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	Mengistu Haile Mariam
		Mengistu was one of several soldiers who in 1974 overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie, whose regime had pursued some disastrous policies.
		Mengistu's years in office were marked by a totalitarian-style government and the country's massive militarization, financed by the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, and assisted by Cuba.
		Mengistu fled the country with around 3,000 Derg officials and was granted asylum in Zimbabwe.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/me/Mengistu.html (304 words)

	Mengistu Haile Mariam Summary
		Mengistu Haile Mariam (born 1937) was the head of state of Ethiopia from 1977 to 1991.
		Mengistu was one of a committee of low ranking officers and enlisted soldiers known as the Derg who in 1974 overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie, whose regime had lost public confidence following a BBC-produced documentary by Jonathan Dimbleby highlighting a devastating famine in Wollo province.
		Mengistu's government was faced with enormous difficulties throughout the 1980s in the form of droughts, widespread famine (notably the Ethiopian famine of 1984 - 1985) and insurrections, particularly in the northern regions of Tigray and Eritrea.
	www.bookrags.com /Mengistu_Haile_Mariam (2162 words)

	Mengistu Haile Mariam - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mengistu Haile Mariam, 1937-, military ruler of Ethiopia (1974-91).
		Mengistu, an army officer, participated prominently in Emperor Haile Selassie 's overthrow (1974).
		Mengistu abandoned socialism, but unable to mobilize military resistance, he was forced to flee to Zimbabwe in 1991.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-mengistu.html (259 words)

	Zimbabwe: Where mass murderers retire
		Mengistu has been in comfortable exile in Zimbabwe -- where we used to be near neighbours in one of Harare's leafy suburbs -- since fleeing Ethiopia in 1991 just ahead of the storming of the capital Addis Ababa by a rebel army.
		Mengistu's 1984 blocking of international relief aid to famine-stricken northern rebel regions where at least one million people died can only be called genocide.
		Mengistu was under virtual house arrest, his villa surrounded by armed Zimbabwean police and his movements restricted to one visit a week to a nearby tennis court.
	www.ethiomedia.com /carepress/zimbabwe_mengistu.html (518 words)

	Left-wing Monster: Mengistu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the hierarchy of leftist monsters of the 20th century, Mengistu Haile Mariam, the Communist leader of Ethiopia from 1977 to 1991, is often lost.
		Mengistu, instead of attempting to alter the national economic infrastructure to aid the dying thousands, went on to blame the West for the famine, suggesting that aid agencies avoided Ethiopia for political reasons.
		Mengistu reportedly flew into a rage, and demanded that the army halt its retreat, but surprisingly, he was overruled by his aides and commanders, clearly indicating his deteriorating position.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=20318 (1604 words)

	Mengistu Haile Mariam, Dictator of the Month September, 2006
		Mengistu was born in 1937 in Walayta, Ethiopia
		Mengistus rule was characterised by a totalitarian government and a complete militarisation of the country, thanks to massive foreign aid from the then-USSR, other Eastern Bloc countries, as well as Cuba.
		Mengistu fled the country and was granted asylum in Zimbabwe by Robert Mugabe.
	www.dictatorofthemonth.com /Mengistu/Sep2006MengistuEN.htm (349 words)

	Mengistu found guilty of genocide
		Mengistu has lived in Zimbabwe since his 1991 ouster from Ethiopia, where he was convicted in absentia on Tuesday over the killings of tens of thousands of people during his 17 years in power.
		Mengistu lives in the wealthy Harare neighbourhood of Gunhill in a government villa surrounded by walls and guarded around the clock.
		Mengistu, who is believed to be about 65, took part in a bloody coup against Ethiopia's Haile Selassie in September 1974, forming a military ruling committee with other officers.
	www.ethiomedia.com /addfile/mengistu_guilty_of_genocide.html (909 words)

	Mengistu Haile Mariam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mengistu's father was a former slave who was bought by an aristocratic sub-provincial governor, the Shoan landowner Afenegus Eshete Geda.
		Mengistu was one of a committee of low ranking officers and enlisted soldiers known as the Derg who in 1974 overthrew Emperor Haile Selassie.
		Mengistu was triedin absentia for alleged genocide during the so-called Red Terror.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mengistu (1918 words)

