A Dutch appeals court has upheld the conviction and life sentence handed to a 67-year-old Ethiopian-Dutch man who was found guilty in 2017 of war crimes committed under a brutal Marxist regime that ruled Ethiopia in the 1970sTHE HAGUE, Netherlands -- A Dutch appeals court upheld Wednesday the conviction and life sentence of a 67-year-old Ethiopian-Dutch man who was found guilty of war crimes committed under a brutal Marxist regime that ruled Ethiopia in the 1970s. The court said war crimes were committed in the province “with the knowledge and participation of the defendant." “The death sentences were executed at the defendant’s direction in a brutal manner,” the court said. Alemu was tried in a Dutch court because he moved to the Netherlands in the early 1990s and was granted Dutch citizenship in 1998. He was convicted in absentia by an Ethiopian court in 2006 of genocide and later sentenced to death.

Source: Ethiopian News June 08, 2022 14:48 UTC