From the Frontlines: Eritrean Soldiers Speak Out | EXCLUSIVE
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- For nearly two years, starting in November 2020, war raged in Ethiopia, throughout the regional states of Amhara, Tigray, Afar, and along the border with Eritrea. Ethiopia’s former ruling party, the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front, launched the war to not only take on their own government but also as a new front in their long-running effort to overthrow the Eritrean government. But little of the international commentary on the Ethiopian war has taken into account the Eritrean perspective, whose involvement was portrayed as “foreign meddling” and whose soldiers were accused of war crimes in the West. For the first time addressing an English-language outlet, Eritrean soldiers were interviewed by BT’s Eugene Puryear where they responded to the allegations.
BreakThrough would also like to give special thanks to Team Mezekr Tarik for permission to use some of the footage from their documentary on the Eritrean experience in the conflict, which can be found here: • ሓይልታት ሓበን / HAYLTAT HA...
Further footage used in our documentary comes from a recent Hidmona Entertainment production, which can be found here: • ሓቲተልካ ጅግና ብ ተስፉ ኪሮስ (ግ...
Respect and love my Eritrean brothers from somalia 🇸🇴❤🇪🇷
Totally failed nation. Shame on you!
"Eritrean women have always fought on the frontlines for the peace and freedom of Eritrea, being fully engaged in the struggle. We take pride in our history and the connectedness of the fight, not to lose our humanity. I wish for the Horn to become a peaceful region where we can all evolve as neighbors in harmony. Slowly, Africa is awakening and developing a strong consciousness."
They're brainwashing so good 😂Eseyas Afeweqi is good on social engineering fucking NONSENSE 🤣
That's why our parents, brothers and sisters fought for 🌎 Peace and Justice are the only means of living.
The Diasporic Paradoxical paradigm never ceases to surprise one...
(" Not in my back yard"
As long as it's not me or my young ones.)
These little girls in army fatigue, by any honest perceptions; it is not acceptable for a (sovereign nation) to groom it's young to die.
WHAT DO THESE CHILDREN KNOW ABOUT THAT REVOLUTION?? NOTHING... YET THEY MUST ENDURE AND LIVE IN IT, WHEN IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO DO SO ANYMORE. WHY DONT YOU!! THE EVER PATRIOTICT DIASPORA GIVE YOU ADOPTED NATION AND DO FOR THIS STATE WHAT IT DESERVES.
HOW DO A FRAIL DEMENTED STILL HAVE HIS LEASH AROUND YOUR HEAD.
FREE YOUR HANGOL FELLA...
Brainwashed. Not one person has taken refuge in that country, and they paint themselves as saviors but truly they are genociders.
Yeah but Many don’t want to be part of the military life anymore.
We are forced to do it.
The Women are forced just like the men.
It’s not with a passion like for the 30 year war of independence. People wanted to fight there.
Now it’s just like being a military slave. No thank you. All of that for no human rights domestically? Im not a slave.
It’s such a powerful talk I can say. I’m from Somalia and really proud of Eritrean people and their leaders. Strong people keep their heroism by themselves. Always believe in themselves & what they’re capable is good enough for today. Keep pushing forward success is inevitable.
BS!!!
The first comment i see is from a somalian? Eritreans don't care about somalians man. They don't even think about you people.
Get up stand up.
Viva Eritrea from 🇸🇴🫡
I am proud of these Eritrean soldiers. They have a noble purpose and a clear vision for their freedom and peace.
They understood that freedom is never given, it must be taken!
Eritrea must set up a public relations bureau and take measures to control their own narrative. 🇯🇲❤❤❤
U got that right...Thank u for understanding...
Their freedom is to come, yet???
Their freedom is already there... ዓወት ን መላእ ህዘቢ ኤ ር ት ራ ...
This is just whole loud of propaganda lmao
ERTITREAN SOLJERS ARE SLAVE
Thank you so much for digging out the truth about Eritrea.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I'M PROUD OF YOU MY PEOPLE❤❤❤
If the world stands for the truth, Eritrea suppose to be in the front, but those who stand for the truth isn’t the leaders sad. May God protect Eritrea!!
