The Ethiopian Red Terror Trials - Transitional Justice Challenged

This collection analyses the approach taken by the current government of Ethiopia to deal with the massive human rights violations that took place from 1974 to 1991 under the Derg.

List of contents

Preface
The Red Terror trials: the context of transitional justice in Ethiopia - Kjetil Tronvoll and Charles Schaefer and Girmachew Alemu Aneme
The history of the Red Terror: contexts & consequences - Bahru Zewde
The rights of the accused: a human rights appraisal - Frode Elsegem and Girmachew Alemu Aneme
The role of the Special Prosecutor's Office - Sarah Vaughan
The Red Terror trials versus traditions of restorative justice in Ethiopia - Charles Schaefer
A quest for justice or the construction of political legitimacy?: The political anatomy of the Red Terror trials - Kjetil Tronvoll
Building state & nation: justice, reconciliation & democratization in Ethiopia & South Africa - Elsa Van Huyssteen
Beyond the Red Terror trials: analysing guarantees of non-repetition - Girmachew Alemu Aneme
Concluding the main Red Terror trial: Special Prosecutor v. Colonel Mengistu Hailemariam et al. - Kjetil Tronvoll
Concluding the main Red Terror trial: Special Prosecutor v. Colonel Mengistu Hailemariam et al. - Charles Schaefer
Concluding the main Red Terror trial: Special Prosecutor v. Colonel Mengistu Hailemariam et al. - Girmachew Alemu Aneme

About the author

CHARLES SCHAEFER is Senior Research Professor of History at Valparaiso University, Indiana. Additionally, he taught in the Department of History at Addis Ababa University. He has written many articles on Ethiopia and co-edited The Ethiopian Red Terror Trials: Transitional Justice Challenged (James Currey, 2009).

Product details

• Authors: Girmachew Alemu Aneme, Charles Schaefer, Kjetil Tronvoll
• Assisted by: Girmachew Alemu Aneme (Editor), Charles Schaefer (Editor), Kjetil Tronvoll (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2009
• EAN: 9781847013200
• ISBN: 978-1-84701-320-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 216 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 216 g
• Series: African Issues; African Issues (Paperback)
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Afrika, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / African