A once-outlawed group in Ethiopia has denied reports it had signed an agreement to disarm its fighters following the recent return of its leaders from exile.
"The memory still haunts me - that black Tuesday in September 2001 - that day changed my life forever," he told the BBC Tigrinya service."I woke up before the crack of dawn to the sound of pounding boots and shouted commands," he remembers.
Eritrea on Saturday asked for the lifting of sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council since the country signed a historic peace deal with neighbouring Ethiopia on 9, July.