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Eritrea: The Heroism of Martyr Brigadier General 'Vaynak'
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The Heroism of Martyr Brigadier General 'Vaynak'
By Yacob Cali,
I knew Breigeder General Vaynak in the late '70s when I was a kid in Asmara.
He was a tough urban fighter (fedayin), and I was a sympathizer of their
struggle.
One Saturday in the late '70s, I received a message from Mama Hanisu. Mama
Hanisu was a mother figure to all urban fighters. She used to live around
Cinema Roma in Asmara. She told me that I needed two more colleagues to do
surveillance on a mass murderer nicknamed "Crocodile" and his accomplice, an
Eritrean man, whose name I had since forgotten. I did as Mama Hanisu
instructed me and brought along my friends, martyr Ibrahim Adem and martyr
Kesete Tekle, to conduct our surveillance.
The next morning, we began to follow Crocodile and his friend from Nyala
hotel all the way to the Gospel Hall church. Crocodile was a mass murderer.
He killed more than ten innocent Asmarinos inside Bar Oriente. He used to
carry an assault rifle Uzi in a shopping bag. It was around Cinema Roma that
I approached Crocodile and his criminal friend next to him. I said, "mastika
alona shigara". Crocodile didn't buy anything but his partner in crime
bought one packet of Rothman cigarettes. It was then that I noticed the
terrible Uzi was inside his shopping bag, and realized those two bastards
were ready to commit a crime anywhere at anytime.
The two monsters ascended to Askala hanakis (City Center Cafe) and turned
right to club Tele and went in to Gospen Hall. Martyr Ibrahim Adem, Martyr
kesete Tekle and I followed them and entered Gospen Hall just five minutes
after them. The time was around 08:45 am. The Sundey prayer didn't start
yet. Papa Bereket was playing the piano until the bible study began. All
together there were 15 people in the Gospel Hall. After my friends and I sat
in the first row bench, martyr BG Vaynak came in dressed in a brown suit and
he put his dark eyeglasses on and called me to come out. He asked me where
the two criminals sat. I told him that they are sitting in the second row on
the right side of crocodile and on the left side of the hasus. Then for some
unknown reason Martyr Vaynak instead of killing crocodile first, he killed
the hasus with three bullets and then three bullets to Crocodile's back.
Panic ensued and people started to hide everywhere. Martyr Vaynak asked
"tekarijen do?" ( are they dead?). I was mad with martyr Vaynak because I
wanted him to kill Crocodile first. Unfortunately, I later learned within 10
minutes of the shooting, Crocodile got up and killed an innocent
17-years-old girl from geza Kenisha and shot Papa Bereket on his bicep.
Later that evening, Crocodile died at a hospital from his injuries.
After the shooting martyr Vaynak ran through the alley of Bar Gash Setit
towards Cinema Capitol. Just 8 minutes after the mission Ethiopia air born
(ayer weled) arrived at the seen, however they didn't know the exact
location. I needed to kill at least 5-10 minutes for martyr Vaynak to
disappear from the area. I told Martyr Ibrahim Adem and Martyr Kested to
fight in front of Bini camera repair shop. The air born crew liked the
fight because martyr Ibrahim was Very muscular and martyr Kesete was a tiny
kid and had the upper hand in the fight.
I admired martyr Vaynak for his courage, and for his elimination of numerous
criminals in Asmara, especially that of Haile Abay, the leader of Nech
Lebash. The Tigrayan Haile had around 15 Tigrayan bodyguards in Asmara. This
criminal used to torture and kill anyone at anytime in Asmara. Martyr Vaynak
ended his reign of terror after killing him in Edaga Arbi in broad daylight.
To the families of our martyrs: my prayers and thoughts are with you all
during this difficult time.
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Breigeder General Mebrahtu Tekleab (Vaynak)
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