Word: getachew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move may advance Soviet aims in Africa (see box), it also relieves the U.S. of the moral burden of backing yet another bloodthirsty dictatorship. During February and March alone. Mengistu's forces are said to have killed between 2,000 and 4,000 of their opponents. Getachew Mekasha, former Ethiopian Ambassador to Egypt, who defected in March, reckons that there are 25,000 political prisoners in Ethiopian jails. Says Mekasha, who is now teaching at California's Ambassador College in Pasadena: "The people in power in Addis Ababa today believe in the blind application of force. They...
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