Mengistu Haile Mariam Flees Ethiopia, Ending Civil War, May 21, 1991
Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
Date: May 21, 1991
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