Taken back in memories,sad days ,every day l use to hear the death of doctors and young educated brothers and sister in my town,and today the light shined clear why all those young men died including my brother professor Yosef Abebe. Life goes on and no one looks back until some one starts to dust the buried memories😭.
I got dizzy trying to follow the chain of violence & terror by both the government & everyone involved....I guess the era was when መውጣት ያቃተን visious cyle started....tragedy after tragedy...
These are one of the so called politicians who wanted to kill me. I was 14 years old and had no any clue about politics and the reason why, but I was spending weekends in Gion Hotel swimming pool and parks. If that was a crime or something they didn't like I don't know. I studied in Ethiopia Tikdem number one for few months and one of EPRP members Getachew Asfaw told me to quit and hide because the EPRP youth ligue decided to kill me and my class mate Kiros Mezmor. I told to my friend Kiros what I was informed but Kiros didn't believe me and continued to attend the school, they killed him. He had difficulties to go as normal person and couldn't defend himself when they attacked him in the classroom. They killed my best friend. Derg also tried to kill me, why? I will come to Ethiopia to confront this suckers.
Tadu, you are my inspiration, you have changed my perceived thoughts about EPRP. I was young and lost many of my close relative's. I have a strong biased towards the leadership as most of them were educated and their limitations to realize the context left many questions in mind. Thanks
I've watched the interview a thousand time and still amazes me as the first time. Stay blessed Mr. Dereje. Maybe next time could you interview the author of "Tower in the Sky" Getachew Maru's wife?
Nice interview and I really appreciate she writes this book so people know. I feel like the interviewer ended the interview abruptly? He should of given her a chance for a closing statement.
She is your ilk. She did not consider non amaras or non amharic speaker subjects as true Ethiopians, specially those who wear turban than shash or Oromos who do not speak amharic fluently. Listen her again. She reminded me the 7-page stern rebuttal her party issued when Haile Fida used the wrong amharic adjective equivalent to "scientific socialism" in his book in amharic. Furthermore, her part used to get offended when an oromo or welayta say "inashenifalen" instead of "inachenifalen". Another irony I observed in her rant was the story how she fully embraced Walelign Mekonen's description of national and colonial questions in the Empire to later make fun of the people of the Abysinian colonies.
she never mentioned those who joined derg tsehefet bet for murdering thousends of youth, who were the same as her and her husbands (anjas),very shrud woman. deplomacy is something, lieing to the public is diffrent things.who were those hand and Glove,with Shaleqa Berhanu Kebed the death squade team,in minilik palace?who were derg torcherers in the 70's and 71 (EC).Kebert ambassador, your team!!!! some of you fled to debreberhan,some of you fled,to The Minilik Palace to replace MESON.i was lacky to defend,the real story,untold.
Dere the best interview in the resent history in Ethiopia please keep going in ur talent we are support ur work abiy from Canada abiy yasene bare or leghare.