The Grievance That Kept Its NameEthiopia / Tigray · 1943“The circle has already told you of Tigray's last war. Now hear the first one. They share a name for a reason.”Haile Selassie returned from exile in 1941, restored by British arms after the Italian occupation, and Tigray should have cheered. Instead the province watched what came next: governors imposed from Addis, taxes collected without consultation, grain requisitions that left villages short.The lesson the elders kept: A name kept alive in memory is a name kept available for the next generation - suppressing the event does not suppress the lesson it taught.