Gottesman ኣብዝገበሮቃለመሕተትኣርጋጊጽዋኢዩ።
Kaleab Haile who had been a secondary school teacher in Ethiopia before joining the revolution mentioned in his interview with Les Gottesman that an earlier generation of fighters had been relatively well-educated in the front but most of those educated fighters were martyred between 1973 and 1983. This was confirmed by Solomon Woldemichael in his interview with Les Gottesman.