Everyone assume Mingstu Hailmariam is cruel but the truth was people around him were power thirsty who killed each others. To me Mingstu Hailmariam is a natural genius. Mingstu Hailmariam weakness was he is not a politician.
This guy is authentic source of Mengistu’s cruelty. It is his leadership who enabled TPlf to get power which was worse than him. Though I didn’t read his books from his interview I didn’t any regrets to what they did at the time even after forty years
This guy is a good writer than he is as an interviewee. I have read his books. He is a master when he expresses his opinions in his writing. We are lucky to have someone like him with first hand accounts of our past ugly history. There are always two sides of history.
Sometimes the guy who is conducting the interview need to calm down you invite a guest against who was there while all this going on back in the days during mengistu halamarium era of let him at least give him a chance to speak the side of the story and stop interrupting him act like you know better than he does and all that I think you should keep it quiet while the main speak interview is to me it was annoying because you think like you know the history better than he does and he was there in the middle of it but you keep interrupting him and trying to correct him or whatever you intend to do you I need to change calm down just sit there you ask the question let the man answer the way he does
