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09ADDISABABA745 2009-04-01 04:59 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Addis Ababa
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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 ADDIS ABABA 000745 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM PGOV CASC PREL ET
SUBJECT: LUCY CLAIMS ASYLUM 
 
SUMMARY 
------- 
 
1. (SBU) In a move that shocked the paleo-human rights community, 
Lucy -- the 3.2 million year old hominid fossil discovered in rural 
Ethiopia in 1974 -- claimed asylum in Seattle during the second leg 
of her North American tour.  The move has illuminated 
socio-political dynamics among our ancestors and taken a political 
tone within the diaspora while also illuminating cultural quirks of 
twenty-first century American society. 
 
POLITICAL OVERTONES 
------------------- 
 
2. (SBU) Immediately upon issuing her asylum plea, Lucy became a 
cause celebre among the politically restive Ethiopian Diaspora who 
immediately began using the move for its own anti-government ends. 
Within hours the blogosphere erupted with comment.  Dr. Hailu Hailu 
Hailu, President of the Washington State chapter of the Alliance for 
the Reliberation of Ethiopia said, "Lucy is proof of the Ethiopian 
government's mistreatment...when she got off the plane in the U.S., 
she was just a skeleton!"  In a breaking news interview with Voice 
of America, the Ethiopian Ambassador said "whatever she said, she's 
lying."  Hominid Rights Watch (HRW) posted a statement on its 
website noting "If she is saying that the Ethiopian government 
mistreated her, we support her." 
 
A BARE BONES ACCOUNT 
-------------------- 
 
3. (SBU) While Lucy has attained global renown -- the first 
Ethiopian to adopt the Indonesian practice of going by a single name 
-- relatively little is known about her early years.  Now that she 
has discovered language, however, Lucy is eager to share her story. 
"America truly is the land of hope and opportunity," she stated at a 
Starbucks store in Portland recently.  "In a gesture of 
primate-hominid solidarity, a gorilla named Coco taught me to sign. 
Now, I can finally tell my story!"  And telling her story she 
is...Lucy signed a deal with Scholastic Press for a biography to be 
ghost written by Kitty Kelly entitled "The Skinny on Lucy" to be 
released before the Christmas season. 
 
4. (SBU) In an exclusive interview with Mother Jones' Bones 
magazine, Lucy shed some light on her tail.  "When they assumed 
power in 3.2 million B.C., the Australopithecus Hominids' Liberation 
Front (AHLF) were brutal.  They taunted us and called us 
'primitive.'  One of them singled me out, depriving me of food for 
what felt like a million years, until I was just ... bones.  We 
tried to resist, but finally we were driven underground.  But, still 
they walked all over us.  Nevertheless, every few hundred millennia, 
I would poke my head out to see if the climate was more hospitable 
to stand up for proto-humans' rights.  One day, I tried to speak 
out, but this Australopithecus robustus took my mandible.  Still, 
Homo habilis were the worst.  They taunted me constantly with those 
opposable thumbs.  First they would scatter a few vertebra here and 
there, but once they took my femur I could stand no more.  I loved 
what Ethiopia used to be; I left my heart in Ethiopia.  Actually, I 
left most of my body there." 
 
CELEBRITY ATTENTION AND ADJUSTMENT CHALLENGES 
--------------------------------------------- 
 
5. (SBU) Since Lucy's asylum claim became public, she has received 
significant public attention as well as outreach of many kinds from 
various celebrities.  On NPR's Morning Edition, Dr. Donald Johanson 
said, "What have I done?  When I first encountered Lucy, she was 
raving something wild.  I just thought she was just hopped up on 
khat, so I named her after this groovy tune on the radio.  Had I 
only known what she has been through, I would have named her 
something more empowering, like Aretha."  In a short-lived business 
endeavor, the dining chain TGI Friday's offered Lucy a role in a 
television commercial.  Despite stressing that she "needed the 
bones," she turned the offer down noting, "I love the food, but it 
goes right through me." 
 
6. (SBU) In a trying visit to Los Angeles, Lucy also found 
difficulty.  "Walking down Rodeo Drive, Ms. MacLain kept asking me 
if I was sure we hadn't met before, while the self-styled king of 
pop kept offering to buy me," Lucy vented.  "I went to Disneyland, 
hoping to get cheered up, but seeing those intact skeletons in the 
Pirates of the Caribbean ride just made me more depressed."  "I've 
never been religious," Lucy admitted, "having been born well before 
we had religion.  But, in an attempt to find solace, I visited a 
 
ADDIS ABAB 00000745  002 OF 002 
 
 
church.  I ran into a group in the basement who greeted me with 
cheers when I said 'Hi, I'm Lucy.'  Turns out the AA sign on the 
door did not stand for Australopithecus Aferensus!"  "I finally felt 
at home in San Francisco," Lucy said.  "The music is great, but I'm 
torn between the Oldies, Bob Geldof, and the Grateful Dead." 
 
COMMENT AND ACTION REQUEST 
-------------------------- 
 
7. (SBU) Lucy stressed to PolOff that the trauma of being unearthed, 
then locked in a museum box for 24 years, only to be subjected to 
public gawking and political jockeying has left her feeling like a 
"picked over carcass."  Post will continue to try to flesh out 
further details on Lucy's story and dig up any other skeletons in 
Ethiopia's proverbial closet.  Still, in light of the fragility of 
this unique situation, Post requests that DRL and OES deploy a 
paleo-asylum review team to review Lucy's case. 
 
YAMAMOTO