Dr. Fitsum

Dr. Fitsum after graduating from Addis Ababa University where he was a prominent member of the progressive student movement went to school in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and was of this student t that joined the ELF from Yugoslavia after passed his PhD in the early 1970s.
. There was a question about the death of Dr Fistum the ELF. Dr Fitsum could be one of the Addis Ababa University students who were recruited by Kidane Kiflue in the mid 1960. In 1970. He was a member of the ‘other’ 19-person Executive Committee  Elected by 1st ELF Congress in 1971

ንስዉእዶክተርፍጹምኣብክራማት 1972 ኣብከባቢሰንዓፈረኺበዮ።ሽዑጸጕሩነዊሕኮይኑ፡ዛዕኰርኰርዝበለ፡ምልኩዕግንጸሊምነይሩ።ኣነውዱብትሓኤኮይነምስቲሽዑዝነበረሕንፍሽፍሽናይህሓሓኤዶተሓኤዝብልኵነታት፡ምሳይብዝነበሩውዱባትበዓልስዉእእትጎይትኦምንገረዝግሄርንወልደርፍኤልንንዶክተርፍጹምብምርካብንጹርሓበሬታንምምጻእየተላኢኸ።ዶክተርፍጹም፡ምስገለሓሙሽተዝኾኑብጾቱኣብሓደበዓቲመሳሊቦታኢናተራኺብና።መልእኽቱብሓጺሩከምዚዝብልነይሩ።ኣብዚእዋንዚዘድሊህዝቢምንቃሕማለትጸላእቱመነመንምዃኖምከምዝፈልጥምግባር'ዩ።ካብዚወጻኢ "ኢዲኻፒ" ዝብሃልማለትተሓኤዲኻህሓሓኤዲኻዝብልዘረባክተልዕሉዎየብልኩምን።ዝብልምኽርንሓበሬታንከምኡውንመጽሔታትሂቡኣፋንዩኒ።ምሳይናብቲቦታመሪሑኒዝኸደኣማኒኤልፋቶሪኖሰታዮዝነበረኮይኑነቲመጽሔታትባዕሉኣብኣውቶቡስኣንቢሩዎስኣስመራምስበጻሕናኣረኪቡኒ።ኣማኒኤልክሳዕሕጂኣበይከምዘሎደሃይየብለይን።ዶክተርፍጹምከምዝተሰውአምስሰማዕኩመሪርሓዘንተሰሚዑኒ።ድሒረኣብርሃለይክፍለከምዝቐተሎንመራሕቲጀብሃብረትክፍትንከሎተባሪዓቶስትሰዊኡዝብልዘረባከምዝፈነዉፈሊጠ።ጠንቂመቕተሊኡስምረትክልቲኡውድባትኣይተርፍንዩይብልስለዝነበረእዩ።ብሰንኪመራሕቲክልቲኡውድባትመንእሰያትሃገርክሳዕሕጂይጸንቱኣለዉ።source facebook comment posted by Stefanos Temelso
In the late 1960s  a group of  Eritrean university students  joined the ELF from Addis Ababa  the group were at the time referred to as " Sriya Addis"  However these students  were not welcomed by the  ELF leadership (Kiada Al Ama), and many of them were killed on mere suspicion of being Ethiopian agents. According various sources these fighters were made to endure unbearable torture at the hands of ELF interrogators, this was mentioned by several writers(Paice 1994: 34; Human Rights Wartch 1991: 47; Mengesteab 2005: 43). Issayas was among the members of Kiada al Ama leadership who is responsible for the massacre of those students. read more

Those who volunteered joined the ELF to take up arms were met with suspicion, mistrust and even bullying, by and large   many educators of the 1940s and 1950s generation became the victims of the ELF and EPLF, this was included  during the civil war and purging periods which will look at it briefly.