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The Derg Regime in Ethiopia
In 1974, a revolution broke out to dethrone highly Salasi and make him the last emperor of Ethiopia. The Derg claimed to want to establish a Marxist socialist state where ethnic identities would be irrelevant. They ruled with an iron fist; they diverted food from peasants to their soldiers. Civil war followed that killed hundreds of thousands during 17 years of fighting.