As the onset of the War of Liberation threatened the family, Senait's father made the shocking decision to 'give' Senait and two of her stepsisters to the guerrilla troops of the ELF (Eritrean Liberation Front). Born in 1974 to an Ethiopian mother and an Eritrean father, Senait was abandoned by her parents as a baby and spent her early years in a state orphanage before being returned to her father. An unwanted baby, her mother packs her inside a suitcase, puts the case in the wardrobe and goes away. Ī 'child from a suitcase' - that's how Senait Mehari's story begins. As the onset of the War of Liberation threatened the family, Senait's father made the shocking decision to 'give' Senait and two of her stepsisters to the guerrilla. A 'child from a suitcase' - that's how Senait Mehari's story begins.
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