Ethiopian Revolution
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Military History
- Subcategories: Wars, Battles, Revolutions, Rebellions, Uprisings, Riots, Dictatorships, Dictators, Tyrants, Human Rights, Civil Wars, Coups, Violence
- Curriculum: African History
- Geographical Location: Ethiopia
- Date: February, 1974
Article abstract: The Ethiopian army staged a coup against the government of Emperor Haile Selassie, resulting in a Marxist-Leninist seizure of power, systematic human rights violations, and a protracted civil war.
Summary of Event
Ethiopia (formerly Abyssinia) is the name given to the area of eastern Africa bordering on the Red Sea between Somalia and the Sudan. As a modern nation-state, Ethiopia is an artificial construct, an amalgam of several distinct ethnic and national territories held together primarily by subordination to a central government in...
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