Political Prisoners Inside Ethiopia’s Gulags

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Alemayehu G Mariam The Plight of Andualem Aragie and Other Political Prisoners in Ethiopia  The “Gulag” prison system in the old Soviet Union was infamous for warehousing and persecuting dissidents and opponetns. The gulags were used effectively to weed out and neutralize opposition to the Soviet state. They were the quintessential tools of  Soviet state…

African Dictators: Can’t Run, Can’t Hide!

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Alemayehu G Mariam The International Criminal Court (ICC) is on the chase; and over the past few months, things have taken a slow turn for the worse for African dictators and human rights violators. They are finding out that they can’t run and they can’t hide. Laurent “Cling-to-power-at-any-cost” Gbagbo of Cote d’Ivoire was snatched from his…