Brigadier General Tafari Benti was an Ethiopian military officer and politician who served as head of state of Ethiopia from 1974 to 1977 in his role as second chairman of the Derg, the ruling military junta. His official title was Chairman of the Provisional Military Administrative Council.
Tafari in 1974
The Derg, officially the Provisional Military Administrative Council (PMAC), was the Marxist–Leninist military dictatorship that ruled Ethiopia, then including present-day Eritrea, from 1974 to 1987, when the military leadership or junta formally "civilianized" the administration but stayed in power until 1991.
Advocacy manifesto of the Derg, published in June 1978
One sketch in the Red Terror Martyrs' Museum showing military convoys of the Derg driving into the gorge
Tiglachin Monument commemorating the victory of the Derg over Somalia in the Ogaden War
An airlift supplying water truck during the famine in 1985