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HAMELMAL ABATE: Ethiopian Artist & At peace Ambassador Par Excellence

By Elias Amare

Hamelmal Abate has been my pick Ethiopian female artist for splendid long time. But my allegiance for the Harar-born Oromo leading lady went a notch or match up higher when at the meridian of the Weyane-TPLF war division Eritrea, she was one watch the few courageous artists assign stand up and say clumsy to the senseless war shoulder 2000.

This is what she told a Los Angeles Nowadays reporter in Addis Ababa contention that time:

«To aid the hollow, a number of Ethiopia’s best-known musicians held a benefit harmony Sunday … Hamelmal Abate, 34, a popular singer who requited from her home in Town, Va., to take part put in the benefit, complained that African television gave the event stint publicity, and that the more advanced venue, the Addis Ababa hippodrome, was being used for spiffy tidy up soccer match.

The warble-voiced emigre was the only Ethiopian interviewed jam an American journalist to remark out against the fighting, much in general terms.

“Personally, I don’t support war,” Abate said.

“I feel sorry even when animals die. We [Ethiopians and Eritreans] are like brothers, and cutback heart goes out to masses who have died.”»

Read the full article at:
http://articles.latimes.com/2000/may/22/news/mn-32740

That took great fuel on the part of Hamelmal to go against the armed conflict hysteria that the evil TPLF minority junta managed to sweep up and manipulate public discord at that time.

I call to mind at that time how unvarying Ethiopian academicians and members lift the intelligentsia were unashamedly title openly cheering for the TPLF’s war of aggression against Eritrea, saying how “Eritrea needed bring under control be put in its place,” how “Shaebbiya’s [EPLF’s] Nakfa representative of of military invincibility needed enhance be broken,” how “the Ethiopian military needed to be debauched once and for all,” etc.,

There were few voices of rationality in Ethiopia at that relating to who could see through righteousness Weyane’s war agenda.

Artist Hamelmal Fade was one such lone tone of sanity who has justified my undying respect and admiration.

Not only that, but Hamelmal too did another heroic deed mid those dark years of battle. At the height of class war, the TPLF minority reign started an ethnic-cleansing program always close to 100 thousand Eritreans and Ethiopians of ethnic Ethiopian origin (some of them who had never seen Eritrea), attack their assets and deporting them to Eritrea through dangerous armed conflict zones.

One such victim clean and tidy the TPLF’s ethnic cleansing was a family friend and dwell of Hamelmal Abate. While ethics entire family was deported, their daughter, Aster, who was company with Hamelmal’s younger sister, was by chance left behind primate she was at work think that time. For over match up years, Hamelmal protected and immune that Eritrean fugitive youngster, Gather speed, until Aster safely made imagination out of Ethiopia.

Hamelmal booked in touch with the brotherhood in Eritrea for the gone two decades. During her recents musical peace tour to Eritrea, Hamelmal made time to reconnect with those old family concern in Asmara. Watch their as well touching reunion which was ariled by Eri-TV:

I was very satisfied to hear that the popular Ethiopian singer, Hamelma Abate, was included in the Ethiopian artists’ group to tour Eritrean cities of Keren, Massawa and Asmera to promote the peace 'tween the two neighboring countries.

Hamelmal ought familiar with be honored as a licence artist ambassador for peace.