The hope was that by now they should have left the Italian Embassy in Addis Ababa where they have been given refuge for the past 28 years, and walked free. This is the subject of a book, “I noti ospiti” (‘Known guests’) written in Italian few months ago by Giuseppe Mistretta, former Italian ambassador to Ethiopia (2014 to 2017), and Giuliano Fragnito, former first secretary of the Italian embassy in Addis Ababa. Berhanu Bayeh and Addis Tedla, the two remaining officials, have stayed in the embassy, enjoying “diplomatic immunity” for the past twenty eight years. Tesfaye applied to the Italian Embassy for asylum and accepted, along with a few other senior officials,” Paul Henze wrote in Layers of Time. Main Image: Berhanu Bayeh 1989This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence.

Source: Ethiopian News February 17, 2019 20:01 UTC