between Beshir and Meles and is he trying to misinform us here maybe ?
We know where our boundary is and please next time report from that line to get my respect.
Thank you in any case !!
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December 11th, 2009 at 8:38 AM
Elias your are real Gigna! You was inside them. Great Job!
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December 11th, 2009 at 9:50 AM
elias,
ethiopia this time wants action. what you and dr berhanu nega are saying is the right thing. lets focus on the action. bravo elias. we are with u.
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December 11th, 2009 at 9:53 AM
Thanks Elias for showing us part our our country. I have never been to that part of the country. It is so beautiful. weyane be romoved by hook or crook and the Ethiopian people will once again be masters of their own land. It is a matter of time. Who would have thought the mighty Derg regeme will collapse so quickly? weyane is like a tree whose roots are being eaten up by thermites and is about to fall down any moment. In order to speed up the demise of weyane, we all have to work together as one people and as one nation. Unity is strength!!
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December 11th, 2009 at 11:36 AM
Elias thanks for the video, but couldn’t you of made a longer video? Thanks.
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December 11th, 2009 at 12:02 PM
Elias first I will like to say thank for information. I was born the town of Humera, but today Humera not same as used to be full of tigray people liberation front and the main place where weyane base army to control the Eritrea border. Did you know Humera tax can feed the whole tigray population, because Humera has good land, can produce sesame, cotton stuff. that is the reason weyane took Humera as part of state of tigray and bring more tigray people to live and the Wolkait have moved to gonder. I am so happy and proud of you. May God bless you.
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December 11th, 2009 at 12:21 PM
You are practical!Good,Elias
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December 11th, 2009 at 12:35 PM
Bravo Elias! I didn’t know Humera was that close to the Ethio-Eri border though. A u sure you’re not talking about some other town?
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December 11th, 2009 at 1:16 PM
Elias thank you, let me tell other people about Humera is bordered with Sudan and Eritrea just accros tekeze. Humra is a beautiful town, also have good land can produce like sesame, cotton oil seed. that is why weyane took this land and made it part of tigray. even the people never think they are part of tigray but their land is taken over by weyane. I know eppf is fighting inside humera, welkait everyday, may God help them destroyed woyane. I hope next time you can show more, Elias. Long live eppf.
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December 11th, 2009 at 3:02 PM
thank you for this nice job.our amhara brothers are displace from humera and welkayit tsegede region by Woyanne occupation. these regions were never part of tigray. we fight for our right!!!!
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December 11th, 2009 at 3:04 PM
Elias,
I don’t agree with you most of the time. I don’t consider woyane to be the enemy of Ethiopia. I have to admit that you have gained my respect despite our deep differences. I respect you for your stand and I hate people like Hailu Shawel with passion!
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December 11th, 2009 at 3:25 PM
The next ER trip is to Armachiho, the 3rd should be Gonder or Bahirdar,and the last one Addis Ababa.
Viva EPPF
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December 11th, 2009 at 4:35 PM
I appreciate the courage and determination that you have.If there were 2-3 opposition leaders just exactly like you, woyanes would have been thrown out of Ethiopia.
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December 11th, 2009 at 5:35 PM
What can I say Elias. I would do anything to help your cause man. I appreciate your courage. What is that we can do to help you with the campaign? I don’t see anything in your website about contributions we can make. I would urge you to add a link for some kind of donations where at least we can help financing some of the expenses you have in helping out throw the evil junta that has devoured our nation.
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December 11th, 2009 at 7:53 PM
Dear, Elias,
What can I say!!!, I am glad I said this A while ago: ” Elias Libbe-mulu indanbessa, you have the blood of Kasa”.
I am glad!, beloved mother land Ethiopia have stil sons and daughters who are determined, focused and ready to give their lives for her!!.
I am with you and few others, good enough for chigaram woyane!!.
Moresh Yetaleh
You will be my condu
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December 11th, 2009 at 8:28 PM
go on my lion Elias kifle show the reality to dirt bag woyanes and the Major hodams That we are coming to get them long live liberty and the struggle for freedom of our people ……………………. change is coming home . good bless ethiopia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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December 11th, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Coward big- mouthed parasite !
why did you not try to fire a single bullet at Weyane ? – assuming you were NEAR the boarder.
This would have caused the invasion & the ultimate demise of defeated Eritrea at the hands of almighty Weyane !
Every one, even knocked out Shabia knows this.
About your determination, good for you. WE on the other hand are also more than ever dedicated and practically organised to defend our interest and strengthen our position.
So there is also a fire in the other house.
VIVA Weyane !
LOVE MELES!
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December 11th, 2009 at 10:24 PM
elias, u did wonderful job.
keep it up.
the demise of weyane, the morbid regime, is near and unavoidable.
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December 12th, 2009 at 12:03 AM
I was a woyanne until I started to read this website. I feel sad for the wasted times that I spent in this cancerous organization. Most woyanne supporters do not know that woyanne is destroying Ethiopia and it is using them to do it. The ultimate woyanne plan is to dismember Ethiopia by ethnically dividing it. With Ethiopia then destryoed, they will fly to safe haven to enjoy the billions they exploited from Ethiopia and there will be no Ethiopia to hunt them down and bring them to justice. The other half of their supporters know woyannes plan but they go along as long as they get firifari
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December 12th, 2009 at 1:20 AM
A provocatively revealing information/video, and powerful human feeling through your statement that, thousands of people share the sentiment “strangers to their country”.
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December 12th, 2009 at 11:07 AM
ELIAS, REELY YOU ARE WONDERFULL,
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December 12th, 2009 at 2:53 PM
Bravo Elias !
