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(birds chirping)

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(bleating)

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(sobbing)

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- (narrator):My Ethiopian
elders opened the doors

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to their country's past for me.

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Through their tears,
I began to understand

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the promise and the agony
that is Ethiopia.

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(crowd clamouring)

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Ethiopia in the 1970s

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was a country
at war with itself.

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An ancient land led
by a powerful emperor

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that was being challenged

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by students who wanted
greater freedoms.

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(crowd chanting)

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Years of terror
would soon follow

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under a military dictatorship,

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erasing an entire
generation of young people.

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Like most Ethiopians, my
relatives have stayed silent

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about this dark era,
when nearly every family

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was affected by the
disappearances and killings.

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(honking)

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I grew up in Canada,

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shrouded in my family's
collective silence,

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and raised
by my Canadian mother.

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Ethiopia was a far of
and mystical land

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that I knew little about

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and didn't visit
until I was an adult.

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It wasn't until
my late thirties

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that I moved to Addis Ababa so
that I could better understand

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the country that is
in my blood,

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and build a relationship
with my father's sisters.

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But for so many Ethiopians,

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it seems that it's safer
to forget than to remember.

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And there's so much trauma
attached to their memories.

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At my grandmother's house,

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I was confronted
with a new revelation.

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I noticed a photo, prominently
sat above the fireplace,

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of a beautiful woman.

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I had another aunt, one that
no one had ever mentioned.

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Her name was Selamawit -
Sally or Salem for short -,

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meaning peace.

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(fire cracking)

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How could there be
a close relative

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that I knew nothing about?

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And could her story be
the source of my elders' pain?

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(♪♪♪♪♪♪)

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I have four other aunts
who I have grown closer to.

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Kibre is my aunt who's lived
in Ethiopia the longest.

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She's trained as an artist but
hasn't painted in many years.

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Kibre has warned me that I will
need a lot of patience

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to dig into Sally's past.

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Have a look at what
my mom sent you.

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- My God!
What are you doing?

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What is this?

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- Stuff.

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- Oh my God! Please, God.
Oh my God!

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Oh my God!

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What's your mom doing?

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- I think she just wants
to see you painting.

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- These brushes, I don't think
you can find them here. Ha!

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Oh, this is my favourite
colour too.

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Can we put it on the floor
and see the colours?

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(chuckling)

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- Yeah.

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- Yeah, let's just see
some of the colours.

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Bless her heart.

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Oh Lord, have mercy!
Oh Lord, have mercy!

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What am I gonna say to her?

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Thank you so much
a million times?

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These are my favourites,
they're always in my paintings.

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And then this one...

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I have to use this too.

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Isn't she something?
What did you tell her?

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(laughing)

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This is so beautiful.

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(dog barking)

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Thank you so much.

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- Now, you just have
to paint.

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- Absolutely. But I want to...
I wanna hug you.

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(dog barking)

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Thank you.
- Yeah.

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- From my heart.

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(♪♪♪♪♪♪)

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-Tsion, a retired teacher,
is the youngest sister.

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Like the rest of my family,

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she's dealt with a lot of loss
in her life,

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and yet somehow
she manages to persevere.

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(in foreign language)

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I know that asking her about
the past will not be easy.

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- I always felt like a foreigner
wherever I was.

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I'm seen by locals here...

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I'm seen as a foreigner
but it's not a bad thing.

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I don't think any of the
Dawit family has ever felt...

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... Ethiopian, because we moved
so much as children.

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And my parents never said:
"Oh, we have to move again."

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It was never like that.

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It was "Yay! We get to move
again" kind of thing.

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So, you could put me just about
anywhere and I think I'd be OK.

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-Brutawit, the elder sister,
a banker,

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has spent her entire career

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building the financial
systems in Ethiopia.

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Now retired, she hopes to
become a voice for the people

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through her new TV talk-show.

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- What about the other topics
that have been assigned to?

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Did I assign
other topics to you?

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I gave you eight topics.

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- We want to do
corruption.

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It's becoming very obvious,

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whenever you go to especially
government offices.

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So, we're going to try
to bring the issue up

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and the community
can discuss about.

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-The problem is: anything you
say can be considered

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inciting violence
or uprising.

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So, literally, your report
can put you behind bars

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because people will get angry
and you're inciting.

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- We have to be
very careful,

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but that's what the show
is all about.

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There's no problem talking
to the government.

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It's how you approach them
and what you say, period.

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I can say just about anything
I want, and I have,

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but it's the way
I presented myself

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and the way I phrased
whatever I said.

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And that's how we're going
to do it.

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-Menbie is the aunt
that I know best

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as she lived in Canada
for many years.

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She's recently retired
in Ethiopia

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after years of work
for the United Nations.

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Menbie's the keeper
of all the family's stories

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and she often tells elaborate
tales about her childhood.

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These were all things
that my father,

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who passed away nearly
a decade ago,

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had never spoken about.

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I remember learning a lot
about the family from you

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when I was a kid.

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But why do you think
I never even knew

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that Sally existed
until I was 30?

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- 3-0?

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I don't know. Because she's
in all of our family albums.

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I mean, there was a lot of time
that we didn't spend together.

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So, I think it's...
it's a timing issue.

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If it happens to be the day
or the afternoon

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that we're talking about Sally

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or somebody's making a joke
about Sally or whatever

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and you are present,
then you will catch it.

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-My father remarried
when I was a young child

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and then slowly faded out
of my life.

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Any relationship or information
I had about his family

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was through my own persistence
to connect.

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I felt closest to Mamma Tsehai,
my late grandmother.

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As painful as it was for Mamma
to speak of Sally,

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before she died,
she gave me her blessing

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to explore
her daughter's story.

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My father was the only son
swallowed

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in a family of sisters.

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He grew up with his siblings
in Sudan, Ghana and Nigeria

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in the privilegeed household
of an Ethiopian diplomat.

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- My mom was very busy taking
care of six kids,

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running the household,

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and as the wife of a diplomat,

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she had a lot of
responsibilities.

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Going to all those cocktails
is a big responsibility.

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Having cocktails at home
is a big responsibility.

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As a child, until I got engaged,

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I never wore a dress that was
bought from a store.

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My mom made it,

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and in the process,
we learned how to make dresses.

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My mom wanted us
to learn everything.

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- My dad had power in his job.

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You couldn't touch him
when it came to politics,

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history, geography, languages.

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You couldn't touch him.

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He was brilliant.
He spoke a million languages.

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And we talked
about political things,

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the general political issues.

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He was deep in that
and we were deep in that too

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because we were
surrounded by his job.

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- We were all, I think,
raised the same,

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including my brother,
your father.

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I don't ever remember "He's the
boy" or "You're the girls".

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And we grew up very, very free.

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We could dress the way
we wanted,

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we could do what we wanted
when we didn't have to study.

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- We all went
to international schools.

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So, there were kids from
different parts of the world.

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We did ballet,
we had music class,

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we had parties
from one embassy to the other.

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If you're living in an embassy,

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it doesn't really mean
you have a lot of money.

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You just had
a lot of privileges.

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For my dad's part, he would come
around 8:30 in the evening

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and if he sees a light on,
he will say:

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"You're not paying for it,

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"it's the Ethiopian people
paying for it. Turn it off."

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If he sees water running

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or anything like that,
he always said:

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"This money belongs
to the Ethiopian people."

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And I really appreciated
him saying that

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because I think that's true.

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-My grandfather spent
his entire career serving

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the Ethiopian people and
the Emperor, Haile Selassie.

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The Emperor had
in fact fostered

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my grandfather
and his brothers

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after their own father
had passed away.

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- I remember him coming
off the plane

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and us being right
at the bottom of the stairs

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and handing him the flowers.

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I remember there was a hotline
in Ababa's bedroom,

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that only the Emperor called on,
so I knew he was important.

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- And what was Sally like
as a child,

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when you were young together?

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- Um... Extremely fun loving.

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She had a lot of friends.

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She was popular.
She was very kind, gentle.

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But really, really fun loving.
She loved partying.

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- Sally was fuller,
not overweight.

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She loved everything,
she loved miniskirts.

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Very, very fashionable.

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Short skirts looked really,
really good on her.

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She had a laugh that could
shatter a window

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and she used it lots.

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She was very clever,
very politically astute

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because she was bright,
so she was very entertaining.

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-In the summer of 1968,

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the family was on the move
once again,

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leaving Africa
for the first time

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to open a new embassy
in Canada.

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- It was very interesting
for us in the street

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because we would identify
every black person instantly

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and almost count.

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"Look over there!
Look over there! Oh, hi!"

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There were very few.

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Very shortly after we got there,

00:16:08.133 --> 00:16:10.969
people even asked us
if we were The Supremes.

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Because we had big afros.

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-17-year-old Sally
was enrolled

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at Carleton University
to study sociology,

00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:23.065
while her younger siblings

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attended Lisgar Collegiate
Institute.

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- There was Menbie, myself and
one another black kid at Lisgar.

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They used to come and feel my
hair, so that was a bit funny.

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For the prom,
they found us two black guys

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that didn't go to school there
to come to the prom

00:16:42.292 --> 00:16:43.877
so they could be with us.

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That was strange.

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I think it was the blackness

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that stood out more than
anything else in Ottawa.

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- I remember one of the parties

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that my parents
had been invited to,

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Trudeau, Pierre, he was dancing
with my mom, he was saying:

00:16:59.309 --> 00:17:03.522
"I've heard about all
your beautiful daughters.

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"You have a beautiful daughter."

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And he was referring
to my mother.

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My father was not impressed

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and he very quickly said:
"That is my wife."

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My dad, he was very involved
in the Ethiopian community,

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and there to serve
the community,

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so he did do
a lot of work there.

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-After two years in Canada,
the embassy was closed

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and my grandfather
was reposted to Sudan.

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In order for his children
to complete their education,

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he decided to let them stay
behind in Canada,

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renting a modest apartment

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and leaving them
to adapt to life on their own.

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- In those days, for all
our parties and our fun,

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our conversations
were political.

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People took to the streets

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to lend their voice
to whatever cause.

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Issues of racism,
we were out.

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South Africa? Definitely.

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So, we were very involved.

00:18:06.210 --> 00:18:08.754
- And Sally, whenever
she dated anyone,

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she fell madly
in love with them,

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with everybody she dated.

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That was the guy,
that was him.

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- And we used to laugh at her
because...

00:18:20.557 --> 00:18:22.100
Like, if she had
a Jamaican boyfriend,

00:18:22.226 --> 00:18:23.852
we'd eat Jamaican food.

00:18:23.977 --> 00:18:27.731
We'd have Jamaican music,
Jamaican food, Jamaican clothes.

00:18:27.856 --> 00:18:32.653
And then, um, you know,
if the person was from Europe,

00:18:32.820 --> 00:18:35.656
there would be all these
European things.

00:18:35.781 --> 00:18:39.326
She was very much like that.
She explored all of it.

00:18:39.451 --> 00:18:42.704
- She always used to say:
"I'm going to have eight kids."

00:18:42.830 --> 00:18:45.666
She loved kids.

00:18:45.791 --> 00:18:49.378
And her dream was to have
a house full of kids.

00:19:00.556 --> 00:19:04.476
-In 1973, Ethiopia's capital,
Addis Ababa,

00:19:04.643 --> 00:19:07.646
was a modernizing
and bustling city.

00:19:07.771 --> 00:19:10.649
Ethiopia was the only
African country

00:19:10.816 --> 00:19:13.485
to have never been colonized
and had a monarchy

00:19:13.652 --> 00:19:17.990
that traced its roots back to
the Biblical Queen of Sheba.

00:19:20.868 --> 00:19:24.705
It was also a country ripe
for revolution.

00:19:24.830 --> 00:19:27.457
The Emperor Haile Selassie

00:19:27.583 --> 00:19:32.296
was the first,
last and only law of the land.

00:19:32.462 --> 00:19:36.508
Descent was criminal
and deemed equal to treason.

00:19:36.633 --> 00:19:39.928
Ethiopian society
was divided by class.

00:19:40.053 --> 00:19:42.055
Below were the masses,

00:19:42.180 --> 00:19:45.559
working the land
for the wealthy landlords.

00:19:45.684 --> 00:19:48.061
On top was the Emperor
and other nobility,

00:19:48.186 --> 00:19:51.481
followed by the bureaucrats
like my grandfather.

00:19:53.108 --> 00:19:56.320
- This is General Nimeiry,
the president of Sudan,

00:19:56.445 --> 00:19:59.531
with Emperor Haile Selassie
of Ethiopia,

00:19:59.656 --> 00:20:03.744
and Ababa Dawit, ambassador
Dawit, greeting each other.

00:20:03.869 --> 00:20:05.537
- It says something
on the back too.

00:20:05.662 --> 00:20:07.748
- They're always dated, yeah.

00:20:07.873 --> 00:20:09.833
Because they're
official pictures.

00:20:09.958 --> 00:20:11.668
- 1972 or 1973.

00:20:11.793 --> 00:20:13.045
- It was in 1973.

00:20:13.170 --> 00:20:14.504
- 1972.

00:20:14.630 --> 00:20:16.423
- It's such a cool picture.

00:20:16.548 --> 00:20:17.966
- I don't know this picture.

00:20:18.133 --> 00:20:20.802
- Oh my goodness!
This is beautiful.

00:20:20.969 --> 00:20:23.138
Again, Emperor Haile Selassie

00:20:23.263 --> 00:20:26.308
with His Holiness
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

00:20:26.475 --> 00:20:28.185
This was at the palace.

00:20:28.310 --> 00:20:30.812
The Maharishi was giving
the Emperor some flowers.

00:20:30.938 --> 00:20:32.314
This was a
beautiful moment

00:20:32.481 --> 00:20:35.067
because they actually sat
and spoke to each other.

00:20:35.192 --> 00:20:37.611
- I've never seen this picture.

00:20:43.325 --> 00:20:45.827
- I was going to art school
in Montreal.

00:20:45.994 --> 00:20:47.621
There was a lady
who had just come

00:20:47.746 --> 00:20:49.498
from the transcendental
meditation training.

00:20:49.665 --> 00:20:51.667
And she was saying:
"It's so beautiful

00:20:51.833 --> 00:20:54.044
"and the teacher was
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi."

00:20:54.169 --> 00:20:56.797
And then, she said: "There will
be a teacher training."

00:20:56.964 --> 00:20:59.675
So, I met Maharishi there.

00:20:59.800 --> 00:21:02.594
And then, from the stage
he came down the staircase,

00:21:02.719 --> 00:21:04.012
I stood there.

00:21:04.137 --> 00:21:06.181
I said: Maharishi, I would like
to become a teacher.

00:21:06.306 --> 00:21:08.767
I said: I'm going to go

00:21:08.892 --> 00:21:12.145
and have a teacher training
also for Africa.

00:21:14.064 --> 00:21:17.484
So, I came here,
I rented a house,

00:21:17.651 --> 00:21:19.194
I taught TM.

00:21:19.319 --> 00:21:22.990
Remember, my father always said:
"You're responsible to go back."

00:21:23.115 --> 00:21:25.659
Even though we don't know
the country,

00:21:25.784 --> 00:21:27.160
we don't know the people.

00:21:27.327 --> 00:21:29.830
We didn't really go
to school here.

00:21:29.997 --> 00:21:33.250
And then, we had 101 students
chartered plane

00:21:33.375 --> 00:21:36.628
who arrived here to become
teachers of TM.

00:21:36.753 --> 00:21:39.131
For everybody
to become teachers,

00:21:39.256 --> 00:21:41.550
the final touch was Maharishi.

00:21:41.675 --> 00:21:44.594
So, Maharishi came to Ethiopia,
we arranged for him

00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:47.639
to meet with Emperor Haile
Selassie and they talked.

00:21:47.764 --> 00:21:51.309
Maharishi kept telling him:
"It's urgent.

00:21:51.435 --> 00:21:56.273
"You get a large group of people
to do TM. It's urgent."

00:21:56.398 --> 00:22:00.110
And there was
a sense of urgency.

00:22:00.235 --> 00:22:05.157
At that time, also the famine
was coming. There was a famine.

00:22:05.282 --> 00:22:07.868
But, you know, the whole thing
happened so all of a sudden.

00:22:07.993 --> 00:22:10.620
It wasn't as if
there were some expectation,

00:22:10.746 --> 00:22:13.457
some kind of a revolution
would take place.

00:22:13.582 --> 00:22:15.459
Nobody... At least,
I didn't know...

00:22:15.584 --> 00:22:19.796
I don't think anybody thought
that could possibly happen.

00:22:19.921 --> 00:22:22.424
- Could you please explain
your position

00:22:22.549 --> 00:22:24.718
in regards to Emperor
Haile Selassie?

00:22:24.843 --> 00:22:27.220
- Well, I hope and I think

00:22:27.346 --> 00:22:31.016
this is one of the last days
of his power.

00:22:31.141 --> 00:22:33.310
- Do you wish to see
an end to the monarchy?

00:22:33.435 --> 00:22:34.269
- Yeah.

00:22:34.394 --> 00:22:35.437
- Personally, yes.

00:22:35.562 --> 00:22:37.898
Along with the shooting
of the students.

00:22:38.023 --> 00:22:39.232
- So, how many students
were shot?

00:22:39.357 --> 00:22:41.902
- Were shot so many but ah...

00:22:43.570 --> 00:22:47.824
You know, that includes high
school students and college.

00:22:47.949 --> 00:22:52.370
Therefore, the information I got
may not be dependable.

00:22:52.496 --> 00:22:55.999
-Ethiopian students
have been protesting

00:22:56.124 --> 00:23:00.128
since the late 1960s
and many were being jailed.

00:23:00.295 --> 00:23:03.298
Not fully understanding
the level of tension

00:23:03.465 --> 00:23:07.135
in the country, my aunts
arrived for summer vacation,

00:23:07.260 --> 00:23:09.346
courtesy of their father

00:23:09.471 --> 00:23:12.474
who wanted his foreign-raised
daughters to know their roots.

00:23:12.599 --> 00:23:16.478
This trip would change
the fate of my family forever.

00:23:16.645 --> 00:23:20.524
Their way of life and loyalties
would be profoundly shaken.

00:23:22.359 --> 00:23:26.780
(♪♪♪♪♪♪)

00:23:34.996 --> 00:23:39.042
- Coming to Ethiopia,
it was just so much fun.

00:23:39.167 --> 00:23:42.420
The clubs then were catered
to people our age

00:23:42.546 --> 00:23:44.047
who were gorgeous.

00:23:44.172 --> 00:23:47.134
And to be surrounded by family

00:23:47.259 --> 00:23:52.013
and then these new friends that
became so close so quickly,

00:23:52.139 --> 00:23:53.431
there was a lot of fun.

00:23:53.557 --> 00:23:55.142
Kibre introduced us
to a lot of people.

00:23:55.308 --> 00:23:56.810
She was the one that was here.

00:23:56.935 --> 00:23:59.437
Because I think
it's the first time

00:23:59.563 --> 00:24:02.691
that we discovered
we were Ethiopians.

00:24:05.110 --> 00:24:07.445
- We didn't come every summer

00:24:07.571 --> 00:24:11.658
and we met so many
fantastic people.

00:24:11.783 --> 00:24:15.162
Sally found a very nice
group of friends.

00:24:15.328 --> 00:24:18.790
Political, but that was
the way we grew up,

00:24:18.915 --> 00:24:21.293
so it was...

00:24:21.418 --> 00:24:25.630
more of a continuation of what
we were doing in Ottawa.

00:24:25.755 --> 00:24:30.135
But it was a much more
close issue

00:24:30.260 --> 00:24:33.138
because you're sort of right
in the middle of it here.

00:24:33.263 --> 00:24:37.559
And you knew these people
and you heard it.

00:24:37.684 --> 00:24:42.480
So, in that way, it was much
more involving, also for Sally.

00:24:42.606 --> 00:24:44.816
So, she was vocal.

00:24:44.941 --> 00:24:48.069
And, you know, you always draw
attention to yourself

00:24:48.195 --> 00:24:49.237
when you're vocal.

00:24:49.362 --> 00:24:51.656
She had everybody's attention.

00:24:51.781 --> 00:24:53.450
So, she just wanted to stay on.

00:24:53.575 --> 00:24:55.452
She had finished university

00:24:55.577 --> 00:24:58.413
and she was interested
to try it out here.

00:24:58.538 --> 00:25:00.832
It wasn't a rejection of that,
I want to do this.

