Abstract
Even though Ethiopia is a country with many ethnic groups1 with their own language, religion and cultural traditions, its long line of local rulers maintained a unitary administration subservient to their own political and economic interests. The last violent change of government occurred on 8 May 1991 as a result of an armed victory by the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), which toppled the Derg2 that presided over 17 years (1974–1991) of unitary rule characterized by serious human rights violations that constitute terror as a governmental policy.
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Assefa Fiseha, “Constitutional Adjudication in Ethiopia: Exploring the experience of the House of Federation (HOF)”, Mizan Law Review, Volume 1, No. 1 June 2007, pp. 1–32.
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Aneme, G.A. (2015). Ethiopia: Legal and Judicial Plurality and the Incorporation of Traditional Dispute Resolution Mechanisms within the State Justice System. In: Kötter, M., Röder, T.J., Schuppert, G.F., Wolfrum, R. (eds) Non-State Justice Institutions and the Law. Governance and Limited Statehood. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137403285_4
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