sisay hundessa interview

As a young person in Europe, Sunder had seen from a remote spot the completion of Italian expansionism and British association in Eritrea, and its collusion with Ethiopia in 1950. Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie separated the Eritrean parliament and appended the space in 1962, and the accompanying Eritrean War for Independence continued to go 30 years against moderate Ethiopian states until 1991, when the Eritrean People's Liberation Front finally vanquished the Ethiopian powers in Eritrea.

As a skilled worker residing in a condition of expulsion for north of 20 years around then, Sounder would have followed news about Ethiopia and its neighbor eagerly, including the concordance talks that happened in his embraced home city Washington DC in mid 1991.