I dont know what book its from, (Its not my pic) but this is more in line with what I have heard from people. Both ethios and eris
And yeah the whole independence movement was handled pretty bad imo. All the killing and raping of civilians and destroying villages only led to eritreans starting to support the independence fighters more and more and made more eritreans want to join. Ethiopian troops was on some wild shyt, this is far from all of it
My homies dad watched his whole fam get killed by the ethiopian army as a baby while they had hid him in the closet.
But i think the massacres got more frequent under Mengistu. Like I said obviously this made more and more people wish for an independent Eritrea. Who knows how the referendum would have turned out if they had it in 1961 when Hamid Idris Awate fired the first shot?
What book is that? I’d love to read it. And yeah, it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s what it actually was. Eritrea had been under colonial rule for decades and had things that Ethiopia didn’t have so I can see that happening.
The separatist movement couldn’t have been handled any worse and the Derg bringing hell to the whole country sealed our fates. Abiy went as far as to say Mengistu can come back, but I’m sure Ethiopians would rip him limb from limb for all the death and the mishandling of Eritrea. That piece of shyt even sold the Ethiopian Jews to Israel in exchange for weapons just to lose to the EPLF and Woyane. Our people deserve better than what they’ve had these past few hundred years.
