Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam

Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam's dictatorship liked forced resettlement programmes; Meles wants to resettle 2...

Their leaders from the same ethnic background had fought together against Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam's dictatorship and had been hailed by the United States and others as a 'new breed' of African leaders...

But President Issayas Afeworki tells visitors not to forget history: little Eritrea took on and beat Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam's regime in Ethiopia which had boasted the biggest army in Africa plus massive backing from the Soviet Union...

Hailu Tilahun with support from logistics specialists from Mengistu Haile Mariam's army who were released from detention last September...

These arcane differences were never resolved nor was the passion behind them deflated though their public airing ceased when the two reforged their military alliance in 1987 to achieve the overthrow of Mengistu Haile Mariam in 1991...

Ethiopia has been trying for some time to refurbish and upgrade the MiGs it inherited from Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam's regime...

Even in the 1980s when TPLF and EPLF were fighting side-by-side against President Mengistu Haile Mariam's military dictatorship their relationship was difficult...

Mengistu Haile Mariam's Dergue regime...

Mengistu Haile Mariam's regime have been charged over half of them including the former President in absentia while others have spent five years in pre- trial detention...

He relentlessly prodded the bureaucrats of Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam' s government to give him access to the famine-stricken areas and then with British journalist Michael Buerk made a series of documentaries on the suffering that shocked the world...