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Petros Tesfagiorgis
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CDRiE member Petros Tesfagiorgis who is spearheading the disaster response plan is former head of the Eritrean Relief Association which for many years had assisted Eritrean refugees fleeing Ethiopian oppression in the 70s and 80s. The current refugee situation under the brutal dictatorship in Asmara is said to be more debilitating and more lethal than anything Eritreans have experienced.
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Mussie Tesfamichael, Yohannes Sebhatu, Amanuel Yohannes and Debesai Gebre Selassie joined the EPLF when the ELF-PLF was formed by merging, in January 1972. They arrived at Gereger Sudan where the EPLF’s (PLF) base area was located, Yohannes was appointed immediately as director of publications and information because he had previous experience of working for the Ethiopia Herald.
Amanuel Yohannes was sent on another hijacking mission to Addis Ababa from Gereger Sudan. To accomplish his task Amanuel flew to Addis Ababa from abroad disguised as a businessman. On 8 of December 1972 Amanuel Yohannes was killed with six others in an attempt to hijack the Ethiopian Airline Boeing. Petros Tesfagiorgis (2001) states that Amanuel asked a comrade Mesfun Araya to go to Asmara, contact the EPLF and bring hand grenades and pistols for the hijacking. Mesfun took risks to bring arms for the hijacking then flew to USA before the group met their death.
Yohannes Sebhatu joined Addis Abeba University in 1962-3. He was studying economics, and was a brilliant student. He used to be suspended university form the Uinversity because of politics. Yohannes was also imprisoned a day or so at Kolfe and Sendafa when he was actively involved in the university demonstration (Aida Kidane, 2005). Yohannes was described by other source as the first students in Ethiopian education history to be expelled from Haile Sellasie University, for political agitation. He was the president and founder of a leftist political society at university. One of the best students to ever come out of any Ethiopian University (R.R Balsvik Haile Sellasies student: the intellectual and social background to revolution). Source. Petros Tesfagiorgis(2007) also states that Yohanes Sebhatu, a brilliant Marxist Guru. He was a reporter in an English daily paper in Addis Ababa during the two years of his suspension from the University. Yohanes Sebhatu and Mussie Tesfamicael were executed by EPLF as a member of the “Menka uprising”
Executed ca 1979. readmore
Yohannes Sebhatu joined Addis Abeba University in 1962-3. He was studying economics, and was a brilliant student. He used to be suspended university form the Uinversity because of politics. Yohannes was also imprisoned a day or so at Kolfe and Sendafa when he was actively involved in the university demonstration (Aida Kidane, 2005). Yohannes was described by other source as the first students in Ethiopian education history to be expelled from Haile Sellasie University, for political agitation. He was the president and founder of a leftist political society at university. One of the best students to ever come out of any Ethiopian University (R.R Balsvik Haile Sellasies student: the intellectual and social background to revolution. Source. Petros Tesfagiorgis(2007) also states that Yohanes Sebhatu, a brilliant Marxist Guru. He was a reporter in an English daily paper in Addis Ababa during the two years of his suspension from the University. Yohanes Sebhatu and Mussie Tesfamicael were executed by EPLF as a member of the “Menka uprising”
Executed ca 1975.
Yohannes Sebhatu joined Addis Abeba University in 1962-3. He was studying economics, and was a brilliant student. He was suspended from the university because of his political activities. Yohannes was also imprisoned a day or so at Kolfe as was Sendafa when he became involved in the university demonstration (Aida Kidane, 2005). Yohannes was described by other source as the first student in Ethiopia’s education history to be expelled from Haile Sellasie University, for political agitation. He was the president and founder of a leftist political society at university. One of the best students to ever come out of any Ethiopian University (R.R Balsvik Haile Sellasies student: the intellectual and social background to revolution.
Petros Tesfagiorgis(2007) also states that Yohanes Sebhatu, was a brilliant Marxist thinker. He was a reporter in an English daily paper in Addis Ababa during the two years of his suspension from the University. Yohanes Sebhatu and Mussie Tesfamicael were executed by the EPLF for being part of the “Menka uprising”.
Footnote to page 1, first mention of "Citizen's for Peace," after author's name Citizens for Peace in Eritrea (CPE) is a voluntary association of concerned Eritrean citizens who have come together as a committee for the purpose of studying and disseminating information about the Ethio-Eritrean conflict and its human consequences. The chairman, Petros Tesfagiorgis, is a founding member of ERA (Eritrean Relief Association) a world-wide organization which was active during the last decade of the liberation war, devoted to relief and the alleviation hunger and dislocation caused by droughts and wars. The aims and objectives of CPE are described in Appendix 3. Address: Citizens for Peace, P.O.Box 4588, Asmara, Eritrea; Tel. 291-1-11-92-95; Fax. 291-1-18-30-31; E-mail, er4peace@infodesk.gemel.com.er
If the third group of the 8th December 1972 hijackers had succeeded they would have joined the EPLF as had the previous two groups of Ethiopian Airlines hijackers which had been led by Amanuel Yohannes and Berhane Meskel . The former group joined the EPLF after the 1971 hijacking and the latter group after hijacking a domestic Ethiopian plane to Algeria in 1969 got their training with the EPLF. Regarding this Aleme Eshete said if the hijackers had succeeded, it was reported that they were heading for Algeria to join Berhane-Meskel Redda and others who had hijacked another airplane about two years or so earlier: Furthermore, Petros Tesfagiorgis (2018) states that the hijackers were destined to go to Sahel for military training. They chose to leave Ethiopia by highjack the Airlines in order to get international publicity