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| | USAfricaonline HUMAN RIGHTS |
 | | Mengistu's effort to avoid being brought to the court since his years as Ethiopia's leader in the 1980s is thinning. | | | Hence, the recent request by the government in Ethiopia requesting that South Africa (where he is exiled) allow an extradition of Mengistu Haile Mariam has apparently influenced his decision to flee South Africa and relocate to Zimbabwe. | | | Same Tuesday the South African Human Rights Commission said the government was legally bound &endash; as a signatory of the 1951 Genocide Convention &endash; to extradite leaders guilty of genocide. |
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| | Mengistu Haile Mariam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | On September 10, 1987, Mengistu became a civilian president under a new constitution, and the country was renamed the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. | | | By the end of the seventies, Mengistu presided over the second largest army in all of Sub-Saharan Africa, and a formidable airforce and Navy as well. | | | Mengistu assumed power as head of state and Derg chairman in 1977. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengistu_Haile_Mariam
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| | This is the fifth guilty verdict rendered in the trial of ex-officials of the Mengistu regime (The Reporter, 27 Dec, 1999). | | | Dawit Wolde Giorgis, formerly a senior member of Mengistu’s government who grew disaffected and then helped expose the Ethiopian famine of the mid-1980s, accuses Mengistu of blocking aid with the intent of starving to death rebel populations (Giorgis, 12 July 1987). | | | On December 27, 1999, the Second Criminal Division of the Federal High Court found a "Red Terror" defendant guilty of recommending the execution of five individuals. |
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| | BBC News AFRICA Mengistu skips South Africa |
| | Mr Mengistu travelled to South Africa three weeks ago on a Zimbabwean diplomatic passport with a special visa. | | | "Mengistu came to South Africa as a private citizen. | | | Zimbabwe has also had extradition requests from the Ethiopian Government but has refused to act because of the absence of a treaty. |
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| | In marked contrast to his piteous citizens, Mengistu held court in a massive palace in Addis Ababa, where he was served by an army of servants and liveried butlers. | | | Following his speech and an emergency meeting of his cabinet, Mengistu ordered a full mobilization of the Party, including all males 18 years and older. | | | All throughout his reign, Mengistu would initiate campaigns into Somalia and the Northern provinces of his own country. |
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| | BBC News AFRICA Mengistu defends 'Red Terror' |
| | Earlier this month two senior officers from Mr Mengistu's regime were sentenced to death in their absence. | | | Zeleke is the fifth person to have been sentenced for his part in the "Red Terror". | | | The Federal High Court in Addis Ababa on Monday found Colonel Zeleke Zerihun guilty of genocide and other charges, notably "recommending the execution of five individuals", the government Ethiopian Herald daily reported. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/581098.stm
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| | Human Rights Watch: News Releases |
| | We write to urge that South Africa bring Mengistu Haile Mariam to justice for crimes against humanity committed during his rule in Ethiopia. | | | Human Rights Watch called on the government of South Africa to bring deposed Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam to justice for massive killings and torture during his rule. | | | On November 24, Human Rights Watch wrote to the South African Minister of Justice, Penuell Mpapa Maduna, urging that South Africa bring Mengistu Haile Mariam to justice for crimes against humanity committed during his rule in Ethiopia. |
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http://www.hrw.org/doc?t=news&cd1=11/1/1999&cd2=11/30/1999
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| | In a final attempt at negotiation, the EPRDF, the OLF, Prime Minister Tesfaye Dinka of the Mengistu government, and the EPLF met with United States Assistant Secretary of State Herman Cohen in London on May 27, 1991. | | | Former WPE members are not allowed to vote or to stand in elections, are excluded from serving as judges, and have some restrictions placed on their ability to travel. | | | The OLF admitted that its supporters were responsible for the massacre, but stated that the OLF had not planned or condoned the incident. |
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http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/ins/ethiopia_amharas_93.html
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| | The Crown Council of Ethiopia |
| | Teshome Haile Mariam, the former Chief Justice of Ethiopia and former Ethiopian Imperial Ambassador to the United States — the Emperor reconvened and reconstituted the Ethiopian Crown Council. | | | Besides fulfilling his various duties as Crown Prince, Emperor Amha Selassie served his country as governor of the provinces of Begémdir, Tigré and Wollo at different times. | | | Emperor Amha Selassie was, like his father, widely decorated by foreign governments and leaders both during his period as Crown Prince, and later in Exile. |
