Author: Tasfayé Resté
Title: Mesekerenat : babalaseltanatu 'andabat
Description: 'Adis 'Ababa, [Heritage Printing], 2007 [2015 AD]. 3rd(?) Edition, orig. wrappers. 20x15cm, xxxvi,408 pp. Date of publication given as 2007 [Ethiopian calendar] (ca. 2014-2015 Gregorian calendar).. Minor wear. VG. ¶ A revised and enlarged edition. Originally published in 2001 Ethiopian calendar [2009 Gregorian calendar]. Text entirely in Amharic. ["The author is a captain who used to serve as an intelligence officer during the Dergue regime. He was thrown into prison following the seizure of power by the TPLF regime. The book is based on an extensive interview which the author conducted with some of the highest ranking military and civilian officials of the now defunct Dergue regime both inside and outside the prison walls in Addis Abeba. Under difficult circumstances, the author interviewed key informants running the whole gamut from top Dergue officials such as Fikre Selassie Wogderes, top security officials like Tesfaye Wolde Selassie, civilian officials like Yesuf Ahmed (former vice president of Ethiopia, Welle Chekol (former minister of finance), to lower ranking individuals who worked under the Dergue regime. The author relates how he was constantly consumed by anxiety lest the evidence he was gathering to write this book falls in the hands of the TPLF prison officials and be used to incriminate those former officials held in custody. The book contains quotations from these high ranking former officials who are currently in prison or out of prison (some have been released just like the author)" - from the review by Assefa Negash, ethiomedia website].

Keywords: Ethiopia, Political History, Mengistu, Derg Regime, Communist, Communism, Politics, Africa,