Mengistu Haile Mariam
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Mengistu Haile Mariam

Personal data
Date of birth, 1937(age 73)
Political partyWorkers Party of Ethiopia
Chairman of the Derg and Head of State of Ethiopia
In office3 February 1977 - 10 September 1987
Succeeded byHimself, as President of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Preceded byTafari Benti
1st President of Ethiopia
In office10 September 1987 - 21 May 1991
Succeeded byTesfaye Gebre Kidan

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Mengistu Haile Mariam (መንግስቱ ኃይለ ማርያም, pronounced -ammənɡɨstu haylə maryam) (born 1937) is a politician who was formerly 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 campaign of repression against the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party and other anti-Derg factions. Mengistu fled to Zimbabwe in 1991 at the conclusion of the Ethiopian Civil War, and remains there despite an Ethiopian court verdict finding him guilty in absentia of genocide.

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Ethiopia: 2nd Book of "Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam and Memories of the ... - NewsDire Tweet this news
NewsDire--The other controversial statements were coming from Mulugeta Lule, who was also accused of being spy for the government of former President -Mengistu Haile- ... - Date : Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:46:43 GMT+00:00
Ethiopia's election: all losers - Oromsis (blog) Tweet this news
Oromsis (blog)---...- if not totalitarian and even goes as far as comparing it to that of -Mengistu Haile Mariam-, leader of the communist-military junta overthrown by Meles ... - Date : Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:59:53 GMT+00:00
La carta de Etiopía - La Vanguardia Tweet this news
La Vanguardia--Pero con el derrocamiento de la dictadura marxista-leninista de -Mengistu Haile Mariam- en 1991, Etiopía inició un proceso de transformación. ... - Date : Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:36:20 GMT+00:00
Etiopia: un voto contestato - Limes, rivista italia di geopolitica Tweet this news
Limes, rivista italia di geopolitica--A Zenawi - ideatore e leader del fronte che rovesciò il dittatore -Mengistu Haile Mariam- sostituendolo alla guida del Paese - viene contestato l'utilizzo ... - Date : Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:07:10 GMT+00:00
Return of the “Red Emperor” - Africa Intelligence Tweet this news
Africa Intelligence---...- evokes the harsh regime of Ethiopia's one-time “Red Emperor”, -Mengistu Haile Mariam- - is an option to buy the Jillewarra gold mine in Australia. ... - Date : Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:49:08 GMT+00:00
New faces of Ethiopia's athletic celebrity - In Pictures - Jimma Times Tweet this news
Jimma Times--And like the 1980s dictatorship of -Mengistu Hailemariam- who claimed 98% election victory, the latest regime of Meles Zenawi has similarly claimed over 99% ... - Date : Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:02:40 GMT+00:00
L'Ethiopie offre une amnistie aux mouvements rebelles de l'Ogaden - Afrique en ligne Tweet this news
Afrique en ligne---...- sont en cours depuis 2005, date à laquelle le pays a organisé ses troisièmes élections après la chute du dictateur militaire, -Mengistu Haile Mariam-. ... - Date : Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:34:28 GMT+00:00
Ethiopia's leader creates a repressive one-party state - Vancouver Sun Tweet this news
Vancouver Sun--After Ethiopia's old dictator -Mengistu Haile Mariam- murdered the man he had deposed, Emperor -Haile- ... - Date : Wed, 26 May 2010 18:12:27 GMT+00:00
Ethiopia: Zenawi's Govt Bolstered Restrictions on Political Activity Prior to ... - Gadaa.com Oduu - News Tweet this news
Gadaa.com Oduu - News--Colonel -Mengistu Haile Mariam- ruled the country until a coalition of guerrilla groups led by forces from the northern Tigray region overthrew his brutal ... - Date : Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:56:39 GMT+00:00
Ethiopian leader claims win amid charges of vote rigging - GlobalPost Tweet this news
GlobalPost---...- addressed a flag-waving crowd from behind bullet-proof glass overlooking Meskel Square where his predecessor, the vicious dictator -Mengistu Haile Mariam- ... - Date : Thu, 27 May 2010 10:21:21 GMT+00:00