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| | In 1930, Haile Selassie was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia and established a more modern state by creating a structured, central bureaucracy, a judicial system with codified laws, and a constitution (IRBDC Apr. 1990, 11). | | | In February 1977, Mengistu Haile Mariam arranged the execution of General Teferi along with six other senior members of the government, and publicly took supreme power after their deaths. | | | Despite Mengistu's successful obliteration of his political opposition, popular support for the Dergue government decreased as a result of economic and political disasters, conflict, and famine. |
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| | BBC News AFRICA Mengistu to stay in Zimbabwe |
| | But Mengistu is a close friend of President Robert Mugabe, holds a Zimbabwean diplomatic passport and lives in a heavily-guarded mansion in the capital, Harare. | | | He says it is believed Colonel Mengistu asked for permanent residence when he became worried that his friend, President Mugabe, might be forced from office. | | | Ethiopia's former leader Mengistu Haile Mariam has been granted permanent residence in Zimbabwe - his home since he fled Addis Ababa in 1991. |
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| | Mengistu Haile Mariam on Encyclopedia.com |
| | South Africa -- Mengistu -- the opportunity for justice must not be lost. | | | MARCO LONGARI Agence France Presse 02-24-2004 Col. Mekuria Haile is guarded, 24 February 2004 by an Ethiopian policeman inside the High Court in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. | | | He is being tried in absentia for genocide by an Ethiopian court; the trial began in 1994. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/M/Mengistu.asp
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| | "Era of Impersonal Politics" |
| | All his successors, including Emperor Haile-Selassie I, seemed to have had doubts about his own legitimacy to the throne, and their respective positions of leadership as in the case of President Mengistu Haile-Mariam and Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. | | | Yet Mengistu is said to have been afraid of his own shadow, let alone acquire the confidence to lead and rule a country aspiring towards a revolutionary and democratic change. | | | Haile-Selassie's unlikely successor, Colonel Mengistu Haile-Mariam, was himself involved in a number of shootouts to establish and protect his own dictatorship over the democratic ideals of the Ethiopian Revolution of the 1970s. |
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http://www.addistribune.com/Archives/2003/02/21-02-03/Era.htm
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| | Defence Trial of Ex-President Begins |
| | He told three judges presiding over the case that the defendants were "penniless" while the Ethiopian government had received financial support to fund the trials. | | | "We have been jailed for a long time," the 54-year-old, who was prime minister for 14 years during Mengistu's rule, told the wooden paneled courtroom. | | | The former president, who fled to Zimbabwe after his overthrow in 1991, is being tried with dozens of top officials accused of crimes against humanity during his 17-year rule. |
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http://www.addistribune.com/Archives/2003/11/07-11-03/Defence.htm
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| | PICTURES AND STORIES ON THE IMPERIAL FUNERAL EVENTS |
| | The crowned heads of Belgium, Egypt, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom and the presidents of Germany and the United States were invited to the ceremony, where Haile Selassie, who had already been proclaimed Negus or king, was made the Negus Negast, seven months after the death of the Empress Zewditu. | | | Seventy years ago, on November 2, 1930, the former Ras (Duke) Teferi Mekonen, was crowned emperor in full pomp and circumstance in Addis Ababa after he had already served as regent of the Abyssinian empire for 14 years. | | | The government, which toppled the Marxist government of Mengistu Haile Mariam in 1991, attacked Selassie this week as a tyrant who enslaved the peasants by imposing a feudal system. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Thousands of Ethiopians mourn Selassie's last child |
| | "This is the closing of the chapter because all his (Haile Selassie's) children have passed away," said Ermias Shale Selassie, one of Tenagne's nephews. | | | No senior members of Meles' government attended either Haile Selassie's or Tenagne's burials. | | | Rebels led by Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia's prime minister, ousted Mengistu in 1991. |
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| | Two Mengistu loyalists to die, court orders |
| | Ethiopia’s Federal High Court has sentenced to death two former senior officials accused of torturing political opponents during the former regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam, local media said today. | | | Former National and Public Security Minister Tesfaye Woldeselase and Leggesse Belayneh, former head of criminal investigations, played prominent roles in "the inhuman persecution of political dissidents", the state-run Ethiopian News Agency quoted the court as saying. | | | The opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) has said it would challenge the results from the May 15 poll in the courts and urged a government of national unity to be formed. |