	Mengistu Haile Mariam - Conservativeunderground
		Mengistu was part of the Derg, which was the military junta that came to power by overthrowing Haile Selassie in 1974.
		Mengistu's embracing of Communist came at a cost of his friends and comrades, who were ordered to be killed to maintain power.
		Mengistu still lives in luxury in Zimbabwe even though he is now a guilty man. Mengistu is responsible for at least 1.7 million death in Ethiopia, which makes it one of the worst act of mass genocide besides Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Saddam, and Pol Pot.
	www.conservativeunderground.com /forum/showthread.php?t=89995 (543 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Mengistu found guilty of genocide
		Mengistu's Marxist rule began in 1974, when he and a group of officials known as the Dergue, overthrew Ethiopia's emperor, Haile Selassie.
		Mengistu soon emerged as the leader, and in the confusion following the emperor's death the government became embroiled in bitter clashes with students and leftist rivals.
		Mengistu himself refuses to recognise the legal basis of the trial, accusing those who overthrew him of being mercenaries and colonisers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/6171429.stm (541 words)

	Zimbabwe: Calls for Mengistu Extradition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mengistu, dubbed “The Butcher of Addis”, fled ten days before rebel forces entered the city in May 1991 and was given asylum and permanent residence in Zimbabwe by Mugabe.
		Mengistu, also known as the Black Lenin, was alleged to have fled Ethiopia with many millions of US dollars, including a chunk of the 300 million dollars that Israel paid for the right to evacuate 15,000 Falasha Jews from Ethiopia.
		Mengistu, 69, has also been given a large farm 45 kilometres outside Harare and a property in the far north on the shores of Lake Kariba, to which he is believed to have moved in July for security reasons.
	www.iwpr.net /?p=acr&s=f&o=326375&apc_state=henh (1403 words)

	Mengistu found guilty of genocide
		Thirty-four members of Mengistu's junta are in court and 27 more are being tried in absentia.
		Mengistu was among low-ranking officers who came to power in 1974 when they overthrew Ethiopia's last Emperor, Haile Selassie.
		Mengistu soon emerged as the leader, shooting a fellow officer who wanted to make peace with the province of Eritrea, which was seeking independence.
	www.hiiraan.com /news2/2006/dec/_mengistu_found_guilty_of_genocide.aspx (340 words)

	Workers World Dec. 30, 1999: Why do the imperialists hate Mengistu?
		Mengistu became its leader in the 1970s at a time of great revolutionary ferment after the feudal monarchy of Emperor Haile Selassie was weakened by peasant rebellions, student demonstrations and strikes by the small working class following a terrible famine.
		Mengistu, a colonel who came not from the elite but from a people who had been serfs, emerged as the leader with a socialist orientation.
		The imperialists hate Mengistu not because he was a dictator, but because the dictatorship in Ethiopia was one exercised by the oppressed classes over the bourgeoisified feudals and their imperialist allies.
	www.workers.org /ww/1999/mengistu1230.php (1537 words)

	ZWNEWS.com - linking the world to Zimbabwe
		But our sources said Mengistu, who survived an assassination attempt in Harare in 1995, first suggested the slum clearance idea to Mugabe in February, at one of the regular meetings he holds with the President and other senior security chiefs from the army, the CIO and the police.
		Mengistu enjoys a special fuel scheme from the state's National Oil Company of Zimbabwe (NOCZIM) for both personal use and for his farms, and his vehicles are serviced free of charge at the Central Mechanical Equipment Department (CMED).
		The two said they and their families had suffered torture under Mengistu's rule in Ethiopia, and it was not disputed during the trial that they were victims of his brutal dictatorship.
	www.zwnews.com /issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=13834 (1307 words)

	RTE News - Mengistu guilty of Ethiopia genocide
		Mengistu and 11 co-defendants who had served on the government's central committee, the Derg, were convicted on 211 counts of genocide, homicide, illegal imprisonment and illegal property seizure by Ethiopia's Federal High Court.
		Mengistu, who was ousted in 1991 and took exile in Zimbabwe, was known as 'defendant number one' in the case against himself and other senior members of the Derg regime, including ex-prime minister Fikre Selassie.
		Those convicted, including Mengistu, face the death penalty and their lawyers have until 28 December to file motions seeking lesser sentences, the judge said.
	www.rte.ie /news/2006/1212/ethiopia.html (288 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Ex-ruler Mengistu found guilty of genocide
		Mengistu, who now lives in Zimbabwe, was accused with top members of his military government of killing thousands during a 17-year rule which began with the toppling of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 and included war, purges and famine.
		The most prominent victim Mengistu is accused of killing was Emperor Haile Selassie, said to have been strangled in bed and secretly buried under a latrine in his palace.
		For months in 1984, Mengistu denied that famine was ravaging Ethiopia's north and aid workers have recalled how he flew in planeloads of whisky to celebrate the anniversary of his revolution.
	english.peopledaily.com.cn /200612/13/eng20061213_331975.html (369 words)

