Amanda Rivkin
Ethiopian Millennium: Movie Theater
Movie Theater
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA. Young Ethiopians wait in line for an Amharic-language movie at the Ambassador Theater in downtown Addis Ababa on September 10, 2007 beneath portraits of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and President Girme Woldegiorgis, among the only public portraits of the country's rulers in the capital. The 2005 elections were disrupted by mass disturbances and ended when the military fired on and killed an undisclosed number of demonstrators estimated in the hundreds. The portraits appeared only a few days ahead of the city's Coptic millennium celebrations on September 11, 2007.
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA. Young Ethiopians wait in line for an Amharic-language movie at the Ambassador Theater in downtown Addis Ababa on September 10, 2007 beneath portraits of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and President Girme Woldegiorgis, among the only public portraits of the country's rulers in the capital. The 2005 elections were disrupted by mass disturbances and ended when the military fired on and killed an undisclosed number of demonstrators estimated in the hundreds. The portraits appeared only a few days ahead of the city's Coptic millennium celebrations on September 11, 2007.
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