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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Patronymic name Шаблон:More citations needed Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Lij Abiye Abebe (Шаблон:Lang-am; born 1918 – 23 November 1974) was an Ethiopian politician and son-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie.

Biography

Son of Liqa Mequas Abebe Atnaf Seggad, Abiye was born 1918 in Addis Ababa[1] as a Lij.Шаблон:Citation needed He attended the Holeta Military Academy.[2] In the 1940s and 1950s he was Minister of Defence, and later served as Minister of Justice and Minister of the Interior.[3] He chaired the High National Security Commission during the Ethiopian Revolution until his arrest by the Derg on 16 July 1974.[4] Lt. General Abiye was serving as Chief of the General Staff when he was arrested.

According to John Spencer, when Prime Minister Aklilu Habte-Wold sought to resign his post in 1973, he suggested to the Emperor that he be replaced by General Abiye. Other sources indicate that Aklilu Habte-Wold's rival Prince Asrate Kassa was the person who put General Abiye forward as a fellow aristocrat. However Abiye consented to becoming Prime Minister only if his nomination, and those of his cabinet, were approved by the Ethiopian parliament, a condition Emperor Haile Selassie found unacceptable. As a result, Haile Selassie decided to appoint Endelkachew Makonnen Prime Minister instead.[5] Abiye was one of 60 former government officials executed the night of 22–23 November at Akaki Central Prison by the Derg.[6]

General Abiye was married three times. At Addis Ababa, on 26 April 1942, he married Princess Tsehai of Ethiopia who died in childbirth a year later. After this marriage, Lt. General Abiye Abebe was accorded the dignities and protocol rank of the Emperor's son-in-law, even after he remarried. In 1946, married Woizero Amarech Nasibu, and then later to Woizero Tsige, his widow.

Career history

  • Brigadier-General (24 April 1942)
  • Governor-General of Wollega province (1942–1943)[1]
  • Minister for War 1949–1955; Acting (1943–1947)
  • Minister of Justice (1958–1961)[1]
  • Minister of Interior (1961–1964)[1]
  • Ambassador to France (1955–1958)[1]
  • Viceroy of Eritrea (1959–1964)
  • President of the Ethiopian Senate (1964–1974)[1]
  • Minister for Defence and Chief of Staff (28 February 1974 – 22 July 1974)

Honours

National

Foreign

References

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  1. 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 Шаблон:Cite book
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  3. Bahru Zewde, A History of Modern Ethiopia, second edition (London: James Currey, 2003), p. 205
  4. Andargachew Tiruneh, The Ethiopian revolution, 1974-1987 (Cambridge: University Press, 1993), p. 68
  5. Spencer, Ethiopia at Bay: A personal account of the Haile Selassie years (Algonac: Reference Publications, 1984), p. 337
  6. Marina and David Ottaway, Ethiopia: Empire in Revolution (New York: Africana, 1978), p. 61
  7. Nationaal Archief, inventory 2.02.32, dossier 373, registry number 854