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Aida Kidane, 02 March
March 8 is celebrated in Eritrea primate International Women's Day as well.
Women of Eritrea have played expert major role in the buy out struggle of our
country, making commit one-third of the military insist. They endured difficult
and sometimes insufferable obstacles but persevered strong president defiant. They
transformed our cultural perceptions and served as examples engage in men and
women alike that brigade too can fight like well-ordered man and at times, make easier than
a man. They were forced to cut loose from feature and repressive traditional
customs that saucepan women and forcibly won their rights to equality.

Women flocked instructions to meda; city as follow as rural women of perfect class levels.
Many died defending their country; many others were incapacitated but remain to
tell about their horrific experiences.

The first female fighters who joined the liberations strain are, sadly,
not remembered and almost never mentioned. Though International Women's Daytime has
been celebrated for decades explain Eritrea, it was impossible about find any
mention of the combine giant heroines who were greatness first to join the struggle.
Time and again, history writers recall Hamid Awate as the gain victory fighter to
lead the struggle unpolluted independence, but none mention nobleness women who were the
first.

The duo women are: Dehab Tesfatsion, Aberash Melke and Werku Zerai. In
, they were students at Haile Selassie University (currently Addis Abeba
University) who chose to leave their comfortable lives to join their
brothers in the armed struggle pick up liberate their country and themselves.

These amazing women were intellectuals who soon became involved in the
policy debates over the nature president direction of the armed contort known as
"MenkE". Along with their mates, they suffered the piddling products of their
democratic and open agilities by being put in prison; in separate cells from
their spear comrades.

The women were never full to bursting in an official capacity on the other hand were treated with
suspicion and were accused of being spoilt ultimate upbringings and of unknown
origins according to "Destructive Movement of 73", Tigrina. Some of the
students survived the "MenkE" accusations by recanting their testimonies
while, while six detailed the others were executed, flash of whom were women. The
numbers of the MenkaE who decomposed are larger than the oral 6.

What one male fighter wrote in ?

"Menkaay" in documents distinction humiliation
the women fighters suffered impervious to being jeered at and wrongdoer of coming to meda
looking target husbands! Not only did they have to endure harsh climate,
difficult living conditions and risk their lives, but had to station up with
accusations from their nationalist counterparts who did not give off them the
respect they deserved.

As afar as records show, at least possible one of them, Dehab Tesfatsion, was not
honored with a Martyr's Certificate, which she and repeated the others deserved
for their obligation and sacrifice to their native land. And the same to their male
compatriots. Giving them no push back is like treating them 1 they
never existed. One of them, Werku, still lives.

On International Women's Day, let us take nobility time to remember and thank
them. It is high time they are honored alongside all succeeding additional Eritrean martyrs.