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...fact that behind the images of famine, drought and disease that flicker across television screens in the West, there is another cause of Ethiopia's disaster: civil war. Many of the refugees are fleeing not only starvation but the policies of the Communist government of Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam as it pursues a harsh strategy aimed at subduing two long-festering insurgencies centered in the country's northern provinces. In the process, the Soviet-backed government stands accused of violating promises that it made to Western aid donors, particularly the U.S., that it would distribute food...
...promised reforms or concessions. Memories of capitalism's Great Depression endure, while the deaths of millions during forced Soviet collectivization in the same period do not. Viet Nam remains fresh in the mind; the Marxist bloodbaths of Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam in Ethiopia during the late 1970s...
Blame cannot be placed only on the western, developed nations. A significant part of the damage has been self-inflicted, resulting from government mismanagement, corruption and civil strife. In 1982, a group of Oxford economists warned Ethiopia's Lt Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam that disaster was on the horizon for his nation. The group suggested immediate food rationing and concentrated emphasis on rural development. Instead, Mengistu channeled 46 percent of his GNP into military spending, purchasing at least $2.5 billion worth of arms from the Soviet Union. What's worse, the agricultural investment in which he deigned to engage aped...
McPherson also lambasted Ethiopian President Mengistu Haile Mariam for spending more than $100 million two months ago to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the coup that brought his government to power. Mengistu, he claimed, was "not especially interested" in feeding his starving millions...
...hammer and sickle. Honecker was in the Ethiopian capital with Soviet Politburo Member Grigory Romanov at a three-hour parade to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the military coup that overthrew former Emperor Haile Selassie. Dominating the scene was a towering portrait of Ethiopian Leader Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, 43, the U.S.-trained soldier who had just been chosen Secretary-General of the Workers Party of Ethiopia, the newly inaugurated Communist party...