Editing Mengistu Haile Mariam (section)

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{{Villain_Infobox
|Image =Mengistu Haile Mariam 3.jpg
|fullname = Mengistu Haile Mariam
|alias = The Butcher of Addis Ababa<br>Black Stalin
|origin = Kaffa Province, Italian East Africa
|occupation = Chairman of the [[Derg]] (1977 - 1987)<br>President of Ethiopia (1987 - 1991)<br>General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia (1984 - 1991)
|hobby = N/A
|goals = Remain in power (failed)<br>Prevent Eritrea from becoming independent (failed)
|crimes = [[Genocide]]<br>[[Ethnic cleansing]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>[[Mass murder]]<br>[[Torture]]<br>Oppression<br>[[Americophobia]]
|type of villain = Communist Tyrant}}
{{Quote|In this country some aristocratic families automatically categorize people with dark skin, thick lips and kinky hair as 'Barias'... Let it be clear to everybody that I shall make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn!|Mengistu Haile Mariam}}
'''Mengistu Haile Mariam''' (May 21st, 1937 - ) is an Ethiopian politician who was the most prominent officer of the [[Derg]], the Communist military junta that governed Ethiopia from 1974 to 1987, and President of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia from 1987 to 1991.

Effectively a dictator, he oversaw the [[Qey Shibir|Ethiopian Red Terror of 1977–1978]], a campaign of repression against the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party and other anti-Derg factions. Mengistu fled to Zimbabwe in 1991 at the conclusion of the Ethiopian Civil War, and remains there despite an Ethiopian court verdict finding him guilty ''in absentia'' of [[genocide]]. Some estimates for the number of deaths his regime was responsible for are as high as 1.285 million. He is currently living in [[exile]] in Zimbabwe totally anonymous.