00:25:00.999 --> 00:25:03.668
It was: "Oh, this is interesting
too, so I'll stay."

00:25:03.793 --> 00:25:05.503
That's all that was.

00:25:05.629 --> 00:25:06.630
- God, we wanted to stay.

00:25:06.796 --> 00:25:09.549
I think all of us really
wanted to stay.

00:25:09.674 --> 00:25:13.970
I think all of us had
a boyfriend, each of us.

00:25:14.095 --> 00:25:16.681
Because it was such a novel
thing to be here.

00:25:16.806 --> 00:25:19.643
- And had you met Tselote
during that summer?

00:25:19.809 --> 00:25:21.645
- Yes, yes.

00:25:21.811 --> 00:25:23.396
- What do you
remember about--

00:25:23.521 --> 00:25:28.318
- I don't remember him being
anything but Sally's...

00:25:28.485 --> 00:25:30.445
He was interested in Sally.

00:25:30.570 --> 00:25:32.948
I don't even think
they had started dating.

00:25:33.073 --> 00:25:35.909
I think she decided
to stay on her own,

00:25:36.034 --> 00:25:38.495
but she stayed here
and she became a teacher.

00:25:38.662 --> 00:25:40.622
I think he was a fellow
teacher there.

00:25:40.747 --> 00:25:42.624
- Did she tell you
about her relationship

00:25:42.749 --> 00:25:43.959
after she stayed in Ethiopia?

00:25:44.125 --> 00:25:46.169
- No.

00:25:46.294 --> 00:25:51.007
That's when things went downhill
here, in 1974.

00:25:51.132 --> 00:25:54.719
-Sally, an idealist,
was attracted

00:25:54.844 --> 00:25:57.138
to a new group of friends
who were members

00:25:57.264 --> 00:26:00.976
of the Ethiopian People's
Revolutionary Party,

00:26:01.142 --> 00:26:05.981
the EPRP, an underground
communist organization.

00:26:06.147 --> 00:26:10.318
One of their leaders, Tselote,
became Sally's new boyfriendd.

00:26:10.443 --> 00:26:12.445
A committed student
revolutionary

00:26:12.570 --> 00:26:14.739
from a working class family.

00:26:14.864 --> 00:26:17.659
While Sally had been schooled
in diplomacy,

00:26:17.784 --> 00:26:22.580
Tselote had been in and out of
jail as a political activist.

00:27:07.709 --> 00:27:11.254
The EPRP worked with the
student and labour movements

00:27:11.379 --> 00:27:14.132
and embraced communism
as the way to confront

00:27:14.299 --> 00:27:16.718
the emporial government.

00:27:16.843 --> 00:27:20.388
Many believed that armed
struggle was the only way

00:27:20.513 --> 00:27:23.975
to create the democratic change
that they were hungry for.

00:27:54.631 --> 00:27:59.427
In 1974, the university
students started exposing

00:27:59.552 --> 00:28:02.847
the cover-up of the first major
famine in Ethiopia

00:28:02.972 --> 00:28:05.975
to be shown to the world
on television.

00:28:06.101 --> 00:28:08.603
Outraged by the suffering
of their people,

00:28:08.728 --> 00:28:12.482
Sally and her friends took part
in protests in the capital.

00:28:12.649 --> 00:28:15.985
They were soon joined by
bank employees, taxi drivers,

00:28:16.152 --> 00:28:19.531
teachers and other groups
demanding democratic reforms.

00:28:19.656 --> 00:28:21.950
(crowd chanting)

00:28:23.159 --> 00:28:25.703
- The famine is devastating.

00:28:25.829 --> 00:28:28.998
Of course, the Emperor
had to answer to that.

00:28:29.165 --> 00:28:32.127
And I think there was answer
that was given

00:28:32.252 --> 00:28:36.381
that the famine was concealed,
it wasn't told to the Emperor.

00:28:36.506 --> 00:28:39.801
We don't know
if that's true or not,

00:28:39.968 --> 00:28:44.806
but the point is, it shouldn't
have been so devastating.

00:28:44.931 --> 00:28:47.016
And there are things
that were not done.

00:28:47.142 --> 00:28:49.853
Nobody does everything 100%.

00:28:49.978 --> 00:28:53.731
(♪♪♪♪♪♪)

00:29:01.364 --> 00:29:03.950
I guess what really
brought it into light

00:29:04.075 --> 00:29:08.329
is also the television show
hat was shown internationally.

00:29:08.455 --> 00:29:09.497
Very bad, very sad.

00:29:12.459 --> 00:29:14.961
-The Emperor tried
to make concessions,

00:29:15.086 --> 00:29:17.839
but he was unwilling to make
any real change.

00:29:17.964 --> 00:29:20.717
As a result, soldiers
started to mutiny,

00:29:20.842 --> 00:29:22.844
agitating for their own issues.

00:29:22.969 --> 00:29:24.971
(crowd chanting)

00:29:34.647 --> 00:29:38.485
Out of this, a committee of
lower ranking officers emerged

00:29:38.610 --> 00:29:40.820
called the Derg.

00:29:40.987 --> 00:29:42.989
They took control
of the country

00:29:43.114 --> 00:29:47.911
and removed the Emperor from
power on September 12th, 1974.

00:30:31.746 --> 00:30:34.165
- (reporter): The end came this
morning as the armed forces,

00:30:34.332 --> 00:30:35.792
which had already stripped

00:30:35.959 --> 00:30:37.919
the 83-year-old Emperor
of his powers,

00:30:38.044 --> 00:30:40.880
moved him out of his palace,
dissolved the parliament

00:30:41.005 --> 00:30:44.050
and proclaimed a provisional
military government,

00:30:44.175 --> 00:30:47.679
announcing the end of the reign
of Emperor Haile Selassie.

00:30:47.804 --> 00:30:50.431
And many of his top aids
have been arrested

00:30:50.557 --> 00:30:52.725
on charges of stealing
from the public treasury.

00:30:53.518 --> 00:30:55.144
The army says
Haile Selassie himself

00:30:55.270 --> 00:30:57.188
was involved in the corruption

00:30:57.313 --> 00:31:00.066
and claims he has been shipping
tons of gold out of the country

00:31:00.191 --> 00:31:02.151
to be hoarded in foreign banks.

00:31:02.277 --> 00:31:05.113
It's not known
what fate awaits him.

00:31:08.449 --> 00:31:09.951
- I think,
more than the removal,

00:31:10.076 --> 00:31:12.579
it's the treatment
that shocked a lot of people.

00:31:12.704 --> 00:31:14.956
It was unbelievable.

00:31:17.709 --> 00:31:19.627
Yeah, I mean, he went
from up there

00:31:19.752 --> 00:31:23.089
to being put in
a broken down Volkswagen.

00:31:23.214 --> 00:31:25.633
It was the treatment.

00:31:34.309 --> 00:31:37.061
(crowd shouting)

00:31:54.495 --> 00:31:56.456
- Rumour has it
that he was suffocated.

00:31:56.581 --> 00:32:01.127
To die such a miserable death,
I wouldn't wish it on anybody.

00:32:01.294 --> 00:32:06.132
Even though Haile Selassie
is the godfather of my dad,

00:32:06.299 --> 00:32:09.218
that didn't matter.

00:32:09.344 --> 00:32:13.556
What mattered was that no man,
no matter who he is,

00:32:13.681 --> 00:32:16.351
deserves to die the way he died.

00:32:18.895 --> 00:32:20.146
- (reporter): Since the military

00:32:20.271 --> 00:32:22.357
overthrew Emperor
Haile Selassie,

00:32:22.482 --> 00:32:24.567
a group of officers took power

00:32:24.692 --> 00:32:27.362
and Ethiopia's new rulers
brought with them

00:32:27.487 --> 00:32:29.447
a revolutionary Marxist creed.

00:32:29.572 --> 00:32:32.867
New rulers meant new alignments.

00:32:32.992 --> 00:32:34.911
American agencies were closed

00:32:35.036 --> 00:32:36.496
and their personnel
asked to leave,

00:32:36.621 --> 00:32:39.290
and Addis Ababa sought closer
relationships

00:32:39.415 --> 00:32:41.959
with communist regimes.

00:32:44.545 --> 00:32:48.466
-The Derg saw itself as the
guardian of the revolution,

00:32:48.633 --> 00:32:51.969
quickly stealing the momentum
from the young people

00:32:52.136 --> 00:32:55.139
whose energy had driven
the uprising.

00:32:55.264 --> 00:32:57.058
To consolidate power,

00:32:57.183 --> 00:33:01.646
the Derg executed 60 so-called
counter-revolutionaries.

00:33:01.813 --> 00:33:04.524
These were high-ranking
officials

00:33:04.649 --> 00:33:06.317
of the previous regime,

00:33:06.484 --> 00:33:10.613
many of whom were friends or
coworkers of my grandparents.

00:33:16.577 --> 00:33:22.125
- He said he's been summoned
back to Ethiopia.

00:33:22.250 --> 00:33:26.087
And he was telling us
he was going to go back.

00:33:26.212 --> 00:33:28.423
And we all said:
"You shouldn't."

00:33:28.548 --> 00:33:31.050
And he said: "I haven't done
anything wrong

00:33:31.175 --> 00:33:33.636
"so I'm going back."

00:34:00.163 --> 00:34:04.625
- When the Derg took over, they
called all ambassadors back.

00:34:04.751 --> 00:34:08.379
Two went back, one was Ababa.

00:34:08.504 --> 00:34:11.215
And the Derg wanted to use him

00:34:11.340 --> 00:34:14.260
as the face that people
could look at

00:34:14.385 --> 00:34:19.140
and trust a man known for his
dedication to the country,

00:34:19.265 --> 00:34:23.978
by placing him as minister
of Interior Affairs.

00:34:24.103 --> 00:34:28.149
And it was like a way
for them to do

00:34:28.274 --> 00:34:31.944
all the terrible things
that they could

00:34:32.069 --> 00:34:34.322
behind Ababa's face.

00:34:34.447 --> 00:34:36.491
That's all that was.

00:34:36.616 --> 00:34:39.160
And he said no.

00:34:39.285 --> 00:34:42.205
Because he had guts.

00:34:42.330 --> 00:34:43.831
You don't say no to the Derg.

00:34:45.541 --> 00:34:49.295
He said: "No, I will do
education."

00:34:49.462 --> 00:34:51.214
So, they just left him.

00:34:51.339 --> 00:34:54.300
No response back,
no salary, nothing.

00:34:54.467 --> 00:34:59.138
But when they wanted, they just
came right to the house

00:34:59.263 --> 00:35:01.307
and asked him questions.

00:35:01.474 --> 00:35:05.228
Because they didn't know
a lot of things

00:35:05.353 --> 00:35:09.482
about Ethiopia's involvement
in the international arena.

00:35:10.775 --> 00:35:13.319
(marching band)

00:35:13.444 --> 00:35:15.863
-After killing
those who challenged

00:35:15.988 --> 00:35:17.990
his authority
in a shoot out,

00:35:18.115 --> 00:35:21.661
colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam
emerged as the leader

00:35:21.828 --> 00:35:26.123
of Ethiopia's
military government.

00:35:26.249 --> 00:35:30.419
Mengistu was using communism
as a means to solidify

00:35:30.545 --> 00:35:34.298
his power by gaining support
from the Soviet Union.

00:35:34.423 --> 00:35:37.301
His vision of a Marxist state

00:35:37.468 --> 00:35:39.804
had little in common
with Sally's.

00:35:54.902 --> 00:35:57.446
- You know, when you rule
with the power of the gun

00:35:57.572 --> 00:35:59.490
and you have lots of guards,

00:35:59.615 --> 00:36:01.868
then you can be as ruthless
as you want to be.

00:36:01.993 --> 00:36:04.912
And they were as ruthless
as you could be.

00:36:05.037 --> 00:36:08.457
I mean, even
the Amharic name, derg,

00:36:08.583 --> 00:36:11.460
is like shadow,
that's what it means.

00:36:11.627 --> 00:36:16.465
So, under the umbrella
of scientific socialism,

00:36:16.591 --> 00:36:19.802
you want to create something,
you first break it

00:36:19.969 --> 00:36:21.470
and then you remould it.

00:36:21.637 --> 00:36:23.389
That's what they did
in Ethiopia.

00:36:23.514 --> 00:36:26.642
First point of the order
is the family.

00:36:26.809 --> 00:36:30.521
Break the ties in the family,

00:36:30.646 --> 00:36:33.983
push people to accuse
each other,

00:36:34.108 --> 00:36:38.321
tell things about each other.

00:36:38.446 --> 00:36:40.615
Meteqommeans to point.

00:36:40.740 --> 00:36:43.618
That became the hand of justice.

00:36:43.743 --> 00:36:47.330
So, I could easily say:
I heard her say

00:36:47.496 --> 00:36:51.500
that the government is bad,
in the market.

00:36:51.626 --> 00:36:55.546
That's all I would need to say
and you'd be gone.

00:37:04.722 --> 00:37:09.310
-Sally's devotion to the EPRP
had only intensified

00:37:09.435 --> 00:37:12.897
in the face of growing
repression.

00:37:13.022 --> 00:37:16.651
For Mengistu, descent
was to be quashed.

00:37:19.654 --> 00:37:22.073
On the anniversary
of the revolution,

00:37:22.198 --> 00:37:24.742
the Derg declared
a state of emergency,

00:37:24.867 --> 00:37:28.871
saying that anyone who was
opposing them was a criminal

00:37:28.996 --> 00:37:31.832
who could be shot on sight.

00:37:33.542 --> 00:37:36.671
Risking everything,
Sally pressed on,

00:37:36.796 --> 00:37:40.132
focusing her energy
on empowering women.

00:37:41.968 --> 00:37:44.804
- Sally is a good
friend of mine.

00:37:44.929 --> 00:37:47.890
Sally was special for me.

00:37:48.015 --> 00:37:49.141
I was an activist.

00:37:49.308 --> 00:37:50.851
I came back from Europe,

00:37:50.977 --> 00:37:53.896
and when I saw what's going
on in Ethiopia,

00:37:54.021 --> 00:37:56.732
the situation, the women's
situation in Ethiopia,

00:37:56.857 --> 00:37:58.901
and all this was bothering me,

00:37:59.026 --> 00:38:02.154
so I always talk to my friends
and all this

00:38:02.321 --> 00:38:05.783
and we need to have some kind
of women's organization.

00:38:05.908 --> 00:38:07.785
So, one day,

00:38:07.910 --> 00:38:11.539
our common friend
introduced me to Sally.

00:38:11.664 --> 00:38:16.377
And from the first day we saw
each other, we clicked.

00:38:16.502 --> 00:38:20.423
You know, we're from
two different backgrounds,

00:38:20.548 --> 00:38:24.343
but from the first day
I met her, we just said "Hi!"

00:38:24.468 --> 00:38:26.554
and we went to business,
you know.

00:38:26.679 --> 00:38:28.097
So, what do you say?

00:38:28.222 --> 00:38:29.807
What do you think
about what's going on here?

00:38:29.974 --> 00:38:34.729
And we started talking about
how to organize Ethiopian women

00:38:34.854 --> 00:38:39.650
and fight for their
equal pay or education.

00:38:39.775 --> 00:38:42.486
Because when she came
to Ethiopia,

00:38:42.653 --> 00:38:46.741
when she saw those women, when
she saw those small, small boys

00:38:46.866 --> 00:38:50.202
beg for money,
that's what drove her.

00:38:50.327 --> 00:38:52.955
I do not think for a minute

00:38:53.080 --> 00:38:56.167
that she has anybody's
influence at all.

00:38:56.292 --> 00:39:00.963
The military government was
looking for everybody

00:39:01.130 --> 00:39:05.468
who was not on their side
or whom they called anarchists.

00:39:05.634 --> 00:39:10.222
So, they started going
from house to house,

00:39:10.347 --> 00:39:14.643
searching for us,
for me and Sally.

00:39:14.810 --> 00:39:18.898
I remember, we were hiding
at her grandma's house

00:39:19.023 --> 00:39:21.817
and it became very dangerous
to stay there too,

00:39:21.984 --> 00:39:24.820
so we had to flee from there,

00:39:24.987 --> 00:39:28.949
and we were hiding
in many other places.

00:39:29.075 --> 00:39:31.994
- They were becoming
very secretive.

00:39:32.119 --> 00:39:33.621
They didn't want
to talk to people,

00:39:33.746 --> 00:39:35.790
they didn't want
to be seen with anybody.

00:39:35.915 --> 00:39:38.000
And Sally's appearance changed

00:39:38.084 --> 00:39:42.421
because she would not wear
the Western type clothing.

00:39:42.546 --> 00:39:46.592
She would say: "Meet me
at this place or that place."

00:39:46.717 --> 00:39:50.471
And then, she would ask me
to buy transistor radios

00:39:50.596 --> 00:39:51.972
and it was very secretive.

00:39:52.139 --> 00:39:55.059
I would just leave it somewhere
and somebody would pick it up.

00:39:55.184 --> 00:39:57.686
It was really not
a direct thing.

00:39:57.812 --> 00:40:00.815
She was very careful
for the family. Very careful.

00:40:00.981 --> 00:40:02.942
That's why she didn't want us
to visit her.

00:40:03.067 --> 00:40:04.151
She did not want us to know

00:40:04.276 --> 00:40:05.569
who were the people
she was with.

00:40:05.694 --> 00:40:08.197
So, she was protecting
the family in that sense,

00:40:08.322 --> 00:40:09.657
but for her, yes,
it was dangerous.

00:40:09.782 --> 00:40:12.493
She believed in climbing
the tallest mountain

00:40:12.618 --> 00:40:14.995
and that needs help.

00:40:15.162 --> 00:40:16.247
(chuckling)

00:40:16.372 --> 00:40:17.832
Some kind of help.

00:40:17.998 --> 00:40:20.167
- Did she ever ask you to join?

00:40:20.292 --> 00:40:22.253
- Never.

00:40:22.378 --> 00:40:23.796
- Would you have?
- No.

00:40:33.139 --> 00:40:36.142
-Mengistu was building
a peasant army,

00:40:36.308 --> 00:40:39.770
urging them to fight against
the enemies of the revolution.

00:40:42.481 --> 00:40:46.777
He named the EPRP as public
enemy number one,

00:40:46.902 --> 00:40:49.780
blaming them for all
the ills of the country.

00:40:52.825 --> 00:40:56.912
-Mass arrests, disappearances
and killings followed.

00:40:57.037 --> 00:40:58.831
Many of Sally's comrades
were targeted.

00:41:06.463 --> 00:41:09.717
- People were dying
left and right.

00:41:09.842 --> 00:41:12.261
We see people dying
on the street.

00:41:12.386 --> 00:41:14.763
When you are in that kind
of situation,

00:41:14.889 --> 00:41:17.057
you know you will be next.

00:41:17.183 --> 00:41:19.518
You know you will die too.

00:41:19.643 --> 00:41:23.814
Actually, Selamawit's name
and my name were in one

00:41:23.939 --> 00:41:28.777
of those lists, the government's
lists, to be killed.

00:41:28.903 --> 00:41:32.615
You have to accept that,
you have to understand that

00:41:32.740 --> 00:41:35.326
when you're going through
that kind of struggle,

00:41:35.492 --> 00:41:38.454
especially with the military
government.

00:41:38.579 --> 00:41:41.582
They were so brutal,
killing everybody.

00:41:41.707 --> 00:41:44.752
So, for us, it was when.

00:41:44.877 --> 00:41:48.464
But one day, you know
you will be caught.

00:41:49.965 --> 00:41:53.177
- Sally knew what she wanted,
did what she wanted,

00:41:53.302 --> 00:41:55.512
was not easily
influenced by anybody

00:41:55.638 --> 00:42:00.518
but once she met Tselote, it was
a totally different story.

00:42:00.643 --> 00:42:03.354
And she told me she was going
to get married.

00:42:03.479 --> 00:42:07.024
I said: Married to whom?
"Married to Tselote."

00:42:07.149 --> 00:42:08.651
And I talked to my mom

00:42:08.817 --> 00:42:10.819
and mom told me
she doesn't want the wedding,

00:42:10.945 --> 00:42:14.156
she doesn't want anybody,
just the family.

00:42:14.281 --> 00:42:17.326
And that's not Sally.

00:42:17.451 --> 00:42:21.622
Sally wants to dress up,
have people around her.

