the music "anarj enawuga" coming every few seconds is terrible and super annoying. Plus the sound level is too high as compared to the calm sound of the interview, andande betam yasdenegetal... it also cuts the interview too much affecting the flow of the speech...
Melaku I said that in September/October 1977 and almost lost my life. Never recovered to this day now what? valuable information is missing in this interview and edited a lot. You should write everything you know as insider. No matter how painful and tragic it was you looks reasonable person with information needed for history.
More Ethiopians jailed tortured, and killed under Derg and TPLF. 50000 people were starved then. Now 6 million Tigres, and millions in Afar, Amhara,oromia, and Somalia regions are starving. More land is taken from farmers in the name of investors. The result of communist parties; EPRP, Derg, EPRDF, ETC. BTW EPRP leadership was Tigres and Eritreans.
Because your useless strategy I spend 6 years I prison Thank God I am alive , because of you guys I n one day I lost 42 friends by petros Genre any way Dr I forgive you because still I am alive still makes me cry about my friends
I feel your pain . But do not blame this individual. He is one of the victim. It is a lot of wrong things happened and innocent vanished therir lives.even now they are waiting miracles to come. They are waiting another 50 years to work for Ethiopia.
I wish if you invite some from that time so no one can say without being said against. Although I find Melaku to be credible. I find it strange when people my age (46) say negative thing about Walelnge and glorifies Mengistu Hailemariam. There will never be such a selfless generation as that generation if you ask me. Although they could live good lives, they have sacrificed for their country and people. I hear a lot of negative criticism from people who have not raised a finger for their country and people.
U seem to appreciate Wallelign. But I am of his generation. At the Addis Ababa University, he was my senior by two years. I have witnessed all his "political activities". Walkelign was a person who wanted to get cheap popularity. He was at best less than average student. He was a blind follower of Birhane Meskel, Zeru Kishen, Yhannis Sebhatu, etc. who were believed to be agents of EPLF (Eritrean People Liberation Front). He was their tool. The article on the "Nationality Question" was believed to be given to Wallelign by Yohnnis Sibhatu which was sent to him from EPLF. Wallelign was a crude, rude, vulgar, coarse, etc. person. All he wanted was to been as a "popular" person in campus. Cheap popularity. He was a fool. As time passes Wallelign became popular among phlilistine nationalists, Ethiopia's haters and self-hating Amharas who are boot lickers of Woyane for an article he never wrote.