I shot not at him – Aberash Bekele

Aberash Bekele in an interview with ‘Time’ magazine stated the reason she killed a man in 1997 at age 14. The Ethiopian explained that: I was abducted, and I was trying to go home. I shot not at him, but to keep him away. Speaking on abduction trends in her home country, Bekele who expressed […]

Aberash Bekele in an interview with ‘Time’ magazine stated the reason she killed a man in 1997 at age 14.
The Ethiopian explained that: I was abducted, and I was trying to go home. I shot not at him, but to keep him away.
Speaking on abduction trends in her home country, Bekele who expressed anger over filmmakers of the Angelina Jolie’s movie production, ‘The Difret,’ for telling her story without her consent, informed that: “Abduction is one of the accepted methods of marriage in Ethiopia.
“You get abducted, and then you get raped, because as the father of your potential child, the abductor is in a higher position to negotiate with the family for your hand,” she explained.
On what needs to be done to change the culture of abduction, Bekele said it is ‘simple!’ “We have to educate the men. We have to help them understand that abduction is not O.K.,” she stressed.