00:42:21.747 --> 00:42:26.085
So, that influence
was really, um...

00:42:26.210 --> 00:42:27.836
taking a lot of effect

00:42:27.962 --> 00:42:30.631
on her lifestyle
and on her life as well.

00:42:32.716 --> 00:42:34.760
He was not just
an ordinary member,

00:42:34.885 --> 00:42:36.804
he was one
of the decision makers.

00:42:39.265 --> 00:42:41.267
(birds chirping)

00:43:20.431 --> 00:43:27.104
(praying in Ethiopian language)

00:43:56.759 --> 00:43:58.844
-With every piece
of information

00:43:58.969 --> 00:44:01.305
I find out about Sally's life,

00:44:01.430 --> 00:44:03.849
I wonder how Ethiopia
can move forward

00:44:03.974 --> 00:44:07.353
without fully embracing
its complicated past.

00:44:16.987 --> 00:44:19.656
I too have fallen in love
in Ethiopia.

00:44:19.782 --> 00:44:23.660
My partner, Ashu, has been
my unofficial translator

00:44:23.827 --> 00:44:25.162
of everything Ethiopia,

00:44:25.287 --> 00:44:28.957
and I don't just mean
the language.

00:44:29.083 --> 00:44:32.044
He helps me navigate
the cultural differences

00:44:32.169 --> 00:44:33.962
and the tense political
situation.

00:44:36.965 --> 00:44:39.134
Like Sally's husband Tselote,

00:44:39.301 --> 00:44:42.471
Ashu comes from a lower
middle class family,

00:44:42.596 --> 00:44:45.641
and perhaps he's not the ideal
vision of a husband

00:44:45.766 --> 00:44:47.601
that my Ethiopian family
had in mind.

00:44:47.726 --> 00:44:49.478
- I know we're going
to be rich,

00:44:49.603 --> 00:44:52.981
so this is why my signature's
so complicated.

00:44:53.148 --> 00:44:57.486
(laughing)

00:44:57.653 --> 00:45:02.074
(cheering and applauding)

00:45:02.199 --> 00:45:06.495
- Speech, speech, speech,
speech, speech, speech, speech!

00:45:06.620 --> 00:45:10.582
- I'm not really much of
a public speaker,

00:45:10.707 --> 00:45:14.336
so I'm just going to say
thank you for coming,

00:45:14.461 --> 00:45:19.633
thank you for being a part
of our unwedding party.

00:45:19.800 --> 00:45:26.849
(cheering and applauding)

00:45:26.974 --> 00:45:31.478
(laughing)

00:45:31.603 --> 00:45:34.523
-Perhaps that is what Tselote
was for Sally,

00:45:34.648 --> 00:45:36.692
the person who could be
her bridge

00:45:36.817 --> 00:45:40.070
between her and what was going
on in the country;

00:45:40.195 --> 00:45:42.990
her ambassador into Ethiopia.

00:45:43.115 --> 00:45:46.034
- I think initially
she fell in love,

00:45:46.160 --> 00:45:50.789
but whatever it was that
he believed in, she did too.

00:45:50.914 --> 00:45:52.458
I don't think it was just
the husband,

00:45:52.583 --> 00:45:55.294
I think she also was committed

00:45:55.419 --> 00:45:58.338
because that's
who she was anyway.

00:45:58.464 --> 00:46:01.967
So, I think it was a very
difficult decision for her

00:46:02.092 --> 00:46:05.762
- I think, I don't know -
to go underground.

00:46:05.888 --> 00:46:08.640
Because we were very close.

00:46:08.765 --> 00:46:10.350
I mean, the family was close.

00:46:10.476 --> 00:46:14.480
So, for her to leave my parents,

00:46:14.605 --> 00:46:20.152
knowing that she could be
putting them in danger as well,

00:46:20.277 --> 00:46:22.237
she saw the bigger picture.

00:46:24.323 --> 00:46:27.993
- We knew that if they catch us,
they will kill us.

00:46:28.118 --> 00:46:34.333
So, I and Selamawit got up early
in the morning and we left.

00:46:34.458 --> 00:46:37.252
There was no other choice

00:46:37.377 --> 00:46:40.881
except leaving the city
and getting shelter.

00:46:41.006 --> 00:46:44.468
And we decided to go to Assimba,

00:46:44.593 --> 00:46:47.221
where there is an EPRP control.

00:46:47.346 --> 00:46:51.266
And I said: Selamawit,
you just be quiet.

00:46:51.391 --> 00:46:53.435
Because if she said something,

00:46:53.560 --> 00:46:57.022
it's in English
or broken Amharic,

00:46:57.147 --> 00:46:59.608
so we didn't want her to talk.

00:46:59.733 --> 00:47:02.819
And we gave ourselves
secret names

00:47:02.986 --> 00:47:06.240
so that they don't
know us by name.

00:47:06.365 --> 00:47:09.326
Selam was so scared
and I was so scared

00:47:09.493 --> 00:47:13.872
to make them suspicious
that we are not what we are.

00:47:13.997 --> 00:47:17.626
She had an ID as a housewife.

00:47:17.751 --> 00:47:21.505
We were sure that they're going
to catch us.

00:47:27.719 --> 00:47:30.639
When we came out
from the bus, for Selam,

00:47:30.806 --> 00:47:34.351
it was very hard to walk
through the countryside,

00:47:34.476 --> 00:47:37.604
but she adapted
even better than me.

00:47:37.729 --> 00:47:41.316
Because to be there
and help the people

00:47:41.441 --> 00:47:44.861
was the most important for her,
but it was very hard.

00:47:44.987 --> 00:47:47.406
There is no cooked food

00:47:47.531 --> 00:47:51.493
or clean water - that gives you
diarrhea sometimes -

00:47:51.618 --> 00:47:55.038
and there are no antibiotics.

00:47:57.207 --> 00:48:02.212
Our skin starts peeling
because of the nutrition.

00:48:04.506 --> 00:48:08.635
And there's no house or whatever
to hide and sometimes,

00:48:08.760 --> 00:48:10.762
it rains on you,

00:48:10.887 --> 00:48:15.767
and you dry in the morning
from the wind and the sun.

00:48:17.811 --> 00:48:21.815
And you have to walk
a long walk everyday.

00:48:21.940 --> 00:48:24.276
But you know what?

00:48:24.401 --> 00:48:28.071
We always think the cause
is bigger than anything.

00:48:28.196 --> 00:48:30.449
People die for the cause.

00:48:35.162 --> 00:48:38.457
- Sally had disappeared.

00:48:38.582 --> 00:48:41.126
We don't know where she was,
we don't know if she was alive.

00:48:41.293 --> 00:48:43.295
That was when they came.

00:48:43.462 --> 00:48:47.299
And when you see the military
come anywhere close to you,

00:48:47.424 --> 00:48:49.843
it's like: "Something's
going to happen."

00:48:49.968 --> 00:48:52.471
They said they know
where my sister is.

00:48:52.596 --> 00:48:55.223
I said I don't know where she is
because I did not know.

00:48:55.349 --> 00:48:57.768
So, they took me to the house
she used to live.

00:48:57.893 --> 00:48:59.519
That was my grandma's house.

00:48:59.645 --> 00:49:04.441
And they told my grandmother:
"Bring Sally out right now."

00:49:04.566 --> 00:49:06.485
Sally was not there.

00:49:06.610 --> 00:49:09.738
Sally hasn't been there
in a long time.

00:49:09.863 --> 00:49:13.617
And my grandmother
was very strong,

00:49:13.742 --> 00:49:16.828
she said: "She's not here."
She stood still.

00:49:16.953 --> 00:49:19.956
And then, they said OK,
they're going to take me

00:49:20.082 --> 00:49:22.292
if we can't bring Sally.

00:49:22.417 --> 00:49:23.960
And then, she fell on their feet

00:49:24.086 --> 00:49:25.587
saying: "Please,
don't do that to us.

00:49:25.712 --> 00:49:26.838
"We don't know where she is."

00:49:28.131 --> 00:49:31.968
They literally threw me
in the van and I just sat there

00:49:32.094 --> 00:49:36.640
and I said one thing to myself:
Nobody will touch me.

00:49:36.765 --> 00:49:38.975
Nobody will touch my body.

00:49:43.772 --> 00:49:46.358
(praying in Ethiopian language)

00:49:46.483 --> 00:49:47.943
This is the house.

00:49:48.068 --> 00:49:49.903
(birds chirping)

00:49:53.907 --> 00:49:55.951
Look at it. Now, it's so quiet.

00:49:56.076 --> 00:49:58.870
The entrance to something you
absolutely don't know,

00:49:58.995 --> 00:50:01.206
too afraid to ask
where you're at.

00:50:28.650 --> 00:50:30.819
I remember, the door was locked.

00:50:30.986 --> 00:50:33.822
They brought me here

00:50:33.989 --> 00:50:37.159
and this whole place
was bloody.

00:50:37.284 --> 00:50:39.494
It looked like
a slaughter house.

00:50:39.661 --> 00:50:43.957
They made sure I looked around,
I guess to scare me actually.

00:50:44.082 --> 00:50:46.460
When you see the blood, you say:

00:50:46.585 --> 00:50:48.879
"Is that going to be my blood
on that wall too?"

00:50:50.797 --> 00:50:53.008
This was the bloody room.

00:50:54.509 --> 00:50:56.178
It's eerie.

00:50:58.638 --> 00:51:03.226
(sobbing)

00:51:03.351 --> 00:51:05.312
It makes no sense.

00:51:07.105 --> 00:51:09.983
We all saw many people
like that.

00:51:10.150 --> 00:51:14.863
People have become crippled
mentally, physically.

00:51:14.988 --> 00:51:16.573
And no doctors here, you know.

00:51:16.698 --> 00:51:18.658
Doctors didn't come to clean
their wounds

00:51:18.784 --> 00:51:19.993
or anything like that.

00:51:21.912 --> 00:51:23.663
They pick you up
from the street,

00:51:23.830 --> 00:51:25.332
they pick you up
from your home

00:51:25.457 --> 00:51:29.461
and bring you here
for interrogation.

00:51:29.586 --> 00:51:33.799
And then, this is not the only
place where they kept...

00:51:33.924 --> 00:51:36.593
What do you call,
prisoners or suspects?

00:51:36.718 --> 00:51:39.471
They're all over the city.

00:51:39.596 --> 00:51:43.308
So, all these young people,
in most cases,

00:51:43.433 --> 00:51:46.436
they may not be free like I was.

00:51:46.561 --> 00:51:48.230
I went home.

00:51:50.899 --> 00:51:53.235
I was lucky.

00:51:55.111 --> 00:51:57.322
But Sally wasn't lucky.

00:51:57.447 --> 00:51:59.908
She... she never came back home.

00:52:08.542 --> 00:52:10.961
I was here for
about ten days or so.

00:52:11.127 --> 00:52:12.671
They never touched me.

00:52:12.796 --> 00:52:15.757
I just meditated. I just said:
Nobody is going to touch me.

00:52:15.882 --> 00:52:18.134
They didn't do anything to me.

00:52:18.301 --> 00:52:22.138
But there was nothing for me to
tell them because I didn't know.

00:52:22.305 --> 00:52:24.641
And that's what her group did.

00:52:24.808 --> 00:52:28.687
They wouldn't give you
information for your own sake.

00:52:29.813 --> 00:52:32.190
I know she was with her husband,

00:52:32.315 --> 00:52:35.902
not all the time at the same
place, but she met with him.

00:52:36.027 --> 00:52:38.905
What was she thinking?
What was she doing?

00:52:39.030 --> 00:52:40.615
I didn't know.

00:52:42.492 --> 00:52:45.787
- The military was getting
stronger and stronger,

00:52:45.912 --> 00:52:50.458
so for all of us,
there is a military training.

00:52:50.584 --> 00:52:54.462
The military training
is to live in a hardship.

00:52:54.629 --> 00:52:59.384
Running from one mountain
to another to fight.

00:52:59.509 --> 00:53:03.138
And we knew how to shoot
although

00:53:03.305 --> 00:53:05.390
just to protect ourselves.

00:53:07.017 --> 00:53:09.561
- After she went underground,

00:53:09.686 --> 00:53:12.314
one morning, I found
a letter in my mailbox.

00:53:12.480 --> 00:53:15.567
It had no stamp on it so
somebody must have delivered it

00:53:15.692 --> 00:53:17.110
in the middle of the night.

00:53:17.235 --> 00:53:19.696
And the letter said:

00:53:19.821 --> 00:53:22.657
"Send me a carton

00:53:22.824 --> 00:53:25.994
"of tweezers.

00:53:26.119 --> 00:53:30.165
"Different types of tweezers,
surgical tweezers as well,

00:53:30.332 --> 00:53:33.668
surgical scissors and wigs."

00:53:33.793 --> 00:53:37.422
So, I got these things,
left them on my porch

00:53:37.547 --> 00:53:40.967
and one night they were
all picked up.

00:53:41.134 --> 00:53:43.803
So, I assumed
that she was involved

00:53:43.970 --> 00:53:45.764
in some kind of medical thing

00:53:45.889 --> 00:53:47.682
because when she was going
to school,

00:53:47.807 --> 00:53:52.520
she used to work in hospitals
doing the work of a nurse.

00:53:52.646 --> 00:53:56.232
So, I think that she was
helping a lot of people.

00:53:57.776 --> 00:54:00.528
And later, I found a flyer.

00:54:00.654 --> 00:54:02.697
I found it on my way to work.

00:54:02.822 --> 00:54:06.284
And there was
an article about Sally.

00:54:06.409 --> 00:54:08.745
She was wanted, dead or alive.

00:54:08.870 --> 00:54:12.332
And in that article,
they had mentioned the fact

00:54:12.499 --> 00:54:17.128
that some members of the EPRP
had blown the Bole airport,

00:54:18.755 --> 00:54:21.466
and she was the one who did it

00:54:21.591 --> 00:54:25.804
using one of the wigs
I sent as a disguise.

00:54:25.971 --> 00:54:28.598
- How did you feel
when you heard about that?

00:54:31.643 --> 00:54:34.562
- Anxious, fearful.

00:54:34.688 --> 00:54:36.982
That she would have the guts
to come to Addis

00:54:37.107 --> 00:54:40.110
and blow an airport,

00:54:40.235 --> 00:54:44.447
which is surrounded
by security people.

00:54:46.866 --> 00:54:48.576
That's bold.

00:54:53.873 --> 00:54:57.085
-The EPRP responded
to the government crackdowns

00:54:57.210 --> 00:55:01.464
by trying to assassinate key
leaders, including Mengistu.

00:55:01.589 --> 00:55:04.884
Somehow, I wasn't surprised
to find out

00:55:05.010 --> 00:55:08.304
that Sally had taken part.

00:55:08.471 --> 00:55:10.849
In response,
the military government

00:55:10.974 --> 00:55:14.936
called for the public to join
its mass killing spree,

00:55:15.061 --> 00:55:17.647
naming the campaign
the Red Terror.

00:55:25.989 --> 00:55:28.783
Posters hung all over
the city proclaimed:

00:55:28.908 --> 00:55:31.953
"Let the Red Terror intensify."

00:55:33.663 --> 00:55:36.249
Bodies of countless people

00:55:36.374 --> 00:55:38.084
were left on the street
for all to see.

00:55:40.670 --> 00:55:44.424
Forbidden to mourn, frightened
and grieving relatives

00:55:44.549 --> 00:55:46.092
were forced to pay the price

00:55:46.217 --> 00:55:49.179
of every bullet used to kill
their loved ones.

00:55:52.307 --> 00:55:54.934
As a result of
the Red Terror period,

00:55:55.060 --> 00:55:57.812
an entire generation
of urban youth

00:55:57.937 --> 00:56:01.733
with at least a minimal
education were lost.

00:56:01.858 --> 00:56:06.071
The remainder left so afraid
that, for decades,

00:56:06.196 --> 00:56:08.865
no expression of descent
occurred.

00:56:12.118 --> 00:56:14.788
My grandparents survived
this dark period,

00:56:14.913 --> 00:56:17.457
searching desperately
for their daughter,

00:56:17.582 --> 00:56:20.877
trying to avoid
the daily terrors.

00:56:21.002 --> 00:56:24.380
They wouldn't get any new
information about Sally

00:56:24.506 --> 00:56:27.217
for nearly another 10 years.

00:56:27.967 --> 00:56:31.012
- Not knowing whether
she was dead or alive,

00:56:31.137 --> 00:56:33.098
it's really painful.

00:56:33.223 --> 00:56:34.808
One of the problems
is that, you know,

00:56:34.974 --> 00:56:37.644
when they go underground,
they change their name.

00:56:37.769 --> 00:56:39.521
We didn't know what name
she had taken.

00:56:39.646 --> 00:56:42.649
So, when you ask people if
they know anything about Sally,

00:56:42.774 --> 00:56:44.234
they don't know who she is.

00:56:44.359 --> 00:56:47.695
We asked a lot of people

00:56:47.821 --> 00:56:51.074
and we had a friend who works
for the State department.

00:56:51.199 --> 00:56:55.245
He would come and say: "You
know, we have some EPRP people

00:56:55.370 --> 00:56:57.997
arriving in California,
arriving in Atlanta."

00:56:58.123 --> 00:57:01.793
So, every time he said that,
we tried to find out

00:57:01.918 --> 00:57:03.419
if she's one of them.

00:57:03.545 --> 00:57:07.298
We heard once
that she had gone to Sudan,

00:57:07.465 --> 00:57:11.261
so we sent Kibre
to look for her.

00:57:11.386 --> 00:57:14.305
- I didn't think she was dead
until they told us.

00:57:17.267 --> 00:57:18.560
Why would she die?

00:57:21.354 --> 00:57:24.482
I never ever,
ever thought she was dead.

00:57:24.649 --> 00:57:26.651
I thought they were still
doing their thing,

00:57:26.818 --> 00:57:29.237
trying to come back
to the government.

00:57:29.362 --> 00:57:31.698
But we also heard that there was
a split in the party.

00:57:31.823 --> 00:57:34.534
You know, the party that kind
of joined the present government

00:57:34.659 --> 00:57:36.244
and the party
that didn't want to join.

00:57:36.369 --> 00:57:38.079
We don't know which part
she was in.

00:57:40.832 --> 00:57:43.960
And she wanted to work
for the country.

00:57:44.127 --> 00:57:46.296
She wanted to work not just for
the country, for the people.

00:57:48.506 --> 00:57:51.509
So, I think everybody
was shocked.

00:57:51.634 --> 00:57:54.137
The saddest part is I think
she had passed away

00:57:54.262 --> 00:57:56.347
five years earlier,

00:57:56.472 --> 00:57:58.057
and that was the saddest part.

00:58:00.727 --> 00:58:02.979
Having no contact with her.

00:58:09.277 --> 00:58:14.115
- The way I looked at that was
that I've lost my sister

00:58:14.240 --> 00:58:19.120
in a place where there's a war
and there's fighting.

00:58:19.245 --> 00:58:22.165
First of all, it's difficult
to even see

00:58:22.332 --> 00:58:25.460
what people could
possibly eat there

00:58:25.627 --> 00:58:28.838
except for the prickly pears,
thebellus.

00:58:28.963 --> 00:58:32.967
It's just very barren,
very dry and barren.

00:58:33.092 --> 00:58:34.552
It's all shale.

00:58:34.677 --> 00:58:39.724
And that was
incredible for me.

00:58:42.310 --> 00:58:45.730
There's hardly any green.
Just tiny little bits.

00:58:48.191 --> 00:58:51.152
- My husband Jim passed away

00:58:51.319 --> 00:58:55.156
March 27th 1984.

00:58:55.281 --> 00:58:59.827
He was driving to meet me
when he got into a car accident.

00:58:59.994 --> 00:59:03.164
That week was when we found out
Sally had passed.

00:59:03.289 --> 00:59:04.791
The same week.

00:59:06.918 --> 00:59:09.254
- And do you remember
who told you

00:59:09.379 --> 00:59:10.713
or who brought
the information?

00:59:10.838 --> 00:59:12.257
- I don't remember.

00:59:12.382 --> 00:59:14.467
All I remember was we were in
Tabby's house when we found out.

00:59:18.429 --> 00:59:21.349
- And what were you told then
or what do you know now

00:59:21.474 --> 00:59:24.978
about how she passed away?

00:59:25.144 --> 00:59:28.773
- Um, she was ill and...