Umm, what does the eritrean leader has to do with this??? Literally the leaders and the citizens of eritrea r together in one team basically we don't wanna be under the UN and that's the reason people, especially america, are trying to overshadow us president isias afwerki is a humble man love it or not this is a pure fact that even our somali and ethiopian fam noticed try to be more open and try to understand why the president does everything he is doing it ain't even harming anyone what r yal on?? If ur an actual eritrean u would notice that ur action shows that ur with tigray people and ur siding with them , and stop being a kid I ain't here to fight nor harm anyone with my words but seriously ur words r solid crap I actually can't believe that isias afwerki (eritrean president) had to see his own people hating on him while them leaving happily in a foreign country man said non all of his life lmao yal never lived in eritrea to know how it feels only the ones who lives there has the right to talk and many supports him the end of the discussion
@@Orthodoxy4life... We are waiting for Jeganu Tegaru to give us our country back again, by kicking out this Tigrayan Eritrean President.
The Tigrayans helped us to get our independence from ethiopia thirty
years ago.
We are asked them to help us again.
@@Orthodoxy4life... They why is Ethiopia amassing over 60,000 soldiers on the border near Zalambesa-Tsorona to invade Eritrea and says he wants to conquer Assab to have a Red Sea port?!?!
Power to the people of Eritrea, peace be with them , very proud and very strong point of view....best wishes from Mexico
Thanks a lot Bro.
In Eritrea lying is abhorrent, but in Tigray region of Ethiopian, lying is a prefect profession as they are puppets of the American led Western governments.
Eritreans fought for justice and freedom and they paid for it a dire prices for years. I think if the whole wide world knows about Eritrean"s history it can learn a lot of positive things. The Westerns' owned conglomerate corporate medias narrate unsubstantiated and baseless negative alegestions only.
Go to Eritrea and find out the truth yourself.
Thank you, God bless Mexico and May your people live long ❤️🇪🇷🇲🇽
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Thanks brother/Amico/
Glory to our sister soldiers. Bravo ❤️🇪🇷
አየ ትብኣት ወዶም ጓሎም ሃደ ደቂ ኤሬ ጭደዳት ኤሬትራ ሃገርና ሓብኒ አለኹልኪ ዝብሉ ወሊዲ ኢኺ እሞ ሰላምኪ ይንገስ።
ኤሬትራዊነት ኽቡር ምንነት 🇪🇷❤️🇪🇷
🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷Creator, I thank you for making me Eritrean!
Eritrea will never kneel down to western powers.
Breakthrough , Thank you so much for broadcasting the truth and speaking with our brave solders . This is Eritrean ideology and Eritreanism. ❤️🇪🇷🙏🏽
You are the Genocider Eritrean solider .
You did ever evil against humanity in tigray.
TIME will define it.
Stay on the border fort (ዱፋዕ) never go to university.
You cant sleep fir all what you do .
..........
God bless Eritrea and Eritrean people❤️🇪🇷
Thank you for shedding light on the truth🙏🏾 #Eritreaprevail
Eritrean 🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷
Peace is a wonderful notion. that's all I pray for my people, peace in which we may grow, live and love.
Thank you Eritrea as a Somali I'm really proud to have you as neighbors and in the same region as us, you have the same spirit as US not taking BS from the western white supremacy slave masters and puppet masters and also thanks for destroying the TPLF terrorists you I'm jealous you have destroyed them and not us.
May Allah/God bless Eritrea, it's people and leadership
From somalia
Love Brothers Somalian ❤
Eritreans don't care about somalians they don't think about you. They are focused on protecting their country. Maybe if you somalians did the same somalia wouldn't be in the messed up situation it's been in for 30 years.
