The Red Terror that took place in Ethiopia should be recognized as a genocide by the UN because the acts of the perpetrators indicate the stages of classification and denial in the theory of the 8 stages of genocide as developed by Stanton. One of the ways the Red Terror reflects the ideas of a genocide is through the stage of classification. Unlike most genocides around the world, this was a political genocide. After Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed, a military coup called the Derg took over. Students, Revolutionaries, and other educated people were targeted for protesting the new regime, but they “could not form a government because they had no guns” (Milkias 66). The Derg saw this as an opportunity to defeat anyone who did was thought
