One of the places I had visited last October when I went to the field to attend a meeting by the Ethiopian People’s Patriotic Front (EPPF) was the town of Humera, Ethiopia. For obvious reasons, I could not actually enter the town, but I was right at the Tekeze River, which serves as the border. It was tempting to grab an AK-47 from one of the EPPF fighters who were accompanying me and unload it on the Woyanne military post that was a few meters away from me.
The trip to Humera was an extremely emotional experience for me — looking at my own country from across a river. Woyanne made millions of Ethiopians like me strangers to their country, while sucking the life blood of the nation. The trip made me more determined than ever to muster every energy and knowledge I have to fight and remove this cancer from Ethiopia. – Elias Kifle
I have produced the following video about my trip to Humera.