00:59:30.692 --> 00:59:34.404
And then her husband died

00:59:34.529 --> 00:59:37.657
very soon after.

00:59:37.824 --> 00:59:39.575
He was shot.

00:59:39.701 --> 00:59:44.289
But she died
from health problems, not...

00:59:44.414 --> 00:59:46.791
not warfare.

00:59:46.916 --> 00:59:50.962
- How did the news of her death
affect your parents?

00:59:51.129 --> 00:59:53.965
- They were both there.

00:59:54.090 --> 00:59:57.343
What can I say?

00:59:57.468 --> 00:59:59.429
They lost their daughter.

00:59:59.554 --> 01:00:03.975
They had lost her
and then they lost her finally.

01:01:13.086 --> 01:01:15.713
- Receiving the information
that she had passed away

01:01:15.838 --> 01:01:18.841
was easier by far
than not knowing.

01:01:18.966 --> 01:01:21.302
The not knowing
is much more painful

01:01:21.427 --> 01:01:23.471
than having something
in front of you

01:01:23.596 --> 01:01:25.973
that now you have
to come to grips with.

01:01:26.140 --> 01:01:29.310
But, you know, we still didn't
have very much information.

01:01:29.435 --> 01:01:33.481
They showed us the picture
of Sally's funeral procession.

01:01:33.648 --> 01:01:37.777
And really it struck me
when Mamma told me the story

01:01:37.902 --> 01:01:40.196
of her and a friend of hers

01:01:40.321 --> 01:01:43.866
who had gone looking
for Sally's grave.

01:01:43.991 --> 01:01:46.035
They knew it was up north,
they took a bus,

01:01:46.160 --> 01:01:47.787
the bus dropped them off.

01:01:47.912 --> 01:01:49.997
They walked and walked
and walked and walked,

01:01:50.123 --> 01:01:51.707
and it was getting dark.

01:01:51.833 --> 01:01:55.253
And she discovered that the
place where they were going

01:01:55.378 --> 01:01:57.088
is much, much further away.

01:01:57.213 --> 01:02:00.299
So, they had to walk back,
she told me,

01:02:00.466 --> 01:02:02.969
tired and disappointed.

01:02:03.136 --> 01:02:05.680
She came back to Addis.

01:02:05.805 --> 01:02:09.934
So, it was a very painful
thing for her

01:02:10.059 --> 01:02:11.477
that she couldn't even find

01:02:11.602 --> 01:02:13.479
- now that she knew Sally
had passed away -

01:02:13.646 --> 01:02:16.649
she couldn't even find
the grave site.

01:02:16.774 --> 01:02:17.859
She couldn't even see
where she was.

01:02:20.027 --> 01:02:23.656
- You know, to this day,

01:02:23.823 --> 01:02:27.243
I really don't know
how she died.

01:02:27.368 --> 01:02:29.912
Nobody seems to be able to tell
me exactly how she died.

01:02:31.164 --> 01:02:34.250
And after a while,
I don't want to know.

01:02:38.504 --> 01:02:40.339
I want to remember her...

01:02:44.927 --> 01:02:46.596
the way she used to be.

01:02:49.474 --> 01:02:52.477
I just don't want to think

01:02:52.643 --> 01:02:57.148
of her living way out there,
alone.

01:03:00.693 --> 01:03:04.030
And to lose her life
at a prime age.

01:03:04.155 --> 01:03:06.532
I don't talk about her.

01:03:08.034 --> 01:03:10.828
Um, for a long time, I didn't
even have her picture

01:03:10.953 --> 01:03:11.871
on my wall.

01:03:28.721 --> 01:03:34.227
(birds chirping)

01:03:34.352 --> 01:03:36.646
- That's where they said

01:03:36.771 --> 01:03:39.315
that they were doing some
of their military exercises.

01:03:39.482 --> 01:03:44.570
Yeah, it's on this side.
There it is, sorry.

01:03:44.695 --> 01:03:47.323
- Most of the time,
they spent in Assimba.

01:03:47.448 --> 01:03:49.659
Why was she was living here?

01:03:49.825 --> 01:03:51.994
That's the part
I don't understand.

01:03:52.161 --> 01:03:55.039
- But she was dispensing
medicine from here.

01:03:55.164 --> 01:03:57.792
- But their camp was
in Assimba, not here.

01:03:57.875 --> 01:04:00.461
- They were here also
to maintain the support

01:04:00.586 --> 01:04:04.465
of the community and to assist
the community.

01:04:04.590 --> 01:04:09.303
- And this was like a EPRP
safe house of the village.

01:04:09.428 --> 01:04:10.304
- Yeah.

01:04:10.471 --> 01:04:11.973
- This one.
- Yeah.

01:04:12.139 --> 01:04:14.141
Do you think any of you
could've lived here?

01:04:14.267 --> 01:04:16.811
- I would if Sally was here.

01:04:16.936 --> 01:04:18.604
- Oh, absolutely.

01:04:18.729 --> 01:04:20.106
(laughing)

01:04:20.231 --> 01:04:23.276
- But the question was not would
you live here voluntarily, no?

01:04:23.401 --> 01:04:25.987
Would you live here the way
Sally came here?

01:04:26.153 --> 01:04:28.322
Those are two different
questions, aren't they?

01:04:28.447 --> 01:04:29.991
- I could never
live here.

01:04:30.157 --> 01:04:34.287
- No. I don't think it's
necessary any longer to do this.

01:04:34.412 --> 01:04:36.664
I don't think so. I hope.

01:04:36.831 --> 01:04:39.000
- It would be wonderful
to go and talk

01:04:39.166 --> 01:04:42.587
to the people who lived here,
those who are alive,

01:04:42.712 --> 01:04:45.673
and find out
if they ever met Sally.

01:08:04.622 --> 01:08:08.459
- The lady just told us
that Sally

01:08:08.584 --> 01:08:12.713
passed right here.

01:08:12.838 --> 01:08:17.259
They must have taken her out
of her room and put her here.

01:08:17.384 --> 01:08:21.305
- It's more
peaceful.
- Mm-hmm.

01:08:21.472 --> 01:08:23.474
- And she was buried properly.

01:08:23.641 --> 01:08:25.476
- She said so many people
died over there

01:08:25.643 --> 01:08:27.520
and were eaten
by vultures.

01:08:27.645 --> 01:08:30.731
- She said her leg was swollen
and her tummy hurt.

01:08:30.856 --> 01:08:36.320
- She said she had pain in her
legs and her tummy.

01:08:36.445 --> 01:08:39.323
She must've gotten
some kind of infection.

01:08:39.490 --> 01:08:42.785
- There was a cut or something
on her foot and then it came...

01:08:42.910 --> 01:08:45.996
- All the way up.

01:08:46.163 --> 01:08:48.666
- It's entirely possible
they didn't have water

01:08:48.791 --> 01:08:52.002
for washing or...

01:08:52.127 --> 01:08:55.506
That's very, very possible.

01:09:12.731 --> 01:09:15.734
-Telequa.My dad used
to call herTelequa.

01:09:15.860 --> 01:09:21.282
It means the elder one,
the big one.

01:09:21.407 --> 01:09:24.660
And I'm nexttelequa.

01:09:24.785 --> 01:09:27.121
(shouting)

01:09:27.246 --> 01:09:31.041
Selamawit!

01:09:31.166 --> 01:09:34.461
(shouting)

01:09:34.587 --> 01:09:37.590
Selamawit!

01:09:37.715 --> 01:09:40.634
(shouting)

01:09:40.759 --> 01:09:43.179
Selamawit!

01:09:49.643 --> 01:09:52.021
- I was not there when she died

01:09:52.146 --> 01:09:55.482
but the next day I arrived,
after she died.

01:09:55.608 --> 01:10:00.487
And everybody was devastated
because I know people,

01:10:00.613 --> 01:10:04.074
when they get sick,
some of them,

01:10:04.199 --> 01:10:07.828
when they get really sick,
they send them to Sudan.

01:10:07.995 --> 01:10:11.540
Sally, if she gets sick,
oh my God!

01:10:11.665 --> 01:10:14.793
They would've sent her
immediately.

01:10:14.919 --> 01:10:19.173
But it was just sudden, sudden,
and nobody knows what it was.

01:10:19.298 --> 01:10:22.468
But people who were around her,
they were saying:

01:10:22.593 --> 01:10:26.388
"Until the end, until the last
minute, they said,

01:10:26.513 --> 01:10:28.390
"she was talking,
she was laughing."

01:10:28.515 --> 01:10:30.184
And everybody knew Sally,

01:10:30.309 --> 01:10:35.105
so when she died, everybody
came from everywhere.

01:10:35.230 --> 01:10:39.026
We cried, everybody cried.

01:10:39.151 --> 01:10:43.489
The church was so good for us
and the priest,

01:10:43.614 --> 01:10:46.367
and we buried her respectfully.

01:11:16.313 --> 01:11:17.982
- Wow!

01:11:18.148 --> 01:11:19.858
- Oh my God!

01:12:00.190 --> 01:12:01.859
(sniffling)

01:12:06.864 --> 01:12:11.160
-When I found out that Sally
and Tselote shared a grave,

01:12:11.285 --> 01:12:13.078
I worked remotely
with the church

01:12:13.203 --> 01:12:15.664
to have a memorial stone
built for them,

01:12:15.789 --> 01:12:19.209
and for all the other young
people who died in the region.

01:12:24.131 --> 01:12:27.718
I think that's what my
grandparents would've wanted.

01:12:34.141 --> 01:12:37.770
For me, Sally is the gateway
into understanding

01:12:37.895 --> 01:12:40.647
the complicated history
of Ethiopia,

01:12:40.814 --> 01:12:44.193
my family's story, as well as
the contemporary landscape.

01:12:48.322 --> 01:12:52.493
I wonder though: Would Sally
fit into today's Ethiopia?

01:12:52.659 --> 01:12:54.536
Would she still be fighting?

01:12:54.661 --> 01:12:57.456
(crowd shouting)

01:12:57.581 --> 01:13:01.543
Mengistu's reign of terror
ended in 1991.

01:13:01.668 --> 01:13:04.338
After the fall
of the Soviet Union,

01:13:04.463 --> 01:13:08.467
the Derg was finally driven out
by a coalition of rebel groups.

01:13:08.634 --> 01:13:13.055
Over 1,000 people were tried
and found responsible

01:13:13.180 --> 01:13:14.848
for the mass killings.

01:13:14.973 --> 01:13:17.476
Mengistu managed
to flee Ethiopia,

01:13:17.643 --> 01:13:19.561
never spending
a single day in jail.

01:13:22.648 --> 01:13:25.984
Then another repressive regime
took power,

01:13:26.151 --> 01:13:27.736
who also banned opposition

01:13:27.861 --> 01:13:32.574
and ignited a dangerous ethnic
divide among the people.

01:13:34.660 --> 01:13:37.496
The Red Terror
had traumatized survivors

01:13:37.663 --> 01:13:39.081
and their descendents.

01:13:39.206 --> 01:13:42.668
It took 25 years for Ethiopian
to feel brave again

01:13:42.793 --> 01:13:45.212
and to demand change.

01:13:49.299 --> 01:13:53.387
Like during the Derg era,
those who stood up for change

01:13:53.512 --> 01:13:57.307
were met by heavy government
resistance and live bullets.

01:14:05.232 --> 01:14:08.819
In 2018, due to large protests,

01:14:08.986 --> 01:14:13.115
a new prime minister, seen as a
young reformer, was appointed.

01:14:18.829 --> 01:14:20.956
- The 17 years with the Derg,

01:14:21.081 --> 01:14:23.792
the 27 years with Ehadeg.

01:14:23.959 --> 01:14:26.503
It was a life
that you couldn't plan.

01:14:26.628 --> 01:14:28.797
There's no way
that you could plan.

01:14:28.922 --> 01:14:30.924
The next day,
the plan's gone, done,

01:14:31.049 --> 01:14:34.136
laws have changed
overnight.

01:14:34.261 --> 01:14:35.679
There was no opportunity.

01:14:35.804 --> 01:14:40.142
So, now, we get a prime
minister, Dr Abiy,

01:14:40.267 --> 01:14:44.313
and he's talking to people
so we want him. Ha!

01:14:44.438 --> 01:14:46.899
It's as simple as that.
He's listening.

01:14:47.024 --> 01:14:51.528
People haven't been heard,
they've been undermined.

01:14:51.653 --> 01:14:56.033
So, the gravitation towards
this leader is automatic.

01:14:56.158 --> 01:14:57.659
The balance just goes that way.

01:14:57.826 --> 01:14:59.661
- I believe that
they didn't think

01:14:59.828 --> 01:15:02.664
there was anything they could do
about it until Abiy came.

01:15:02.789 --> 01:15:06.293
And now, there's a possibility
that things could change.

01:15:06.418 --> 01:15:07.794
- I agree.

01:15:07.920 --> 01:15:09.171
- I think it's all up to us.

01:15:09.296 --> 01:15:11.298
We have to do
whatever we can.

01:15:11.465 --> 01:15:13.842
We have to say:
"Yes, it will happen,

01:15:13.967 --> 01:15:17.346
"and yes, the people
of Ethiopia will win."

01:15:17.471 --> 01:15:22.476
Without any doubt.
Without any doubt.

01:15:22.601 --> 01:15:25.687
(crowd applauding)

01:16:02.057 --> 01:16:06.812
(♪♪♪♪♪♪)

01:16:10.274 --> 01:16:12.651
-Despite a change
of leadership,

01:16:12.776 --> 01:16:16.655
the country is still facing
ethnic violence, protests

01:16:16.780 --> 01:16:20.325
and a large number
of displaced people.

01:16:20.450 --> 01:16:23.870
The questions raised by Sally
and her comrades

01:16:23.996 --> 01:16:27.416
may be different from those
of young people today,

01:16:27.541 --> 01:16:30.919
but I know many of the values
she risked her life for

01:16:31.044 --> 01:16:33.338
are just as important.

01:16:37.426 --> 01:16:40.304
I hope that a new
generation of leaders

01:16:40.470 --> 01:16:44.099
can inspire the unity
that Sally dreamed of.

01:16:44.224 --> 01:16:46.893
I hope that from years
of bitterness,

01:16:47.019 --> 01:16:49.062
death and corruption,

01:16:49.187 --> 01:16:53.692
that a renewed
Ethiopia can arise.

01:16:58.196 --> 01:17:03.869
A rebirth from the ashes
of the old.

01:17:03.994 --> 01:17:06.997
(Daughterby Zaki Ibrahim)

21:17:12.639 --> 21:17:21.231
(birds chirping)

21:17:21.356 --> 21:18:01.479
(bleating)

21:18:01.646 --> 21:18:33.094
(sobbing)

21:18:33.219 --> 21:18:35.597
- (narrator):My Ethiopian
elders opened the doors

21:18:35.722 --> 21:18:38.141
to their country's past for me.

21:18:38.308 --> 21:18:41.144
Through their tears,
I began to understand

21:18:41.311 --> 21:19:26.314
the promise and the agony
that is Ethiopia.

21:19:26.481 --> 21:19:37.492
(crowd clamouring)

21:19:37.659 --> 21:19:40.662
Ethiopia in the 1970s

21:19:40.787 --> 21:19:42.997
was a country
at war with itself.

21:19:43.164 --> 21:19:46.084
An ancient land led
by a powerful emperor

21:19:46.209 --> 21:19:47.961
that was being challenged

21:19:48.086 --> 21:19:50.672
by students who wanted
greater freedoms.

21:19:50.797 --> 21:19:58.847
(crowd chanting)

21:19:58.972 --> 21:20:01.641
Years of terror
would soon follow

21:20:01.766 --> 21:20:04.644
under a military dictatorship,

21:20:04.769 --> 21:20:24.873
erasing an entire
generation of young people.

21:20:24.998 --> 21:20:28.001
Like most Ethiopians, my
relatives have stayed silent

21:20:28.126 --> 21:20:31.629
about this dark era,
when nearly every family

21:20:31.796 --> 21:20:37.469
was affected by the
disappearances and killings.

21:20:37.594 --> 21:20:45.477
(honking)

21:20:45.643 --> 21:20:47.395
I grew up in Canada,

21:20:47.520 --> 21:20:50.273
shrouded in my family's
collective silence,

21:20:50.398 --> 21:20:52.609
and raised
by my Canadian mother.

21:20:52.734 --> 21:20:56.196
Ethiopia was a far of
and mystical land

21:20:56.321 --> 21:20:57.906
that I knew little about

21:20:58.031 --> 21:21:03.036
and didn't visit
until I was an adult.

21:21:03.161 --> 21:21:05.580
It wasn't until
my late thirties

21:21:05.705 --> 21:21:08.708
that I moved to Addis Ababa so
that I could better understand

21:21:08.833 --> 21:21:11.044
the country that is
in my blood,

21:21:11.169 --> 21:21:14.506
and build a relationship
with my father's sisters.

21:21:14.631 --> 21:21:17.383
But for so many Ethiopians,

21:21:17.509 --> 21:21:22.388
it seems that it's safer
to forget than to remember.

21:21:22.514 --> 21:21:31.606
And there's so much trauma
attached to their memories.

21:21:31.731 --> 21:21:33.650
At my grandmother's house,

21:21:33.816 --> 21:21:37.654
I was confronted
with a new revelation.

21:21:37.820 --> 21:21:41.824
I noticed a photo, prominently
sat above the fireplace,

21:21:41.991 --> 21:21:43.409
of a beautiful woman.

21:21:44.911 --> 21:21:48.790
I had another aunt, one that
no one had ever mentioned.

21:21:48.915 --> 21:21:53.461
Her name was Selamawit -
Sally or Salem for short -,

21:21:53.586 --> 21:21:55.213
meaning peace.

21:21:55.338 --> 21:21:56.673
(fire cracking)

21:21:56.798 --> 21:21:58.633
How could there be
a close relative

21:21:58.758 --> 21:22:01.135
that I knew nothing about?

21:22:01.302 --> 21:22:08.601
And could her story be
the source of my elders' pain?

21:22:08.726 --> 21:22:35.461
(♪♪♪♪♪♪)

21:22:35.628 --> 21:22:40.717
I have four other aunts
who I have grown closer to.

21:22:40.842 --> 21:22:44.304
Kibre is my aunt who's lived
in Ethiopia the longest.

21:22:44.470 --> 21:22:49.100
She's trained as an artist but
hasn't painted in many years.

21:22:49.225 --> 21:22:52.979
Kibre has warned me that I will
need a lot of patience

21:22:53.104 --> 21:23:00.612
to dig into Sally's past.

21:23:00.737 --> 21:23:02.655
Have a look at what
my mom sent you.

21:23:02.822 --> 21:23:05.033
- My God!
What are you doing?

21:23:05.158 --> 21:23:07.076
What is this?

21:23:07.201 --> 21:23:09.829
- Stuff.

21:23:09.996 --> 21:23:13.416
- Oh my God! Please, God.
Oh my God!

21:23:13.541 --> 21:23:15.668
Oh my God!

21:23:15.793 --> 21:23:17.211
What's your mom doing?

21:23:17.337 --> 21:23:19.297
- I think she just wants
to see you painting.

21:23:19.464 --> 21:23:25.136
- These brushes, I don't think
you can find them here. Ha!

21:23:25.261 --> 21:23:30.516
Oh, this is my favourite
colour too.

21:23:30.642 --> 21:23:32.810
Can we put it on the floor
and see the colours?

21:23:32.977 --> 21:23:34.395
(chuckling)

21:23:34.520 --> 21:23:35.980
- Yeah.

21:23:36.105 --> 21:23:40.443
- Yeah, let's just see
some of the colours.

21:23:40.568 --> 21:23:42.111
Bless her heart.

21:23:42.236 --> 21:23:46.115
Oh Lord, have mercy!
Oh Lord, have mercy!

21:23:46.240 --> 21:23:47.784
What am I gonna say to her?

21:23:47.909 --> 21:23:50.328
Thank you so much
a million times?

21:23:50.495 --> 21:23:54.040
These are my favourites,
they're always in my paintings.

21:23:54.165 --> 21:23:57.126
And then this one...

21:23:57.251 --> 21:24:00.546
I have to use this too.

21:24:00.672 --> 21:24:03.716
Isn't she something?
What did you tell her?

21:24:03.841 --> 21:24:06.094
(laughing)

21:24:06.219 --> 21:24:07.595
This is so beautiful.