What color are Russians, who helped you fight the communist Derg government so you got freedom from Ethiopia. Very ungrateful and a short memory and. F ing racist
As long as you people dont understand that your enemies are your African leaders and not some "white supremacy slave masters and puppet masters" you will have to go through the same problems again and again....
haha TPLF is still breathing 🤣the war end in stalemate Tigrayans will show up in power again and the future will be bright for Ethiopia all our neighbors are jealous of us we will continue to thrive
African American Community’s We Love you Eritrea 🇪🇷 ❤❤❤
Stop trying to speak for all of us.
Amazing girls, those young Eritrean im sure they will protect their nation from anyone who tries to put a step into their country..
Salute Eritrean soldiers
Eritrea Never stop fight and u will never see haite only in the fight not befor or after
Eritrea 🇪🇷 🇪🇷 = Truth!!. The biggest advantage of Eritrea is that every single one loves truth and is aware of geopolitical dynamics. If Africa follows Eritrean principles, it will finally be free of the hegemony of the Westerners.
But invite the Russians? Who helped you gain independence from Ethiopia,? Who supported you against the communist Derg ? Russia backed the Derg . How fast you forgot.
@@timkincade9763 first of all, no one helped us gain our independence ,we fought, bleed and died for it. second no one invited Russia but yes we are cooperating as partners NOT as master and beggar ( aka the American way).
Plus u are right ussr helped Ethiopia at that time but now we are working together just like we are working together with Ethiopia now.
We work with anyone who respects US and our
SOVEREIGNTY , unlike the west who always paint us as the bad guys just bc we refuse to kowtow to them.With that being said we never let our guard down!!
It made me tear. They are so young but mature.
You can have youth who FB or speak flawless non accented English or French but youth like this secure the future of a nation.
So proud of my sisters, they are the jewels of Eritrea and I pray we can pay back their service along with all our brothers. God bless them for their willingness to stand for this beautiful sovereign country that has so many evil eyes on it. We are highly favored and we will prevail. I wish our youths here spoke like these young ladies. @BT News I hope you'll do another episode with the young men as well. Thank you for telling our true story ;)
ዓወት ንመላእ ህዚቢ ኢርትራ...❤❤
እድመን ጥዕናን ይሃብኩም ጀጋኑ ደቂ ኤረይ💕💕💕💕💕💕🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🌹🌹💕💕💕
Thank you my
Beautiful sister for your service ❤
Western imperialists were silent for the past 30 years when their puppy tplf has killed around 2.5 million ethnic amhara and also imposing sanctions on Eritrea without tangible reason. Now imperialists accused amhara and Eritrean forces for protecting themselves from western lead tplf genocide and wide range of atrocities. There is no shoulders to carry imperialism any further and it's time for new world order lead by Russia and China. Love and respect for Eritrean soldiers for genuine and mature responses
You're right, that's what president Reagan said, God bless him.
He said the world needs "new world order." And he sent a lot Food supplies to Africa. Russia bombed Massawa and other African countries.
Until now africans and Asians are going to the Western countries to find safe haven place..
God bless the West, God bless america.
መርሓእ ደቒ ሪመይ ዓይኒ ኣባይክን ይደፈን።
Eritrea = Truth
truly truly
Tigray = Truth and both are suffering in the world we live in currently. Eritrea means barya it means seeking cover from your true identity.
@@Finisher794
No No...hasoot....what? Lie = evil tplf and evil supporters......tekebalay...werada
Love ❤ from Somalia 🇸🇴
God bless you for sharing the truth about our heroes deserve to be heard they are brave smart and most loving soldiers they are the gate keepers of our beautiful Eritrea. God bless them you make us all proud I'm sure our heroes are resting in peace with pride. 🇪🇷🐪⭐🐪🇪🇷☪️✝️🇪🇷Eritrea for Eritrean🇪🇷🐪⭐🐪🇪🇷💙♥️💚🇪🇷
Eritrean women are like no one else. They’re soldiers, fighters, mothers, sisters and more. ❤❤❤
Haibo guys stop fighting
Love from south africa
I love eritrea , somalia , ethiopia , Djibouti 🇩🇯
It will be good to see you guys as united as us southern africans 🇸🇿🇱🇸🇧🇼🇿🇦🇳🇦
Thank you for showing the trueth.
