Truneh
Wolde
Selassie:
The
communist
era.
Adu
Worku:
Mmm
hmm.
Truneh
Wolde
Selassie:
And
then
when
|
saw
these
people,
|
looked
round
and
|
saw
two
of
our
teachers
from
the
school
who
were
on
the
bus.
The
bus
was
broken
down.
Was
standing
there
and
the
people
were
without
any
transport.
So,
|
said
to
these
teachers,
“Get
up
on
the
back.”
|
had
uh,
the
school’s
pick-up.
(Adu
Worku:
Mmm
hmm.)
In
the
front,
there
were
two
ladies
next
to
me
and
the
back
was
empty.
|
told
the
teachers
to
get
up,
and
others
also
who
were
on
the
truck.
And
as
|
was
driving,
not
very
far,
|
heard
them
banging
on
the
top
of
the
uh,
car.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
|
stopped.
When
|
stopped,
two
men
came
on
this
side
[gestures
on
his
left]
with
revolvers
in
their
hands.
One
of
them
leveled
his
revolver
against
my
head,
just
like
that.
And
|
could
see
that
he
had
his
finger
on
the
trigger
and
he
was
going
to
pull
it.
And
|
thought
that
was
the
end.
And
these
ladies
who
were
sitting
next
to
me,
they
were
shouting,
they
said,
“Why?!
Why?!
Why?!”
eh,
they
don’t
tell
them
why.
But
then
he
said,
“Get
out.”
|
got
out
from
the
car.
He
said,
“Go
ahead!”
|
was
walking.
And
as
|
was
walking,
the
day
students
of
my
school,
who
were
living
in
that
area,
came
running.
Lots
of
them!
They
came
and
they
surrounded
these
two
men,
who
were
taking
me
away.
They
said,
“Why
do
you
do
that?
He's
our
principal.
He’s
the
principal
of
our
school.
The
principal
of
our
school.
Why
do
you
do
that?”
And
that
man
re...,
seemed
to
recognize
something
at
that
moment
and
he
took
back
his
revolver
and
put
it
inside
here
and
just
walked
away.
Two
of
them.
They
walked
away.
Adu
Worku:
Did
you
find
out
why
they
did
that?
Truneh
Wolde
Selassie:
|
didn’t
find
out
why,
why
they
did
it,
but
|
was
really
surprised.
So
the
following
morning,
|
went
to
the
office,
the
local
government
office.
|
said,
|
told
them
what
happened.
Already
they
had
known
what
had
happened.
And
the
man
told
me,
Mr.
Truneh,
it’s
just
one
thing
that
saved
your
life
yesterday.
When
these
two
men
came
to
you,
if
you
had
removed
your
hands
from
the
steering
wheel,
they
would
have
shot
and
killed
you.
But
because
your
hand
was
still
there,
they
felt
that
you
didn’t
have
any
revolver.
Apparently,
they
were
waiting
for
somebody
who
was
supposed
to
be
against
the
revolution,
against
the
communist
government,
they
were
watching
for
that
man.
And
they
thought
that’s
me.
Adu
Worku:
So
this
was
a
case
of
mistaken
identity.
Truneh
Wolde
Selassie:
They
mistaken
me!
Adu
Worku:
[clicks
tongue]
Truneh
Wolde
Selassie:
They
were
really
going
to
shoot
me.
Adu
Worku:
Wooow!
Truneh
Wolde
Selassie:
And,
that’s
how
God
saved
my
life.