Excerpt from
Awate Interview With Mr. Mengestab
Asmerom
By Saleh Younis
Jul 25, 2005, 18:45 PST
In September 1975, I was
pulled out from the Forces and referred to the
In 1977,
you were logically an ideal target for the Falul movement. Did they
attempt to recruit you? Now that you look back to towards that period, how do
you assess the movement?
I don't recall any
attempt by the Falul
movement to try to recruit me. At the time, I was stationed in Akele Guzay and at that place and
within the cadre unit, the impact of the Falul
movement was not felt much. When we were new enlistees, there were cadres that
attempted to educate us on the differences that emerged following the Second
Congress. They used to mention the names of leaders we didn't know and tell us
so-and-so is progressive and so-and-so is reactionary.