It’s 2 Years since EPDP Leadership Member M. Ali Ibrahim Disappeared in Kassala, Sudan

EPDP Information Office

It is again the 14^th of February, and a time to sorrowfully remember the second anniversary of the disappearance in Kassala, Sudan, of the life-time freedom fighter Mohammed Ali Ibrahim,

a member of the Central Council of the Eritrean People’s Democratic Party (EPDP). The primary suspect is none other than the criminal regime in Asmara.

His Party colleagues as well as his wife Halima and his two sons, Majid and Nassir, have no news about his whereabouts in the past 730 days since 14 February 2012.

Mohammed Ali Ibrahim has left his home in the morning hours of that fateful date and was never seen again. However, there were two clues about his being kidnapped by forces of darkness. About the time of his disappearance, a vehicle without a plate number and with opaque windows was apprehended inside Kassala and was seen driving towards the road that leads to the victims residence zone. Another clue was a phone call using Mohammed Ali’s cell-phone and telling his friend that Mohammed Ali is not going to be traced easily.

The Sudanese security office in Kassala was urged to help but nothing came out of it. Also both President .Omar al-Bashir of the Sudan and the then Prime Minister

of Ethiopia, the late Meles Zenawi, were requested to help.

Short Profile

Mohammed Ali Ibrahim joined the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) in 1968 at the young age of 17 and continued for 44 years without interruption his struggle for national liberation and then for democracy until his disappearance. Trained in the military colleague in Damascus through the support of PLO, he served in the struggle at various positions including in the executive committees of his organization in the past two decades. It is to be recalled that he also was one of those who suffered in EPLF dungeons in the 1980s until he was freed after liberation in 1991.

Mohammed Ali Ibrahim was a close friend and work colleague of Woldemariam Bahlbi and Tekleberhan Ghebresadiq (Wedi Bashai), both executive committee members of

the then ELF-RC who were kidnapped by the Eritrean regime on 26 April 1992 and whose fate is not known to this day.

Both kidnapped 22 years ago and still without trace

As the world knows well by now, it is a large number of Eritreans who have been kidnapped by the Eritrean regime and disappeared without trace. Add to this the relatively well publicized prisoners at Era-Ero and other prisoners languishing in the over 300 prisons of the regime, the figure climbs to tens of thousands.