Timket is not an EPRDF holiday
Here is an excerpt from an email I received from Addis...
Wanting to do the usual went to St. George Church [to participate in the ceremony when the Yohannes tabot separates from St. George]. The place didn't look like the same at all. Few people were there.... my mum and I went there be habesha lebse demeqen... the "Tabotats" were not there yet. My mum didn't sense good and she wanted us to go away from that place. The place was surrounded by police carrying firearms. Wanted to stay and asked my mum if we could stay a bit to see the situation.
After few minutes we were stuck in the middle. From the other end we can see people running and the police was chasing them. We had to disappear from that place so feten feten eyalen mehed jemeren...back to our house. But then right in front of us there were lots of people carrying stones.
We got home safe, somehow. Betam yasazen neber. Tabotu Yohannes megbat aqetot neber alu...the kids and the police were fighting. They took most of them alu.... cheger new. [translation: It was sad. According to people, the Tabot from Yohannes could not get into the church. They took most of the kids... Sad situation]
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