Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam

In 1991 when the Tigrayan-led Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front captured Addis Ababa and overthrew the military regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam the country became the hegemonic power in the Horn of Africa...

It was from this region that the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) launched its final assault on Addis Ababa in 1991 forcing military leader Mengistu Haile Mariam to flee and overthrowing his regime...

When the Derg regime under Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam was faced with a Tigrayan rebellion in the 1980s it adopted similar tactics but it could not avert the loss of Mekelle in 1990 and the loss of Addis a year later...

The three also promised to protect 'the sovereignty territorial integrity and political independence of Somalia' a pledge first uttered but hardly observed when Ethiopia's former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam shook hands on it with Somalia's last elected President Mohamed Siad Barre in 1988...

Such events have created a rift within the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) the coalition of four regional parties that has controlled Ethiopia since allied rebels overthrew Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam's Derg military regime in 1991...

The Federal Republic established after the defeat of Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam's Derg military regime in 1991 offered Oromia the prospect of autonomy that it had never experienced...

Fighters and activists who helped to overthrow Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam's Derg regime 24 years ago feel promises have not been fulfilled...

Since the SPLM dropped its Marxist rhetoric after the 1991 overthrow of its patron Ethiopian strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam there is little talk of ideology...

Ethiopia’s framework is more centralised (a legacy of the dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam’s Derg Marxist-Leninist regime of 1974-1991 backed by the Soviet Union) and only offers incentives for a limited time...

He is not a veteran of the armed struggle but entered politics after the fall of Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam’s Derg in 1991; as Vice-President of the SNNPR in 2000-2002 and President in 2002-2005 he showed considerable toughness in keeping the ethnic political balance in a region of 56 ethnic groups...