What can I say !, I always read your site. Keep it up one one one one one one day I will see you in our motherland.
I appreciate the courage but take care!
Thank You
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December 12th, 2009 at 8:29 PM
Message to # 24
Yours and your retarded leaders Weyane days are numbered. As the Ethiopian people are getting sick and tired of your exploitations , they will rise and chase you like cat would chase a rat then you will be like a hamburger also pushed by Eritrea. You will then go back to square one when you used to be a beggar.
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December 12th, 2009 at 10:04 PM
i am kneedown looking u up!! and i am asking a big apology to elias kifle..because i thought ur one of d.c cafe, anbesa or arbegha!! but u proved ur not!! …i underestimated u ..that why i am asking u apology!!!..please accept my apology!! ur really tough!! ur a hero …berta berta we will stand next u!!
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December 12th, 2009 at 11:16 PM
My little world!
In my little world, full of wonder and excitement, Elias Kifle has earned that historical and biblical name – Caleb the explorer and Caleb the comforter of his people.
When Moses sent twelve strong young men to explore the land of Canaan, Caleb was only forty years old, and for forty days, these twelve men explored most of the land of Canaan and came back with a bad report that discouraged and frustrated the Hebrews while they were at the Desert of Paran.
Most of the twelve men told Moses and the rest of the Hebrews that they could not easily defeat the people of Canaan because they were very powerful and they lived in very large and fortified cities, and not only that but those tall and warrior descendants of the Anak people also lived there.
When the Hebrews heard such alarming news and especially the existence of the Anak among the Canaanites, they were terrified, extremely frustrated, and they were shouting and yelling at each other; however, Caleb stood up, not Joshua, and “silenced the people before Moses and said, ‘We should go up and take possessions of the land, for we can certainly do it.’” (Numbers 13:1-29)
Like Caleb, Elias Kifle, to explore the border of Ethiopia, went with some Ethiopian Freedom Fighters, surveyed the town of Humera from a distance, gathered valuable information, took pictures of the town, and saw the depth and width, strength and weakness of the town and finally he might have been convinced that the town of Humera is totally occupied by new comers from the arid land of the Tigray region, and, unfortunately, the inhabitants of Humera, mainly the Amhara people, have been displaced and driven out of their land and sent away, some to Armacheho and others to Dabat, Debark, and Belesa.
As Caleb stood up in front of Moses and encouraged his people that there was hope to possess the land of Canaan, Elias Kifle is also standing up in front of millions of us, his audiences and telling his Ethiopian friends in the Diaspora and at home that we should go up and take possession of, not only the town of Humera, but also the entire country of Ethiopia. Throughout his career since I know him vicariously, Elias Kifle has the spirit of Caleb, a spirit of courage, a spirit of hope, and a spirit of encouragement.
The eleven Hebrew explorers that broke the hearts of their people clearly represent some of the coward Ethiopian journalists who day and night broadcast discouraging news against the Ethiopian Freedom Fighters in favor of the corrupt Woyanne government, but we know the spirit of Caleb silenced the other eleven Hebrew explorers and the broken spirits of most of the Hebrew people. In the same way, the spirit of Elias Kifle, and the spirits of the Ethiopian Freedom Fighters would certainly silence the empty and oppressive voices of the Woyanne political cadres.
What would Meles Seitanawi (Zenawi) and his wife Jezebel say when they hear that Elias Kifle, with a death warrant on his head, has intentionally penetrated the most fertile, secret, and heavily guarded land of Humera they stole from the Amhara people and gave it to their own tribes without compensating the native people of the Humera town? Their desperations to get out of Ethiopia safely before Elias Kifle get them unexpectedly as he was able to obtain the pictures of their wild daughter few months ago and now the picture of their secret cow – the Humera town, their frustration about the carelessness of their security guards and their border controllers is immense.
I can feel your emotions, Elias, when you stood near Humera town, looking at some of the mountains of Ethiopia, your country, and as you survey the land and the rivers of Humera, you saw some of the children of Humera swimming in the running water of the Humera river and I know how much you wanted to talk to some of those innocent kids but you have to know their language – Tigrigna. These are not the Amhara kids; the Amhara children are expelled or killed by Meles and his wife Jezebel when their parents resisted giving up their lands to the strangers – the Tegarues. I wish I had joined you with legions or battalions of army and some mechanized ground troops and fighter jets to crash the Woyanne government for ever and put you as the new democratic leader of the Ethiopian people until the people get ready to vote for you or for someone else whom they trust or believe he/she can do the job.
I am blessed I live in the time of such a rare individual, a selfless person who dares to explore the land of the oppressive Woyanne regime with a camera and a pen in his hand, not a gun, and that person is Elias Kifle. To accomplish such multiple jobs, he has never even asked some donation to cover some of his expenses for his long trip and a hard work in the enemy territories; of course, the enemies here are not the Ethiopian people but the Woyanne death squad.
May God bless you, Elias, for such great work of yours!
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December 13th, 2009 at 3:45 AM
Well, Elias, you are the man who we can believe in. You are real fightre unlike those who are in dc`s street. We are with when ever u need us. one day, one day humera will be in our hannd,
May God help us in our fight for our right!!!!!
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December 13th, 2009 at 8:56 PM
Woyane,
Why don’t you then go out telling this scheme of Weyane to Ethiopian and Western world if you really want to save Ethiopia. Why don’t you reach out to those hodams also so they come to their senses?
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December 16th, 2009 at 11:11 AM