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'''Mengistu Haile Mariam''' (Amharic: መንግሥቱ ኀይለ ማሪያም, born 21 May 1937) is a former socialist Ethiopian politician and army officer. | '''Mengistu Haile Mariam''' (Amharic: መንግሥቱ ኀይለ ማሪያም, born 21 May 1937) is a former socialist Ethiopian politician and army officer. | ||
{{Infobox person|name=Mengistu Hailemariam|native_name=መንግሥቱ ኀይለ ማሪያም|birth_date=21 May 1937|birth_place=Galla-Sidamo, Ethiopia|nationality=Ethiopia|image=Mengistu Haile Mariam Main.jpg|image_size=340}} | {{Infobox person|name=Mengistu Hailemariam|native_name=መንግሥቱ ኀይለ ማሪያም|birth_date=21 May 1937|birth_place=Galla-Sidamo, Ethiopia|nationality=Ethiopia|image=Mengistu Haile Mariam Main.jpg|image_size=340}} | ||
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He was the head of state of [[Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia|Ethiopia]] from 1977 to 1991 and General Secretary of the [[Workers' Party of Ethiopia]] from 1984 to 1991. He was the chairman of the Derg, or [[Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia (1974–1987)|the Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia]], in 1974 and from 1977 to 1987, and the president of the [[People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia]] (PDRE) from 1987 to 1991. | He was the head of state of [[Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia|Ethiopia]] from 1977 to 1991 and General Secretary of the [[Workers' Party of Ethiopia]] from 1984 to 1991. He was the chairman of the Derg, or [[Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia (1974–1987)|the Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia]], in 1974 and from 1977 to 1987, and the president of the [[People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia]] (PDRE) from 1987 to 1991. | ||
Mengistu fled to Zimbabwe in May 1991 after the PDRE National Shengo dissolved itself in response to the [[Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Forces (EPRDF)]] advancing towards Addis Abeba.<ref>{{Citation|author=Saheed A. Adejumobi|year=2007|title=The History of Ethiopia|page=133-134|city=Westport|publisher=Greenwoord Press|lg=http://library.lol/main/896A102A67DE9E77DF0278053A8C9F32}}</ref> Mengistu Haile Mariam still lives in Harare, Zimbabwe, despite an Ethiopian court verdict finding him guilty of genocide ''in absentia.''<ref | Mengistu fled to Zimbabwe in May 1991 after the PDRE National Shengo dissolved itself in response to the [[Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Forces (EPRDF)]] advancing towards Addis Abeba.<ref>{{Citation|author=Saheed A. Adejumobi|year=2007|title=The History of Ethiopia|page=133-134|city=Westport|publisher=Greenwoord Press|lg=http://library.lol/main/896A102A67DE9E77DF0278053A8C9F32}}</ref> Mengistu Haile Mariam still lives in Harare, Zimbabwe, despite an Ethiopian court verdict finding him guilty of genocide ''in absentia.''<ref>{{Web citation|author=Saheed A. Adejumobi|newspaper=blackpast.org|title=Mengistu Haile Mariam (1937-)|date=2008-02-21|url=https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/mariam-lt-col-mengistu-haile-1937/#:~:text=Mengistu%20Haile%20Mariam%2C%20a%20former,Ethiopia%20from%201977%20to%201991.|retrieved=2023-08-07}}</ref> | ||