Word: mariam
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Third World dictatorships had their First or Second World patrons to help maintain borders and thwart secession. Only as long as the Kremlin armed Ethiopia was Mengistu Haile Mariam able to cling to Eritrea and his own position in Addis Ababa...
...capital of Addis Ababa, were again firing their guns. This time they battled not government forces but thousands of civilians who had taken to the streets to protest the sudden ascendancy of Meles' maverick band. It was a curious reaction, considering that Meles' troops had deposed Mengistu Haile Mariam, the onetime lieutenant colonel who had ruled Ethiopia for 14 bloody years. The demonstrations and crackdowns left at least 10 dead and an additional 400 wounded...
Approximately 100 people marched from MIT to the Cambridge Common yesterday to celebrate the victory of Ethiopian rebels over the authoritarian regime of Lt. Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam and the establishment of a provisional government in the war-torn, East African region of Eritrea...
...last Tuesday, U.S. charge d'affaires Robert Houdek was called to the office of Ethiopian Prime Minister Tesfaye Dinka in Addis Ababa. With tears in his eyes, Tesfaye announced that President Mengistu Haile Mariam had resigned and left the country. The Prime Minister then asked Houdek to arrange a cease-fire between government troops and rebel forces that were at that moment rolling toward the capital...
...latest effort to mediate the conflict was sparked by what appears to be the imminent collapse of Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam's regime. Mengistu, whose 14-year reign of terror rivals that of Saddam Hussein, has been written off before, only to survive. But since late April, when Tigrean- led Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front guerrillas pushed as far south as Ambo, putting almost all of northern Ethiopia in rebel hands, the consensus has been that Mengistu is a goner. "It brought home that the 30- year seesaw of rebel victories and then government victories had irretrievably dipped...