Meles Zenawi, dead at 57.

[Robespierres Neck]

The man that ousted Mengistu Haile Mariam out of office (and Ethiopia) has been declared dead.


http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/08/201282144342545378.html

[bad ideas actualised by alcohol]

Could you give a bit of background on the guy?

[Sinister Cultural Marxist]

Could you give a bit of background on the guy?

Well, for one, he's been an open ally of American imperialism in the horn of Africa and alongside the dictator of Eritrea, he is responsible for a pointless and bloody war that wasted the resources of their two already poor third world countries. He's also responsible for selling huge swaths of Ethiopian land to foreign investors regardless of the fact that most of the farmers who already live on that land needed that land to feed themselves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrean%E2%80%93Ethiopian_War

[Robespierres Neck]

Could you give a bit of background on the guy?

I don't know a whole lot about him other than what has been stated here already.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meles_Zenawi

[Sankara1983]

His lasting legacy is a "federal" Constitution that entrenches the country's ethnic divisions while giving the nationalities almost no real power.

[Lenina Rosenweg]

Did he continue to think of himself as a Marxist-Leninist, or was this always more of a Cold War facade?