Posted on 02/04/2009 8:33:18 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Zimbabwe's MDC plan to extradite Mengistu Haile Mariam to Ethiopia
Martin Fletcher in Harare
For 17 years Mengistu Haile Mariam, the former Ethiopian dictator who slaughtered opponents on an industrial scale in the Red Terror, has lived in Zimbabwe as the honoured guest of Robert Mugabe, dividing his time between a heavily guarded villa in Harare, a farm near the capital and a retreat on glorious Lake Kariba.
Last year an Ethiopian court sentenced the Butcher of Addis to death after convicting him of genocide in absentia but Mr Mugabe flatly refused to extradite the man who helped to arm Zanu (PF)s guerrillas during Zimbabwes 1970s liberation war.
Suddenly, however, the future of one of Africas worst tyrants looks less assured. Next week the Zimbabwe opposition Movement for Democratic Change will enter a unity government with Zanu (PF) and Nelson Chamisa, its chief spokesman, told The Times yesterday that Mengistus extradition to Ethiopia would be high on the agenda of that new administration.
Zimbabwe should not be a safe haven or resting place for serial human rights violators like Mr Mengistu, he said. We cant shelter purveyors of injustice.
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Mengistu Haile Mariam in a picture taken in June 1989
Hmmm, Mariam has a farm, wonder how he got it?
Bet his is an honorary “War Veteran.”
Could this be one red murderer selling out another red murderer in exchange for not being executed for his crimes?
I say, let’s have a “two-fer.” We send both Mengistu and Mugabe to Ethiopia so that they can be executed. Then they can hold a trial. Now, that would be poetic justice.
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