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Brief thread: Ethiopia's politics are its own, don't want to wade in... but history is something else. And I can't believe this needs to be said: the Derg was a genocidal Marxist regime that slaughtered all kinds of people. It did NOT represent one ethnic group...
To suggest the Derg were from one ethnicity is a completely disgusting slander. When I visited Ethiopia, everywhere I went, almost every person I met had experienced their horrors or had family who did. In Canada, there's a Diaspora woman survivor who keeps files and records...
...of victims and what they suffered. I know people who fled the Derg. I've met a guy tortured by the Derg. You think for one damn minute any of them care about this petty crap of what ethnic background they're from?
They're Ethiopians. The Derg were Ethiopians -- and monsters.
They're Ethiopians. The Derg were Ethiopians -- and monsters.
In the name of Jesus, Moses and Allah all worshiped in Ethiopia, there are boxes of SKULLS and BONES, stacked in the Red Terror Museum. Which are Amhara? Which are Tigrinyas? They're your dead. And they died bc of lack of tolerance from psychopaths who were like the Khmer Rouge.
Why should I care? Because I know a talented filmmaker who lost her aunt, fighting the Derg. I know the nicest smartest man who went through Yekatit 12, Danane, Italian Occupation and THEN had to flee the Derg bc he was on their hit list.
So NO. No lies about genocide please.
So NO. No lies about genocide please.
