Scholar sheds no tear for former ruler Mengistu
Daily Nation - June 5, 2008

Meet the professor who former Ethiopian dictator put on "death sentence" and waited for seven years in detention without trial.

As Prof Merera Gudina trots the world freely as a renowned scholar and MP in Ethiopia, Mengistu's life is in danger after his country's courts recently entered a death sentence verdict against him.

The former strong man is living in Zimbabwe, another sinking titanic, courtesy of President Mugabe.

Prof Gudina is chairman of Oromo People's Congress, first vice-chairman United Ethiopian Democratic Forces, and chairman of Political Science and International Relations department, Addis Ababa University.

He was in Kenya recently on invitation of his former lecturer at the University of Addis Ababa, Prof Peter Anyang' Nyong'o, Kenyan minister for Medical Services and co-chairman of African Research and Resource Forum. Read More.