Time’s ticking for Ethiopia’s Red Terror trial in the Netherlands

Thijs B. Bouwknegt

Time’s ticking for Ethiopia’s Red Terror trial in the Netherlands

Thijs B. Bouwknegt

NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide studies

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Abstract

Last week, The Hague Appeals Court completed its long-awaited hearings on old war crimes in Ethiopia. With ongoing conflict in Tigray, the Derg’s “Red Terror” of four decades ago may seem a story of the past. Yet this belated but unique universal jurisdiction trial has again aroused the pains of a period that still embitters both victims and the accused person, Eshetu Alemu. Historian Thijs Bouwknegt tells the story of man who still hopes for an acquittal as he is about to die.

Original language	English
Publisher	Fondation Hirondelle
Publication status	Published - 26 Apr 2022

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Ethiopia
war crimes
Derg
Red Terror

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