21:24:07.720 --> 21:24:08.763
(dog barking)

21:24:08.888 --> 21:24:10.640
Thank you so much.

21:24:10.765 --> 21:24:12.684
- Now, you just have
to paint.

21:24:12.809 --> 21:24:15.770
- Absolutely. But I want to...
I wanna hug you.

21:24:15.895 --> 21:24:19.482
(dog barking)

21:24:19.607 --> 21:24:20.983
Thank you.
- Yeah.

21:24:21.109 --> 21:24:27.782
- From my heart.

21:24:27.907 --> 21:24:44.465
(♪♪♪♪♪♪)

21:24:44.632 --> 21:24:49.387
-Tsion, a retired teacher,
is the youngest sister.

21:24:49.512 --> 21:24:51.597
Like the rest of my family,

21:24:51.723 --> 21:24:54.642
she's dealt with a lot of loss
in her life,

21:24:54.767 --> 21:25:01.274
and yet somehow
she manages to persevere.

21:25:01.399 --> 21:25:03.568
(in foreign language)

21:25:03.693 --> 21:25:09.866
I know that asking her about
the past will not be easy.

21:25:09.991 --> 21:25:13.077
- I always felt like a foreigner
wherever I was.

21:25:13.202 --> 21:25:14.912
I'm seen by locals here...

21:25:15.038 --> 21:25:18.499
I'm seen as a foreigner
but it's not a bad thing.

21:25:18.666 --> 21:25:25.298
I don't think any of the
Dawit family has ever felt...

21:25:25.423 --> 21:25:29.302
... Ethiopian, because we moved
so much as children.

21:25:29.427 --> 21:25:32.722
And my parents never said:
"Oh, we have to move again."

21:25:32.847 --> 21:25:34.307
It was never like that.

21:25:34.432 --> 21:25:37.393
It was "Yay! We get to move
again" kind of thing.

21:25:37.518 --> 21:25:57.789
So, you could put me just about
anywhere and I think I'd be OK.

21:25:57.914 --> 21:26:00.625
-Brutawit, the elder sister,
a banker,

21:26:00.792 --> 21:26:02.668
has spent her entire career

21:26:02.794 --> 21:26:05.755
building the financial
systems in Ethiopia.

21:26:05.880 --> 21:26:10.343
Now retired, she hopes to
become a voice for the people

21:26:10.468 --> 21:26:13.221
through her new TV talk-show.

21:26:13.346 --> 21:26:16.557
- What about the other topics
that have been assigned to?

21:26:16.682 --> 21:26:18.935
Did I assign
other topics to you?

21:26:19.060 --> 21:26:20.353
I gave you eight topics.

21:26:20.478 --> 21:26:21.479
- We want to do
corruption.

21:26:21.604 --> 21:26:23.314
It's becoming very obvious,

21:26:23.439 --> 21:26:26.818
whenever you go to especially
government offices.

21:26:26.943 --> 21:26:30.154
So, we're going to try
to bring the issue up

21:26:30.279 --> 21:26:32.990
and the community
can discuss about.

21:26:33.157 --> 21:26:36.786
-The problem is: anything you
say can be considered

21:26:36.911 --> 21:26:39.163
inciting violence
or uprising.

21:26:39.288 --> 21:26:43.209
So, literally, your report
can put you behind bars

21:26:43.334 --> 21:26:45.419
because people will get angry
and you're inciting.

21:26:45.545 --> 21:26:47.547
- We have to be
very careful,

21:26:47.672 --> 21:26:49.549
but that's what the show
is all about.

21:26:49.674 --> 21:26:52.009
There's no problem talking
to the government.

21:26:52.134 --> 21:26:57.640
It's how you approach them
and what you say, period.

21:26:57.807 --> 21:27:01.144
I can say just about anything
I want, and I have,

21:27:01.310 --> 21:27:03.062
but it's the way
I presented myself

21:27:03.187 --> 21:27:06.023
and the way I phrased
whatever I said.

21:27:06.148 --> 21:27:20.496
And that's how we're going
to do it.

21:27:20.621 --> 21:27:22.665
-Menbie is the aunt
that I know best

21:27:22.790 --> 21:27:26.586
as she lived in Canada
for many years.

21:27:26.711 --> 21:27:29.755
She's recently retired
in Ethiopia

21:27:29.881 --> 21:27:35.469
after years of work
for the United Nations.

21:27:35.636 --> 21:27:38.556
Menbie's the keeper
of all the family's stories

21:27:38.681 --> 21:27:42.435
and she often tells elaborate
tales about her childhood.

21:27:42.560 --> 21:27:44.520
These were all things
that my father,

21:27:44.645 --> 21:27:46.981
who passed away nearly
a decade ago,

21:27:47.148 --> 21:27:49.692
had never spoken about.

21:27:49.817 --> 21:27:52.904
I remember learning a lot
about the family from you

21:27:53.029 --> 21:27:54.530
when I was a kid.

21:27:54.655 --> 21:27:56.490
But why do you think
I never even knew

21:27:56.616 --> 21:28:00.286
that Sally existed
until I was 30?

21:28:00.411 --> 21:28:03.915
- 3-0?

21:28:04.040 --> 21:28:08.044
I don't know. Because she's
in all of our family albums.

21:28:08.169 --> 21:28:10.796
I mean, there was a lot of time
that we didn't spend together.

21:28:10.963 --> 21:28:15.259
So, I think it's...
it's a timing issue.

21:28:15.384 --> 21:28:18.596
If it happens to be the day
or the afternoon

21:28:18.721 --> 21:28:20.139
that we're talking about Sally

21:28:20.264 --> 21:28:22.975
or somebody's making a joke
about Sally or whatever

21:28:23.142 --> 21:28:28.648
and you are present,
then you will catch it.

21:28:28.773 --> 21:28:31.484
-My father remarried
when I was a young child

21:28:31.651 --> 21:28:34.278
and then slowly faded out
of my life.

21:28:34.403 --> 21:28:38.449
Any relationship or information
I had about his family

21:28:38.574 --> 21:28:47.792
was through my own persistence
to connect.

21:28:47.959 --> 21:28:54.548
I felt closest to Mamma Tsehai,
my late grandmother.

21:28:54.674 --> 21:28:58.344
As painful as it was for Mamma
to speak of Sally,

21:28:58.469 --> 21:29:01.180
before she died,
she gave me her blessing

21:29:01.305 --> 21:29:05.309
to explore
her daughter's story.

21:29:05.434 --> 21:29:07.812
My father was the only son
swallowed

21:29:07.979 --> 21:29:10.189
in a family of sisters.

21:29:10.314 --> 21:29:14.986
He grew up with his siblings
in Sudan, Ghana and Nigeria

21:29:15.111 --> 21:29:18.990
in the privilegeed household
of an Ethiopian diplomat.

21:29:19.115 --> 21:29:22.827
- My mom was very busy taking
care of six kids,

21:29:22.952 --> 21:29:24.745
running the household,

21:29:24.870 --> 21:29:26.747
and as the wife of a diplomat,

21:29:26.872 --> 21:29:28.708
she had a lot of
responsibilities.

21:29:28.833 --> 21:29:31.293
Going to all those cocktails
is a big responsibility.

21:29:31.419 --> 21:29:35.006
Having cocktails at home
is a big responsibility.

21:29:35.131 --> 21:29:37.842
As a child, until I got engaged,

21:29:37.967 --> 21:29:40.636
I never wore a dress that was
bought from a store.

21:29:40.803 --> 21:29:42.430
My mom made it,

21:29:42.555 --> 21:29:45.224
and in the process,
we learned how to make dresses.

21:29:45.349 --> 21:29:48.936
My mom wanted us
to learn everything.

21:29:49.061 --> 21:29:51.564
- My dad had power in his job.

21:29:51.689 --> 21:29:55.484
You couldn't touch him
when it came to politics,

21:29:55.609 --> 21:29:58.154
history, geography, languages.

21:29:58.279 --> 21:29:59.905
You couldn't touch him.

21:30:00.031 --> 21:30:03.617
He was brilliant.
He spoke a million languages.

21:30:03.743 --> 21:30:06.287
And we talked
about political things,

21:30:06.412 --> 21:30:09.165
the general political issues.

21:30:09.290 --> 21:30:11.792
He was deep in that
and we were deep in that too

21:30:11.959 --> 21:30:14.962
because we were
surrounded by his job.

21:30:15.087 --> 21:30:18.799
- We were all, I think,
raised the same,

21:30:18.966 --> 21:30:22.803
including my brother,
your father.

21:30:22.970 --> 21:30:26.557
I don't ever remember "He's the
boy" or "You're the girls".

21:30:26.682 --> 21:30:28.768
And we grew up very, very free.

21:30:28.893 --> 21:30:31.103
We could dress the way
we wanted,

21:30:31.228 --> 21:30:35.149
we could do what we wanted
when we didn't have to study.

21:30:35.316 --> 21:30:38.319
- We all went
to international schools.

21:30:38.444 --> 21:30:41.989
So, there were kids from
different parts of the world.

21:30:42.114 --> 21:30:45.659
We did ballet,
we had music class,

21:30:45.826 --> 21:30:49.330
we had parties
from one embassy to the other.

21:30:49.497 --> 21:30:51.290
If you're living in an embassy,

21:30:51.415 --> 21:30:53.793
it doesn't really mean
you have a lot of money.

21:30:53.959 --> 21:30:56.629
You just had
a lot of privileges.

21:30:56.754 --> 21:31:01.175
For my dad's part, he would come
around 8:30 in the evening

21:31:01.300 --> 21:31:03.969
and if he sees a light on,
he will say:

21:31:04.095 --> 21:31:05.429
"You're not paying for it,

21:31:05.554 --> 21:31:09.016
"it's the Ethiopian people
paying for it. Turn it off."

21:31:09.141 --> 21:31:10.810
If he sees water running

21:31:10.935 --> 21:31:13.187
or anything like that,
he always said:

21:31:13.312 --> 21:31:16.732
"This money belongs
to the Ethiopian people."

21:31:16.857 --> 21:31:18.609
And I really appreciated
him saying that

21:31:18.734 --> 21:31:22.780
because I think that's true.

21:31:22.905 --> 21:31:25.741
-My grandfather spent
his entire career serving

21:31:25.866 --> 21:31:29.537
the Ethiopian people and
the Emperor, Haile Selassie.

21:31:29.662 --> 21:31:31.956
The Emperor had
in fact fostered

21:31:32.081 --> 21:31:34.125
my grandfather
and his brothers

21:31:34.250 --> 21:31:37.503
after their own father
had passed away.

21:31:37.628 --> 21:31:40.840
- I remember him coming
off the plane

21:31:40.965 --> 21:31:44.969
and us being right
at the bottom of the stairs

21:31:45.094 --> 21:31:47.596
and handing him the flowers.

21:31:47.721 --> 21:31:52.518
I remember there was a hotline
in Ababa's bedroom,

21:31:52.643 --> 21:31:57.481
that only the Emperor called on,
so I knew he was important.

21:31:57.648 --> 21:32:00.985
- And what was Sally like
as a child,

21:32:01.152 --> 21:32:03.529
when you were young together?

21:32:03.654 --> 21:32:10.244
- Um... Extremely fun loving.

21:32:10.369 --> 21:32:12.830
She had a lot of friends.

21:32:12.955 --> 21:32:17.418
She was popular.
She was very kind, gentle.

21:32:17.543 --> 21:32:21.547
But really, really fun loving.
She loved partying.

21:32:21.672 --> 21:32:25.342
- Sally was fuller,
not overweight.

21:32:25.467 --> 21:32:27.803
She loved everything,
she loved miniskirts.

21:32:27.928 --> 21:32:29.513
Very, very fashionable.

21:32:29.638 --> 21:32:32.057
Short skirts looked really,
really good on her.

21:32:32.183 --> 21:32:35.144
She had a laugh that could
shatter a window

21:32:35.269 --> 21:32:37.646
and she used it lots.

21:32:37.771 --> 21:32:40.441
She was very clever,
very politically astute

21:32:40.566 --> 21:32:46.155
because she was bright,
so she was very entertaining.

21:32:46.280 --> 21:32:48.949
-In the summer of 1968,

21:32:49.074 --> 21:32:51.785
the family was on the move
once again,

21:32:51.911 --> 21:32:53.829
leaving Africa
for the first time

21:32:53.954 --> 21:32:57.791
to open a new embassy
in Canada.

21:32:57.917 --> 21:33:00.502
- It was very interesting
for us in the street

21:33:00.628 --> 21:33:05.090
because we would identify
every black person instantly

21:33:05.216 --> 21:33:06.967
and almost count.

21:33:07.092 --> 21:33:09.970
"Look over there!
Look over there! Oh, hi!"

21:33:10.095 --> 21:33:11.972
There were very few.

21:33:12.097 --> 21:33:13.807
Very shortly after we got there,

21:33:13.974 --> 21:33:16.810
people even asked us
if we were The Supremes.

21:33:16.936 --> 21:33:21.440
Because we had big afros.

21:33:21.565 --> 21:33:24.485
-17-year-old Sally
was enrolled

21:33:24.652 --> 21:33:27.154
at Carleton University
to study sociology,

21:33:27.321 --> 21:33:28.906
while her younger siblings

21:33:29.031 --> 21:33:32.910
attended Lisgar Collegiate
Institute.

21:33:33.035 --> 21:33:38.123
- There was Menbie, myself and
one another black kid at Lisgar.

21:33:38.249 --> 21:33:41.627
They used to come and feel my
hair, so that was a bit funny.

21:33:41.752 --> 21:33:45.339
For the prom,
they found us two black guys

21:33:45.464 --> 21:33:47.967
that didn't go to school there
to come to the prom

21:33:48.133 --> 21:33:49.718
so they could be with us.

21:33:49.843 --> 21:33:51.136
That was strange.

21:33:51.303 --> 21:33:53.555
I think it was the blackness

21:33:53.681 --> 21:33:56.809
that stood out more than
anything else in Ottawa.

21:33:56.934 --> 21:33:59.144
- I remember one of the parties

21:33:59.270 --> 21:34:01.647
that my parents
had been invited to,

21:34:01.772 --> 21:34:05.025
Trudeau, Pierre, he was dancing
with my mom, he was saying:

21:34:05.150 --> 21:34:09.363
"I've heard about all
your beautiful daughters.

21:34:09.488 --> 21:34:11.365
"You have a beautiful daughter."

21:34:11.490 --> 21:34:13.158
And he was referring
to my mother.

21:34:13.325 --> 21:34:15.077
My father was not impressed

21:34:15.202 --> 21:34:20.332
and he very quickly said:
"That is my wife."

21:34:20.499 --> 21:34:23.460
My dad, he was very involved
in the Ethiopian community,

21:34:23.627 --> 21:34:25.546
and there to serve
the community,

21:34:25.671 --> 21:34:28.549
so he did do
a lot of work there.

21:34:28.674 --> 21:34:32.970
-After two years in Canada,
the embassy was closed

21:34:33.095 --> 21:34:35.806
and my grandfather
was reposted to Sudan.

21:34:35.973 --> 21:34:39.727
In order for his children
to complete their education,

21:34:39.852 --> 21:34:43.647
he decided to let them stay
behind in Canada,

21:34:43.772 --> 21:34:45.024
renting a modest apartment

21:34:45.149 --> 21:34:48.944
and leaving them
to adapt to life on their own.

21:34:49.069 --> 21:34:52.364
- In those days, for all
our parties and our fun,

21:34:52.489 --> 21:34:55.993
our conversations
were political.

21:34:56.160 --> 21:34:57.828
People took to the streets

21:34:57.953 --> 21:34:59.747
to lend their voice
to whatever cause.

21:34:59.872 --> 21:35:04.543
Issues of racism,
we were out.

21:35:04.668 --> 21:35:07.421
South Africa? Definitely.

21:35:07.546 --> 21:35:11.925
So, we were very involved.

21:35:12.051 --> 21:35:14.595
- And Sally, whenever
she dated anyone,

21:35:14.720 --> 21:35:17.431
she fell madly
in love with them,

21:35:17.556 --> 21:35:20.726
with everybody she dated.

21:35:20.851 --> 21:35:23.520
That was the guy,
that was him.

21:35:23.645 --> 21:35:26.273
- And we used to laugh at her
because...

21:35:26.398 --> 21:35:27.941
Like, if she had
a Jamaican boyfriend,

21:35:28.067 --> 21:35:29.693
we'd eat Jamaican food.

21:35:29.818 --> 21:35:33.572
We'd have Jamaican music,
Jamaican food, Jamaican clothes.

21:35:33.697 --> 21:35:38.494
And then, um, you know,
if the person was from Europe,

21:35:38.660 --> 21:35:41.497
there would be all these
European things.

21:35:41.622 --> 21:35:45.125
She was very much like that.
She explored all of it.

21:35:45.250 --> 21:35:48.504
- She always used to say:
"I'm going to have eight kids."

21:35:48.629 --> 21:35:51.465
She loved kids.

21:35:51.590 --> 21:36:06.271
And her dream was to have
a house full of kids.

21:36:06.397 --> 21:36:10.317
-In 1973, Ethiopia's capital,
Addis Ababa,

21:36:10.484 --> 21:36:13.487
was a modernizing
and bustling city.

21:36:13.612 --> 21:36:16.490
Ethiopia was the only
African country

21:36:16.657 --> 21:36:19.326
to have never been colonized
and had a monarchy

21:36:19.493 --> 21:36:26.542
that traced its roots back to
the Biblical Queen of Sheba.

21:36:26.667 --> 21:36:30.504
It was also a country ripe
for revolution.

21:36:30.629 --> 21:36:33.257
The Emperor Haile Selassie

21:36:33.382 --> 21:36:38.137
was the first,
last and only law of the land.

21:36:38.303 --> 21:36:42.349
Descent was criminal
and deemed equal to treason.

21:36:42.474 --> 21:36:45.769
Ethiopian society
was divided by class.

21:36:45.894 --> 21:36:47.896
Below were the masses,

21:36:48.021 --> 21:36:51.400
working the land
for the wealthy landlords.

21:36:51.525 --> 21:36:53.902
On top was the Emperor
and other nobility,

21:36:54.027 --> 21:36:58.824
followed by the bureaucrats
like my grandfather.

21:36:58.949 --> 21:37:02.161
- This is General Nimeiry,
the president of Sudan,

21:37:02.286 --> 21:37:05.372
with Emperor Haile Selassie
of Ethiopia,

21:37:05.497 --> 21:37:09.543
and Ababa Dawit, ambassador
Dawit, greeting each other.

21:37:09.668 --> 21:37:11.336
- It says something
on the back too.

21:37:11.462 --> 21:37:13.547
- They're always dated, yeah.

21:37:13.672 --> 21:37:15.632
Because they're
official pictures.

21:37:15.758 --> 21:37:17.509
- 1972 or 1973.

21:37:17.634 --> 21:37:18.886
- It was in 1973.

21:37:19.011 --> 21:37:20.345
- 1972.

21:37:20.471 --> 21:37:22.264
- It's such a cool picture.

21:37:22.389 --> 21:37:23.807
- I don't know this picture.

21:37:23.974 --> 21:37:26.643
- Oh my goodness!
This is beautiful.

21:37:26.810 --> 21:37:28.979
Again, Emperor Haile Selassie

21:37:29.104 --> 21:37:32.149
with His Holiness
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

21:37:32.316 --> 21:37:34.026
This was at the palace.

21:37:34.151 --> 21:37:36.653
The Maharishi was giving
the Emperor some flowers.

21:37:36.778 --> 21:37:38.155
This was a
beautiful moment

21:37:38.322 --> 21:37:40.908
because they actually sat
and spoke to each other.

21:37:41.033 --> 21:37:49.041
- I've never seen this picture.

21:37:49.166 --> 21:37:51.627
- I was going to art school
in Montreal.

21:37:51.793 --> 21:37:53.420
There was a lady
who had just come

21:37:53.545 --> 21:37:55.297
from the transcendental
meditation training.

21:37:55.464 --> 21:37:57.466
And she was saying:
"It's so beautiful

21:37:57.633 --> 21:37:59.885
"and the teacher was
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi."

21:38:00.010 --> 21:38:02.638
And then, she said: "There will
be a teacher training."

21:38:02.804 --> 21:38:05.516
So, I met Maharishi there.

21:38:05.641 --> 21:38:08.435
And then, from the stage
he came down the staircase,

21:38:08.560 --> 21:38:09.853
I stood there.

