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Colonel Atnafu, the deputy to Colonel Mengistu, asked to meet me and we had some half a dozen meetings, over several weeks. He wanted to know whether the country would be put at risk by breaking with the USA and the USSR and wanted to know more about China. The 120 member military committee had a special assembly and made a shocking decision: to have a united front with EPRP, to solve the Eritrean war through peaceful negotiation, and appointed a new 18 member military leadership to implement this resolution led by my brother in law Captain Moges, instead of Colonel Mengistu and all its members except two were from the camp that wanted a united front with EPRP. I had pointed out that the new Dergue executive unit had hours and minutes left as the only logical outcome was for the colonel and his supporters to find a way of killing all the newly appointed officers of the Dergue and put the country under some sort of martial law so that he could undertake a massacre of the left. My escape path was blocked by some 15 people about 20 yards ahead of me. There were guns behind me and there were guns in front of me and some of them were still firing. I made an instant decision to point my
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- Author
- Worku Lakew
- Publisher
- New Generation Publishing
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781787190429
- Category
- nonfiction
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (6 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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