Central Revolutionary Investigation Department
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The Central Revolutionary Investigation Department or CRID (Amharic: ማዕከላዊ አብዮታዊ ምርመራ መምሪያ)[1][2][3][4][5] was the secret police and internal intelligence service in Ethiopia during the rule of the Derg, a communist military junta, and later in People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, from 1978 until 1991.
The Derg seized power in Ethiopia in 1974 amid a general revolution against Emperor Haile Selassie. The military junta immediately began to purge the state of the emperor's supporters and political opponents and formed a new secret police and intelligence service (intelligence agency firstly named "Committee for peoples Security and Peace"). Soon, the Derg regime carried out a bloody military campaign to suppress its opponents, known as the Qey Shibir or Red Terror, which killed an estimated 980,000 people in less than two years. If Red Terror was stopped in 1978, however, repressions was not: in August of the same year CRID was founded.[6] CRID was responsible for suppressing dissent and identifying targets for state repression in Ethiopia. Department also has been monitoring opposition in government-controlled areas and regime dissidents. It is considered to be the most advanced institution of violence in Derg's Ethiopia.[6] CRID also known as the "third police station".
The CRID was disbanded in May-June 1991 following the fall of the Derg regime because of a series of offensives by a coalition of opposition forces.
References
[edit]- ^ Metekia, Tadesse Simie (2021-02-24), "Abbreviations", Prosecution of Core Crimes in Ethiopia, Brill Nijhoff, ISBN 978-90-04-44726-4, retrieved 2025-03-24
- ^ Metekia, Tadesse Simie (2021-02-24), "The Crime of Genocide in Ethiopian Trials: Elements of the Crime", Prosecution of Core Crimes in Ethiopia, Brill Nijhoff, pp. 236–307, ISBN 978-90-04-44726-4, retrieved 2025-05-17
- ^ Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Report Submitted to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives and Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate by the Department of State in Accordance with Sections 116(d) and 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as Amended. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1985.
- ^ Sorenson, John (2016-07-27). Disaster and Development in the Horn of Africa. Springer. ISBN 978-1-349-24257-3.
- ^ Hoeres, Peter; Knabe, Hubertus (2023-02-20). After Dictatorship: Instruments of Transitional Justice in Post-Authoritarian Systems. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. ISBN 978-3-11-079670-4.
- ^ a b Metekia, Tadesse Simie (2021). Prosecution of core crimes in Ethiopia: domestic practice vis-à-vis international standards. International criminal law series. Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill NV. ISBN 978-90-04-44726-4.
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