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May 26 (Reuters) - Ethiopia's supreme court on Monday sentenced to death former Marxist ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam, granting a prosecution appeal that argued a life sentence was inadequate punishment ...

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe said on Wednesday it was not considering the extradition of former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, who was found guilty of genocide following a trial in absentia ...

Dec 12, 2006 (ADDIS ABABA) — Mengistu Haile Mariam, the Ethiopian dictator who directed the “Red Terror” against supposed enemies of his Soviet-backed regime, was convicted Tuesday of genocide in a ...

Other than members of his family and maybe his goon squads, few are going to feel too sorry to see the last of Mengistu Haile Mariam. That's because the Ethiopian leader who finally sneaked off into ...

Mengistu Haile Mariam, a former lieutenant-colonel in the Ethiopian army, led a coup that ousted Emperor Haile Selassie from power in 1974. Mengistu took control of the government and served as its ...

For 14 years Mengistu Haile Mariam ruled Ethiopia with his own mixture of Marxist-Leninist ideology and medieval cruelty, bankrupting his country and terrorizing his people into submission. When he ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The former Ethiopian dictator Colonel Mengistu Hailemariam has met with Ethiopia’s former Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare on Wednesday.