One Day, Seyoum …
...you will be sitting at a desk in your comfortable apartment in France, and you will hear the laughter of your two young daughters in the next room, as you try to work on a new documentary feature. You will feel briefly
…you will be sitting at a desk in your comfortable apartment in France, and you will hear the laughter of your two young daughters in the next room, as you try to work on a new documentary feature. You will feel briefly annoyed at this sudden interruption and then you will simply lean back and …smile.
You will close your eyes and smell your wife’s cooking drifting over from the kitchen. You will get up, realizing that it is time to put on a fresh shirt before dinner. You will sneak a taste from the hors d’oeuvres plate that is already sitting on the dining room table. You will go to kiss your wife who chases you away in mock reproach.
You will welcome friends and relatives as they enter the door and envelope them in warm embraces, while bursting with laughter at your cousin’s outrageous jokes.
You will discuss the latest news from your homeland, and argue passionately for much needed reforms. You will write countless letters, late into the night, desperate pleas for friends and colleagues still left behind, with few options of coming to their aid.
As an award winning war photographer and filmmaker, you will be appalled at the content of cable TV and the barrage of commercials will soon sour you on even the best programming choices.
You will get lost on the Metro on your way to the store, and it will take you months to navigate the dizzying array of apps and updates on your new tablet device.
But you will hardly notice. You will work on your memoirs and find that no words come.
At night you will lie in clean sheets and listen to the sounds of the quiet house, the sound of fearless rest. And you will wrestle with your inner demons that years of deprivation, torture and loneliness have wrought, that have burrowed deeply into your soul and will not be shaken.
You will feel paralyzed with dread and yet you will feel wondrously, gloriously whole – because you are finally free. One day, Seyoum …
For more information, please go to www.onedayseyoum.com The site is run by two high school students, Seyoum Tsehaye’s niece, Vanessa Berhe, who lives in Sweden, and Clara Wikforss. It features a new interactive project to draw attention to Tsehaye’s plight and to mobilize public support to win his release.
Genet October 15, 2013
I just visited the website to sign the petition but the form was not in English. Please have a form in English.
Free Seyoum Now!
Genet
Mebrahtu Michael October 15, 2013
Sorry
I don’t speak Swedish
Mebrahtu R. Michael October 15, 2013
Sorry
I don’t speak Swedish
Mebrahtu R. Michael October 15, 2013
Sorry
I don’t speak Swedish
Vanessa Berhe October 15, 2013
Dear Gennet,
we are working on that! Thank you for the support! Keep an eye on the website during the next couple of days and the probelm should have been fixed!
Vanessa
marsa October 16, 2013
Pls put it in English, the sooner the better.You have done great job.