The Derg (or Dergue; Amharic: ደርግ, lit. 'committee' or 'council'), officially the Provisional Military Administrative Council (PMAC), [4][5] was the military junta that ruled Ethiopia, including present-day Eritrea, from 1974 to 1987, when they formally "civilianized" the administration although remained in power until 1991. [6]

3 天之前 · Ethiopia - Derg, Famine, Revolution: The Derg borrowed its ideology from competing Marxist parties, all of which arose from the student movement. One of them, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party (EPRP), believed so strongly in civilian rule that it undertook urban guerrilla war against the military rulers, and anarchy ensued in the ...

The fall of the Derg was a military campaign that resulted in the defeat of the ruling Marxist–Leninist military junta, the Derg, by the rebel coalition Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) on 28 May 1991 in Addis Ababa, ending the Ethiopian Civil War.

The Ethiopian Red Terror, also known as the Qey Shibir (Amharic: ቀይ ሽብር, romanized: ḳäy shəbbər), was a violent political repression campaign of the Derg against other competing Marxist-Leninist groups in Ethiopia and present-day Eritrea from 1976 to 1978.

Initially the Derg was popular following the coup against Haile Selassie who came to power under the slogan of "Ethiopia First", "Land to the peasants" and "Democracy and Equality to all". The Derg became deeply unpopular due to ill sought out policies and mass executions, which sent a shock wave across the country.

The Derg / Dergue. In April 1976, the Derg set forth its goals in greater detail in the Program for the National Democratic Revolution (PNDR).

The Derg regime emerged as an interest group and started to consolidate its power by setting up different institutions (peasant associations and cooperatives, marketing boards, a huge military force, a nationwide workers’ party, etc.) aimed at building a socialist state (control regime) with strong military power. The Derg imposed a control ...

In late June, a body of men that eventually totaled about 120, none above the rank of major and almost all of whom remained anonymous, organized themselves into a new body called the Coordinating Committee of the Armed Forces, Police, and Territorial Army that soon came to be called the Derg (Amharic for "committee" or "council" ).

2021年10月28日 · Members of the Derg – the fractious and embattled military junta that had claimed state power just months before – assassinated 59 prominent members of the imperial family and of the ancièn regime. 1 This first high-profile atrocity was a harbinger of things to come: lethal violence in response to political problems would remain a central featur...

Days after the festive proclamation of the Ethiopian Workers’ Party, films of starving peasants, abandoned homesteads and dying livestock began to be aired on television in Europe and the US. The Derg was forced to admit that a serious crisis existed.