On to forge a successful career as a model and soul singer.Īfter everything, though, she refuses to be a victim. Soon after, Senait left home and after a brief homeless spell went Half starved and repeatedly raped, they were eventually There followed three years of hell in a training camp for young This were fiction, her father handed the three girls to the rebel troops In a further sickening twist, that would be scarcely credible if With the onset of Eritrea's War of Liberation againstĮthiopia, six-year-old Senait was exposed to scenes of unimaginableĬarnage, including the slaughter of 20 children when an Ethiopian pilotĭropped his cargo of explosive-stuffed dolls near her school. Punctuated only by vicious beatings and abuse.
Senait's rebellious, independent spirit set her on a collisionĬourse with him, and the family's hand-to-mouth existence was Grandparents, she and two step-sisters went to live with their violent An unwanted baby, her mother packs her inside a suitcase, puts the case in the wardrobe and goes away. Mehari 3.70 280 ratings26 reviews Want to read Buy on Amazon Rate this book A 'child from a suitcase' - that's how Senait Mehari's story begins. Shunted between austere state orphanages, Senait's early years Heart of Fire: From Child Soldier to Soul Singer Senait G. Halfhearted mixture of murder and abandonment", it's hard to Left there by her Ethiopian mother in what she describes as "a Just a few weeks old, she was found in a suitcase on top of a wardrobe. Retrieved from īorn in Eritrea in 1974, Senait Mehari was close to death when, at APA style: BOOK REVIEWS: Heart of Fire, by Senait Mehari, Profile Books, pounds 9.99.BOOK REVIEWS: Heart of Fire, by Senait Mehari, Profile Books, pounds 9.99." Retrieved from MLA style: "BOOK REVIEWS: Heart of Fire, by Senait Mehari, Profile Books, pounds 9.99." The Free Library.
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