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 Shaebia (the ruling party in Eritrea) is an organization that is famous for its use of silences and absences that attract negative attention to themselves, thereby accomplishing the exact opposite of what they are meant to achieve. In a totalitarian entity that believes in disappearing anything that is on its way, it is of paramount importance that nobody remembers or notices what has been rendered absent or silent. This is also true of disagreeable events; what historical revisionism of the totalitarian type does is keep correcting history as it occurs by making entire episodes disappear from certain events, or even entire events from a certain era – as if by a magic wand! Shaebia’s revisionist history, even of the most recent one, is full of such gaping holes where personalities, episodes and events have been swallowed, never to be mentioned again. Proud of conducting a mute revolution that lasted decades, this organization also revels in its uncalled-for silences. A good example of that would be the six of months of silence that it relished as it condemned four British seamen to detention. It required a serious threat from the British government for it to break its vow of silence. And more recently, this phenomenon has been observed in its week-long silence before it reported on such important news event as the Nabro volcanic eruption in Dankalia; it is only after the world media reported a lot on it, seismologists analyzed it, satellites took pictures of it and its volcanic ashes reached many nations that it came out mumbling something about it. Even such a politically neutral event has to be politicized through its hesitant silence; it is impossible for it to report on such an objective fact without putting itself in the middle of it. It has to prepare itself for a whole week, so as to be seen in the action of helping the affected locals, before it allows any kind reporting. In its utilization of negative occurrences – silences, absences, eliminations, disappearances, etc – appropriate to a Kafkaesque world, the regime uses the Ministry of Information as its vanguard. The Grand Magician that makes things, personalities, episodes and entire events disappear through the cracks of Time is none other than Ali Abdu, the head of the Ministry of Information. This is a Ministry that prides itself for “Serving the Truth”, ironically an appropriate Orwellian motto that fits its Orwellian tasks.

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