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There were flocks of doves and pheasants everywhere. Sometimes Ethiopian warplanes would appear overhead, but we would hide and they wouldn't see us. Once I wondered aloud if there was danger ahead. "Only from snakes," replied Seyoum Geresus, my Eritrean guide, "but it is not their way to attack first." Then we saw a militiaman in a long white gown, with...
...prisoner-of-war camp, I saw my guide give three packs of cigarettes to a prisoner. Why? "He was my guard when they had me in jail," Seyoum said. "When he saw me just now, he tried to hide, he thought I would kill him." I said to Seyoum, "You have come full circle now that they're your prisoners." "Almost," he said. "First we have to set them free. Then it will be full circle...
General Negategegne, formerly on the side of the ruling military council, has defected and joined forces with Ras Mengesha Seyoum, the deposed governor of Tigre province, which adjoins Eritrea. Mengesha, a distant relative of Haile Selassie, has an armed band of more than 4,000 peasants. Near Menz, some 85 miles north of the capital, two other aristocratic revolutionaries, Merid and Mesfin Biru, recently wiped out a government battalion...
While the prepared addresses were for the most part dispassionate, the question period brought sharp attack on Griffin from an Ethiopian student at the Law School. Seyoum Haregot 2L asked the Governor, "Do you think, after listening to you, I should go back to my people and say that we should go along with the United States when down in your part of the country they call us 'niggers...
...exile in Jerusalem the thin-faced, kinky-haired son of Haile Selassie, Crown Prince Asfa Wassan, wrote to Patriarch Amba Yoannes XIX of the Coptic Church, in Cairo, petitioning this venerable prelate for a divorce from Princess Holata-Israel, daughter of his father's most powerful chieftain, Ras Seyoum, who capitulated to the Italian invaders during their campaign...