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Mengistu Haile Mariam (Amharic: መንግሥቱ ኀይለ ማርያም, pronunciation: [mənɡɨstu haɪlə marjam]; born 21 May 1937) is an Ethiopian former politician and former military 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.
Mengistu returned within 24 hours and nine generals, including the then-current Air Force commander and the Army Chief of Staff, died as the coup was crushed. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] After being captured, Major General Fanta Belay was killed while trying to escape. 12 more high-ranking military officers were executed in 1990 for their role in the coup attempt.
Mengistu Haile Mariam (born 1937) 3 February 1977 10 September 1987 10 years, 219 days Military COPWE WPE — • People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (1987–1991) • 1: Mengistu Haile Mariam (born 1937) 10 September 1987 21 May 1991 (Resigned) 3 years, 253 days WPE: 1987 – Tesfaye Gebre Kidan (1935–2004) Acting: 21 May 1991 27 May ...
The Mengistu Haile Mariam-led military dictatorship used this 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia as government military policy by restricting food supplies for strategy against the counter-insurgency of the Tigray People's Liberation Front's guerrilla-soldiers, and for "social transformation" in non-insurgent areas (against people of Tigray ...
The Workers' Party of Ethiopia (WPE) was founded that same year as a vanguard party led by Derg chairman Mengistu Haile Mariam. The Derg was dissolved with the proclamation of the PDRE, but continued to rule de facto until September when the new government took office, three months after the June general election.
The 1960 Ethiopian coup attempt (Amharic: የታህሳሱ ግርግር) [2] was a failed coup d'état perpetrated against Emperor Haile Selassie on 13 December 1960 by the Council of the Revolution, a cabal of four conspirators led by brothers Germame Neway and Brigadier General Mengistu Neway, commander of the Kebur Zabagna (Imperial Guard), that sought to overthrow the Emperor during a state ...
High ranking Derg members: Mengistu Haile Mariam, Tafari Benti and Atnafu Abate. After the Ethiopian Revolution in February 1974, the first signal of any mass uprisings was the actions of the soldiers of the 4th Brigade of the 4th Army Division in Nagelle in southern Ethiopia. [13]
On 17 February 1992, the Ethiopian Radio announced the discovery of the remains of the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie beneath his office in National Palace by workmen. The discovery happened nearly one year after the former military government Derg collapsed in 1991, and under the interim government led by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).