Prosecution of Politicide in Ethiopia, 1st ed. 2018 The Red Terror Trials International Criminal Justice Series, Vol. 18
Auteur : Tessema Marshet Tadesse
Chapter 1. Prefatory Part.- Chapter 2. Historical Survey of the Derg Regime and the Infamous Red Terror.- Chapter 3. The Ethiopian Legal Framework for the Prosecution of Crimes under International Law.- Chapter 4. The Ethiopian Approach to Reckon with Derg Crimes: The Road to the Creation of the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office.- Chapter 5. Criminal Accountability for Derg Crimes: Prosecution of Politicide.- Chapter 6. Stocktaking of the Red Terror Trials: Is it an Approach Worth Emulating?.- Chapter 7. Concluding Remarks.- Appendix.- Table of Cases.- Index.
The book contributes to the field of knowledge in the international criminal law arena by assessing and evaluating the retributive justice approach chosen by the Ethiopian government to deal with the crimes of the Mengistu regime
The book is pivotal in identifying the legal basis and framework for the prosecution of core crimes in general, and politicide in particular
By examining one of the lesser-known and under-researched examples of the national prosecution of genocide it is of great relevance to the scholars and practitioners of genocide studies and international criminal law
This book should benefit English-speaking scholars in genocide studies and international criminal law, as it makes extensive use of judgments and documents held in the court archives, which relate to the Red Terror trials written in both the working language and other languages of Ethiopia