@Brake Through news...Thank you for bringing the truth....This is the Eritrean Character 💯💯💯‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ I Love you Wairotat...❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I get amazing goosebumps when I see/hear young, smart, disciplined and patriotic Eritreans.
God/Allah bless Eritrea, it’s people and government.
They are not smart they have been indoctrinated and are prisoner to the regime. They are not free to leave military service. It's for life. North korea of Africa
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Thank you Break Through News for your sharing the truth
Very revealing, and you've been heard. Integrity of this caliber is something that the world can learn from. Thanks for sharing. Peace from America.
Every Eritrean soldier is willing and Hamble to serve his country. Because they love their country and they know the past story of how Eritrea get its independence. The fact on the ground is, listen from this young lady who are facing on the battle field with their enemy. Eritrean enemy is WEYANE not the people of Tigray. That is all. ❤ you young ladies. God bless you 🙏 ❤️ 🙌 God bless Eritrea 🇪🇷.
When was the last time you voted?
Thank you for putting this on the record
Greetings Eugene we Ethiopians thank Eritreas soldiers for participating in z war partially b/c frankly there was good & bad since it’s a war but z horn of African is not stable currently there a conflict enrapturing here & there try 2 cover that BT 10Q!
ብሐቂ ሽኮሪናታት አጆክን ስላም ንኩላትና ንሐገርና ኤርትራን ኢትዩጽያን ስላም የድልየና እዩ ብሐባር ብስላም ተከባቢርና ንክንነብር ሽኮሪናታት ሕዋተይ ቅስና ቅስኑ አዎት ንሐፋሽ ❤❤❤
Yes, truth prevailing ❤. Eritrea for ever
Thank you for your service.
Thanks a lot for your reporting on this
Yes this is the truth the only truth! Thanks Eugene Puryear 🤩💯👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏💯💯💯
Great work - has there recently been a decisive blow to the TPLF on the battlefield? There was a terrorist attack against an Eritrean diaspora festival in Sweden today, whose victim accuse TPLF affiliated orgs as perpetrating in bitterness to recent battlefield losses on Tigray/Ethiopia.
Not only a blow but completely devoured months ago
They are just acting up because they lost everything they dreamed of. They were living in fantasy by believing America will help their dream of creating Greater Tigray by destroying and annexing Eritrea. Not only did they miscalculated their strength and relied on America to get involved military but most important they forgot it was EPLF (Eritrean people Liberation Front) that brought them to power in Ethiopia. I guess they believed their own propaganda and got themselves in a pickle. Now instead of questioning their leaders for losing over a million people in the senseless war, they are letting their frustration on the Eritrean diaspora. All they are doing is make the Eritrean people angry and forced to fight back.
This is the truth about Eritrean Army and from the soldiers who were there in the battlefield!!All was a tplf and their supporters propaganda in the social media .I am so proud of EDF thank you for your service ✊🏾🇪🇷✌️peace for Eritrea and all East Africa
I would not take the victims testimony into consideration. In the small minds of PFDJ slaves, anyone who oppose their enslavers are from Tegray or affiliated with the TPLF.
@@heruy8274 Now it is becoming clear that the terrorist Tigray have brought their criminal behavior to Europe and America. You can’t deny Tigray criminal mafia have used fake Eritrean I’d to seek for asylum that are now committing crimes against Eritrean communities Eritreans are not slaves of anyone unlike Tigray who sells its children and women for food aid.
We Ethiopians love no matter what!!
الله يحفظ وطنا الغالية وجشنا وشعبنا يارب العالمين 🤲🇪🇷🧡🇪🇷
Amen
God bless our daughters thanks for your Service
our hero's may God bless you in everything you do the truth comes at the end.
