Editing Derg (section)

{{Evil Organization
|Box title    = Evil Organization
|Image        = Emblem of the Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia.svg
|size   = 
|fullname = Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia
|alias = Derg
|origin =  Nagelle, Southern Ethiopia
|foundation = 1974
|dissolution = February 22, 1987
|headquarters = Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
|commanders = [[Tafari Benti]] (1974 - 1977)<br>[[Mengistu Haile Mariam]] (1977 - 1987)
|agents = [[Aman Andom]]<br>[[Tafari benti|Tafari Benti]]<br>[[Atnafu Abate]]
|skills = 
|goals = Maintain communist rule over Ethiopia (failed)
|crimes = Human rights violations<br>[[War crimes]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>[[Genocide]]<br>Mass [[murder]]<br>Mass starvation<br>[[Torture]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]<br>[[Christophobia]]<br>[[Anti-Catholicism]]<br>[[Anti-Semitism]]<br>[[Islamophobia]]
|type of villain = Military Junta}}{{Quote|There were two reasons why Mengistu and others in the Derg wanted Soviet arms. First, they came to power as revolutionaries with a radical program. They regularly denounced imperialism, yet they remained dependent on the bulwark of what they called imperialism, the United States, for the most critical of all commodities, weapons for their army. Could they be true revolutionaries and socialists and still have such a vital link to the United States? It was very embarassing. But it was more than that. For the second and equally powerful motive that pushed them toward the Soviets was that they wanted a much bigger army than Ethiopia had at the outbreak of the revolution.|David A. Korn, ''Ethiopia, the United States, and the Soviet Union'', 1986}}
The '''Derg''' (officially known as the '''Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia''') was the military junta that governed Ethiopia for much of the [[Cold War]]. They were in power from 1974 to 1987.