The Ethiopian Red Terror Trials: Transitional Justice Challenged 1847013201, 9781847013200

Table of contents :
CONTENTS
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
GLOSSARY OF AMHARIC PHRASES
1. The ‘Red Terror’ Trials: The Context of Transitional Justice in Ethiopia
2.
The History of the Red Terror: Contexts & Consequences
3. The Rights of the Accused: A Human Rights Appraisal
4. The Role of the Special Prosecutor’s Office
5. The Red Terror Trials: versus Traditions of Restorative Justice in Ethiopia
6. The Quest for Justice or the Construction of Political Legitimacy? The Political
Anatomy of the Red Terror Trials
7. Building State & Nation: Justice, Reconciliation & Democratization in Ethiopia & South Africa
8. Beyond the Red Terror Trials: Analysing Guarantees of Non-Repetition
9. Concluding the Main Red Terror Trial: Special Prosecutor v. Colonel Mengistu Hailemariam et al.
INDEX

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