Red Terror

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The Red Terror was a brutal campaign of political repression and mass killings carried out by Ethiopia’s Derg regime in the late 1970s, targeting real and perceived opponents during the country’s Marxist-Leninist revolution.

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Label Occurrences
Red Terror canonical 5
Red Terror (Ethiopia) 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf crime against humanity
mass killing
political repression campaign
state terrorism
alsoKnownAs Qey Shibir
authorizedBy Mengistu Haile Mariam
country Ethiopia
endTime 1978
governmentTypeOfPerpetrator military junta
hasType political purge
historicalEra 20th century
ideology Marxism–Leninism
communism
languageOfAlternativeName Amharic
leaderDuringCampaign Mengistu Haile Mariam
legalAftermath Mengistu Haile Mariam convicted in absentia of genocide by Ethiopian court
locatedIn Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
method arbitrary arrests
house-to-house searches
mass shootings
summary executions
torture in detention
motive consolidation of Derg power
defense of Marxist–Leninist revolution
elimination of political opposition
partOf 1974 Ethiopian Revolution
surface form: Ethiopian Revolution
perpetratedBy Derg
politicalContext Cold War
propagandaElement forced family payments for bullets
public display of corpses
resultedIn extrajudicial killings
forced disappearances
mass executions
political imprisonment
torture
widespread human rights abuses
startTime 1977
targetedGroup Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party
surface form: Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party

intellectuals
political opponents of the Derg
real and perceived opponents of the revolution
students
suspected opponents of the Derg
urban youth
timePeriod late 1970s
victimCountEstimate possibly over 100,000
tens of thousands

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Derg politicalRepression Red Terror
Derg notableEvent Red Terror
Mengistu Haile Mariam (as Chairman of the Provisional Military Administrative Council and later President) involvedIn Red Terror
subject surface form: Mengistu Haile Mariam
this entity surface form: Red Terror (Ethiopia)
Mengistu Haile Mariam (as Chairman of the Provisional Military Administrative Council and later President) responsibleFor Red Terror
subject surface form: Mengistu Haile Mariam
this entity surface form: Red Terror (Ethiopia)