Note – The Honorable Sultan Ali Mirah died at age 90 and was buried at his home town Asayita on Tuesday April 26, 2011. Sultan Ali Mirah went down into history as a great statesman, diplomat and patriot who, when confronted by the flag-bashing Meles Zenawi regime in the early 1990s, proudly remarked: “Even our camels nod for the Ethiopian flag.” The TPLF regime threatened him to give up his claims that the Red Sea and the Port of Assab are the natural frontiers of Ethiopia. Many Afars who protested against the fragmentation of Afar into Eritrea and Ethiopia were eliminated in secretly-held brutal military operations that lasted for years up to the start of a major war between Ethiopia and Eritrea in 1998.
His Red Sea-straddling region was tore up in two, thus turning Ethiopia into the largest landlocked country in Africa. Ethiomedia seizes this opportunity to send a message of condolence to the family of Sultan Ali Mirah Hanfere. – – Abraha Belai, Editor, Ethiomedia.com.
The Afar Community Association in the United Kingdom places on record its deep sense of
sorrow at the sad death of our great father of Afar Nation, His Majesty Amoyta Ali
Mirah Hanfare. His Majesty, Amoyta Ali Mirah was a man of knowledge, justice, peace
and principle, (source of emulation) and great Islamic scholar.
Sultan Ali Mirah was a personality engaged in providing facilities for the promotion of
social welfare, economic development, and educational opportunities and relieves of
hardships for the Afar and non-Afar speaking peoples throughout the Horn of Africa.
His sincere efforts and personal endowment for serving his people and uplifting the truth
led to Ethiopian unity and the creation of the Afar Regional National State in Ethiopia.
Today, the Peoples of the Horn of African States (Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea) have
lost a pioneering Afar Sultan, a great leader, honest pursuer of unity, a political leader, a
wise scholar excelling in various fields, an honest preacher who provided enlightenment
in all fields for the voice of truth to be heard, a great father who with strength and power
resolutely confronted global arrogance, Communism, Marxism, Leninism of Derge
Regime and conspiracies of the enemies of Afar in particular, and Ethiopia in general.
On the occasion of the sad demise of this heavenly wise leader of Ethiopian people who
was always a defender and supporter of the rights and development of the Afar people
in all spheres, We, the President of Afar Community Association in UK, on behalf of
myself and that on behalf of Afar Community residing in the United Kingdom and
Northern Ireland convey our sincerest condolences and sympathies to his dear family
and the honorable people of Afar Nation in the Horn of Africa and to the Afar Diaspora
globally.
We pray to Allah the Almighty to grant great status to the distinguished departed soul.
Abdo Yusef
Chairman, Afar Community Association in UK
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CONTACT:
Afar Community Association in UK
46 Myrdle Street, London E1 1HL. Tel & Fax: 02073776353
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