In Tigray, Derg soldiers had waged war against rebels, bombarding schools, markets and villages, destroying grain stores, burning crops and displacing farmers. The Derg’s counter-insurgency ...

The soldiers left and went to another house ... Some relatives were jailed, others were killed. The Derg didn’t allow funeral rites for those it called enemies. Silence and fear worked together to ...

Fifty years ago the Marxist-Leninist military junta known as the Derg took control of Ethiopia, toppling Emperor Haile Selassie and ending a monarchy that had governed the country for 700 years.

And Nega Mezlekia’s memoir, “Notes From the Hyena’s Belly,” vividly describes his days as a guerrilla soldier in the Derg era. But neither has Mengiste’s tenacity. For all its beginner ...

“I love him,” he says of the soldier glaring menacingly at the camera ... the dictator whose Marxist regime, the Derg, oversaw the “Red Terror” of the 1970s and the famine-inducing ...

“I want to move on and feel a part of Abiy’s Ethiopia. I want justice and a chance to get better myself,” a survivor of torture told a colleague of mine last year. “But I don’t know ...

The Derg was overthrown by a coalition of rebel ... camp outside of Gambella town with the capacity to house 60,000 soldiers. Human Rights Watch interview with federal official, Addis Ababa ...

Eventually, the Derg was replaced with the People’s Democratic Republic ... There are also reports from government soldiers fighting the TPLF and from child soldiers themselves that children are being ...

The military then took over, leading to the feared Derg dictatorship, which remained in power until 1991. But the new Communist regime was opposed to the demands of Addis Ababa University ...