Cover Story | survival
At Azteca Mexican Restaurant, Agwa and his daughter Abang order the Chile Colorado, which they say tastes similar to doro wat — considered the national dish of Ethiopia.
“the journey of life,” continued... control of the country. Mariam declared war on these counter-revolutionaries, ordering soldiers to do houseby-house searches across all of Ethiopia in search of EPRP members. When found, they were executed. This period became known as the Red Terror, and Amnesty International estimates that as many as 500,000 people
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were murdered. Agwa recalls how the government tried to divide his own people, the Anuaks, telling them to fear those among them with education, and to resist against anyone who refused to fight. Refusal alone came with consequences. Some were
dragged by soldiers from their homes in the middle of the night and executed in front of their families as warnings to others. But from the day he saw soldiers taking his friends to the warfront, Agwa refused to go — insisting to recruiting officers that he could not leave his mother to fend for