To Ambassador Alem Tsehaye Woldemariam

To Ambassador Alem Tsehaye Woldemariam
C-7/9, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi - 110057. India
Phone: 91-11-26146336
Fax:  91-11-26146337
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Dear Ambassador,

With great sadness we learned the unfortunate experiences of your nieces Abi and Belula, when they went to enquire after the welfare of their father (your brother) Seyoum Tsehaye.

Abi and Belula, went to see your colleagues in Paris, with a letter in hand and politely presented their enquiries, requesting for information about the whereabouts of their father who disappeared without trace twelve years ago (when Belula wasn’t even born!). Instead of at least giving them a polite reception with courteous response, at the very least, your colleagues called the police on your nieces and made all sorts of allegations against them!

We think this is despicable and an insult to the injury that your family has already suffered at the hands the brutal regime that you continue to serve. We are writing this letter to implore on you to stand with your beautiful nieces and their quest for justice for their father.

Your family’s story is replicated countless times across the country where many children like Abi and Belula have been denied the love and care of their parent/s and their parents have been denied the very basic right to family life in the country they fought to liberate.

Twelve years is far too long to look the other way, as things go from bad to worse. There is hardly anything left of the Eritrean Dream, you and your colleagues fought for, as year after year PFDJ has squandered our beautiful dream and turned it into a nightmare that the rest of the world shudders before.

In the interview she gave your courageous niece said: ‘I am going to do things… I am going to write and demand what happened to my father’, indeed Abi and Belula’s quest will not stop and the support they will get from the rest of us will also grow, I am sure you have noticed the torrent of young Eritreans who are standing firm against the regime you are serving, it is only a question of time before we eventually secure justice for the brother and colleagues you have turned your back on.

We don’t need to remind you that the years piling up also mean that you are closer to the end of your own life, than you were 12 years ago, think of the legacy you will pass to Abi and Belula and the offspring of all your other colleagues also in prison, by simply making a stand against injustice in Eritrea.


Please give our appeal a serious consideration and join your nieces’ quest for justice and join us in the struggle for the Eritrea that you, your brother and countless colleagues dead and alive fought so valiantly for.

From your compatriots fighting for a just Eritrea


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