Mengistu Haile Mariam ruled Ethiopia from 1974 until 1991 Mengistu, a relatively obscure army officer at the time, emerged as leader and began the "Red Terror" when nearly half a million ...

Famine had once again taken hold in Ethiopia, this time in the midst of the rule of Mengistu Haile Mariam. Mengistu was the ruthless leader of the Derg, a military junta that ruled Ethiopia for ...

the brutal military leader Mengistu Haile Mariam dramatically inaugurated his rule. Known as the “Butcher of Addis,” Mengistu was the leader of the Derg, a military junta that ruled Ethiopia ...

"The day his death was announced, I received a phone call from the (ruling junta) Dergue office asking me to go to the office of (military ruler) Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam," Woldeyes testified ...

The former aide to then ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam is also accused of torture and inhumane treatment. He denies all the charges against him. More than 300 victims have been named in four war ...

Under his successor, Anwar Sadat and Ethiopia’s Mengistu Haile Mariam, the two states swapped ideological allegiances. Egypt, ...

"This outstanding book is the most authoritative account to date of Ethiopia's epic transformation from the feudal monarchy of Haile Selassie to the Stalinist dictatorship of Mengistu Haile-Mariam." ...

While the Derg government maintained that the 82-year-old emperor died naturally out of old age, it was later revealed during the trial of 67 former members of dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam's ...

Ethiopian President Mengistu Haile Mariam (R) with Fidel Castro (C) and Raul Castro (L) during an official visit in La Havana, Cuba, 25 April 1975. Credit: AFP via Getty Images ...

During the Cold War period, it was the only government to do so under the same leader in Africa. Ethiopia under Mengistu Haile Mariam, following the revolution in 1974.

And so is a military cap belonging to former Ethiopian dictator, Mengistu Haile Mariam. Salim leans back on his office chair, his eyes firmly fixed on a video camera lying on a shelf, one of two ...

Nebiy was detained at the infamous "Alem Beqagn" prison for almost eight years, from 1977 to 1985, under Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam's leadership. Even in the appalling conditions of his ...