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VIDEOS OF HAILE SELASSIE
Haile Selassie I (born Lij
Tafari Makonnen; 23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975) was an Emperor of Ethiopia
from 1930 to 1974. Prior his coronation in 1930, he had been Regent
Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia from 1916. He is a defining figure in modern
Ethiopian history. He was a member of the Solomonic dynasty who traced his lineage to
Emperor Menelik I.
Selassie's internationalist views led to Ethiopia
becoming a charter member of the United Nations. At the League of Nations in 1936, he condemned Italy's
use of chemical weapons
against its people during the Second
Italo-Ethiopian War. He has been criticized by some
historians for his suppression of rebellions among the landed aristocracy (the mesafint),
which consistently opposed his reforms; some critics have also criticized
Ethiopia's failure to modernize rapidly enough. During his rule the Harari people were persecuted and many left the Harari Region. His regime was also criticized by
human rights groups, such as Human Rights Watch,
as autocratic and illiberal.
Among the Rastafari movement,
whose followers are estimated to number between 700,000 and one million, Haile
Selassie is revered as the returned messiah of the Bible, God incarnate. Beginning in Jamaica in the 1930s, the Rastafari movement
perceives Haile Selassie as a messianic figure who will lead a future golden
age of eternal peace, righteousness, and prosperity. He was an Ethiopian
Orthodox Christian throughout his life.
The 1973 famine in Ethiopia led to Selassie's
removal from the throne. He died on 27 August 1975 at age 83
following a coup d'état.
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