Crisis and Terror in the Horn of Africa: Autopsy of Democracy, Human Rights, and FreedomAshgate, 2000 - 276 pages Contemporary social life in the Horn of Africa is generally a state-orchestrated experience that terrorizes the majority of the people. This collection of carefully selected essays, explores the different aspects of the current crisis in the Horn region of Africa, where to marginalized indigenous groups the crisis materializes itself as social experiences of terror. The result is a far-reaching and important book which critically examines a state terror manifested in the violation of human rights, democracy, justice and freedom. |
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Local Conflict Global Order? | 1 |
Terrorism the Art of Statecraft and the Horn of Africa | 32 |
The State Ethnicity and Human Rights in Ethiopia | 39 |
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