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Mengistu Haile Mariam
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Mengistu Haile Mariam's Biography

Mengistu Haile Mariam (መንግስቱ ኃይለ ማርያም, pronounced [mənɡɨstu haylə maryam]) (born 1937) was the most prominent officer of the Derg, the Communist military junta that governed Ethiopia from 1974 to 1987, and the President of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia from 1987 to 1991. He oversaw the Ethiopian Red Terror of 1977–1978, a repression campaign against the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party and other anti-Derg factions. Mengistu fled to Zimbabwe in 1991 at the conclusion of a long rebellion against his government, and remains there despite an Ethiopian court verdict finding him guilty in absentia of genocide.

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  • Africa 1989: Hopes are high for democracy
    News Source: News 24 | 16 days ago
    The promise of democracy heralded by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War was only comparable with the euphoria of the independence movements in Africa in the 1960s and Nelson Mandela's release from incarceration in 1990. People
  • The other 1989s, Fred Halliday
    News Source: Open Democracy | 16 days ago
    1989 marked not just the fall of half a dozen or so communist ruling parties, and the onset of the the Soviet Union's own end of two years later, but also a massive ideological shift in the world...For in a range of continents and countries, hitherto
  • Rock of wisdom
    News Source: Indian Express | 29 days ago
    Hit by another drought, they requested 159,410 tonnes of food aid at a donors conference, for 6.2 million people of the landlocked country...Rather than just government and NGO handouts, rockstars too responded. Largely on Bob Geldof�s initiative,
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  • mengistu haile mariam - Ganel's blog
    Blog Source: guildexplorer.com | 28 days ago
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  • …Ethio-Canadians never stop worrying about | EMF
    Blog Source: ethioforum.org | 28 days ago
    Aie Zu Guo — In 1984 Brian Stewart of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported Ethiopia's worst famine of the 20th century putting the blame squarely on the communist regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam. ...
  • When Ethiopia invades Somalia, Minnesota takes a hit
    Blog Source: www.bartamaha.com | 2 months ago
    The present Ethiopian government, led by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, came to power in 1991 by overthrowing the brutal regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam. Initially, hopes ran high in Ethiopia that under Meles the country would peacefully ...
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