Picture: Courtesy of Ibrahim Gedem
Foto of martyr Hassen Mohamed Basheemel who was killed by PLF in 1974 during the civil war in Ad Shuma, together with Alem Mesfin and Israel Mesginna. We lost many lives from both sides during that sad period. May God bless their souls. Hassen was trained in Syria in 1967 and was one of the founders of the health services in the ELF. Remembering Basheemel brings memories of Eritrean-Yemenis and Eritreans of various origins who fought for the liberation of Eritrea. Among the Eritrean-Yemenis that one remembers are Badawood, Redeynee, Jowhara and Leila (women fighters) who were in the ELF side and matyer Ali Osman one of the leaders of PLF later EPLF and martyer Mohssen a member of the EGAB group. Another well-known Eritrean-Yemeni is Ahmed Algaisi, one of the founders of the secret Eritrean Peoples’ Revolutionary party that led the EPLF. Ahmed got at odds with Isaias and was imprisoned for years, though a senior official of the Party. Jonathan Miran in an article on ‘Red Sea Translocals: Hadrami Migration, Entrepreneurship, and Strategies of Integration in Eritrea, 1840s-1970s’ examines the ways by which Hadramis played pivotal roles in the economic, political, religious, urban and intellectual history of Eritrea in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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