Showing posts with label Mengistu Hailemariam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mengistu Hailemariam. Show all posts
Monday, March 12, 2012
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Megistu Hailemariam
Mengistu Hailemaraim and his family ,back in the olden days
Mengistu , considered as one of the ruthless leaders has led Ethiopia for 2 decades in a Military junta named Derg.
ይሄ ኮረኔል መንግስቱ ስልጣኝ ላይ ከመውጣታቸው በፊት ነው::ትልቋ ልጃቸውን ለፈረንጅ ካላቸው ጥላቻ አንጻር ፈረንጅ ሀገር አልካትም ብለው ጋና ቢልኳት ፈረንጅ አግብታ መጣች...የጠሉት ይወርሳል ይሄ ነው::
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Ethiopian History : The Derg executed its own deputy.

During the height of the derg's rule (Millitary government that ruled Ethiopia for almost 2 decades),Lt. Col. Atnafu Abebe, the derg's deputy chairman said he could not condone the killings & oppressions made in the name of Marxism, an ideology he considered alien to Ethiopia's political traditions.He made his speech in the
regime's third congress & declared would be impossible to establish in Ethiopia during his lifetime .
He also ridiculed the notion of a workers' party in a largely peasant country and condemned the alliance with the USSR as alienating Ethiopia from its longtime Western allies who, besides weapons,had provided capital and technology.
Atnafu misread his popularity within the derg,and he completely misunderstood the attraction of the Marxist vision that now conditioned the derg's thinking. In response, Mengistu termed his old colleague in arms a reactionary, a view that the military council sustained. When, over the next few days, Atnafu refused several
times to recant, Mengistu had him summarily executed on 13 November 1977.
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