The Ethiopian Federal High Court has found 37 people guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity in their role in the former regime of Mengistu Hailemariam. Thirteen of those charged were tried in absentia. Those convicted received up to 20 years “rigorous imprisonment”, the ‘Ethiopian Herald’ newspaper said on 12 April. The court found the defendants guilty of torturing and extrajudicial killings. Also, the mobile criminal bench of the Oromiya Supreme Court jailed 21 people charged with “perpetrating genocide and crimes against humanity” under the former regime, which fell in 1991. Those convicted received sentences of up to 12 years, for extrajudicial killings of people allegedly belonging to “clandestine political parties”, the report said.
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