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Mengistu Haile Mariam
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Mengistu Haile Mariam [mɛŋˈgɪstuː ˈhaɪlɪ ˈmɑːrɪəm]
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(Biographies / Mengistu Haile Mariam (1937 M, Ethiopian, MILITARY: soldier, POLITICS: statesman, POLITICS: head of state) born 1937, Ethiopian soldier and statesman; head of state from 1977 until 1991 when rebels seized power and he fled into exile


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In 1975, the socialist dictatorship of Mengistu Haile Mariam nationalized all rural land in Ethiopia, disrupting complex and troubled imperial tenure as well as evolved customary land tenure.
Meles' former rebel Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) has long been portrayed as dominated by people from the Tigray region since it swept the dictatorship of Mengistu Haile Mariam from power in 1991.
It chronicles the return of African intellectual, Anberber, to his country of birth during the reign of Mengistu Haile Mariam, and the recognition of Anberber's own displacement and powerlessness at the dissolution of his people's humanity and social values.
 
 
 
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