Crimes against humanity need to be incorporated into Et...
To fulfil its promise to fight impunity, Ethiopia must enact legislation to combat instances of crimes against humanity.
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To fulfil its promise to fight impunity, Ethiopia must enact legislation to combat instances of crimes against humanity.
In June 2018, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali told Parliament that the post-1991 government used torture and killing to terrorise its people. Perpetrated in police detention centres, dungeons and prisons across the country, the state-sanctioned violence recounted by the prime minister amounts to crimes against humanity in international criminal law. That is, a widespread or systematic attack directed against the civilian population. Abiy’s statement represented an exceptional case of an incumbent Ethiopian government leader publicly admitting state involvement in crimes ag...
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