Still hoping...

Today’s visit at qaliti seemed a bit secured. The guards were almost a fold than usual. Many new faces. A number of them having all kinds of weapons starting from the gate. Searching was intense. This gave me the usual feeling “something new must have happened/must be happening”. As time passes by, nothing unusual happened during the visitation hour. Well, it is just my paranoia I told myself. Or may be it’s because of the discussion our beloved leaders had with professor Ephraim and his team yesterday. The good professor and his team (this time five of them) had a discussion which started on Friday and continued yesterday. We only had half an hour of our one-hour-long visitation yesterday with a reason our beloved leaders are in a meeting and they just popped up at 3:00 p.m. stayed only till around 3:30 and got back to their meeting. This might seem a good news at a glance, for the trial which was adjourned for tomorrow was just one more weekend to go. A naïve individual like me would think that way atleast, trial will resume tomorrow... the “negotiation” restarted over the weekend... that’s something better than nothing at all. But then again, no good news at all from the discussion I heard. The mediators brought the same old game, play by Zenawi’s game. So I guess we could just summarize the weekend’s negation as “the mediators showed up for two days and left”. Nothing more happened.

Tomorrow’s trial is one of the kinds. Nobody really can think of anything what might happen at the court tomorrow. The request the leaders made to the court as well as to the prison authorities to allow them to have a discussion all together was simply denied. They submitted a written request to both the court and the prison authorities but got no response from either till this moment of today. From our leaders’ principles, they wouldn’t do anything before they have a discussion together. So I guess tomorrow’s trial is really one of the kinds. Surprise surprise. Let me go to my bed and pray for a good surprise. Well, I’m talking about a relative “good surprise”. May be something which tells us there’s still a room for negotiation or...

See you tomorrow.