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One of the lesser-known of the 20th century's gangster-despots was Mengistu Haile Mariam, who ran Ethiopia as a Leninist-style "people's republic" from 1974 to 1991, complete with nationalization of industry and commerce, secret-police terror, mass killings of "class enemies," and famines brought on by forced collectivization of agriculture.(The Week)(Brief article)
One of the lesser-known of the 20th century's gangster-despots was Mengistu Haile Mariam, who ran Ethiopia as a Leninist-style "people's republic" from 1974 to 1991, complete with nationalization of industry and commerce, secret-police terror, mass killings of "class enemies," and famines brought on by forced collectivization of agriculture. It is probable that Mengistu murdered the former monarch, 83-year-old Haile Selassie. After fleeing Ethiopia following a coup in 1991, Mengistu was given asylum by Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. Since then he has been living in an upscale suburb of ...
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...surrounded by hostile Arabs and to offer a naval base on the Red Sea. Ethiopia's strongman, Lieut. Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam, faces defeat at the hands of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front, which has captured all of Eritrea...
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...capital of the northern province of Eritrea, whose secessionist rebels were already doing well. President Mengistu Haile Mariam broke off an arms-begging trip to East Germany and flew home early. The mutiny had been preceded by endless...
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...Ethiopia's people, 8m of whom already face famine, may now face something else. Ethiopia may be dismembered. Mengistu Haile Mariam, Ethiopia's dictator since 1977, fled on May 21st. His successors called for a ceasefire, and invited their...
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- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) October 22, 1994 700+ words
...is said to spend his days running his imaginary empire and declaring himself to be the 13th apostle of Christ. Mengistu Haile Mariam, of Ethiopia, toppled in 1991 after a reign of terror in which tens of thousands of people were murdered, appears...
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- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) May 25, 1991 700+ words
AT THE bitter end the dictator ran for it. President Mengistu Haile Mariam, who misruled his country for 14 years, fled on May 21st to zimbabwe, where his retreat was prepared. The rebels, whose advance...
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...Ethiopia since the early 1960s. Now, however, a major rebel offensive is closing in on the Marxist regime that President Mengistu Haile Miriam has held together with brutal repression, ideological bombast and $11 billion in Soviet aid. After years of jockeying...
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...death of the military government headed by Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam and the birth of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia headed by President Mengistu Haile Mariam. Exactly three years ago, during celebrations...
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...procapitalist Kenya. In Ethiopia, under the rule of Mengistu Haile Mariam, the press is owned and controlled by the government...It is also under the wise leadership of Comrade Mengistu Haile Mariam that the country has pursued ever broader and...
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