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Born 1937 (age 89) • Kefa • Ethiopia
Title / Office head of state (1977-1991), Ethiopia • head of state (1974), Ethiopia

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Mengistu Haile Mariam in military uniform raises his left fist while delivering a speech in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 1977, with a crowd visible in the background.
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