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Article: Finding Christ in a fetid Ethiopian jail: surviving torture was God's plan, innocent educator believes.(Mulugeta Abai)
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- Presbyterian Record
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- July 1, 2005
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There are clues to Mulugeta Abai's Ethiopian past. One of them is the job he has chosen for himself in Toronto at the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture. Clients say he offers them comfort, that he is perceptive, kind, and always determined to help. But behind his murmurs of understanding, there is his own vivid recall, and behind his sympathy there are the shifting sheets he returns to each night, tossing in nightmares he refuses to share with his wife.
He was born in 1953 in the northern Ethiopian province of Tigray, the first of seven children, with plenty to eat and nice clothes to wear. His father, a lower-court judge, sent his sons to boarding school ...