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Ethiopian woman confronts "Red Terror" ghosts - Yahoo! News

Ethiopian woman confronts "Red Terror" ghosts - Yahoo! News

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Although 13 years had passed, Hirut Abebe-Jiri instantly recognized the man who tortured her during Ethiopia's brutal "Red Terror" purges.

It was a dark era little known to the outside world, but that glimpse of Kelbessa Negewo across an Atlanta hotel lobby in 1990 set in motion a chain of events that ended last month when he lost his appeal against a life sentence for genocide.

The former local government official who once sowed such fear in her neighborhood of the Ethiopian capital had been carting around luggage and opening doors.

"I was amazed," Hirut told Reuters on Sunday. "It was him. This powerful man was carrying people's bags."

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