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Haile Selassie I (Ge'ez: ቀዳማዊ ኀይለ ሥላሴ Qädamawi Ḫäylä Śəllase, lit. ' Power of the Trinity ' ; [ 2 ] [ 3 ] born Tafari Makonnen or Lij Tafari ; [ 4 ] 23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975) [ 5 ] was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974.
The Wollo famine is regarded as one of the main root causes of Haile Selassie's government collapse. It has been estimated that the death toll reached 250,000 people in 1975. [1] This coupled the peasants revolution in Ethiopia, which continued through the successive Derg regime.
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).
Haile Selassie, his daughter by his first marriage Princess Ijigayehu, his sister Princess Tenagnework, and many of his nephews, nieces, close relatives, and in-laws were among those detained. On 27 August 1975, Haile Selassie died under mysterious circumstances in detention at the National Palace in Addis Ababa .
A semi-feudal mode of production was a major characteristic of the Ethiopian Empire's economy for a number of centuries.The land – which was the most essential mode of production – had been amassed by the church (over 25%), Emperor Haile Selassie and his family (20%), the feudal lords (30%) and the state (18%), leaving a mere 7% to the roughly 23 million Ethiopian peasants.
Haile Selassie: Personal details; Born 5 July 1905 Lafto, Webera, Hararghe Province, Ethiopian Empire: Died: 23 November 1974 (aged 69) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Cause of death: Execution by firing squad (see Massacre of the Sixty) Spouse: Weizero Yeshimebet Guma: Military service; Branch/service: Army of the Ethiopian Empire: Rank: Major general ...
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Haile Selassie had also promised to reform and modernize the country. [1] The late 1960s in Ethiopia included student movements developing their knowledge of and debating the social sciences and social change. Their debates were influential in their opposition to Emperor Haile Selassie. [2]