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| | Mengistu Haile Mariam -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | By the end of his reign he had become a virtual dictator, overthrowing the old constitution and taking all power into his own hands. | | | Rising to the rank of major, he became one of a group of junior officers and enlisted men who, discontented… | | | Mengistu received officer training at Holeta and additional training in the United States. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052015
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| | Timeline: Ethiopia |
| | 1987 - Mengistu elected president under a new constitution. | | | 1991 - Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front captures Addis Ababa, forcing Mengistu to flee the country; Eritrea establishes its own provisional government pending a referendum on independence. | | | 1941 - British and Commonwealth troops, greatly aided by the Ethiopian resistance—the arbegnoch—defeat the Italians, and restore Haile Selassie to his throne. |
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| | "Ethiopia: Rebels Willing to Talk" |
| | Mengistu Haile Mariam, the head of state since 1977, is elected president. | | | This may result in an army lacking leadership, as the civil war continues in the northern region of the country. | | | Some of the leaders in the coup planning were senior officers; most of whom died in the fighting or were promptly executed. |
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http://www.eco.utexas.edu/Faculty/Cleaver/357Lsum_s4_ARB061589_Attempted.html
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| | Mengistu Haile Mariam Biography / Biography of Mengistu Haile Mariam Biography |
| | Mengistu resigned as head of state in 1991 and fled into exile in Zimbabwe. | | | Mengistu Haile Mariam (born 1937) became the head of state of Ethiopia and chairman of the ruling military government (the Derg) after a 1974 revolution deposed Emperor Haile Selassie. | | | He was born in 1937 in the southern Ethiopian district of Walayta. |
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| | Genocide verdict for Ethiopia's Mengistu due in May - Boston.com |
| | Mengistu -- who fled to Zimbabwe in 1991 after guerrilla forces led by now Prime Minister Meles Zenawi ousted his 17-year-old Marxist regime -- is being tried in absentia. | | | A verdict in the genocide trial against Ethiopia's exiled former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam is due on May 23 after 14 years of proceedings, a court said on Wednesday. | | | ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A verdict in the genocide trial against Ethiopia's exiled former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam is due on May 23 after 14 years of proceedings, a court said on Wednesday. |
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| | CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Dec 6, 1999, (PANA) - Justice Minister Penuell Maduna has asked the National Director of Public Prosecutions, Bulelani Ngcuka, to investigate the possibility of charging former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam in a South African court for crimes against humanity. | | | ADDIS ABABA (Dec. 1) XINHUA - Ethiopia will defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity despite mounting external pressures imposed on the country, a senior official has said. | | | PRETORIA, South Africa (Reuters) - South Africa said Wednesday former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, in the country for medical treatment, would be allowed to return to his exile home in Zimbabwe despite calls for his extradition to Ethiopia. |
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| | Haile Selassie - Britannica Concise |
| | Ethiopia - As Menilek aged, he appointed a cabinet to act for his grandson and heir designate, Iyasu, a son of the Oromo ruler of Welo. | | | Mengistu Haile Mariam - Ethiopian army officer and head of state (1974–91). | | | Mengistu Haile Mariam - 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. |
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| | Mengistu -- the opportunity for justice must not be lost |
| | Under national and international law, South Africa has an obligation to ensure that Mengistu Haile-Mariam remains in the country while an investigation into his alleged crimes are conducted. | | | Mengistu -- the opportunity for justice must not be lost | | | Between 1974 and 1991, Lieutenant-Colonel Mengistu Haile-Mariam was chairman of the Dergue -- Ethiopia's military government -- and subsequently became head of state. |
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| | Ethiopian Review |
| | Queen Zewditu, who was angered by this insolence, ordered a special investigation to track down the father of the baby so that he would be prosecuted according to Ethiopian court traditions. | | | On his father's side, Mengistu is the son of a former slave | | | severe breach of court protocol took place between the two and Mengistu's mother was born. |
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| | The Status of Human Rights Organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Ethiopia |
| | This led to factionalisation of the country and a long civil war. | | | The Committee has an executive of seven, elected by the members, to serve for two-year terms. | | | Mengistu ruled for more than seventeen years in a most repressive manner, perpetrating serious human rights abuses under a Marxist-style government that did not tolerate dissent or opposition. |
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| | Trial Watch - Mengistu Haile Mariam |
