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Mengistu's 'Red Terror'. What went down in the contemporary history of Ethiopia as the 'Red Terror' was not only an indelible scar but also has far-reaching implications for the country's future as well. The 'Red Terror' was unleashed by the military government of Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam in the mid-1970s to decimate the left.
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Mengistu Haile Mariam, a former Lieutenant Colonel in the Ethiopian Army, led a coup which ousted Emperor Haile Selassie from power in 1974. Mengistu took control of the government and served as its Communist head of state in Ethiopia from 1977 to 1991.
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NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec. 12 — An Ethiopian court convicted former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam of genocide today, but Mr. Mengistu may never face punishment because he remains in exile in Zimbabwe.
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On the second day after the fall of the 14-year regime of Marxist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, I flew into Addis on Ethiopian Airlines, the enormously successful and efficient state carrier.
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Ethiopian Dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam headed the junta which in 1974 overthrew the government of Emperor Haile Selassie in a bloody coup. Known as the "Derg" or.
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Overview Haile Mariam Mengistu (b. 1937) Quick Reference (1937- ) Ethiopian soldier and politician; President of Ethiopia (1987-91). An army officer, Mengistu first came to prominence in 1974, when the army staged a successful coup against the regime of Emperor Haile Selassie.
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Mengistu Haile Mariam ( Amharic: መንግሥቱ ኀይለ ማሪያም, pronunciation: [mənɡɨstu haɪlə marjam]; born 21 May 1937) is an Ethiopian former politician and former army officer who was the head of state of Ethiopia from 1977 to 1991 and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia from 1984 to 1991.
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Mengistu Haile Mariam is an Ethiopian former politician and former army officer who was the head of state of Ethiopia from 1977 to 1991 and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia from 1984 to 1991. He was the chairman of the Derg, the socialist military junta that governed Ethiopia, from 1977 to 1987, and the president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia from 1987 to 1991.
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Quest to extradite Ethiopia's dictator Mengistu Merga Yonas Bula 12/11/2017 Zimbabwe's ex-President Robert Mugabe gave refuge to Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam, convicted of genocide in.
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Former President Mengistu Haile Mariam, fled Ethiopia in May, 1991, leaving his country ravaged by economic decline, famine and on the verge of political disintegration. Mengistu shows no.
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(Reuters) - An Ethiopian court found exiled former Marxist ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam guilty of genocide in absentia on Tuesday, ending a 12-year trial. Mengistu, who has lived a lavish.
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Genocide is a different kind of crime, defined by the perpetrator's intent: "to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such." Until now, human rights.
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Ethiopia's former Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has removed a controversial photo he had posted on his Facebook page, which showed him smiling next to the country's exiled Marxist ex-military.
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Reuters August 9, 20079:10 PM UTCUpdated ago By Tsegaye Tadesse ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An Ethiopian court spared former Marxist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam from the death penalty on.
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Dictator Haile Mariam Mengistu was a popular army officer who was installed as ruler of Ethiopia following the country's 1974 revolution. He remained in power for the next seventeen years, and his attempt to mold the country into a Soviet-style socialist paradise plunged it into a brutal reign of terror instead.
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Mengistu Haile Mariam (born 1937, Kefa province, Ethiopia) Ethiopian army officer and head of state (1974-91), who helped overthrow the centuries-old monarchy and attempted to mold Ethiopia into a communist state. Mengistu received officer training at Holeta and additional training in the United States.