Derg definition

Derg means “committee” in Amharic. This appellation refers to the committee of military officers who led the government when it seized power.

Derg means “committee” in Amharic

Examples of Derg in a sentence

• Such assets may not be seized, impounded, or disposed of except under a court order.The Derg military regime nationalized many properties in the 1970s.

• The current government's position is that property seized lawfully by the Derg (by court order or government proclamation published in the official gazette) remains the property of the state.

• The current Ethiopian regime came to power in 1991 when the previous Derg government was militarily defeated by the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), an ethnic-based insurgency organised along Maoist principles, which prioritised living and working with the peasantry in order to gain their support (Young 1997).

• Land was nationalised by the Derg in 1975, wiping out the landholding elite and all capitalist production, and redistributing user rights to smallholders.

• The common element of both the Derg and FDRE land policies is however important one which denies individual people from owning and there by having the sole right of exchanging and selling land.

• Thus, animosity rather than cooperation characterized relations between the Derg and the SPLM/A until the fall of the Derg in 1991.

• The FDRE constitution and following land laws broaden this use right and allowed those rights of inheritance, lease, and donation which were prohibited by the Derg proclamation.

• In the mid-1970s, the irredentist Western Somali Liberation Front (WSFL) began an armed insurgency against the Derg, with Somalia’s support.

• On September 12, 1974 the Derg suspended the Constitution, deposed the Em- peror, and dissolved parliament, thus ending the regime.

• Keep children home when they’re sick: If your child develops flu-like signs and symptoms (fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue), keep them home from school.