| | In 1977, Mengistu became Head of State and the uncontested leader of the Derg. | | | Mengistu Hailé Mariam was born in 1937 in Walayata in Ethiopia. | | | Herald Tribune - NEW YORK The transfer of former Liberian president and war crimes suspect Charles Taylor to the UN-backed Special Court on Sierra Leone is more evidence that the world has become a less hospitable place for people who are accused of committing... |
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| | Nyligen Inträffad |
| | Even with the PDRE’s apparent political reform, Mengistu became the first civilian president. | | | Mengistu and his Derg party created a military dictatorship. | | | Drought and famine in the mid-1980s eventually caused the downfall of Mengistu’s military government, propagating the establishment of the People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in 1987. |
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| | Comparing Meles and Mengistu, but why? |
| | Unless it is meant to satisfy Mengistu and his proponents (which in my opinion is not the intent of the writer), comparing Meles and Mengistu and concluding Mengistu as a possible winner of election is ineffectual no matter which side of the isle we are. | | | “Out of the total 1305 votes, Meles secured 920 while Mengistu could dismally command 334 votes. | | | “Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has beaten his predecessor, ex-President Mengistu Haile-Mariam, in a free and fair cyber poll with 70.5 per cent of the votes cast for the “worst dictator”. |
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| | Haile Selassie laid to rest at last |
| | To his supporters, his rule was a time of peace and stability during which modern education was introduced in the oldest independent state in Africa. | | | During a trial that seeks to bring members of the 1974-91 regime of Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam to justice for the killings of dissidents and monarchy loyalists, two of the emperor's personal servants testified that he was killed on a night they were ordered out of his room. | | | Officially, his death at age 83 was due to complications from a prostate condition. |
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| | This was a notorious detention and torture center under the previous government of President Mengistu Haile-Mariam. | | | The present government of President Meles Zenawi is now using it to hold political prisoners, including members of the former government, and also opponents of the current government, some of whom have allegedly been tortured. | | | The government has reportedly accused Dr. Alemayehu Teferra of involvement in the "Red Terror" campaign by the former government of President Mengistu Haile-Mariam in 1977-78, in which the authorities extrajudicially executed some thousands of "anti-revolutionary" government opponents and detained and tortured tens of thousands of more elsewhere. |
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| | Ungrateful child Meles and Somalia |
| | It is an open secret that during his struggle to remove Marxist Dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, Zenaawi travelled with a Diplomatic Somali passport. | | | But despite his envy of the EPLF Zenawi was clearly in no position to complain. | | | Unlike the Eritreans, the TPLF had limited contacts with the Arab world and desperately sought introduction to Arab diplomats in Mogadishu at every opportunity. |
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| | SABCnews.com - africa/southern_africa |
| | Defence trial of Ethiopia's Mengistu opens next week (November 01, 2003, 16:45) | | | Mengistu is being tried in absentia with 37 former top soldiers accused of genocide during his 17-year rule, which ended in 1991 when he was toppled and fled to Zimbabwe. | | | Suspects could face the death penalty if convicted in the trial which began in December 1994. |
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| | Mengistu tries to shed 'Red Terror' label |
| | 30 November 1999: Pretoria defends visit by Mengistu | | | THE former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam has embarked on a publicity campaign to clear his name of accusations that he was responsible for the bloody suppression of thousands of political opponents during the "Red Terror". | | | Col Mengistu, along with 5,000 other members of his military junta, or Dergue, is being tried in absentia in Ethiopia for genocide. |
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| | Nominally acting for Crown Prince Asfa Wossen Haile Selassie (s.a.), who did not assume | | | 15 Apr 1795 - Dec 1795 Be'ede Mariam III Salomon | | | 9 Nov 1855 - 1856 Sahle Mariam (1st time) (b. |
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| | Ethiopia Government 1995 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International ... |
| | chief of state: President MELES Zenawi (since 1 June 1991); election last held 10 September 1987; next election planned after new constitution drafted; results - MENGISTU Haile-Mariam elected by the now defunct National Assembly, but resigned and left Ethiopia on 21 May 1991 | | | note: on 28 May 1991 the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) toppled the authoritarian government of MENGISTU Haile-Mariam and took control in Addis Ababa; the Transitional Government of Ethiopia (TGE), announced a two-year transitional period | | | Other political or pressure groups: Oromo Liberation Front (OLF); Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (EPRP); numerous small, ethnic-based groups have formed since Mengistu's resignation, including several Islamic militant groups |
