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Mengistu's ministers stand at attention in his presence and do not venture dissenting opinions. In his rare public appearances in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian leader sits on a kind of throne, a red velvet upholstered gold-laquered chair emplaced above and in front of the less ornate seats provided for the other senior figures of the regime. In these and in other ways, Mengistu Haile Mariam is a figure in the mainstream of Ethiopian tradition, one who can be looked upon as a monarch, an emperor, a successor to Haile Selassie and to Menelik. (it) |
