Activist Death Shows Opposition Plight Before Ethiopia Vote
The mother and sister of Getahun Abraham, an Ethiopian activist who committed suicide a month before May 24 elections. Photographer: William Davison/Bloomberg
(Bloomberg Business) — A month before Ethiopia’s elections, opposition activist Getahun Abraham walked into a compound of government offices in the southern town of Gimbichu, doused his body in gasoline and set himself alight. It took more than 10 minutes for bystanders to extinguish the flames.
“We were in a meeting when we heard a scream,” local police chief Moges Bafe recalled of the day the 25-year-old physics teacher committed suicide. “When we ran out, he was burning and we also screamed. The fire looked like a big house was being burned.”
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