4 The Role of the Special Prosecutor’s Office

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ix
4. PREFACE xi
5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xiii
6. ABBREVIATIONS xiv
7. GLOSSARY OF AMHARIC PHRASES xv
8. 1 The ‘Red Terror’ Trials: The Context of Transitional Justice in Ethiopia 1
9. 2 The History of the Red Terror & Contexts Consequences 17
10. 3 The Rights of the Accused: A Human Rights Appraisal 33
11. 4 The Role of the Special Prosecutor’s Office 51
12. 5 The Red Terror Trials versus Traditions of Restorative Justice in Ethiopia 68
13. 6 The Quest for Justice The Political or the Construction of Anatomy of the Political Legitimacy? Red Terror Trials 84
14. 7 Building State & Nation & Justice, Reconciliation Democratization in Ethiopia & South Africa 98
15. 8 Beyond Analysing the Red Terror Trials Guarantees of Non-Repetition 116
16. 9 Concluding the Main Red Terror Trial. Special Prosecutor v. Colonel Mengistu Hailemariam et al 136
17. INDEX 153