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Human Rights in Ethiopia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Peter Schwab
Peter Schwab
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Associate Professor of Political Science, State University of New York, College at Purchase
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It is the hypothesis of this article if the Provisional Military Administrative Committee, which took power in Ethiopia on 12 September 1974, is really intent on uprooting the feudal social system that has flourished for so long, then a revolution by violent means is necessary. As Frantz Fanon says, ‘if the last shall be first, this will only come to pass after a murderous and decisive struggle between the two protagonists’.

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Africana
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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , March 1976 , pp. 155 - 160
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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page 155 note 1 For analyses of feudalism, see Gilkes, Patrick, The Dying Lion: feudalism and modernization in Ethiopia (London, 1975);Google ScholarMarkakis, John, Ethiopia: anatomy of a traditional polity (Oxford, 1974);Google ScholarHoben, Allan, Land Tenure Among the Amhara of Ethiopia (Chicago, 1973);Google Scholar and also Schwab, Peter, Decision-Making in Ethiopia (London, 1972).Google Scholar

page 155 note 2 Fanon, Frantz, The Wretched of the Earth (New York, 1963 trans.), p. 37.Google Scholar

page 155 note 3 The New York Times, 21 December 1974.

page 155 note 4 Gilkes, op. cit. p. XVIII.

page 155 note 5 Ibid. p. XV.

page 155 note 6 The New York Times, 5 March 1975.

page 156 note 1 Ibid. 25 November 1974.

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page 156 note 5 Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (Peking, 1972 edn.), pp. 11–12.

page 157 note 1 ‘Military Tribunals in Ethiopia’, in International Commission of Jurists (Geneva), 5 December 1974 press release.

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