Presidents of Ethiopia

Derg (1974-1987), ChairmenAman � * Mengistu � * Tafari � * Mengistu
People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (1987-1991), PresidentsMengistu * Tesfaye �*
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (since 1991), PresidentsMeles* * Negasso * Girma

Chairpersons of the Organization of African Unity and the African Union (AU)

Selassie * Nasser * Nkrumah * Ankrah * Selassie * Mobutu * Boumédienne * Ahidjo * Kaunda * Daddah * Hassan II * Gowon * Barre * Amin * Ramgoolam * Bongo * Nimeiry * Tolbert * Senghor * Stevens * Moi * Mengistu * Nyerere * Diouf * Nguesso * Kaunda * Traoré * Mubarak * Museveni * Babangida * Diouf * Mubarak * Ben Ali * Meles * Biya * Mugabe * Compaoré * Bouteflika * Eyadéma * Chiluba * Mwanawasa * Mbeki * Chissano * Obasanjo * Nguesso * Kufuor * Kikwete * al-Gaddafi * Mutharika |

Fall of Communism

Internal conditionsBrezhnev stagnation * Cultural Revolution * Eastern Bloc * Eastern Bloc economies * Eastern Bloc politics * Eastern Bloc information dissemination * Eastern Bloc emigration and defection * KGB * Nomenklatura * Samizdat * Shortage economy * Totalitarianism
International relationsActive measures * Cold War * List of socialist countries * Predictions of Soviet collapse * Reagan Doctrine * Soviet Empire * Terrorism by the Soviet Union * Vatican opposition
Reforms of socialismSocialism with Chinese characteristics * Perestroika * Glasnost * Demokratizatsiya * Sinatra Doctrine
Events by countryEastern Bloc countries: Albania * Bulgaria * Czechoslovakia * East Germany * Hungary * Poland * Romania * Soviet Union * Yugoslavia
Former Soviet Republics: Armenia * Azerbaijan * Belarus * Estonia * Georgia * Latvia * Lithuania * Kazakhstan * Kirghistan * Moldova * Russia * Tajikstan * Turkmenistan * Ukraine * Uzbekistan
Other countries: Afghanistan * Angola * Benin * Burma * Cambodia * China * People's Republic of the Congo * Ethiopia * Mongolia * Mozambique * Nicaragua * Somalia * South Yemen
Communist leadersDaniel Ortega * Denis Sassou Nguesso * Erich Honecker * Fidel Castro * Heydar Aliyev * Kim Il-sung * Mathieu Kérékou * Mengistu Haile Mariam * Mikhail Gorbachev * Milouš Jakeš * Ne Win * Nicolae Ceauşescu * Ramiz Alia * Saparmurat Niyazov * Siad Barre * Slobodan Milošević * Todor Zhivkov * Wojciech Jaruzelski * Yuri Andropov * Konstantin Chernenko * Enver Hoxha * Hua Guofeng * Deng Xiaoping * Pol Pot * Tôn Đức Thắng
Anti-communist leadersBoris Yeltsin * Aung San Suu Kyi * Helmut Kohl * Pope John Paul II * Lech Wałęsa * Margaret Thatcher * Ronald Reagan * Sali Berisha * Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj * Václav Havel * Vladimir Bukovsky * Violeta Chamorro * Zhelyu Zhelev
Democracy movementsChinese democracy movement * Civic Forum * Sąjūdis * Solidarity * Popular Front of Latvia * Popular Front of Estonia * National League for Democracy * National Opposition Union * National Salvation Front * Union of Democratic Forces
EventsRevolutions of 1989 * April 9 tragedy * Black January * Baltic Way * 1988 Polish strikes * Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 * Removal of Hungary's border fence * Polish Round Table Talks * Hungarian Round Table Talks * Pan-European Picnic * Monday demonstrations in East Germany * Fall of the Berlin Wall * Malta Summit * German reunification * January 1991 events in Lithuania * January 1991 events in Latvia * 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt * Yemeni unification
Post-collapseColour revolution * Communism remembrance * Decommunization * Democratization * Economic liberalization * Economic reforms after the collapse of socialism * Neo-Stalinism * North Korean famine * Oslo Accords * Post-Communism * Putinism * Special Period * Yugoslav Wars



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