"In 1991, Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea and Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia teamed together to liberate their respective countries from the brutal Ethiopian dictatorship of Mengistu Haile Mariam. Seven years later, Isaias and Meles subjected their own people to a bloody and useless border war that claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people and served no purpose other than to distract the two citizenries from the terrible job the two dictators were doing in running Eritrea and Ethiopia."
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David Wallechinsky, Tyrants: The World's 20 Worst Living Dictators (2006), p. 6
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Meles Zenawi
Meles Zenawi (Ge'ez: ááá” ááá á á”ášá” MĂ€lĂ€s Zenawi ĂsrĂ€s; 8 May 1955 â 20 August 2012) was the Prime Minister of Ethiopia from 1995 to 2012.
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