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Ethiopians for Ethiopians Fall 2010
Minnesota & Chicago program
Book Club
The Burning Splint: Major Mengistu Haile Mariam and The Ethiopian ...
Mar 7, 2010 ... Dawit Wolde Giorgis' a member of the committee recalls in Red Terror: War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia (Red Sea Press, Trenton. 1990):
Major Mengistu Haile Mariam became the Ethiopian president after
overthrowing emperor Haile Sellassie 1 on 12th September 1974. Under the
Marxist-Lenin communist regime, Mengistu wanted to change the aristocratic
feudal land system which caused the first revolt.
Major Mengistu was later to be infamous world wide for his over a decade and
half of red terror.
“Major Mengistu was later to be infamous world wide for his over a decade
and half of red terror.
On 23rd November 1974 Major Mengistu executed the emperor’s grandson, two
former prime ministers, high emperor’s associates and other sixty prominent
prisoners amidst a world wide call for leniency.
View Slide Show (Published by StarTribune) - Click Image below.
