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{{Quote|In this country some aristocratic families automatically categories 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}}

{{Quote|In this country some aristocratic families automatically categories 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}}{{Infobox

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|Box title = Mengistu Haile Mariam

|image = File:Mengistu_Haile_Mariam_3.jpg

|Row 1 title = Born

|Row 1 info = 27 May 1937 (age 76)

|Row 2 title = Place of birth

|Row 2 info = Italian East Africa

|Row 3 title = Known for

|Row 3 info = The Ethiopian Red Terror

|Row 4 title = Reign

|Row 4 info = 1977-1987 (Chairman of the Derg)<br> 1987-1991 (President of Ethiopia)

|Row 5 title = Status

|Row 5 info = Resides in Zimbabwe|Row 6 title = Charge

|Row 6 info = Genocide. Estimated to have killed over 2 million people

|Row 7 title = Sentence|Row 7 info = Death|Row 8 title = Quote

|Row 8 info = "In this country some aristocratic families automatically categorise people with dark skin, thick lips and kinky hair as Barias. Let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make those ignoramuses stoop and grind corn"}}

'''Mengistu Haile Mariam''' 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 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.[5] Some estimates for the number of deaths his regime was responsible for are as high as 1.285 million.

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+{{Quote|In this country some aristocratic families automatically categories 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}}{{Infobox
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+|Box title = Mengistu Haile Mariam
+|image = File:Mengistu_Haile_Mariam_3.jpg
+|Row 1 title = Born
+|Row 1 info = 27 May 1937 (age 76)
+|Row 2 title = Place of birth
+|Row 2 info = Italian East Africa
+|Row 3 title = Known for
+|Row 3 info = The Ethiopian Red Terror
+|Row 4 title = Reign
+|Row 4 info = 1977-1987 (Chairman of the Derg)<br> 1987-1991 (President of Ethiopia)
+|Row 5 title = Status
+|Row 5 info = Resides in Zimbabwe|Row 6 title = Charge
+|Row 6 info = Genocide. Estimated to have killed over 2 million people
+|Row 7 title = Sentence|Row 7 info = Death|Row 8 title = Quote
+|Row 8 info = "In this country some aristocratic families automatically categorise people with dark skin, thick lips and kinky hair as Barias. Let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make those ignoramuses stoop and grind corn"}}
 '''Mengistu Haile Mariam''' 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 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.[5] Some estimates for the number of deaths his regime was responsible for are as high as 1.285 million.