VERY BRAVE YOUNG WOMAN!!! WISH THEM TO ACHIEVE ALL THEIR GOALS AND MAKE THEIR COUNTRY A PEACEFULL AND HAPPY LAND FOR ALL✌️✊️👏🙌🫶🙏❤
God bless Eritrean women soldier✊🇪🇷❤️
The Lionesses❤ Eritrea is a proud country because of your heroic ethics. #peace🎉
Amazing stuff. God bless these soldiers and God bless Eritrea. The struggle of our continent against former colonial powers and their friends who work so tirelessly to keep our continent in poverty and sabotage our development continues. Peace and love
Eritrea 🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷👏👏👏💪💪💪
A real Break Through news.
Your programs are always accurate and educational. Thanks 🙏
GBU Eritrea 🇪🇷
God bless BreakThrough for revealing the hidden truth about Eritrea. 🤞🏽
Thank you brother, Proud of EDF 🇪🇷✊🏾
Glory to Eritrea and these wonderful soldiers. Just one question: why just female soldiers’ perspectives? As a former soldier myself, I’d like to have seen a more comprehensive representation. Anyways, Eritrea is blessed with one of the best leaders in the world. The people of Eritrea must protect their president at all costs, because the demons of the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization, will certainly try to get rid of him one way or another. Wishing all the best for Eritrea. May GOD bless and protect President Afwerki.
Why does it matter their gender? If anything, empowering women to the point of being able to stand toe to toe with murderous men in combat is something to be celebrated.
If they wanted to get rid of the despot they have done so decades ago.
There are two primary reasons to focus on women when one remembers this is primarily meant for a western audience. First, it disarms one of the most common western justifications for attacking a developing country, namely mistreatment or oppression of women. Showing clearly self-confident women in the military gives a strong counter narrative to that. Second, the claims or mass rape need to be attacked and if men are around when that is happening, a westerner might think the women are being forced to deny these claims by the men. Some westerners will think that's true regardless but showing these women speaking for themselves and in the confident natural ways that they do in this video helps convince more westerners.
So while I do hope that BT news is able to produce more talking about Eritrea with all genders, really talking to only women in this video was a clever way to disarm some of the most common and effective critiques that western imperialists like to use.
What are talking about. Your president has to obey the rules of the jungle and is. Had he not been their puppet, he wouldn't have stayed this long.
These soldiers are murderous, they destroyed Tigrayan towns and villages and committed massacres. Not to mention advocate for Isaias Afewerki's incompetence for the past 30 years and brutality, jeopardizing Eritrea's reputation and brain-draining it due to refugees and military conscription.
This was the missing link in the Tigray war! Well done! I always wondered how so much rape could take place by an army who has several female soldiers in it? Well, the truth is here!
TPLF always accuses other parties for what they have done. Some years ago I also heard about r@pe allegations. But I also read, that Tigray people themselves said, that the r@pist were criminals from the Tigray ethnicity, who were in prison, but the TPLF let them all out in 2020 or 2021. And inside the Tigray region, there is a huge r@pe culture, and this already happened before the war started in 2020. Tigray women also demonstrated to make aware of the women who got r@ped from Tigray men, and not only from Tigray criminals, but also from Tigray authorities and other Tigray people.
TPLF always blames Eritrea for what they did, to not be held accountable for their own crimes.
Very true. Was thinking the same and here is the evidence.
It's actually more embarrassing that despite the Eritrean army containing thousands of women they still collectively do not see the humanity in women, especially women of non-Eritrean ethnicities. That is why the female soldiers didn't stop their male counterparts.
@@rahelina7176yooh weh
HOMELAND OR DEATH !❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Eritrean message is clear and rigid. We need peace in our zone, the core cancer of problem is tplf.
We are waiting Jeganu Tegaru, To get rid of this Tigrayan president of Eritrea. .
Heroes 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🫡🫡🫡🫡
Glory to out soldiers🇪🇷🙌🏽
Be Proud Of You My Heroes❤🎉
Proud Eritrea 🇪🇷 defense forces 🇪🇷.
