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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 Neway. Mengistu Neway (1919 – 30 March 1961) was an Ethiopian military officer and commander of the Imperial Guard during the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie.He is noted for being one of the early dissidents of the Emperor's regime and for organizing the 1960 coup attempt with his younger brother Germame Neway, for which he was sentenced to death.
Mengistu Worku (Amharic: መንግስቱ ወርቁ; 1940 – 16 December 2010) was an Ethiopian footballer, recognised as one of the best Ethiopian footballers in history with Luciano Vassalo and Yidnekatchew Tessema.
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 ...
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 ...
A Workers' Party of Ethiopia monument extolling the virtues of communism. The Workers' Party of Ethiopia (WPE) was finally established on 12 September 1984, to mark the tenth anniversary of the revolution in which the Derg came to power, replacing the COPWE which was dissolved. Mengistu became the party leader under the title general secretary.
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. [5]
In September 1987, Mengistu Haile Mariam declared Ethiopia as the Ethiopian People's Democratic Republic, and the Derg transformed into the Ethiopian Workers Party (EWP). After a failed coup against Mengistu in 1989, socialism was abandoned in 1990 following the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. Mengistu's government faced challenges ...