a general mengistu and a hard-line communist regime called the derg took over the country.n up into small parcels. >> petros: everything what my father had, the land, the property, is confiscated. and those who had the authority, they had the chance to work together, to cooperate, or they were enemies. >> anthony: right. anyone deemed an enemy of the state, and this could be a very dangerously loose definition, but usually and typically included the educated, the well-off and anyone associated with the former government were hunted down, shunned, jailed, harassed and often straight out killed. maya's dad was all those things, an educated landowner and part of the rural tribal administration from the selassie time. most people who had the means left the country. >> petros: i know this guy who is appointed, you know, as a governor of the region, killed 60 people in the region. in three year's time. >> maya: nobody knows when he's coming. >> anthony: right. >> maya: so he could, he'd just knock our door and my mom, she gets it every time he comes. he gave her bullets. he tells