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Synopsis
When Zbigniew Brzezinski was appointed U.S. National Security Adviser by President Carter in 1976, he chose Paul Henze as his advser on Ethiopia. President Carter sent Henze to Ethiopia in 1977 to talk to Mengistu Hail Mariam and warn him against establishing a Stalinist regime. He was sent again in 1978 to try to lay the basis for a constructive relationship between the U.S. and Ethiopia. Mengistu was determined to turn Ethiopia away from the free world and turn it into Soviet Satellite. The effort failed miserably and cost Ethiopia dearly. After leaving the Gov't at the end of 1980, Henze remained duly involved in Ethiopian affairs as a senior researcher at the Smithsonian Institution and RAND Corporation. He visited Ethiopia seven more times during Derg years and observed the failure of Mengistu's regime. Mengistu's own Derg officials, aware of the mistakes he was making, facilitated Henze's travels to all parts of the increasingly beleaguered country. The first volume chronicles these travels and Henze's reaction to what he saw and heard. The second volume documents his contacts after 1989 with the insurgent movements that eventually defeated Mengistu's armies and forced him to flee. It includes interviews with Mengistu himself and many of his officials, as well as Meles Zenawi and Isaias Afewerki.Book Details
Published
January 1, 2007
Publisher
Shama Books
Pages
341
Format
Book
ISBN
9789994400249