I don't Like the Eritrean People, I don't! - Helen Kesete

Photo: Helen Kesete - We blurred out a lot of the curse words she wrote in her own picture towards the Eritrean government and people. Keep in mind, Helen is a 35-year-old mother from Sweden that dresses and behaves like a teenage boy in grade school.

I don't Like the Eritrean People, I don't! - Helen Kesete 

"This is my first time after seven years in Asmara and...I mean... this my country... I have to like it but I don't like the people, I don't!" Said Helen Kesete, a vocal leader of Smerrrr, an Ethiopian created "opposition" group that seeks to reverse Eritrea's independence.

Even by the so-called Eritrean "opposition" standards, Helen's infamous quote is considered embarrassing. After all, Helen claims she is an activist who is fighting to bring change to the Government of Eritrea, but if she hates her country and people then who is she fighting for? Ethiopia?

It seems Helen never understood the very basic principle of political activism, which is first to love or respect the people you are trying to help. Unfortunately, she thinks she owns a monopoly on wisdom and assumes disrespecting the very people she professes to be fighting for is acceptable behavior. Perhaps she learned this from TPLF's founder, Sebhat Negga, who infamously labeled his Tigrayan constituents of Enderta as "professional beggars".

But its not just Helen's hatred for Eritrea and Eritreans that rubs people the wrong way, her vulgar language and disrespectful attitude annoys them too. She regularly refers to Eritreans as "monkeys", "ugly", "idiots" and other obnoxious names that are too inappropriate to repeat. It seems in her mind, anyone who doesn't support her political views (unification with Ethiopia, a failed state) deserves to be verbally assaulted.

In the grand scheme of things, Helen isn't important. But what we can learn from this unstable individual is there are Eritreans out there that are in collaboration with Ethiopia for the sole purpose of harming Eritrea and its people. Their pretext is always democracy, even though these people refuse to see the hypocrisy in working with the ruthless Ethiopian dictatorship. But then again, that was probably in their contract with the Ethiopian regime, so they're just doing their job.

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