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Former Government Official Convicted in Dutch Court for 1970s Killings Felix Horne Senior Researcher, Horn of Africa@felixhorne1 The many victims of the brutal communist military dictatorship that ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to 1991,...

Carving churches out of rock using only a hammer and chisel may seem extraordinary to us, but for those living in rural areas of Ethiopia, it’s simply an expression of faith. “It’s hard work … literally,” says University of Toronto...

An Italian court has issued an appropriate verdict on the officials responsible for the establishment of a mausoleum for the Fascist criminal typically known as “the butcher of Ethiopia”, Rodolfo Graziani, at an Italian town called Affile....

By Afp In a rare move, Dutch prosecutors Wednesday called for a Dutch-Ethiopian national to be jailed for life for “an atrocious campaign” of war crimes during Ethiopia’s “Red Terror” in the 1970s. “The gravity...