	ABC News: Zimbabwe says won't extradite Ethiopia's Mengistu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mengistu, who has lived in exile in Zimbabwe since he was ousted in 1991, was convicted on Tuesday in a 12-year trial that focused on the killings of thousands of political opponents during his military government's 17-year rule.
		Once dubbed the "Butcher of Addis," Mengistu, along with his family, lives in a government villa in Harare's plush Gunhill district, surrounded by a high security wall and guarded around the clock by an army and police unit.
		Security for Mengistu, whose rule was marked by war, famine and bloody purges, was increased in the mid-1990s after a failed assassination attempt by two Eritreans who ambushed him during a stroll.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2721966 (377 words)

	In Ethiopia, Mengistu's Final Solution
		Mengistu's action is widely seen by Western diplomats and relief officials as proof that he now will attempt to settle Ethiopia's civil war in these two provinces by using famine as his ultimate
		Mengistu admitted the threat posed to his regime by the rebels.
		Mengistu is threatening a Final Solution that will lead to a holocaust on the same scale.
	www.heritage.org /Research/Africa/EM200.cfm (920 words)

	VOA News - Ethiopia Convicts Mengistu of Genocide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mengistu fled Ethiopia in 1991, and Zimabwe President Robert Mugabe is not expected to provide extradition of the former Marxist ruler.
		The Mengistu regime is said brutally to have put an estimated fifty-thousand dissident students, political opponents and members of Ethiopia’s middle class to death.
		Meanwhile, the two national entities that emerged from Mengistu’s former Derg regime, the sovereign nations of Ethiopia and Eritrea, have engaged in a costly border war since 1998 and are threatening to renew hostilities in the context of the independence struggle unfolding in neighboring Somalia.
	www.voanews.com /english/Africa/2006-12-13-voa5.cfm (647 words)

	Adding Insult to Injury:
		Yes, Mengistu, the one who gave us the Red- Terror butchered our teachers and students for almost two decades and succeeded in humiliating and isolating a proud nation from the civilized world, all in the name of Socialism still has his sympathizers, here in Washington, DC.
		It seems that the interviewer has forgotten that Mengistu is a criminal at large who if it weren’t for few apologists and the carelessness of the current government of Ethiopia, would have been in jail rotting or dead and forgotten by now.
		Listeners are told that the purpose of this interview was to give Mengistu a chance to rebut the misinformation that is being spread, by the current government in the form a book, against him.
	www.addistribune.com /Archives/2002/09/20-09-02/Adding.htm (1005 words)

	Ethiopian Dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam (Human Rights Watch, 29-11-1999)
		Mengistu emerged as its undisputed leader after orchestrating the physical elimination of rivals from within.
		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.
		As the leader of the Dergue, Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam is already being tried in absentia, together with his closest collaborators.
	www.hrw.org /press/1999/nov/mengitsu.htm (1100 words)

	GoZimbabwe.com \| 'Operation Murambatsvina was Mengistu's idea'! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But the ZimOnline's sources said Mengistu, who survived an assassination attempt in Harare in 1995, first suggested the slum clearance idea to Mugabe in February, at one of the regular meetings he holds with the president and other senior security chiefs from the army, the CIO and the police.
		Mengistu enjoys a special fuel scheme from the state's National Oil Company of Zimbabwe for personal use and for his farms, and his vehicles are serviced free of charge at the central mechanical equipment department.
		Mengistu is said to have then made plans to relocate to either China or North Korea, but he knew very well that he would not get the same comforts as he did in Harare.
	www.gozimbabwe.com /mengistu_060220.html (2359 words)

	Ethiopian ex-dictator Mengistu convicted of genocide - Region - Middle East Times
		Mengistu, on trial in absentia, and 11 co-defendants who served on the ex-government's central committee were found guilty of genocide, homicide, illegal imprisonment, and illegal confiscation of property by Ethiopia's Federal High Court.
		Mengistu, who was ousted in 1991 and now lives in exile in Zimbabwe, was known as "defendant number one" in the case against himself and other senior members of his so-called Derg (Committee) regime.
		The evidence against Mengistu, who is approaching 70 and lives comfortably outside Harare as a guest of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, included execution orders and video footage of assassinations and torture of detainees.
	www.metimes.com /storyview.php?StoryID=20061212-110804-4100r (660 words)

	BBC News \| AFRICA \| Mengistu defends 'Red Terror'
		Former Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, who is wanted in his homeland for genocide, has defended his 17-year rule in a rare interview.
		Mr Mengistu said the revolution had been necessary to replace the "very backward, archaic and feudalist system" of Emperor Haile Selassie, who was overthrown in 1974.
		Reports from Ethiopia say a former police officer who served under Mr Mengistu was jailed on Tuesday for 15 years, as part of ongoing trials of those alleged to have participated in the "Red Terror".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/581098.stm (460 words)

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