He pretends like he did not record the first minute because it obviously contains bravado and self-incriminating evidence. One minute conversation is not the same as one sentence. It is at least half a paragraph that is missing here. De Waal did obviously do editing here to misinform his readers. What a dishonest piece of [deleted].[The first minute of the call was not recorded. Mulugeta started by describing the onset of
the war.]
https://sites.tufts.edu/reinventingpeac ... ipt1-1.pdf