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in the night before his death. Likewise, Eshetu Tekle Mariam reiterated similar assertions that the Emperor was in good condition before a valet found him dead. The valet said he found his body lying with his face off his bed, after being alerted by the stench from the rot. Haile Selassie reburied at
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did not find corroborating evidence for a murder charge at the time. A forensic examination took his skull's jaw bone and teeth to test whether the Emperor was murdered. According to officials close to Mengistu, they had seen the Emperor in healthy condition and had not shown fear of being murdered
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under unknown circumstances. There was also speculation that Haile Selassie had complications during a medical procedure. Another theory was that Haile Selassie was killed by Marxist army officers by strangulation at his bed. Similar allegations speculated that he was suffocated with a pillow by an
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His monarchist supporters as well as family members alleged that he was killed by Mengistu and his six army officers, a claim reiterated by several exiled prominent people during the reign of the Derg. The
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The Derg radio newscast said that he had been found dead at his bed by a servant, and announced his cause of death as complications from a
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Speculation arose around the circumstances of his death in 1975, and mostly centered on the alleged assassination plot by the Derg under
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examination was expected to determine the cause of death of the Emperor despite the burial ceremony that was set up spontaneously.
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from beneath his office in the National Palace by workmen. This happened almost a year after the
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by workmen. The discovery happened nearly one year after the former military government
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announced the remains of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie were
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in September 1974 by a coordinated military junta known as the
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1992 discovery of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie's remains
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Index

Excavation of Haile Selassie's remain
Ethiopian Radio
Ethiopian Emperor
Haile Selassie
National Palace
Derg
collapsed
interim government
Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front

Haile Selassie
Mengistu Haile Mariam
Ba'ata Mariam Church
Menelik II
Holy Trinity Cathedral
Addis Ababa
Ethiopian Revolution
coup d'état
Emperor
Haile Selassie
Derg
Aman Andom
National Palace
Mengistu Haile Mariam
prostate operation
the 2006 court trial
Ethiopian Radio
exhumed
collapse of the Derg
Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front

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