ETHIOPIA. FIVE MENGISTU OFFICERS SENTENCED TO DEATH

an Ethiopian Court sentenced five top military officers of former Marxist ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam to death for air raids in Hawzen in the northern Tigray region that killed hundreds in an open market on June 23, 1980.
The state-run Ethiopian News Agency said the five officers were sentenced for the raid at Hawzen, along with five others given life sentences and four given terms of 19 years. All were tried and sentenced in absentia.