Ethiopia loses her last MiG-21 pilot to exile~

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Ethiopia loses her last MiG-21 pilot to exile

 

SEATTLE, Washington - Lt. Yonas Belay, Ethiopia's last remaining MiG-21 pilot who had a staggering 128 reconnaissance missions into enemy territory in the 1998-2000 Ethiopia-Eritrea War, recently sought a a political asylum in Canada.

Trained in Moscow in the mid-80s as MiG-21 and MiG-23 pilot, Lt. Yonas ended for good a life that had been caught between flying as a fighter pilot in times of war and languishing as a political prisoner in times of peace.

 

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