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Between 1992 and 2010, over 5,000 individuals - charged with genocide or war crimes - were brought to justice before Ethiopian courts in four separate sets of trials. This research offers an in-depth analysis of these domestic prosecutions of core international crimes within the broader frame of international criminal law (ICL). As both the national and international systems deal with the enforcement of rules of ICL, the features of Ethiopian law and practice are compared with the rules and practices used in the international arena. This study includes an unprecedented data collection, an in-depth analysis of Ethiopian laws and judgments, a meticulous exploration of relevant international norms and case law, as well as a full engagement with the existing literature on the domestic application of international criminal law. The study concludes that, overall, the Ethiopian prosecutions of core crimes were conducted in a manner that was inconsistent with the applicable standards of ICL. The comprehensive examination of the setting in motion of the Ethiopian prosecutions reveals that the domestic system failed to remove various legal, political, and institutional impediments to the prosecution of core crimes and that this failure was most probably deliberate. If Ethiopia played a pioneering role in the prosecution of core crimes, the trials shared one - admittedly inhibiting - characteristic: they were designed for political reasons and were in reality not meant to comply with international standards.

Tadesse Simie Metekia's Prosecution of Core Crimes in Ethiopia offers an in-depth analysis of core crimes trials in Ethiopia within the broader frame of international criminal law. This book is a result of an unprecedented data collection, a meticulous exploration of relevant national and international norms and case laws, as well as a full engagement with the existing literature on the domestic application of international criminal law. A comparative examination of the actual trials and the manner in which Ethiopia set prosecutions of core crimes in motion, Metekia's book is a significant achievement in terms of furthering academic knowledge and of contributing to the wider policy debates on international criminal justice and on the role of states in prosecuting atrocities

Atrocities that befell Ethiopia during the Dergue regime (1974–91) targeted both
the living and the dead. The dead were in fact at the centre of the Dergue's
violence. Not only did the regime violate the corpses of its victims, but it
used them as a means to perpetrate violence against the living, the complexity
of which requires a critical investigation. This article aims at establishing,
from the study of Ethiopian law and practice, the factual and legal issues
pertinent to the Dergue's violence involving the dead. It also examines the
efforts made to establish the truth about this particular form of violence as
well as the manner in which those responsible for it were prosecuted and
eventually punished.

Introduction -- The decision to prosecute core crimes : contexts and contents -- The decisions to prosecute : possible motivations -- The decisions to prosecute : who should be brought to justice? -- The crime of genocide in Ethiopian Law -- The crime of genocide in Ethiopian trials : elements of the crime -- War crimes in Ethiopia : law and practice -- Punishment and sentencing of core crimes in Ethiopia -- Conclusion.