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Musie T Mikel: He was small built, but daring
and nice and humane. He joined AA University
in 1965. Perhaps he studied education. Was one
of the hijackers flying the plane to Libya.
Was a teacher in Mendefera.
(T): he grew up with us in Kidane Mehret, was
short and hot temper
Contributed by Aida Kidane
The Role of Hailesellasie University
Progressive students:
Executed ca 1975
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Yohannes Sebhatu joined AA U, Addis Abeba University
in 1962-3. He was studying economics. He was a
brilliant student and used to be suspended form
the U because of politics. There used to be demonstrations twice a year in
the university. It was an adventure and we were
ill equipped with theoretical knowledge. Imprisoned
was imprisoned a day or so at Kolfe and Sendafa
prisons He was tall and medium built. Contributed
by Aida Kidane. Yohannes was described by other source as the first students in Ethiopian education history to be expelled from Haile Sellasie University, for political agitation. He was the president and founder of a leftist political society at university. One of the best students to ever come out of any Ethiopian University (R.R Balsvik Haile Sellasies student: the intellectual and social background to revolution. Source. Petros Tesfagiorgis(2007) also states that Yohanes Sebhatu, a brilliant Marxist Guru. He was a reporter in an English daily paper in Addis Ababa during the two years of his suspension from the University. Yohanes Sebhatu and Mussie Tesfamicael were executed by EPLF as a member of the “Menka uprising”
Executed ca 1975. Mesfin Hagos was among the members of the military court responsible for the death of the Menka ringleaders in 1975
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Tareke Yihdego: Was in high school in Asmera also in
YMCA. He was not political and did not attend AA University.
He had a strong personality.
(A): He was in very friendly term with Werku, seen hand
in hand. She was to be banished to an Arab country but
she refused and stayed on. She now lives in Eritrea.
She must have recanted.
(T): He was one of the Yemen group who came to Denkalia
1970
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Aida Kidane
Executed ca 1975?
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Kidane was a bright student at AA U studying political
science. He was one time editor of USUAA, University
students union of AA, publishing “Struggle”
magazine of Ethiopian students. He was a reserved
person and was not in the Menka movement since he
was in Kebessa at that time. He was very sick and
weak but was sent to Kebessa with heavy weapons and
was martyred in 1975 battle.
Contributed by Aida Kidane
The Role of Hailesellasie University
Progressive students:
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Debesai
Gebreselassie, part in the hijacking. He was a student
of AAU studying political science. He was sent to
Kuwait for medication and was arrested after returning
to meda.
Contributed by Aida Kidane
The Role of Hailesellasie University
Progressive students:
Executed in 1979 at Arag
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Afworki Teklu went to AAU studying perhaps English
literature. He was politically active and international
revolutionary, and courageous. He was physically
well built his Tigrina knowledge was not that
good.
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Dehab
Tesfatsion was an AAU student of social works.
She was not a politically visible girl.
(S): She came to Dekmhare for the summer vacations
and was kind of quiet. No body expected her
to join meda. She and Werku were close friends,
even at the University.
(B): She was one of the 4 not sentenced to death
as Menka. She was not given martyr’s certificate.
Contributed by Aida Kidane
The Role of Hailesellasie University
Progressive students:
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Menkiskas was one of these democratization movements which
led by Goitom Berhe (bitsay), a law graduate of Addis Ababa.
Goitom and his groups tried to form an underground movement
called 'the Eritrean Revolutionary Party' in 1975/1976 during
this period the party translated a number of Marxist works
to Tigrigna (eg Dialectical Materialism, Four Essays of Philosophy,
About the Proletariat Party) . All the literature was then
collected and burnt. The suspected ring-leaders of the anti-Essayas
movement of progressives were arrested and, later butchered.
1975/1976 the author of this paper was in the Information
department and I remember that when Haile Menkorias translated
a number of Marxist works to tigringna (eg, State and Revoltion
, The Communist Manifesto, two step backward and one step
forward and some of Mao works, the titles of which I cannot
remember. We carried out the process of printing and packaging
of the publications but we were not allowed to read them because
we were ordinary members If someone tried to read Marx works
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According
to Mengisteab (50, 2005) that Teklay Aden, an EPLF security
chief who defected to the Ethiopian regime in 1981, revealed
that three thousand fighters were physically liquidated by
the Front between the start of the The number of fighters
physically eliminated by the Front between 1973 and the liberation
of Eritrea in 1991, could range between three thousand and
five thousand, if those fighters who disappeared under mysterious
circumstances are included. However, Solomon Woldemariam,
who was in the EPLF leadership from 1971-1977, suggested that
the number was much larger. Solomon added that around one
thousand fighters who participated in the Menka movement were
rehabilitated after undergoing serious political indoctrination
and self-criticism( Mengiseab, 49: 2005)Source
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