Addis Ababa Podcasts
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The poet Caalaa was sitting in the cell next to the journalist Martin Schibbye at the police station in Addis Ababa. He is tortured daily. Caalaa escapes for her life and ends up alone in a wintry Hälsingland.
During Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson's time in a cell at the police station in Addis Ababa, they could for several days see how prisoners were picked up at the rest yard from an underground part of the police station. The prisoners squinted at the bright light and were in poor condition. At night, screams were heard from the neighboring cells.One of those who shouted was Caalaa Hayiluu Abaataa, a young poet from the Oromo people who was imprisoned and tortured for his regime-critical poems. Martin threw a pack of Ethiopian "Nyala" cigarettes at him at one point and communicated via hand signals when the guards did not see them.
When Martin was released, he never thought he would see Caalaa again. But in December 2012, he received a friend request on Facebook from a refugee camp in Sudan. It was Caalaa who had fled.
The situation in the camp was terrible, friends of his had been killed by Ethiopian security services and gangs of traffickers operated in the camps. He feared for his life and felt that he had escaped from the ashes of the fire.
"I am coming to Sweden" he suddenly writes to Martin one spring day in May. He has been accepted as a quota refugee and he will take a course under the auspices of the Swedish Migration Board and then fly to Sweden. When he lands at Arlanda, Martin meets him and has since followed Caalaa's life as a quota refugee in Färila in Hälsingland. Now begins his real challenge.
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The documentary The Boy in the Cell Next door is made by Martin Schibbye in 2015Support the show
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MALTUU FI GUMGUMA GABRUMMAA''
(The wanderers and their murmurs of oppression)
I wrote this short story in 2014 when Oromo students protested EPDRF's #AddisAbabaMaterPlan, the plan to evict Oromo farmers from their land around Addis Ababa.
When the students got angry and decided to be the Oromo farmers' voice in the streets and protested, they were killed by security forces in daylight at various universities.
The main idea of writing this short fiction based on the fact that happened in Oromia came to my mind after speaking to some students at #Madawalabu University in the Bale Zone in the regional state of Oromia.
I wrote it when one of the students was shot dead and died after being taken to Shashemene Hospital. This short fiction based on the actual events can be like echoes and pain from families, friends in the neighbourhood. I tried to think about the situation in Oromia. I shared the sadness and despair with families who sent their children to universities and received the bodies.
As I try to dig deep into the communities, this short story also tells how the regime's spies went deep into families and made them talk and gossip about the authorities. After speaking with them, the spies reported the people to the administration based on what they said against the government.
This short story tells how Oromo students were shot side-by-side in the streets by Ethiopian Ethiopian regimes. Simultaneously, it speaks loudly about their courageous, determination and readiness to fight Ethiopia's colonial rule to benefit their people to their last breath. It aims to glorify the ultimate sacrifice that the Oromo students made for the Oromo nation's freedom. I believe their story of brave deeds must be written in ink and remembered by the generation to come.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyvqOmmhmJI&t=4sSupport the show
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'' IMALTUU FI GUMGUMA GABRUMMAA''
(The wanderers and their murmurs of oppression)
I wrote this short story in 2014 when Oromo students protested EPDRF's #AddisAbabaMaterPlan, the plan to evict Oromo farmers from their land around Addis Ababa.
When the students got angry and decided to be the Oromo farmers' voice in the streets and protested, they were killed by security forces in daylight at various universities.
The main idea of writing this short fiction based on the fact that happened in Oromia came to my mind after speaking to some students at #Madawalabu University in the Bale Zone in the regional state of Oromia.
I wrote it when one of the students was shot dead and died after being taken to Shashemene Hospital. This short fiction based on the actual events can be like echoes and pain from families, friends in the neighbourhood. I tried to think about the situation in Oromia. I shared the sadness and despair with families who sent their children to universities and received the bodies.
As I try to dig deep into the communities, this short story also tells how the regime's spies went deep into families and made them talk and gossip about the authorities. After speaking with them, the spies reported the people to the administration based on what they said against the government.
This short story tells how Oromo students were shot side-by-side in the streets by Ethiopian Ethiopian regimes. Simultaneously, it speaks loudly about their courageous, determination and readiness to fight Ethiopia's colonial rule to benefit their people to their last breath. It aims to glorify the ultimate sacrifice that the Oromo students made for the Oromo nation's freedom. I believe their story of brave deeds must be written in ink and remembered by the generation to come.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyvqOmmhmJI&t=4sSupport the show
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On June 23, 2018, there was a bomb explosion in Addis Ababa (Finfinnee), and many things were said while the underlying truth was not told ...
I conducted an investigation and found the final FBI for forensic investigation on the crime scene ...
Eventually, the FBI team closed their investigation and filed it. The 22 pages contain everything they did.
However, the Abiy regime found the result of their investigation not in favour of what they wanted and so that Abiy rejected it.
WHY?Support the show
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On June 23, 2018, there was a bomb explosion in Addis Ababa (Finfinnee) and many things were said while the underlying truth was not told ...
I conducted an investigation and found the final FBI for forensic investigation on site ...
Eventually the FBI team closed their investigation and filed it. The 22 pages contain everything they did.
However, the Abiy regime found the result of their investigation not in favor of what they wanted and so that Abiy rejected it. WHY?
Instead, why did the Abiy government arrest dozens of Oromo ntioanlist and accuse them of attempted murder?Support the show
