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Baalu Girma

Died in 1984

Baalu Girma was born on 22 September 1939 in the province of Illubabor, to an Indian father from Gujarat and a local mother, from a well-off family. A journalist, he was editor-in-chief of Addis Zemen, then a senior civil servant at the Ministry of Information under the Derg dictatorship, whose propaganda he long disseminated. He wrote six novels, among which Kadmas Bashager and Ye'hillina Dewel were the most widely read. Dismissed from the ministry after his sixth book, he disappeared on 14 February 1984 and was in all likelihood abducted and killed by the regime.

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