21:38:09.978 --> 21:38:12.022
I said: Maharishi, I would like
to become a teacher.

21:38:12.147 --> 21:38:14.608
I said: I'm going to go

21:38:14.733 --> 21:38:19.780
and have a teacher training
also for Africa.

21:38:19.905 --> 21:38:23.325
So, I came here,
I rented a house,

21:38:23.492 --> 21:38:25.035
I taught TM.

21:38:25.160 --> 21:38:28.830
Remember, my father always said:
"You're responsible to go back."

21:38:28.956 --> 21:38:31.458
Even though we don't know
the country,

21:38:31.583 --> 21:38:32.960
we don't know the people.

21:38:33.126 --> 21:38:35.629
We didn't really go
to school here.

21:38:35.796 --> 21:38:39.049
And then, we had 101 students
chartered plane

21:38:39.174 --> 21:38:42.469
who arrived here to become
teachers of TM.

21:38:42.594 --> 21:38:44.972
For everybody
to become teachers,

21:38:45.097 --> 21:38:47.391
the final touch was Maharishi.

21:38:47.516 --> 21:38:50.435
So, Maharishi came to Ethiopia,
we arranged for him

21:38:50.561 --> 21:38:53.480
to meet with Emperor Haile
Selassie and they talked.

21:38:53.605 --> 21:38:57.150
Maharishi kept telling him:
"It's urgent.

21:38:57.276 --> 21:39:02.114
"You get a large group of people
to do TM. It's urgent."

21:39:02.239 --> 21:39:05.951
And there was
a sense of urgency.

21:39:06.076 --> 21:39:10.998
At that time, also the famine
was coming. There was a famine.

21:39:11.123 --> 21:39:13.667
But, you know, the whole thing
happened so all of a sudden.

21:39:13.792 --> 21:39:16.420
It wasn't as if
there were some expectation,

21:39:16.545 --> 21:39:19.256
some kind of a revolution
would take place.

21:39:19.381 --> 21:39:21.300
Nobody... At least,
I didn't know...

21:39:21.425 --> 21:39:25.637
I don't think anybody thought
that could possibly happen.

21:39:25.762 --> 21:39:28.265
- Could you please explain
your position

21:39:28.390 --> 21:39:30.559
in regards to Emperor
Haile Selassie?

21:39:30.684 --> 21:39:33.061
- Well, I hope and I think

21:39:33.186 --> 21:39:36.857
this is one of the last days
of his power.

21:39:36.982 --> 21:39:39.151
- Do you wish to see
an end to the monarchy?

21:39:39.276 --> 21:39:40.110
- Yeah.

21:39:40.235 --> 21:39:41.278
- Personally, yes.

21:39:41.403 --> 21:39:43.739
Along with the shooting
of the students.

21:39:43.864 --> 21:39:45.073
- So, how many students
were shot?

21:39:45.198 --> 21:39:49.286
- Were shot so many but ah...

21:39:49.411 --> 21:39:53.665
You know, that includes high
school students and college.

21:39:53.790 --> 21:39:58.170
Therefore, the information I got
may not be dependable.

21:39:58.295 --> 21:40:01.798
-Ethiopian students
have been protesting

21:40:01.923 --> 21:40:05.969
since the late 1960s
and many were being jailed.

21:40:06.136 --> 21:40:09.139
Not fully understanding
the level of tension

21:40:09.306 --> 21:40:12.976
in the country, my aunts
arrived for summer vacation,

21:40:13.101 --> 21:40:15.187
courtesy of their father

21:40:15.312 --> 21:40:18.315
who wanted his foreign-raised
daughters to know their roots.

21:40:18.440 --> 21:40:22.319
This trip would change
the fate of my family forever.

21:40:22.486 --> 21:40:28.075
Their way of life and loyalties
would be profoundly shaken.

21:40:28.200 --> 21:40:40.671
(♪♪♪♪♪♪)

21:40:40.796 --> 21:40:44.883
- Coming to Ethiopia,
it was just so much fun.

21:40:45.008 --> 21:40:48.261
The clubs then were catered
to people our age

21:40:48.387 --> 21:40:49.888
who were gorgeous.

21:40:50.013 --> 21:40:52.974
And to be surrounded by family

21:40:53.100 --> 21:40:57.854
and then these new friends that
became so close so quickly,

21:40:57.979 --> 21:40:59.272
there was a lot of fun.

21:40:59.398 --> 21:41:00.982
Kibre introduced us
to a lot of people.

21:41:01.149 --> 21:41:02.651
She was the one that was here.

21:41:02.776 --> 21:41:05.278
Because I think
it's the first time

21:41:05.404 --> 21:41:10.826
that we discovered
we were Ethiopians.

21:41:10.951 --> 21:41:13.286
- We didn't come every summer

21:41:13.412 --> 21:41:17.499
and we met so many
fantastic people.

21:41:17.624 --> 21:41:20.961
Sally found a very nice
group of friends.

21:41:21.128 --> 21:41:24.589
Political, but that was
the way we grew up,

21:41:24.715 --> 21:41:27.134
so it was...

21:41:27.259 --> 21:41:31.471
more of a continuation of what
we were doing in Ottawa.

21:41:31.596 --> 21:41:35.976
But it was a much more
close issue

21:41:36.101 --> 21:41:38.979
because you're sort of right
in the middle of it here.

21:41:39.104 --> 21:41:43.400
And you knew these people
and you heard it.

21:41:43.525 --> 21:41:48.321
So, in that way, it was much
more involving, also for Sally.

21:41:48.447 --> 21:41:50.657
So, she was vocal.

21:41:50.782 --> 21:41:53.910
And, you know, you always draw
attention to yourself

21:41:54.035 --> 21:41:55.078
when you're vocal.

21:41:55.203 --> 21:41:57.497
She had everybody's attention.

21:41:57.622 --> 21:41:59.291
So, she just wanted to stay on.

21:41:59.416 --> 21:42:01.251
She had finished university

21:42:01.376 --> 21:42:04.212
and she was interested
to try it out here.

21:42:04.337 --> 21:42:06.631
It wasn't a rejection of that,
I want to do this.

21:42:06.798 --> 21:42:09.509
It was: "Oh, this is interesting
too, so I'll stay."

21:42:09.634 --> 21:42:11.344
That's all that was.

21:42:11.470 --> 21:42:12.471
- God, we wanted to stay.

21:42:12.637 --> 21:42:15.390
I think all of us really
wanted to stay.

21:42:15.515 --> 21:42:19.811
I think all of us had
a boyfriend, each of us.

21:42:19.936 --> 21:42:22.522
Because it was such a novel
thing to be here.

21:42:22.647 --> 21:42:25.484
- And had you met Tselote
during that summer?

21:42:25.650 --> 21:42:27.486
- Yes, yes.

21:42:27.652 --> 21:42:29.237
- What do you
remember about--

21:42:29.362 --> 21:42:34.159
- I don't remember him being
anything but Sally's...

21:42:34.326 --> 21:42:36.286
He was interested in Sally.

21:42:36.411 --> 21:42:38.789
I don't even think
they had started dating.

21:42:38.914 --> 21:42:41.708
I think she decided
to stay on her own,

21:42:41.833 --> 21:42:44.294
but she stayed here
and she became a teacher.

21:42:44.461 --> 21:42:46.421
I think he was a fellow
teacher there.

21:42:46.546 --> 21:42:48.423
- Did she tell you
about her relationship

21:42:48.548 --> 21:42:49.800
after she stayed in Ethiopia?

21:42:49.966 --> 21:42:52.010
- No.

21:42:52.135 --> 21:42:56.848
That's when things went downhill
here, in 1974.

21:42:56.973 --> 21:43:00.560
-Sally, an idealist,
was attracted

21:43:00.685 --> 21:43:02.979
to a new group of friends
who were members

21:43:03.104 --> 21:43:06.817
of the Ethiopian People's
Revolutionary Party,

21:43:06.983 --> 21:43:11.822
the EPRP, an underground
communist organization.

21:43:11.988 --> 21:43:16.159
One of their leaders, Tselote,
became Sally's new boyfriendd.

21:43:16.284 --> 21:43:18.286
A committed student
revolutionary

21:43:18.411 --> 21:43:20.580
from a working class family.

21:43:20.705 --> 21:43:23.458
While Sally had been schooled
in diplomacy,

21:43:23.583 --> 21:44:13.425
Tselote had been in and out of
jail as a political activist.

21:44:13.550 --> 21:44:17.095
The EPRP worked with the
student and labour movements

21:44:17.220 --> 21:44:19.973
and embraced communism
as the way to confront

21:44:20.140 --> 21:44:22.559
the emporial government.

21:44:22.684 --> 21:44:26.229
Many believed that armed
struggle was the only way

21:44:26.354 --> 21:45:00.347
to create the democratic change
that they were hungry for.

21:45:00.472 --> 21:45:05.268
In 1974, the university
students started exposing

21:45:05.393 --> 21:45:08.688
the cover-up of the first major
famine in Ethiopia

21:45:08.813 --> 21:45:11.816
to be shown to the world
on television.

21:45:11.942 --> 21:45:14.444
Outraged by the suffering
of their people,

21:45:14.569 --> 21:45:18.323
Sally and her friends took part
in protests in the capital.

21:45:18.490 --> 21:45:21.826
They were soon joined by
bank employees, taxi drivers,

21:45:21.993 --> 21:45:25.372
teachers and other groups
demanding democratic reforms.

21:45:25.497 --> 21:45:28.833
(crowd chanting)

21:45:28.959 --> 21:45:31.503
- The famine is devastating.

21:45:31.628 --> 21:45:34.798
Of course, the Emperor
had to answer to that.

21:45:34.965 --> 21:45:37.968
And I think there was answer
that was given

21:45:38.093 --> 21:45:42.222
that the famine was concealed,
it wasn't told to the Emperor.

21:45:42.347 --> 21:45:45.642
We don't know
if that's true or not,

21:45:45.809 --> 21:45:50.647
but the point is, it shouldn't
have been so devastating.

21:45:50.772 --> 21:45:52.857
And there are things
that were not done.

21:45:52.983 --> 21:45:55.694
Nobody does everything 100%.

21:45:55.819 --> 21:46:07.080
(♪♪♪♪♪♪)

21:46:07.205 --> 21:46:09.791
I guess what really
brought it into light

21:46:09.916 --> 21:46:14.129
is also the television show
hat was shown internationally.

21:46:14.254 --> 21:46:18.133
Very bad, very sad.

21:46:18.299 --> 21:46:20.802
-The Emperor tried
to make concessions,

21:46:20.927 --> 21:46:23.680
but he was unwilling to make
any real change.

21:46:23.805 --> 21:46:26.558
As a result, soldiers
started to mutiny,

21:46:26.683 --> 21:46:28.685
agitating for their own issues.

21:46:28.810 --> 21:46:40.322
(crowd chanting)

21:46:40.488 --> 21:46:44.326
Out of this, a committee of
lower ranking officers emerged

21:46:44.451 --> 21:46:46.661
called the Derg.

21:46:46.828 --> 21:46:48.830
They took control
of the country

21:46:48.955 --> 21:47:37.420
and removed the Emperor from
power on September 12th, 1974.

21:47:37.545 --> 21:47:39.964
- (reporter): The end came this
morning as the armed forces,

21:47:40.131 --> 21:47:41.633
which had already stripped

21:47:41.800 --> 21:47:43.760
the 83-year-old Emperor
of his powers,

21:47:43.885 --> 21:47:46.721
moved him out of his palace,
dissolved the parliament

21:47:46.846 --> 21:47:49.891
and proclaimed a provisional
military government,

21:47:50.016 --> 21:47:53.520
announcing the end of the reign
of Emperor Haile Selassie.

21:47:53.645 --> 21:47:56.272
And many of his top aids
have been arrested

21:47:56.398 --> 21:47:59.234
on charges of stealing
from the public treasury.

21:47:59.359 --> 21:48:00.985
The army says
Haile Selassie himself

21:48:01.111 --> 21:48:03.029
was involved in the corruption

21:48:03.154 --> 21:48:05.907
and claims he has been shipping
tons of gold out of the country

21:48:06.032 --> 21:48:07.992
to be hoarded in foreign banks.

21:48:08.118 --> 21:48:14.165
It's not known
what fate awaits him.

21:48:14.290 --> 21:48:15.750
- I think,
more than the removal,

21:48:15.875 --> 21:48:18.378
it's the treatment
that shocked a lot of people.

21:48:18.503 --> 21:48:23.424
It was unbelievable.

21:48:23.550 --> 21:48:25.468
Yeah, I mean, he went
from up there

21:48:25.593 --> 21:48:28.930
to being put in
a broken down Volkswagen.

21:48:29.055 --> 21:48:40.024
It was the treatment.

21:48:40.150 --> 21:49:00.170
(crowd shouting)

21:49:00.295 --> 21:49:02.255
- Rumour has it
that he was suffocated.

21:49:02.380 --> 21:49:06.968
To die such a miserable death,
I wouldn't wish it on anybody.

21:49:07.135 --> 21:49:11.973
Even though Haile Selassie
is the godfather of my dad,

21:49:12.140 --> 21:49:15.059
that didn't matter.

21:49:15.185 --> 21:49:19.397
What mattered was that no man,
no matter who he is,

21:49:19.522 --> 21:49:24.611
deserves to die the way he died.

21:49:24.736 --> 21:49:25.987
- (reporter): Since the military

21:49:26.112 --> 21:49:28.198
overthrew Emperor
Haile Selassie,

21:49:28.323 --> 21:49:30.408
a group of officers took power

21:49:30.533 --> 21:49:33.203
and Ethiopia's new rulers
brought with them

21:49:33.328 --> 21:49:35.288
a revolutionary Marxist creed.

21:49:35.413 --> 21:49:38.666
New rulers meant new alignments.

21:49:38.791 --> 21:49:40.710
American agencies were closed

21:49:40.835 --> 21:49:42.295
and their personnel
asked to leave,

21:49:42.420 --> 21:49:45.089
and Addis Ababa sought closer
relationships

21:49:45.215 --> 21:49:50.303
with communist regimes.

21:49:50.428 --> 21:49:54.307
-The Derg saw itself as the
guardian of the revolution,

21:49:54.474 --> 21:49:57.810
quickly stealing the momentum
from the young people

21:49:57.977 --> 21:50:00.980
whose energy had driven
the uprising.

21:50:01.105 --> 21:50:02.899
To consolidate power,

21:50:03.024 --> 21:50:07.487
the Derg executed 60 so-called
counter-revolutionaries.

21:50:07.654 --> 21:50:10.365
These were high-ranking
officials

21:50:10.490 --> 21:50:12.158
of the previous regime,

21:50:12.325 --> 21:50:22.252
many of whom were friends or
coworkers of my grandparents.

21:50:22.377 --> 21:50:27.924
- He said he's been summoned
back to Ethiopia.

21:50:28.049 --> 21:50:31.928
And he was telling us
he was going to go back.

21:50:32.053 --> 21:50:34.264
And we all said:
"You shouldn't."

21:50:34.389 --> 21:50:36.891
And he said: "I haven't done
anything wrong

21:50:37.016 --> 21:51:05.837
"so I'm going back."

21:51:05.962 --> 21:51:10.466
- When the Derg took over, they
called all ambassadors back.

21:51:10.591 --> 21:51:14.220
Two went back, one was Ababa.

21:51:14.345 --> 21:51:17.056
And the Derg wanted to use him

21:51:17.181 --> 21:51:20.101
as the face that people
could look at

21:51:20.226 --> 21:51:24.981
and trust a man known for his
dedication to the country,

21:51:25.106 --> 21:51:29.819
by placing him as minister
of Interior Affairs.

21:51:29.944 --> 21:51:33.990
And it was like a way
for them to do

21:51:34.115 --> 21:51:37.785
all the terrible things
that they could

21:51:37.910 --> 21:51:40.163
behind Ababa's face.

21:51:40.288 --> 21:51:42.332
That's all that was.

21:51:42.457 --> 21:51:44.959
And he said no.

21:51:45.084 --> 21:51:48.004
Because he had guts.

21:51:48.129 --> 21:51:51.215
You don't say no to the Derg.

21:51:51.341 --> 21:51:55.136
He said: "No, I will do
education."

21:51:55.303 --> 21:51:57.055
So, they just left him.

21:51:57.180 --> 21:52:00.141
No response back,
no salary, nothing.

21:52:00.308 --> 21:52:04.979
But when they wanted, they just
came right to the house

21:52:05.104 --> 21:52:07.148
and asked him questions.

21:52:07.315 --> 21:52:11.069
Because they didn't know
a lot of things

21:52:11.194 --> 21:52:16.491
about Ethiopia's involvement
in the international arena.

21:52:16.616 --> 21:52:19.160
(marching band)

21:52:19.285 --> 21:52:21.704
-After killing
those who challenged

21:52:21.829 --> 21:52:23.831
his authority
in a shoot out,

21:52:23.956 --> 21:52:27.460
colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam
emerged as the leader

21:52:27.627 --> 21:52:31.923
of Ethiopia's
military government.

21:52:32.048 --> 21:52:36.260
Mengistu was using communism
as a means to solidify

21:52:36.386 --> 21:52:40.139
his power by gaining support
from the Soviet Union.

21:52:40.264 --> 21:52:43.142
His vision of a Marxist state

21:52:43.309 --> 21:52:59.450
had little in common
with Sally's.

21:52:59.575 --> 21:53:03.287
- You know, when you rule
with the power of the gun

21:53:03.413 --> 21:53:05.331
and you have lots of guards,

21:53:05.456 --> 21:53:07.667
then you can be as ruthless
as you want to be.

21:53:07.792 --> 21:53:10.711
And they were as ruthless
as you could be.

21:53:10.837 --> 21:53:14.257
I mean, even
the Amharic name, derg,

21:53:14.382 --> 21:53:17.301
is like shadow,
that's what it means.

21:53:17.468 --> 21:53:22.306
So, under the umbrella
of scientific socialism,

21:53:22.432 --> 21:53:25.643
you want to create something,
you first break it

21:53:25.810 --> 21:53:27.311
and then you remould it.

21:53:27.478 --> 21:53:29.230
That's what they did
in Ethiopia.

21:53:29.355 --> 21:53:32.483
First point of the order
is the family.

21:53:32.650 --> 21:53:36.362
Break the ties in the family,

21:53:36.487 --> 21:53:39.824
push people to accuse
each other,

21:53:39.949 --> 21:53:44.162
tell things about each other.

21:53:44.287 --> 21:53:46.456
Meteqommeans to point.

21:53:46.581 --> 21:53:49.417
That became the hand of justice.

21:53:49.542 --> 21:53:53.129
So, I could easily say:
I heard her say

21:53:53.296 --> 21:53:57.341
that the government is bad,
in the market.

21:53:57.467 --> 21:54:10.438
That's all I would need to say
and you'd be gone.

21:54:10.563 --> 21:54:15.151
-Sally's devotion to the EPRP
had only intensified

21:54:15.276 --> 21:54:18.738
in the face of growing
repression.

21:54:18.863 --> 21:54:25.328
For Mengistu, descent
was to be quashed.

21:54:25.495 --> 21:54:27.914
On the anniversary
of the revolution,

21:54:28.039 --> 21:54:30.541
the Derg declared
a state of emergency,

21:54:30.666 --> 21:54:34.670
saying that anyone who was
opposing them was a criminal

21:54:34.795 --> 21:54:39.258
who could be shot on sight.

21:54:39.383 --> 21:54:42.512
Risking everything,
Sally pressed on,

21:54:42.637 --> 21:54:47.683
focusing her energy
on empowering women.

21:54:47.808 --> 21:54:50.645
- Sally is a good
friend of mine.

21:54:50.770 --> 21:54:53.731
Sally was special for me.

21:54:53.856 --> 21:54:54.982
I was an activist.

21:54:55.149 --> 21:54:56.692
I came back from Europe,

21:54:56.817 --> 21:54:59.737
and when I saw what's going
on in Ethiopia,

21:54:59.862 --> 21:55:02.573
the situation, the women's
situation in Ethiopia,

21:55:02.698 --> 21:55:04.742
and all this was bothering me,

21:55:04.867 --> 21:55:07.995
so I always talk to my friends
and all this

21:55:08.162 --> 21:55:11.624
and we need to have some kind
of women's organization.

21:55:11.749 --> 21:55:13.584
So, one day,

21:55:13.709 --> 21:55:17.338
our common friend
introduced me to Sally.

