Ethiopia re-buries victims of Mengistu's Red Terror
Reuters South Africa, South Africa - May 27, 2007
Tens of thousands of Ethiopians marched on Sunday to re-bury victims of the Mengistu regime's "Red Terror" purge who were dumped in mass graves after being left on street corners as a warning to others.
The crowds joined a funeral cortege of 27 caskets carried by black-draped vehicles and a military band playing sombre songs, as it rolled down the main avenues of the capital Addis Ababa to the city's main Meskel Square.
Church bells tolled and the city observed a minute's silence to remember the victims of a slaughter carried out on the orders of Marxist ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam in 1977-78 in which as many as 100,000 of his potential opponents were murdered ...