What court verdict was Mengistu found guilty of in absentia?
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Mengistu Haile Mariam was a former president of Ethiopia who ruled the country from 1974 to 1991. He was found guilty of genocide in absentia by the Ethiopian Federal High Court in 2006. The court found that Mengistu was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million people during his rule.
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