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| | Watching Justice Prevail - 01/12/2005 |
| | With the help of the United States, Mengistu Haile Mariam fled to Zimbabwe after he was overthrown in 1991. | | | The Marxist Mengistu Haile Mariam never dreamed of this one — the day he and his former officials would be hunted down by those they tortured during his Dergue regime, and his so-called Red Terror Campaign which eliminated tens of thousands of Ethiopians during his 17-year rule. | | | The current government in Ethiopia has since asked the government of President Robert Mugabe to extradite the former dictator, who has been put on trial in absentia. |
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| | Long Live One Ethiopia..Derg..Mengistu |
| | During 1976-1977 Lieutenant Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam emerged as the country's chief political figure; his position was consolidated in early 1977 when several top leaders of the Dirgue were killed, reportedly on his orders. | | | Mengistu Haile Mariam, Party Leader, Chief of Staff and President of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia 1977-91 | | | The nation changed its name to the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in 1987, under a new constitution that ostensibly established a civilian government; the national legislature elected Mengistu president. |
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| | Imperial Funeral Events October 30th - November 5th, 2000 |
| | His Exelency, Bitwoded Zewde Gebre Hiwot, former president of the Imperial Senate, former Lord Mayor of Addis Ababa, and President of the Haile Selassie I Memorial Commitee addressed the public. | | | The circumstances surrounding his death are shrouded in mystery, but it is generally believed that the Emperor was suffocated in his bed on the orders of the ruling communist junta, the Derg. | | | According to the wishes of the Emperor to be buried next to his wife, her late Majesty's remains were moved to the sarcophagus in a special chapel in the north trancept of the Nave in the days before the final burial of the bones of last Emperor of Ethiopia. |
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| | Ethiopian Dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam (Human Rights Watch, 29-11-1999) |
| | However, the trials on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity of the seventy-two top-ranking Dergue officials, including Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam, who had fled to Zimbabwe shortly before the fall of Addis Ababa to the EPRDF, are still pending. | | | As for the majority of those detained in relation to their suspected role during the Dergue dictatorship, it was only in the first quarter of 1997 that the SPO announced their charging with criminal offences. | | | In 1992 the new government established a Special Prosecutor's Office (SPO) to investigate the widespread crimes committed during the Dergue period and prosecute those responsible for them. |
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| | Ethiopis.com Message Board |
| | Posted: 04-14-2003 11:58 AM In Sept 1974, then Senate President Mariam paid a visit to the Florida Legislature. | | | President Mariam while polite was somewhere else during his visit. | | | He spent much time on my telephone and it was only later that I found out the reasons for his calls. |
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| | Mengistu, Haile Mariam |
| | As an officer in the Ethiopian army, Mengistu took part in the overthrow in 1974 of Emperor Haile Selassie and in 1977 led another coup, becoming head of state. | | | In 1995 he was tried in absentia on charges of mass murder, relating to the assassination of Emperor Selassie and the deaths of thousands of his political opponents during the period known as the ‘Red Terror’ 1977–79. | | | Confronted with severe problems of drought and secessionist uprisings, he survived with help from the USSR and the West until his violent overthrow by rebel forces. |
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| | Haile Selassie's War: the Italian - Ethiopian Campaign 1935- 1941. | | | He led a successful revolution in 1916 against Lij Yasu; nevertheless, when the Italians invaded in 1936, the Ethiopian Army was easily overrun, and Selassie fled. | | | He was later killed on the orders of Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam of the "Derg" Marxist government. |
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| | Russian and East German Documents on Ethiopia |
| | These military actions have to serve political measures. | | | This creates the great necessity for intensified political work by the PMAC and above all by Mengistu Haile Mariam towards the Eritrean population. | | | Mengistu Haile Mariam deserves to be regarded by us as a man who represents internationalist positions. |
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| | Mailgate: rec.heraldry: Re: Order of Carlos I |
| | After leading Ethiopia's transitional government, Zenawi won election as prime minister in 1995. | | | Meles Zenawi, originally from Ethiopia's Tigre Province, led the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), which deposed the government of Haile Mariam Mengistu in 1991. | | | After becoming active in the student political movement, which was agitating against the faltering regime of Emperor Haile Selassie I, he left the university to join the guerrilla fighters in the Ethiopian bush. |
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