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11/28/2007: "Yet another national ruler killed by Marxists"

The Derg, the Marxist regime that ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to 1991, in a campaign that Derg officials named the Red Terror, slaughtered their political enemies -- estimates range from several thousand to more than a million people.

The most prominent of their victims was Emperor Haile Selassie, whose death, under circumstances that remain contested, was announced in 1975. He was the last emperor of Ethiopia -- and, he claimed, the 225th monarch, descended from Menelik, the ruler believed responsible for Ethiopia's possession of the ark of the covenant in the tenth century b.c.

[ What good thing don't Crowd revolts destroy? ]

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/ark-covenant-200712.html