December 16, 2005
Remembering the red terror
Carpe Diem Ethiopia, the newest of the new arrivals on the Ethiopian blogging scene, remembers the red terror.
I stood under the old pine trees and stared at the kill-zone through the green bars of the school's fence. It was lunchtime and the high green-coated fence provided an artificial enclosure from the killing fields Addis Ababa had become. To those looking into the school, they saw a nappy dark-skinned kid with a thousand-mile stare. I was just a keremt away from turning ten, lived for football, kung-fu flicks, marbles, and dreaming about Tigist, the thumb-sucking little teacher's pet that sat in the front of the class and who occasionally stole glances at me through her long, curly-eyelashes. But on that day, I needed to ponder my father's comments from the night before.
And here's our new motto - 'Every morning, another new blog'.
Posted by aheavens at December 16, 2005 5:38 AM