Zimbabwe's MDC plan to extradite Mengistu Haile Mariam to Ethiopia(aka Red Terror)

Times of London ^

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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 Zimbabwe’s 1970s liberation war.

Suddenly, however, the future of one of Africa’s 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 Mengistu’s 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 can’t shelter purveyors of injustice.”

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The guy is responsible for deliberate starving of many Ethiopians. The source of large Ethiopian famine in late 80's and early 90's.

Mengistu Haile Mariam in a picture taken in June 1989

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Hmmm, Mariam has a farm, wonder how he got it?

Bet his is an honorary “War Veteran.”

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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.