Derg
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The Derg or Dergue, officially the Provisional Military Administrative Council, and also often simply known as Socialist Ethiopia, was the military junta that ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to 1987, when it
Advocacy manifesto of the Derg, published in June 1978
Ethiopian army soldiers rally in support of the Derg; many of them holding advocacy manifestos of the regime.
Mengistu Haile Mariam giving a speech
Ethiopian soldiers at pro-government rally.
Fall of the Derg regime
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The fall of the Derg was a military campaign that resulted in the defeat of the ruling Marxist–Leninist military junta, the Derg, by the rebel coalition Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Fro
A destroyed T-62 tank outside the Presidential Palace shortly after the fall of the Derg on 28 May 1991
Tanks of the EPRDF in Addis Ababa, May 1991