Chapter 82 Chapter 15 The Third World and Revolution

In January 1974, General Beleta Abebe stopped at Gode’s battalion headquarters on the way in the middle of his inspection. Unexpectedly, a report arrived at the palace the next day. The general had been arrested by the soldiers there and forced to eat Get food for the soldiers.The food was so rotten that some people worried that the general might get sick and die because of it. (Ethiopia) The emperor hurriedly dispatched the air force of the personal guards, and finally rescued the general and sent him to the hospital for treatment. ——The Emperor (Ryszard Kapuscinski, The Emperor, 1983, p. 120)

We slaughtered all the cattle that could be slaughtered (on the University Experimental Farm).But when they were slaughtering, the peasant women there began to cry bitterly: Why do these poor animals have to be slaughtered like this?What the hell did they do wrong?Ladies crying like this, oh poor thing, we had to stop.But we have probably already slaughtered a quarter of them, about 80 or so.We meant to kill them all, but we couldn't, because the peasant women started crying. After we had been there a little while, a gentleman mounted his horse and went to the end of Ajacucho to tell everyone what had happened.So by the next day, the whole thing was on the Las Voz news.When the news came out, we happened to be on our way back, and some comrades happened to have those little radios with them.And everybody listen, ha, this makes us feel pretty good, doesn't it?

——A young member of "Shining Path" (Tiempos, 1990, p. 198)