1974 Ethiopian coup d'état

1974 Ethiopian coup d'état
	Part of the Cold War and Ethiopian Revolution
	; The deposition of Emperor Haile Selassie (above rear window) from the Jubilee Palace on 12 September 1974, marking the coup d'état's action on that day and the assumption of power by the Derg.
Date	12 September 1974
Location	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Result	Coup successful Emperor Haile Selassie is placed under arrest; Rise of the Derg; Beginning of the civil war;
Belligerents
Ethiopian Empire	Coordinating Committee of the Armed Forces, Police and Territorial Army
Commanders and leaders
Haile Selassie; Mikael Imru	Aman Andom; Atnafu Abate; Mengistu Haile Mariam

On 12 September 1974, Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed by the Coordinating Committee of the Armed Forces, Police, and Territorial Army, a Soviet-backed military junta that consequently ruled Ethiopia as the Derg until 28 May 1991.

In February 1974, the Ethiopian Revolution was accompanied by mutinies by military units of the government which were ignited over resentment of low payment. The Derg established the Coordinating Council of the Armed Forces in June 1974, and grew rapidly to topple the ministers of Haile Selassie under Prime Minister Endelkachew Makonnen. Upon deposing the emperor, many of his personages and royal family members fled to London like Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen. On 27 March 1975, the Derg officially abolished the monarchy and the Ethiopian Empire as a whole, and began implementing a Marxist-Leninist system, along with nationalizing all properties. Haile Selassie died on 27 August, with different sources attributing his death to strangulation by the order of the military government or natural causes during a prostate operation.

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