"My revolution is like honey; she gets sweeter all the time" Few people in the west know much about what's happening in Tigray in Northern Ethiopia; in the media there's more money than reports of famine, poverty and under-development. But since 1975 the people of Tigray have been working towards a democratic government society through the gradual process of revolution. Led and supported by the Tigray People Liberation Front they are transforming there lives, despite the impoverishment of the region and the Ethiopian government's continued military aggression. Women are fundamental to these changes; Lemlem Gesesse, one of the first woman fighters, tells us. "Women are not symbolic in the TPLF; they have contributed so much from top to bottom of the struggle..."
"My revolution is like honey; she gets sweeter all the time" Few people in the west know much about what's happening in Tigray in Northern Ethiopia; in the media there's more money than reports of famine, poverty and under-development. But since 1975 the people of Tigray have been working towards a democratic government society through the gradual process of revolution. Led and supported by the Tigray People Liberation Front they are transforming there lives, despite the impoverishment of the region and the Ethiopian government's continued military aggression. Women are fundamental to these changes; Lemlem Gesesse, one of the first woman fighters, tells us. "Women are not symbolic in the TPLF; they have contributed so much from top to bottom of the struggle..."