{"id":279178,"date":"2019-06-17T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=bfefda9dd22d0bcef5a83e4acf72a699"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:16:14","slug":"thomas-matthew-recalled-midnight-street-terror-in-1974-ethiopia-for-the-new-indian-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279178","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Matthew recalled midnight street terror in 1974 Ethiopia for The New Indian Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 June 2019 The New Indian Express published Thomas Matthew\u2019s Mindspace essay \u201cMidnight terror on streets of Ethiopia,\u201d which opened in the revolutionary year 1974.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-601742\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/culture-national-theatre-1280.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Thomas Matthew recalled midnight street terror in 1974 Ethiopia for The New Indian Express\" \/>\n<p>The piece used personal recollection of night-time fear in Ethiopian streets to revisit how political upheaval reached ordinary lives during the fall of Emperor Haile Selassie\u2019s order.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as history archive, the Express essay dates a 2019 memoir reading of Ethiopia\u2019s 1974 street terror.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/opinions\/mindspace\/2019\/jun\/18\/midnight-terror-on-streets-of-ethiopia-1991564.html\">The New Indian Express<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midnight terror on streets of Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;The New Indian ExpressPublished: 18th June 2019 04:00 AM | Last Updated: 18th June 2019 01:59 AM | A+A A-. By Thomas Matthew. Express News *Service*. The year was 1974.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":601742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/culture-national-theatre-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aCS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755260,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279178\/revisions\/755260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}