Film brings Ethiopia’s Red Terror back into focus

An Ethiopian film, The Father, that has been winning awards across Africa, is serving as a reminder that President Robert Mugabe has been sheltering one of the world’s most notorious dictators in Zimbabwe for the past decade. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, the "Butcher of Addis Ababa", ruled Ethiopia for 17 years, imposing a regime based on a strategy of total fear that he himself called the "Red Terror".