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Home | CULTURE | From Eritrean Child Soldier to Swedish Parliarmentarian

From Eritrean Child Soldier to Swedish Parliarmentarian

May 28, 2015 by DC Editors 1 Comment

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Eritrean Child Soldier to Sweden

Escape from childhood nightmare for Eritrean child soldier to later success is modern fairy tale | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

When Eritrea formally declared its independence from Ethiopia on May 24, 1993, it marked the culmination of a more than 30-year-long struggle for freedom. Few understand the human toll of this conflict better than 62-year-old Arhe Hamednaca. He was just 15 years old when, in 1968, he became a child soldier, joining the Eritrean Liberation Front…

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Filed Under: Democracy Culture Tagged With: Africa, Eritrea, Europe, Sweden

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  1. Khalid Osman says

    April 22, 2020 at 3:08 pm

    Please, just credibility and well understanding to the Eritrean national struggle! Look at this: He was just 15 years old when, in 1968, he became a child soldier, joining the Eritrean Liberation Front…

    It was an honor for all Eritrean nationals that time to flee their homeland and join the national struggle to liberate their homeland. Even very young girls had fled from Asmara and other villages to Sudan to join the EPLF. That was the Eritrean pride and we have written it with blood and by lyrics and stories of sacrifices. Whatever, has happened after that will never erase this heroic history of the nation. There is not any revolution in the entire African continent, or the world as the Eritrean revolution.

    As for the mentioned name, with due respect, he was not a child soldier, but a hero and he should be proud of that. If you know the numbers of the Eritrean people and the numbers of the occupying power, and their way to carry the locust invasion, then you’ll know the necessities and emergencies for all Eritrean, even those who were in their moms’ bellies to be freedom fighters.

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