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No, the type of criminalty of which Mengistu is accused never left Ethiopia.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: The Ghost and the Spirit Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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No, the type of criminalty of which Mengistu is accused never left Ethiopia.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: The Ghost and the Spirit Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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But if the criminality of the bullet-charging Mengistu is long gone, as Zenawi asserts, how is that the murderers of 193 innocent protesters and shooters of 763 others still walk the streets free in Ethiopia today without their victims having "recourse to the courts"?
Alemayehu G. Mariam: The Ghost and the Spirit Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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But if the criminality of the bullet-charging Mengistu is long gone, as Zenawi asserts, how is that the murderers of 193 innocent protesters and shooters of 763 others still walk the streets free in Ethiopia today without their victims having "recourse to the courts"?
Alemayehu G. Mariam: The Ghost and the Spirit Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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The question is not whether Mengistu is a human rights violator; he is certified as one of the monstrous human rights violators of the 20th Century.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: The Ghost and the Spirit Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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The question is not whether Mengistu is a human rights violator; he is certified as one of the monstrous human rights violators of the 20th Century.
Alemayehu G. Mariam: The Ghost and the Spirit Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010
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Among those spared the death penalty Wednesday are many senior officials in the Mengistu government, including former vice-president Fisseha Desta and former prime minister Fikreselassie Wogderes.
Ethiopia Commutes Death Sentences for Former Officials Accused of Genocide 2011
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Colonel Mengistu, who presided over the Red Terror, was tried and sentenced to death in absentia at the same time as the other Dergue officials.
Ethiopia Commutes Death Sentences for Former Officials Accused of Genocide 2011
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Ethiopia has commuted the death sentences of 23 people convicted of genocide for their part in the “Red Terror” purges during the rule of former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam.
Ethiopia Commutes Death Sentences for Former Officials Accused of Genocide 2011
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In a few hours, throngs of government supporters will pour into the square to celebrate the day in 1991 when the 17-year rule of the dreaded Dergue regime came to an end, and pro-Soviet military dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam went into exile in Zimbabwe.
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