21:55:17.463 --> 21:55:22.218
And from the first day we saw
each other, we clicked.

21:55:22.343 --> 21:55:26.264
You know, we're from
two different backgrounds,

21:55:26.389 --> 21:55:30.184
but from the first day
I met her, we just said "Hi!"

21:55:30.309 --> 21:55:32.395
and we went to business,
you know.

21:55:32.520 --> 21:55:33.938
So, what do you say?

21:55:34.063 --> 21:55:35.648
What do you think
about what's going on here?

21:55:35.815 --> 21:55:40.570
And we started talking about
how to organize Ethiopian women

21:55:40.695 --> 21:55:45.491
and fight for their
equal pay or education.

21:55:45.616 --> 21:55:48.327
Because when she came
to Ethiopia,

21:55:48.494 --> 21:55:52.582
when she saw those women, when
she saw those small, small boys

21:55:52.707 --> 21:55:56.002
beg for money,
that's what drove her.

21:55:56.127 --> 21:55:58.754
I do not think for a minute

21:55:58.879 --> 21:56:01.966
that she has anybody's
influence at all.

21:56:02.133 --> 21:56:06.804
The military government was
looking for everybody

21:56:06.971 --> 21:56:11.309
who was not on their side
or whom they called anarchists.

21:56:11.475 --> 21:56:16.063
So, they started going
from house to house,

21:56:16.188 --> 21:56:20.484
searching for us,
for me and Sally.

21:56:20.651 --> 21:56:24.739
I remember, we were hiding
at her grandma's house

21:56:24.864 --> 21:56:27.658
and it became very dangerous
to stay there too,

21:56:27.825 --> 21:56:30.661
so we had to flee from there,

21:56:30.828 --> 21:56:34.790
and we were hiding
in many other places.

21:56:34.915 --> 21:56:37.793
- They were becoming
very secretive.

21:56:37.918 --> 21:56:39.420
They didn't want
to talk to people,

21:56:39.545 --> 21:56:41.589
they didn't want
to be seen with anybody.

21:56:41.714 --> 21:56:43.799
And Sally's appearance changed

21:56:43.924 --> 21:56:48.262
because she would not wear
the Western type clothing.

21:56:48.387 --> 21:56:52.433
She would say: "Meet me
at this place or that place."

21:56:52.558 --> 21:56:56.312
And then, she would ask me
to buy transistor radios

21:56:56.437 --> 21:56:57.813
and it was very secretive.

21:56:57.980 --> 21:57:00.900
I would just leave it somewhere
and somebody would pick it up.

21:57:01.025 --> 21:57:03.527
It was really not
a direct thing.

21:57:03.653 --> 21:57:06.656
She was very careful
for the family. Very careful.

21:57:06.822 --> 21:57:08.783
That's why she didn't want us
to visit her.

21:57:08.908 --> 21:57:09.992
She did not want us to know

21:57:10.117 --> 21:57:11.410
who were the people
she was with.

21:57:11.535 --> 21:57:14.038
So, she was protecting
the family in that sense,

21:57:14.163 --> 21:57:15.498
but for her, yes,
it was dangerous.

21:57:15.623 --> 21:57:18.292
She believed in climbing
the tallest mountain

21:57:18.417 --> 21:57:20.795
and that needs help.

21:57:20.961 --> 21:57:22.046
(chuckling)

21:57:22.171 --> 21:57:23.631
Some kind of help.

21:57:23.798 --> 21:57:26.008
- Did she ever ask you to join?

21:57:26.133 --> 21:57:28.094
- Never.

21:57:28.219 --> 21:57:38.854
- Would you have?
- No.

21:57:38.979 --> 21:57:41.982
-Mengistu was building
a peasant army,

21:57:42.149 --> 21:57:48.155
urging them to fight against
the enemies of the revolution.

21:57:48.322 --> 21:57:52.618
He named the EPRP as public
enemy number one,

21:57:52.743 --> 21:57:58.499
blaming them for all
the ills of the country.

21:57:58.666 --> 21:58:02.712
-Mass arrests, disappearances
and killings followed.

21:58:02.837 --> 21:58:12.179
Many of Sally's comrades
were targeted.

21:58:12.304 --> 21:58:15.558
- People were dying
left and right.

21:58:15.683 --> 21:58:18.102
We see people dying
on the street.

21:58:18.227 --> 21:58:20.604
When you are in that kind
of situation,

21:58:20.730 --> 21:58:22.898
you know you will be next.

21:58:23.023 --> 21:58:25.359
You know you will die too.

21:58:25.484 --> 21:58:29.655
Actually, Selamawit's name
and my name were in one

21:58:29.780 --> 21:58:34.618
of those lists, the government's
lists, to be killed.

21:58:34.744 --> 21:58:38.456
You have to accept that,
you have to understand that

21:58:38.581 --> 21:58:41.125
when you're going through
that kind of struggle,

21:58:41.292 --> 21:58:44.253
especially with the military
government.

21:58:44.378 --> 21:58:47.381
They were so brutal,
killing everybody.

21:58:47.506 --> 21:58:50.593
So, for us, it was when.

21:58:50.718 --> 21:58:55.639
But one day, you know
you will be caught.

21:58:55.806 --> 21:58:59.018
- Sally knew what she wanted,
did what she wanted,

21:58:59.143 --> 21:59:01.353
was not easily
influenced by anybody

21:59:01.479 --> 21:59:06.358
but once she met Tselote, it was
a totally different story.

21:59:06.484 --> 21:59:09.195
And she told me she was going
to get married.

21:59:09.320 --> 21:59:12.865
I said: Married to whom?
"Married to Tselote."

21:59:12.990 --> 21:59:14.492
And I talked to my mom

21:59:14.658 --> 21:59:16.660
and mom told me
she doesn't want the wedding,

21:59:16.786 --> 21:59:19.997
she doesn't want anybody,
just the family.

21:59:20.122 --> 21:59:23.125
And that's not Sally.

21:59:23.250 --> 21:59:27.421
Sally wants to dress up,
have people around her.

21:59:27.546 --> 21:59:31.926
So, that influence
was really, um...

21:59:32.051 --> 21:59:33.677
taking a lot of effect

21:59:33.803 --> 21:59:38.432
on her lifestyle
and on her life as well.

21:59:38.557 --> 21:59:40.601
He was not just
an ordinary member,

21:59:40.726 --> 21:59:44.980
he was one
of the decision makers.

21:59:45.105 --> 22:00:26.146
(birds chirping)

22:00:26.272 --> 22:01:02.474
(praying in Ethiopian language)

22:01:02.600 --> 22:01:04.685
-With every piece
of information

22:01:04.810 --> 22:01:07.146
I find out about Sally's life,

22:01:07.271 --> 22:01:09.690
I wonder how Ethiopia
can move forward

22:01:09.815 --> 22:01:22.661
without fully embracing
its complicated past.

22:01:22.828 --> 22:01:25.497
I too have fallen in love
in Ethiopia.

22:01:25.623 --> 22:01:29.460
My partner, Ashu, has been
my unofficial translator

22:01:29.627 --> 22:01:30.961
of everything Ethiopia,

22:01:31.086 --> 22:01:34.757
and I don't just mean
the language.

22:01:34.882 --> 22:01:37.885
He helps me navigate
the cultural differences

22:01:38.010 --> 22:01:42.640
and the tense political
situation.

22:01:42.806 --> 22:01:44.975
Like Sally's husband Tselote,

22:01:45.142 --> 22:01:48.312
Ashu comes from a lower
middle class family,

22:01:48.437 --> 22:01:51.482
and perhaps he's not the ideal
vision of a husband

22:01:51.607 --> 22:01:53.442
that my Ethiopian family
had in mind.

22:01:53.567 --> 22:01:55.319
- I know we're going
to be rich,

22:01:55.444 --> 22:01:58.822
so this is why my signature's
so complicated.

22:01:58.989 --> 22:02:03.327
(laughing)

22:02:03.494 --> 22:02:07.915
(cheering and applauding)

22:02:08.040 --> 22:02:12.294
- Speech, speech, speech,
speech, speech, speech, speech!

22:02:12.419 --> 22:02:16.382
- I'm not really much of
a public speaker,

22:02:16.507 --> 22:02:20.177
so I'm just going to say
thank you for coming,

22:02:20.302 --> 22:02:25.474
thank you for being a part
of our unwedding party.

22:02:25.641 --> 22:02:32.690
(cheering and applauding)

22:02:32.815 --> 22:02:37.319
(laughing)

22:02:37.444 --> 22:02:40.364
-Perhaps that is what Tselote
was for Sally,

22:02:40.489 --> 22:02:42.533
the person who could be
her bridge

22:02:42.658 --> 22:02:45.911
between her and what was going
on in the country;

22:02:46.036 --> 22:02:48.831
her ambassador into Ethiopia.

22:02:48.956 --> 22:02:51.834
- I think initially
she fell in love,

22:02:51.959 --> 22:02:56.588
but whatever it was that
he believed in, she did too.

22:02:56.714 --> 22:02:58.257
I don't think it was just
the husband,

22:02:58.382 --> 22:03:01.135
I think she also was committed

22:03:01.260 --> 22:03:04.179
because that's
who she was anyway.

22:03:04.304 --> 22:03:07.808
So, I think it was a very
difficult decision for her

22:03:07.933 --> 22:03:11.603
- I think, I don't know -
to go underground.

22:03:11.729 --> 22:03:14.481
Because we were very close.

22:03:14.606 --> 22:03:16.191
I mean, the family was close.

22:03:16.316 --> 22:03:20.320
So, for her to leave my parents,

22:03:20.446 --> 22:03:25.993
knowing that she could be
putting them in danger as well,

22:03:26.118 --> 22:03:30.039
she saw the bigger picture.

22:03:30.164 --> 22:03:33.792
- We knew that if they catch us,
they will kill us.

22:03:33.917 --> 22:03:40.132
So, I and Selamawit got up early
in the morning and we left.

22:03:40.257 --> 22:03:43.093
There was no other choice

22:03:43.218 --> 22:03:46.722
except leaving the city
and getting shelter.

22:03:46.847 --> 22:03:50.309
And we decided to go to Assimba,

22:03:50.434 --> 22:03:53.062
where there is an EPRP control.

22:03:53.187 --> 22:03:57.107
And I said: Selamawit,
you just be quiet.

22:03:57.232 --> 22:03:59.276
Because if she said something,

22:03:59.401 --> 22:04:02.863
it's in English
or broken Amharic,

22:04:02.988 --> 22:04:05.449
so we didn't want her to talk.

22:04:05.574 --> 22:04:08.660
And we gave ourselves
secret names

22:04:08.827 --> 22:04:12.081
so that they don't
know us by name.

22:04:12.206 --> 22:04:15.125
Selam was so scared
and I was so scared

22:04:15.292 --> 22:04:19.671
to make them suspicious
that we are not what we are.

22:04:19.797 --> 22:04:23.467
She had an ID as a housewife.

22:04:23.592 --> 22:04:33.435
We were sure that they're going
to catch us.

22:04:33.560 --> 22:04:36.480
When we came out
from the bus, for Selam,

22:04:36.647 --> 22:04:40.192
it was very hard to walk
through the countryside,

22:04:40.317 --> 22:04:43.445
but she adapted
even better than me.

22:04:43.570 --> 22:04:47.157
Because to be there
and help the people

22:04:47.282 --> 22:04:50.702
was the most important for her,
but it was very hard.

22:04:50.828 --> 22:04:53.247
There is no cooked food

22:04:53.372 --> 22:04:57.292
or clean water - that gives you
diarrhea sometimes -

22:04:57.417 --> 22:05:02.881
and there are no antibiotics.

22:05:03.006 --> 22:05:10.222
Our skin starts peeling
because of the nutrition.

22:05:10.347 --> 22:05:14.476
And there's no house or whatever
to hide and sometimes,

22:05:14.601 --> 22:05:16.603
it rains on you,

22:05:16.728 --> 22:05:23.485
and you dry in the morning
from the wind and the sun.

22:05:23.652 --> 22:05:27.656
And you have to walk
a long walk everyday.

22:05:27.781 --> 22:05:30.117
But you know what?

22:05:30.242 --> 22:05:33.912
We always think the cause
is bigger than anything.

22:05:34.037 --> 22:05:40.836
People die for the cause.

22:05:40.961 --> 22:05:44.256
- Sally had disappeared.

22:05:44.381 --> 22:05:46.967
We don't know where she was,
we don't know if she was alive.

22:05:47.134 --> 22:05:49.136
That was when they came.

22:05:49.303 --> 22:05:53.140
And when you see the military
come anywhere close to you,

22:05:53.265 --> 22:05:55.684
it's like: "Something's
going to happen."

22:05:55.809 --> 22:05:58.312
They said they know
where my sister is.

22:05:58.437 --> 22:06:01.064
I said I don't know where she is
because I did not know.

22:06:01.190 --> 22:06:03.609
So, they took me to the house
she used to live.

22:06:03.734 --> 22:06:05.360
That was my grandma's house.

22:06:05.485 --> 22:06:10.282
And they told my grandmother:
"Bring Sally out right now."

22:06:10.407 --> 22:06:12.326
Sally was not there.

22:06:12.451 --> 22:06:15.579
Sally hasn't been there
in a long time.

22:06:15.704 --> 22:06:19.458
And my grandmother
was very strong,

22:06:19.541 --> 22:06:22.628
she said: "She's not here."
She stood still.

22:06:22.753 --> 22:06:25.756
And then, they said OK,
they're going to take me

22:06:25.881 --> 22:06:28.133
if we can't bring Sally.

22:06:28.258 --> 22:06:29.801
And then, she fell on their feet

22:06:29.927 --> 22:06:31.428
saying: "Please,
don't do that to us.

22:06:31.553 --> 22:06:33.805
"We don't know where she is."

22:06:33.972 --> 22:06:37.809
They literally threw me
in the van and I just sat there

22:06:37.935 --> 22:06:42.481
and I said one thing to myself:
Nobody will touch me.

22:06:42.606 --> 22:06:49.488
Nobody will touch my body.

22:06:49.613 --> 22:06:52.199
(praying in Ethiopian language)

22:06:52.324 --> 22:06:53.784
This is the house.

22:06:53.909 --> 22:06:59.623
(birds chirping)

22:06:59.748 --> 22:07:01.750
Look at it. Now, it's so quiet.

22:07:01.875 --> 22:07:04.670
The entrance to something you
absolutely don't know,

22:07:04.795 --> 22:07:34.324
too afraid to ask
where you're at.

22:07:34.491 --> 22:07:36.660
I remember, the door was locked.

22:07:36.827 --> 22:07:39.663
They brought me here

22:07:39.830 --> 22:07:42.958
and this whole place
was bloody.

22:07:43.083 --> 22:07:45.294
It looked like
a slaughter house.

22:07:45.460 --> 22:07:49.756
They made sure I looked around,
I guess to scare me actually.

22:07:49.881 --> 22:07:52.301
When you see the blood, you say:

22:07:52.426 --> 22:07:56.471
"Is that going to be my blood
on that wall too?"

22:07:56.638 --> 22:08:00.225
This was the bloody room.

22:08:00.350 --> 22:08:04.354
It's eerie.

22:08:04.479 --> 22:08:09.067
(sobbing)

22:08:09.192 --> 22:08:12.821
It makes no sense.

22:08:12.946 --> 22:08:15.824
We all saw many people
like that.

22:08:15.991 --> 22:08:20.704
People have become crippled
mentally, physically.

22:08:20.829 --> 22:08:22.414
And no doctors here, you know.

22:08:22.539 --> 22:08:24.499
Doctors didn't come to clean
their wounds

22:08:24.625 --> 22:08:27.586
or anything like that.

22:08:27.711 --> 22:08:29.463
They pick you up
from the street,

22:08:29.629 --> 22:08:31.131
they pick you up
from your home

22:08:31.256 --> 22:08:35.302
and bring you here
for interrogation.

22:08:35.427 --> 22:08:39.639
And then, this is not the only
place where they kept...

22:08:39.765 --> 22:08:42.434
What do you call,
prisoners or suspects?

22:08:42.559 --> 22:08:45.312
They're all over the city.

22:08:45.437 --> 22:08:49.149
So, all these young people,
in most cases,

22:08:49.274 --> 22:08:52.277
they may not be free like I was.

22:08:52.402 --> 22:08:56.615
I went home.

22:08:56.740 --> 22:09:00.827
I was lucky.

22:09:00.952 --> 22:09:03.163
But Sally wasn't lucky.

22:09:03.288 --> 22:09:14.216
She... she never came back home.

22:09:14.341 --> 22:09:16.802
I was here for
about ten days or so.

22:09:16.968 --> 22:09:18.512
They never touched me.

22:09:18.637 --> 22:09:21.598
I just meditated. I just said:
Nobody is going to touch me.

22:09:21.723 --> 22:09:23.975
They didn't do anything to me.

22:09:24.142 --> 22:09:27.979
But there was nothing for me to
tell them because I didn't know.

22:09:28.146 --> 22:09:30.482
And that's what her group did.

22:09:30.649 --> 22:09:35.529
They wouldn't give you
information for your own sake.

22:09:35.654 --> 22:09:38.031
I know she was with her husband,

22:09:38.156 --> 22:09:41.743
not all the time at the same
place, but she met with him.

22:09:41.868 --> 22:09:44.746
What was she thinking?
What was she doing?

22:09:44.871 --> 22:09:48.125
I didn't know.

22:09:48.291 --> 22:09:51.586
- The military was getting
stronger and stronger,

22:09:51.711 --> 22:09:56.299
so for all of us,
there is a military training.

22:09:56.425 --> 22:10:00.303
The military training
is to live in a hardship.

22:10:00.470 --> 22:10:05.225
Running from one mountain
to another to fight.

22:10:05.350 --> 22:10:08.979
And we knew how to shoot
although

22:10:09.146 --> 22:10:12.732
just to protect ourselves.

22:10:12.858 --> 22:10:15.402
- After she went underground,

22:10:15.527 --> 22:10:18.155
one morning, I found
a letter in my mailbox.

22:10:18.321 --> 22:10:21.408
It had no stamp on it so
somebody must have delivered it

22:10:21.533 --> 22:10:22.951
in the middle of the night.

22:10:23.076 --> 22:10:25.537
And the letter said:

22:10:25.662 --> 22:10:28.498
"Send me a carton

22:10:28.665 --> 22:10:31.793
"of tweezers.

22:10:31.918 --> 22:10:35.964
"Different types of tweezers,
surgical tweezers as well,

22:10:36.131 --> 22:10:39.509
surgical scissors and wigs."

22:10:39.634 --> 22:10:43.263
So, I got these things,
left them on my porch

22:10:43.388 --> 22:10:46.808
and one night they were
all picked up.

22:10:46.975 --> 22:10:49.644
So, I assumed
that she was involved

22:10:49.811 --> 22:10:51.605
in some kind of medical thing

22:10:51.730 --> 22:10:53.523
because when she was going
to school,

22:10:53.648 --> 22:10:58.361
she used to work in hospitals
doing the work of a nurse.

22:10:58.487 --> 22:11:03.492
So, I think that she was
helping a lot of people.

22:11:03.617 --> 22:11:06.369
And later, I found a flyer.

22:11:06.495 --> 22:11:08.538
I found it on my way to work.

22:11:08.663 --> 22:11:12.083
And there was
an article about Sally.

22:11:12.209 --> 22:11:14.544
She was wanted, dead or alive.

22:11:14.669 --> 22:11:18.131
And in that article,
they had mentioned the fact

22:11:18.298 --> 22:11:24.471
that some members of the EPRP
had blown the Bole airport,

22:11:24.596 --> 22:11:27.307
and she was the one who did it

22:11:27.432 --> 22:11:31.645
using one of the wigs
I sent as a disguise.

22:11:31.811 --> 22:11:37.359
- How did you feel
when you heard about that?

22:11:37.484 --> 22:11:40.403
- Anxious, fearful.

22:11:40.529 --> 22:11:42.822
That she would have the guts
to come to Addis

22:11:42.948 --> 22:11:45.951
and blow an airport,

22:11:46.076 --> 22:11:52.582
which is surrounded
by security people.

22:11:52.707 --> 22:11:59.548
That's bold.

22:11:59.673 --> 22:12:02.926
-The EPRP responded
to the government crackdowns

22:12:03.051 --> 22:12:07.305
by trying to assassinate key
leaders, including Mengistu.

