On 12 September 1974, Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed by the Derg, a Soviet-backed military junta that consequently ruled Ethiopia until 1991. In February 1974, the Ethiopian Revolution accompanied by mutinies by military units of the government ignited that resented low payment. The Derg established Coordinating Council of the Armed Forces in June 1974, grew rapidly to topple the ministers of Haile Selassie under Prime Minister Endelkachew Makonnen. Upon deposing the emperor, many of his personages and royal crowns fled to London like Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen. On 27 March 1975, the Derg abolished the Ethiopian Empire and implement Marxist-Leninist system and nationalized all properties. Haile Selassie died on 27 August, with different sources attributed his death by strangulation by t
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