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

TY - UNPB

T1 - Time’s ticking for Ethiopia’s Red Terror trial in the Netherlands

AU - Bouwknegt, Thijs B.

PY - 2022/4/26

Y1 - 2022/4/26

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Ethiopia

KW - war crimes

KW - Derg

KW - Red Terror

M3 - Web article

T3 - JusticeInfo.net

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

PB - Fondation Hirondelle

ER -