For one family, Ethiopian referendum reverberates through generations – AuthenticAfrican

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HAWASSA, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Government forces displayed the severed heads of Yerusalem Kawiso's relatives in the market after the two men fought to carve out a state for Ethiopia's Sidama people. Forty years later, the Ethiopian mother rose before dawn on Wednesday to vote for the referendum her family dreamed of.

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