Mengystu Hajle Marjam – etiopski wojskowy i polityk. Prezydent i dyktator w latach 1974-1991. Stanął na czele przewrotu wojskowego, który obalił cesarza etiopskiego Hajle Syllasje I.
„Dokąd miałbym pójść? Wszędzie mnie rozpoznają. Jestem przecież Mengystu.”
na wygnaniu, po ucieczce z Etiopii
Źródło: Riccardo Orizio, Diabeł na emeryturze. Rozmowy z siedmioma dyktatorami., Poznań 2004
Ocenia się, że w latach 1975–1978 reżim Mengystu Haile Mariama i Dergu mógł doprowadzić do śmierci nawet 1,5 mln Etiopczyków.
Źródło: Riccardo Orizio, Diabeł na emeryturze. Rozmowy z siedmioma dyktatorami., Poznań 2004
o Nelsonie Mandeli
Źródło: Riccardo Orizio, Diabeł na emeryturze. Rozmowy z siedmioma dyktatorami., Poznań 2004
„Kocham Etiopię bardziej niż własne życie.”
na pytanie czy chce wrócić do ojczyzny
Źródło: Riccardo Orizio, Diabeł na emeryturze. Rozmowy z siedmioma dyktatorami., Poznań 2004
„Mugabe służył pomocą we wszystkich wojnach wyzwoleńczych na naszym kontynencie.”
o Robercie Mugabe, byłym prezydencie Zimbabwe
Źródło: Riccardo Orizio, Diabeł na emeryturze. Rozmowy z siedmioma dyktatorami., Poznań 2004
Źródło: Riccardo Orizio, Diabeł na emeryturze. Rozmowy z siedmioma dyktatorami., Poznań 2004
As quoted in Dr. Paulos Milkia's "Mengistu Haile Mariam: The Profile of a Dictator", reprinted from the February 1994 Ethiopian Review
As quoted in Edmund J. Keller (1991) Revolutionary Ethiopia: From Empire to People's Republic, Indiana University Press, p. 212
February 5 (1977), as quoted by Dawit Wolde Giorgis (1989) Red Tears: War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia, The Red Sea Press Inc., p. 31
“If I had resigned on my own accord, to whom would I have transferred the reigns of power?”
As quoted in "Mengistu blames Meles for helping Eritrea at UN to split Ethiopia: Mengistu Haile-Mariam speaks", in Jimma Times (30 July 2010) http://www.jimmatimes.com/article/Latest_News/Latest_News/Mengistu_blames_Meles_for_helping_Eritrea_at_UN_to_split_Ethiopia/33629
“Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.”
As quoted in "Mengistu blames Meles for helping Eritrea at UN to split Ethiopia: Mengistu Haile-Mariam speaks", in Jimma Times (30 July 2010) http://www.jimmatimes.com/article/Latest_News/Latest_News/Mengistu_blames_Meles_for_helping_Eritrea_at_UN_to_split_Ethiopia/33629
As quoted in "Mengistu blames Meles for helping Eritrea at UN to split Ethiopia: Mengistu Haile-Mariam speaks", in Jimma Times (30 July 2010) http://www.jimmatimes.com/article/Latest_News/Latest_News/Mengistu_blames_Meles_for_helping_Eritrea_at_UN_to_split_Ethiopia/33629
“We fought them when they sought to dismember the nation. Is this why I should seek exoneration?”
As quoted in "Mengistu blames Meles for helping Eritrea at UN to split Ethiopia: Mengistu Haile-Mariam speaks", in Jimma Times (30 July 2010) http://www.jimmatimes.com/article/Latest_News/Latest_News/Mengistu_blames_Meles_for_helping_Eritrea_at_UN_to_split_Ethiopia/33629
As quoted in "Mengistu defends 'Red Terror'", in BBC News (28 December 1999) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/581098.stm
As quoted in Riccardo Orizio, Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators, (Walker and Company, 2003), p. 145
As quoted in Riccardo Orizio, Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators, (Walker and Company, 2003), p. 150
As quoted in John M. Cohen (1987) Integrated Rural Development: The Ethiopian Experience and the Debate, p. 213
As quoted in Riccardo Orizio, Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators, (Walker and Company, 2003), p. 148
“We did not even know his name.”
As quoted in "Mengistu blames Meles for helping Eritrea at UN to split Ethiopia: Mengistu Haile-Mariam speaks", in Jimma Times (30 July 2010) http://www.jimmatimes.com/article/Latest_News/Latest_News/Mengistu_blames_Meles_for_helping_Eritrea_at_UN_to_split_Ethiopia/33629
“I am a revolutionary; my life is dedicated to freeing the people.”
As quoted in David A. Korn (1986) Ethiopia, the United States and the Soviet Union, Southern Illinois University Press, page 61
As quoted in "Mengistu blames Meles for helping Eritrea at UN to split Ethiopia: Mengistu Haile-Mariam speaks", in Jimma Times (30 July 2010) http://www.jimmatimes.com/article/Latest_News/Latest_News/Mengistu_blames_Meles_for_helping_Eritrea_at_UN_to_split_Ethiopia/33629
Dawit Wolde Giorgis (1989) Red Tears: War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia, The Red Sea Press Inc., p. 112
About Mengistu
David Ottaway (1978) Ethiopia: Empire in Revolution, Africana Publishing Company, p. 135
About Mengistu
