{"id":277467,"date":"2019-05-27T17:56:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T21:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMidmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFtbmVzdHkub3JnL2VuL2xhdGVzdC9uZXdzLzIwMTkvMDUvZXRoaW9waWEtbGFjay1vZi1hY2NvdW50YWJpbGl0eS1mb3ItcGFzdC12aW9sYXRpb25zLWhhdW50cy10aGUtcHJlc2VudC_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-23T11:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:55:42","slug":"amnesty-said-ethiopias-lack-of-accountability-for-past-crimes-still-haunted-the-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277467","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty said Ethiopia\u2019s lack of accountability for past crimes still haunted the present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Amnesty International warned that Ethiopia\u2019s failure to deliver justice for past atrocities continued to shape present politics, and it tied unresolved Red Terror and later EPRDF-era abuses to unfinished reform under Abiy Ahmed.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-354823\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Justice-ethiopia.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Amnesty said Ethiopia\u2019s lack of accountability for past crimes still haunted the present\" \/>\n<p>The organization argued that without credible investigations and prosecutions, victims\u2019 families would keep living beside alleged perpetrators, and that political opening alone could not close that wound.<\/p>\n<p>Accountability demands from 2019 sit beside diaspora court cases and regional jail scandals from the same weeks, and they form a single rights ledger for the transition years.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as rights archive, the Amnesty accountability brief is a dated institutional warning from May 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2019\/05\/ethiopia-lack-of-accountability-for-past-violations-haunts-the-present\/\">Amnesty International<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia: Lack of accountability for past violations haunts the present&nbsp;&nbsp;Amnesty InternationalA loud explosion shook the ground in the early afternoon of 28 May 1991 and was followed by a massive fire visible from afar off. Half an hour later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":354823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Justice-ethiopia.jpg?fit=1023%2C583&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1abh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277467"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754930,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277467\/revisions\/754930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}