22:12:07.430 --> 22:12:10.725
Somehow, I wasn't surprised
to find out

22:12:10.850 --> 22:12:14.145
that Sally had taken part.

22:12:14.312 --> 22:12:16.690
In response,
the military government

22:12:16.815 --> 22:12:20.777
called for the public to join
its mass killing spree,

22:12:20.902 --> 22:12:31.663
naming the campaign
the Red Terror.

22:12:31.830 --> 22:12:34.624
Posters hung all over
the city proclaimed:

22:12:34.749 --> 22:12:39.296
"Let the Red Terror intensify."

22:12:39.462 --> 22:12:42.048
Bodies of countless people

22:12:42.173 --> 22:12:46.386
were left on the street
for all to see.

22:12:46.511 --> 22:12:50.265
Forbidden to mourn, frightened
and grieving relatives

22:12:50.390 --> 22:12:51.933
were forced to pay the price

22:12:52.058 --> 22:12:58.023
of every bullet used to kill
their loved ones.

22:12:58.148 --> 22:13:00.775
As a result of
the Red Terror period,

22:13:00.900 --> 22:13:03.653
an entire generation
of urban youth

22:13:03.778 --> 22:13:07.574
with at least a minimal
education were lost.

22:13:07.699 --> 22:13:11.911
The remainder left so afraid
that, for decades,

22:13:12.037 --> 22:13:17.792
no expression of descent
occurred.

22:13:17.917 --> 22:13:20.587
My grandparents survived
this dark period,

22:13:20.712 --> 22:13:23.256
searching desperately
for their daughter,

22:13:23.381 --> 22:13:26.718
trying to avoid
the daily terrors.

22:13:26.843 --> 22:13:30.221
They wouldn't get any new
information about Sally

22:13:30.347 --> 22:13:33.642
for nearly another 10 years.

22:13:33.808 --> 22:13:36.853
- Not knowing whether
she was dead or alive,

22:13:36.978 --> 22:13:38.938
it's really painful.

22:13:39.064 --> 22:13:40.649
One of the problems
is that, you know,

22:13:40.815 --> 22:13:43.485
when they go underground,
they change their name.

22:13:43.610 --> 22:13:45.362
We didn't know what name
she had taken.

22:13:45.487 --> 22:13:48.490
So, when you ask people if
they know anything about Sally,

22:13:48.615 --> 22:13:50.075
they don't know who she is.

22:13:50.200 --> 22:13:53.536
We asked a lot of people

22:13:53.662 --> 22:13:56.915
and we had a friend who works
for the State department.

22:13:57.040 --> 22:14:01.044
He would come and say: "You
know, we have some EPRP people

22:14:01.169 --> 22:14:03.797
arriving in California,
arriving in Atlanta."

22:14:03.922 --> 22:14:07.634
So, every time he said that,
we tried to find out

22:14:07.759 --> 22:14:09.260
if she's one of them.

22:14:09.386 --> 22:14:13.139
We heard once
that she had gone to Sudan,

22:14:13.306 --> 22:14:17.102
so we sent Kibre
to look for her.

22:14:17.227 --> 22:14:22.982
- I didn't think she was dead
until they told us.

22:14:23.108 --> 22:14:27.070
Why would she die?

22:14:27.195 --> 22:14:30.323
I never ever,
ever thought she was dead.

22:14:30.490 --> 22:14:32.492
I thought they were still
doing their thing,

22:14:32.659 --> 22:14:35.078
trying to come back
to the government.

22:14:35.203 --> 22:14:37.539
But we also heard that there was
a split in the party.

22:14:37.664 --> 22:14:40.333
You know, the party that kind
of joined the present government

22:14:40.458 --> 22:14:42.043
and the party
that didn't want to join.

22:14:42.168 --> 22:14:46.464
We don't know which part
she was in.

22:14:46.631 --> 22:14:49.801
And she wanted to work
for the country.

22:14:49.968 --> 22:14:54.222
She wanted to work not just for
the country, for the people.

22:14:54.347 --> 22:14:57.350
So, I think everybody
was shocked.

22:14:57.475 --> 22:14:59.978
The saddest part is I think
she had passed away

22:15:00.103 --> 22:15:02.188
five years earlier,

22:15:02.313 --> 22:15:06.443
and that was the saddest part.

22:15:06.568 --> 22:15:14.993
Having no contact with her.

22:15:15.118 --> 22:15:19.956
- The way I looked at that was
that I've lost my sister

22:15:20.081 --> 22:15:24.919
in a place where there's a war
and there's fighting.

22:15:25.044 --> 22:15:27.964
First of all, it's difficult
to even see

22:15:28.131 --> 22:15:31.301
what people could
possibly eat there

22:15:31.468 --> 22:15:34.679
except for the prickly pears,
thebellus.

22:15:34.804 --> 22:15:38.808
It's just very barren,
very dry and barren.

22:15:38.933 --> 22:15:40.393
It's all shale.

22:15:40.518 --> 22:15:47.984
And that was
incredible for me.

22:15:48.151 --> 22:15:53.907
There's hardly any green.
Just tiny little bits.

22:15:54.032 --> 22:15:56.993
- My husband Jim passed away

22:15:57.160 --> 22:16:00.997
March 27th 1984.

22:16:01.122 --> 22:16:05.627
He was driving to meet me
when he got into a car accident.

22:16:05.794 --> 22:16:08.963
That week was when we found out
Sally had passed.

22:16:09.088 --> 22:16:12.634
The same week.

22:16:12.759 --> 22:16:15.095
- And do you remember
who told you

22:16:15.220 --> 22:16:16.554
or who brought
the information?

22:16:16.679 --> 22:16:18.097
- I don't remember.

22:16:18.223 --> 22:16:24.145
All I remember was we were in
Tabby's house when we found out.

22:16:24.270 --> 22:16:27.190
- And what were you told then
or what do you know now

22:16:27.315 --> 22:16:30.819
about how she passed away?

22:16:30.985 --> 22:16:36.407
- Um, she was ill and...

22:16:36.533 --> 22:16:40.245
And then her husband died

22:16:40.370 --> 22:16:43.498
very soon after.

22:16:43.665 --> 22:16:45.375
He was shot.

22:16:45.500 --> 22:16:50.088
But she died
from health problems, not...

22:16:50.213 --> 22:16:52.590
not warfare.

22:16:52.715 --> 22:16:56.803
- How did the news of her death
affect your parents?

22:16:56.970 --> 22:16:59.806
- They were both there.

22:16:59.931 --> 22:17:03.184
What can I say?

22:17:03.309 --> 22:17:05.270
They lost their daughter.

22:17:05.395 --> 22:18:18.801
They had lost her
and then they lost her finally.

22:18:18.927 --> 22:18:21.554
- Receiving the information
that she had passed away

22:18:21.679 --> 22:18:24.682
was easier by far
than not knowing.

22:18:24.807 --> 22:18:27.143
The not knowing
is much more painful

22:18:27.268 --> 22:18:29.312
than having something
in front of you

22:18:29.437 --> 22:18:31.814
that now you have
to come to grips with.

22:18:31.981 --> 22:18:35.151
But, you know, we still didn't
have very much information.

22:18:35.276 --> 22:18:39.322
They showed us the picture
of Sally's funeral procession.

22:18:39.489 --> 22:18:43.618
And really it struck me
when Mamma told me the story

22:18:43.743 --> 22:18:46.037
of her and a friend of hers

22:18:46.162 --> 22:18:49.707
who had gone looking
for Sally's grave.

22:18:49.832 --> 22:18:51.834
They knew it was up north,
they took a bus,

22:18:51.960 --> 22:18:53.586
the bus dropped them off.

22:18:53.711 --> 22:18:55.797
They walked and walked
and walked and walked,

22:18:55.922 --> 22:18:57.507
and it was getting dark.

22:18:57.632 --> 22:19:01.094
And she discovered that the
place where they were going

22:19:01.219 --> 22:19:02.929
is much, much further away.

22:19:03.054 --> 22:19:06.140
So, they had to walk back,
she told me,

22:19:06.307 --> 22:19:08.810
tired and disappointed.

22:19:08.977 --> 22:19:11.521
She came back to Addis.

22:19:11.646 --> 22:19:15.775
So, it was a very painful
thing for her

22:19:15.900 --> 22:19:17.318
that she couldn't even find

22:19:17.443 --> 22:19:19.320
- now that she knew Sally
had passed away -

22:19:19.487 --> 22:19:22.490
she couldn't even find
the grave site.

22:19:22.615 --> 22:19:25.743
She couldn't even see
where she was.

22:19:25.868 --> 22:19:29.497
- You know, to this day,

22:19:29.664 --> 22:19:33.042
I really don't know
how she died.

22:19:33.167 --> 22:19:36.838
Nobody seems to be able to tell
me exactly how she died.

22:19:36.963 --> 22:19:44.220
And after a while,
I don't want to know.

22:19:44.345 --> 22:19:50.643
I want to remember her...

22:19:50.768 --> 22:19:55.148
the way she used to be.

22:19:55.314 --> 22:19:58.317
I just don't want to think

22:19:58.484 --> 22:20:06.409
of her living way out there,
alone.

22:20:06.534 --> 22:20:09.871
And to lose her life
at a prime age.

22:20:09.996 --> 22:20:13.708
I don't talk about her.

22:20:13.833 --> 22:20:16.627
Um, for a long time, I didn't
even have her picture

22:20:16.753 --> 22:20:34.437
on my wall.

22:20:34.562 --> 22:20:40.068
(birds chirping)

22:20:40.193 --> 22:20:42.487
- That's where they said

22:20:42.612 --> 22:20:45.156
that they were doing some
of their military exercises.

22:20:45.323 --> 22:20:50.411
Yeah, it's on this side.
There it is, sorry.

22:20:50.536 --> 22:20:53.164
- Most of the time,
they spent in Assimba.

22:20:53.289 --> 22:20:55.458
Why was she was living here?

22:20:55.625 --> 22:20:57.794
That's the part
I don't understand.

22:20:57.960 --> 22:21:00.838
- But she was dispensing
medicine from here.

22:21:00.963 --> 22:21:03.591
- But their camp was
in Assimba, not here.

22:21:03.716 --> 22:21:06.302
- They were here also
to maintain the support

22:21:06.427 --> 22:21:10.306
of the community and to assist
the community.

22:21:10.431 --> 22:21:15.144
- And this was like a EPRP
safe house of the village.

22:21:15.269 --> 22:21:16.145
- Yeah.

22:21:16.312 --> 22:21:17.814
- This one.
- Yeah.

22:21:17.980 --> 22:21:19.982
Do you think any of you
could've lived here?

22:21:20.108 --> 22:21:22.652
- I would if Sally was here.

22:21:22.777 --> 22:21:24.445
- Oh, absolutely.

22:21:24.570 --> 22:21:25.947
(laughing)

22:21:26.072 --> 22:21:29.117
- But the question was not would
you live here voluntarily, no?

22:21:29.242 --> 22:21:31.828
Would you live here the way
Sally came here?

22:21:31.994 --> 22:21:34.163
Those are two different
questions, aren't they?

22:21:34.288 --> 22:21:35.832
- I could never
live here.

22:21:35.998 --> 22:21:40.086
- No. I don't think it's
necessary any longer to do this.

22:21:40.211 --> 22:21:42.463
I don't think so. I hope.

22:21:42.630 --> 22:21:44.799
- It would be wonderful
to go and talk

22:21:44.966 --> 22:21:48.427
to the people who lived here,
those who are alive,

22:21:48.553 --> 22:25:10.296
and find out
if they ever met Sally.

22:25:10.421 --> 22:25:14.300
- The lady just told us
that Sally

22:25:14.425 --> 22:25:18.554
passed right here.

22:25:18.679 --> 22:25:23.100
They must have taken her out
of her room and put her here.

22:25:23.225 --> 22:25:27.146
- It's more
peaceful.
- Mm-hmm.

22:25:27.313 --> 22:25:29.315
- And she was buried properly.

22:25:29.482 --> 22:25:31.317
- She said so many people
died over there

22:25:31.484 --> 22:25:33.361
and were eaten
by vultures.

22:25:33.486 --> 22:25:36.572
- She said her leg was swollen
and her tummy hurt.

22:25:36.697 --> 22:25:42.161
- She said she had pain in her
legs and her tummy.

22:25:42.286 --> 22:25:45.164
She must've gotten
some kind of infection.

22:25:45.331 --> 22:25:48.584
- There was a cut or something
on her foot and then it came...

22:25:48.709 --> 22:25:51.796
- All the way up.

22:25:51.962 --> 22:25:54.465
- It's entirely possible
they didn't have water

22:25:54.590 --> 22:25:57.843
for washing or...

22:25:57.968 --> 22:26:18.447
That's very, very possible.

22:26:18.572 --> 22:26:21.575
-Telequa.My dad used
to call herTelequa.

22:26:21.701 --> 22:26:27.123
It means the elder one,
the big one.

22:26:27.248 --> 22:26:30.459
And I'm nexttelequa.

22:26:30.584 --> 22:26:32.920
(shouting)

22:26:33.045 --> 22:26:36.841
Selamawit!

22:26:36.966 --> 22:26:40.302
(shouting)

22:26:40.428 --> 22:26:43.431
Selamawit!

22:26:43.556 --> 22:26:46.475
(shouting)

22:26:46.600 --> 22:26:55.359
Selamawit!

22:26:55.484 --> 22:26:57.862
- I was not there when she died

22:26:57.987 --> 22:27:01.323
but the next day I arrived,
after she died.

22:27:01.449 --> 22:27:06.328
And everybody was devastated
because I know people,

22:27:06.454 --> 22:27:09.915
when they get sick,
some of them,

22:27:10.040 --> 22:27:13.627
when they get really sick,
they send them to Sudan.

22:27:13.794 --> 22:27:17.339
Sally, if she gets sick,
oh my God!

22:27:17.465 --> 22:27:20.634
They would've sent her
immediately.

22:27:20.759 --> 22:27:25.014
But it was just sudden, sudden,
and nobody knows what it was.

22:27:25.139 --> 22:27:28.309
But people who were around her,
they were saying:

22:27:28.434 --> 22:27:32.229
"Until the end, until the last
minute, they said,

22:27:32.354 --> 22:27:34.231
"she was talking,
she was laughing."

22:27:34.356 --> 22:27:36.025
And everybody knew Sally,

22:27:36.150 --> 22:27:40.946
so when she died, everybody
came from everywhere.

22:27:41.071 --> 22:27:44.867
We cried, everybody cried.

22:27:44.992 --> 22:27:49.330
The church was so good for us
and the priest,

22:27:49.455 --> 22:28:21.987
and we buried her respectfully.

22:28:22.154 --> 22:28:23.822
- Wow!

22:28:23.989 --> 22:29:05.906
- Oh my God!

22:29:06.031 --> 22:29:12.580
(sniffling)

22:29:12.705 --> 22:29:16.959
-When I found out that Sally
and Tselote shared a grave,

22:29:17.084 --> 22:29:18.877
I worked remotely
with the church

22:29:19.003 --> 22:29:21.463
to have a memorial stone
built for them,

22:29:21.589 --> 22:29:29.805
and for all the other young
people who died in the region.

22:29:29.972 --> 22:29:39.815
I think that's what my
grandparents would've wanted.

22:29:39.982 --> 22:29:43.611
For me, Sally is the gateway
into understanding

22:29:43.736 --> 22:29:46.488
the complicated history
of Ethiopia,

22:29:46.655 --> 22:29:54.038
my family's story, as well as
the contemporary landscape.

22:29:54.163 --> 22:29:58.292
I wonder though: Would Sally
fit into today's Ethiopia?

22:29:58.459 --> 22:30:00.336
Would she still be fighting?

22:30:00.461 --> 22:30:03.255
(crowd shouting)

22:30:03.380 --> 22:30:07.384
Mengistu's reign of terror
ended in 1991.

22:30:07.509 --> 22:30:10.179
After the fall
of the Soviet Union,

22:30:10.304 --> 22:30:14.308
the Derg was finally driven out
by a coalition of rebel groups.

22:30:14.475 --> 22:30:18.896
Over 1,000 people were tried
and found responsible

22:30:19.021 --> 22:30:20.689
for the mass killings.

22:30:20.814 --> 22:30:23.317
Mengistu managed
to flee Ethiopia,

22:30:23.484 --> 22:30:28.322
never spending
a single day in jail.

22:30:28.489 --> 22:30:31.825
Then another repressive regime
took power,

22:30:31.992 --> 22:30:33.577
who also banned opposition

22:30:33.702 --> 22:30:40.292
and ignited a dangerous ethnic
divide among the people.

22:30:40.459 --> 22:30:43.295
The Red Terror
had traumatized survivors

22:30:43.462 --> 22:30:44.880
and their descendents.

22:30:45.005 --> 22:30:48.509
It took 25 years for Ethiopian
to feel brave again

22:30:48.634 --> 22:30:54.973
and to demand change.

22:30:55.140 --> 22:30:59.228
Like during the Derg era,
those who stood up for change

22:30:59.353 --> 22:31:10.948
were met by heavy government
resistance and live bullets.

22:31:11.073 --> 22:31:14.660
In 2018, due to large protests,

22:31:14.827 --> 22:31:24.503
a new prime minister, seen as a
young reformer, was appointed.

22:31:24.628 --> 22:31:26.755
- The 17 years with the Derg,

22:31:26.880 --> 22:31:29.633
the 27 years with Ehadeg.

22:31:29.800 --> 22:31:32.344
It was a life
that you couldn't plan.

22:31:32.469 --> 22:31:34.638
There's no way
that you could plan.

22:31:34.763 --> 22:31:36.765
The next day,
the plan's gone, done,

22:31:36.890 --> 22:31:39.977
laws have changed
overnight.

22:31:40.102 --> 22:31:41.520
There was no opportunity.

22:31:41.645 --> 22:31:45.983
So, now, we get a prime
minister, Dr Abiy,

22:31:46.108 --> 22:31:50.154
and he's talking to people
so we want him. Ha!

22:31:50.279 --> 22:31:52.740
It's as simple as that.
He's listening.

22:31:52.865 --> 22:31:57.369
People haven't been heard,
they've been undermined.

22:31:57.494 --> 22:32:01.874
So, the gravitation towards
this leader is automatic.

22:32:01.999 --> 22:32:03.459
The balance just goes that way.

22:32:03.625 --> 22:32:05.461
- I believe that
they didn't think

22:32:05.627 --> 22:32:08.464
there was anything they could do
about it until Abiy came.

22:32:08.589 --> 22:32:12.134
And now, there's a possibility
that things could change.

22:32:12.259 --> 22:32:13.635
- I agree.

22:32:13.761 --> 22:32:15.012
- I think it's all up to us.

22:32:15.137 --> 22:32:17.139
We have to do
whatever we can.

22:32:17.306 --> 22:32:19.683
We have to say:
"Yes, it will happen,

22:32:19.808 --> 22:32:23.187
"and yes, the people
of Ethiopia will win."

22:32:23.312 --> 22:32:28.317
Without any doubt.
Without any doubt.

22:32:28.442 --> 22:33:07.773
(crowd applauding)

22:33:07.898 --> 22:33:15.989
(♪♪♪♪♪♪)

22:33:16.114 --> 22:33:18.492
-Despite a change
of leadership,

22:33:18.617 --> 22:33:22.496
the country is still facing
ethnic violence, protests

22:33:22.621 --> 22:33:26.166
and a large number
of displaced people.

22:33:26.250 --> 22:33:29.670
The questions raised by Sally
and her comrades

22:33:29.795 --> 22:33:33.215
may be different from those
of young people today,

22:33:33.340 --> 22:33:36.760
but I know many of the values
she risked her life for

22:33:36.885 --> 22:33:43.141
are just as important.

22:33:43.267 --> 22:33:46.144
I hope that a new
generation of leaders

22:33:46.311 --> 22:33:49.940
can inspire the unity
that Sally dreamed of.

22:33:50.065 --> 22:33:52.734
I hope that from years
of bitterness,

22:33:52.860 --> 22:33:54.903
death and corruption,

22:33:55.028 --> 22:34:03.912
that a renewed
Ethiopia can arise.

22:34:04.037 --> 22:34:09.668
A rebirth from the ashes
of the old.

22:34:09.793 --> 22:34:12.796
(Daughterby Zaki Ibrahim)