Red Terror relived. (war crime trials in Ethiopia)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: July 30, 1994 | Copyright information

War crime trials will be held for 1,200 people accused of committing atrocities in Ethiopia during the 1970s under the leadership of dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam. Between 40,000 and 100,000 people were killed during this period, referred to as the Red Terror.

TIGISTE lights a candle each morning under a photograph of her 

 
son, killed at   the age of 13 in the terrible campaign of violence 
known as the Red Terror   that bloodied Ethiopia in the late 1970s. 
She prays for his soul--and for   vengeance on the man who shot him 
in the street in Addis Ababa as he   innocently ran after a ...

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