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Nakfa: Symbol of resistance and perseverance of the Eritrean people Part VII
Friday, 08 March 2013 09:34 | Written by Yishak Yaried |
  
Last Updated (Friday, 08 March 2013 12:55) |
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Nakfa: Symbol of resistance and perseverance of the Eritrean people Part VII
Friday, 08 March 2013 09:34 | Written by Yishak Yaried |
Last Updated (Friday, 08 March 2013 12:55) |
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The Nakfa trenches that foiled the consecutive offensives of the Drge forces are living testimony for the perseverance, endurance and high determination of the liberation fighter to reach their desired goal, the liberation of Eritrea from the yoke of colonialism. When we talk about Nakfa we are talking about the center of the Eritrean people’s dream for independence. When we talk about Nakfa we are talking about the hardship the liberation fighters have to go through with the only objective to liberate the country. When we talk about Nakfa we are talking about the capital city of the Eritrean people’ struggle for independence.
In the part II and III of this article we tried to explain the some of the different names the EPLF combatants gave to trenches during the armed struggle for independence. The names are many and we tried to mention only some to give our readers the clue on how the situation was trying for the combatants and how it needed for them to endure the hardship and look to the bigger mission, Eritrean independence.
Volleyball as any one knows is a kind of a game where two competing teams are separated with a net in between and play the game inches apart. In the game of Volleyball from the six players there is one a play maker and one smasher. The ball coming from the smasher is very hard to deal with by the opponent and the name given to this particular trench was to indicate the hard part of the situation there during the war for independence. In this trench when the enemy throws hand grenade on the EPLF fighters it was common for the fighters to catch the hand grenade, before it reaches the ground and explodes, and throw it back to the enemy like that of Volleyball ball. What a Volleyball game!
The attempts of the Derge regime to break through the lies of the liberation fighters were found impossible task. The trenches of the liberation forces were found an un-penetrable with all cost; not even with massive interference of super powers on the side of the Derge regime.
February 1982 was the launch of the much anticipated 6th (what the Derge regime call Red Star) military operation. This offensive was the highest of all offensives ever launched by the Ethiopian regimes against the Eritrean revolution. For two years on, after the fall of the 5th military offensive, the Derge regime took two solid years to train new recruits and procure military hardware before going to another try.