Mengistu Haile Mariam Quotes


Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.


Citations

Orizio, Riccardo. Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators. Translated by Avril Bardoni, Walker & Company, 2003, p. 143.

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Mengistu Haile Mariam
Mengistu Haile Mariam
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Mengistu Haile Mariam is an Ethiopian soldier and politician who was the president of 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, the socialist military junta that governed Ethiopia, from 1977 to 1987, and the President of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (PDRE) from 1987 to 1991.