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馃嚜馃嚬 Derg Downfall Day in Ethiopia
Also known as: Ginbot 20
Celebration of the end of the Derg regime
Date in Ethiopia
May 28
Instituted1991
Commemorates the end of the Derg military regime in 1991 and the establishment of the current federal democratic system.
Public life in Ethiopia
BanksClosed
SchoolsClosed
Government officesClosed
Calendar & celebration
Calendar systems
Gregorian
What this holiday commemorates
In Ethiopia, around 1991
- 1991 Ethiopian People鈥檚 Revolutionary Democratic Front captures Addis Ababa, ending a seventeen-year Marxist regime. 路 Ethiopia
- 1991 Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an e... 路 Ethiopia
- 1991 Mengistu Haile Mariam flees Ethiopia, effectively ending the Ethiopian Civil War. 路 Ethiopia
- 1991 The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front captures Addis Ababa, ending a seventeen-year Marxist regime. 路 Ethiopia