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Exactly 50 years ago, on September 12, 1974, Ethiopia’s last emperor, Haile Selassie, was deposed after 44 years in power. A popular uprising and series of nationwide strikes put an end to the monarchy. The military then took over, leading to the feared Derg dictatorship, which remained in power until 1991. But the new Communist regime was opposed to the demands of Addis Ababa University students, who were central to the revolution. To explore this key moment in Ethiopian history, we spoke with surviving witnesses and key figures from that era. FRANCE 24’s Clothilde Hazard and Olivia Bizot report.
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@teddyamhara
Communists killed Ethiopia for the last 50 years.
@Dawit13787
It looks like dream; because it is in a dream.
@alifarah5262
Ethiopian people complain from the Derg but this restless,unexperienced leader Abby Ahmed who wants to act
Like the former Ethiopian Kings , He messed up and made everything upside down and each ethnicity is fighting because of their survival, now many Ethnicities want to stand of themselves and secede from Ethiopia and they don't hide that
@MesEta-u4h
Leave us alone!
@MesEta-u4h
Derg was better that Haileselassie!!!!
@MesEta-u4h
Haileselassie was a killer too.
@MesEta-u4h
But Haileselassie killed even more people.
@morat795
Prince 😂😂😂😂😂
@aradat9671
Typical propaganda lets see y'all talk about your western back tplf government.
@aradat9671
Propaganda i don't like 90% of mengistu policy's but we all know the reason why y'all wont talk about your little tigray tplf western puppet government and abiy Gov that are 100× worse than mengistu
@Dawit13787
The price paid for a the”revolution “ and the outcome are on opposite ends. It’s been more than 50 years and WHERE IS ETHIOPIA?
@KM10HM12
Haile Silase was a coloniser and a slaver owner. He was no hero.
@g6686not
Mengistu the last man standing after all this time is insane.
@KM10HM12
Now imagine what Eritreans feel.
@mesfinfeleke6145
and Ethiopians still live in the past to this day.
@Humanity-c9w
We have the exact copy of Derg now in the 21st century and the new generation even were not prepared for it
@ephremsolomon8435
The terror of Derg is nothing compared to what we are facing now, already a million people have died in the bloodiest civil war, and more than 30 million people are starving, still, the civil war is raging in two major regional states Amhara and Oromia, people are dying every day, the inflation, the cost of living and unemployment. We are living in hell !!! The international news France 24 presents the past as evil and the present as good and it's very tragic.
@tesfamichaeltadele538
There were no "Ethiopian Empire " rather, there were a strong Ethiopia shining for the freedom of all black people. Thinking of Ethiopia as an empire, is all about imperialist thoughts.
@mesfinasfaw2708
What do you mean when you say " the fall of the Ethiopian empire" ? You, criminal , Brits have so many drag story designation in order to defame others while white washing your heinous crimes you have committed against humanity in the last more than 400 years, as a matter of fact your government was the first to congratulate the Derg killer regime after the H.E Haileselassie government being illegally overthrown , so the blood is on your hand for the carnage that swiped out large number of Ethiopians after 1974 and this time, I personally believe you Brits are evil and Carcinogens to humanity.
@UlganAg
dergi is better then sellasei