❤ Always grateful
Love you deki Eritrea 🇪🇷, thank you for all your service
Thank you. Young and strong.
BreakThrough I hope you don't mind if I use extract of your video on social media??
It's heartbreaking that we've reached a point where we harbor so much hatred for each other and remain trapped in the past. Our leaders have shown themselves to be shortsighted and self-serving, neglecting the well-being of the everyday people of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Their selfishness has shattered the potential for a normal relationship between our neighboring countries.
We need to rise above our egos and animosities. Cooperation is possible, and we don't need to love each other to achieve prosperity. In East Africa, we must unite to secure a better future for the next generation and to improve our current circumstances. Look at the European Union: despite their differences and occasional dislikes, they work together for mutual benefit.
Our inefficiency is like a broken marriage where both parties live under the same roof but lead separate, unhappy lives, wasting resources. Please, young generation, think rationally and don't repeat our mistakes. God bless.
What a well disciplined soldier they are soooo proud of you Eritrea seb Alowea
Truth never dies with ambundent lies. TPLF is born with full of lies and buried with the same lies. Thank you soldiers.
So you didn't see Eritrean Soldiers trying to enter into the Tigrayans house , forcing to open the gate.
He tried but he could not open it.
It's on CZcams.
They killed innocent Tigrayan family stole their money and their food.
God bless you our heroes so blessed to Eritrean 🙏🏽❤️❤️❤️
Eritrea 🇪🇷 love from Somalia 🇸🇴
Love Somali people and their culture.
Glory to our beloved martyrs. We follow their footsteps till our last breath.
Proud to be an Eritrean
I love Eritreans we are the same people and will always be one
My hero’s 💕💕🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷 Proud of you Eritrean Army 💪🏾 Tigray is 2 in rape in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 before the war as I write this comment!
You are the Genocider Eritrean solider .
You did ever evil against humanity in tigray.
TIME will define it.
Stay on the border fort (ዱፋዕ) never go to university.
You cant sleep fir all what you do .
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❤EDF our hero, God bless you all
It is very rare for Eritrean soldiers to speak but this is really refreshing and objective work!
It was great seeing and talking to you at the festival last weekend, Mr. Robinson.
I always said they never show the other perspective thank you for doing unbiased work
all the gods are with you.
may Africa unite against oppressive imperialists!
"Everyone jump upon the Peace Train" -Cat Stevens
Victory for all Eritrea people
Eritrea is not for sale,we paid alo of blood💪🇪🇷💪🇪🇷💪🇪🇷💪🇪🇷
Tell that to eritrean president, Remember, he was going to give Eritrean key to Prime Minister abiy.
That means Eritrean was for sale.
Thank you Eugenie for sharing this video, and for taking your time to go to Eritrea and prepare this documentary, thank you for showing up at 49th Eritrean festival Seattle US, i hope there are still more videos to come, Thank you againg brother!
Thank you very much for the clarifications!!❤
We need more like this
my black sisters from Eritrea🇪🇷❤️
Love u Eritrea 🇪🇷 🥰🇪🇷 EPLF ❤❤❤🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷
I m proud of Eritrean
ተባረኹ ደቂ ኤረይ አምላኽ ይሐልኹም
አሜን 🙏🏽
The only chanel that also show the perspective of eritreans, tnx so much❤
Thanks our hero's sisters. This the truth.❤❤
Love you all❤Proud of you guys
Waw I am proud of you!!! Our beloved country Eritrea is lucky to have wise young defenders like you!!! I wish you all the best and success. Sure Eritrea , Ethiopia and the whole Horn of Africa will be at peace soon. Thank you for serving our people and country!!!
Wow God blessed Eritrea military. Your great grandfather and father the fought for you young people and you guys took the torch of peace and prosperity putting into higher places.thank you very much for your service to your country and people I salute you 🫡
Eritrean are peace loving people