After being pardoned in 2007, Berhanu went to the United States, where he founded the May 15 movement, which calls Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's government 'illegitimate' and advocates its ouster.

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Smith believes a victory for what he calls "the culture of resistance" would enshrine violence and vengeance as the manner in which all grievances, real and imagined, are routinely addressed.

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He qualifies exhumations as a humanitarian act that allows families to close what he calls the circle of pain and mourning in which they have been caught for a quarter of a century, and says it was unthinkable as recently as a few years ago that investigations into war crimes would have been allowed in this country.

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