Editing Haile Selassie (section)

==== Imprisonment ====

{{main|1974 Ethiopian coup d'état}}

The [[Derg]], a clique of junior officers and enlisted men, set up in June to investigate the military's demands, took advantage of the government's disarray to depose the 82-year-old Selassie on {{nowrap|12 September.<ref name=qceros>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dDRWAAAAIBAJ&pg=6032%2C2832764|work=Eugene Register-Guard|location=(Oregon)|agency=Associated Press|title=Quiet coup ends reign of Selassie|date=12 September 1974|page=1A|access-date=21 September 2020|archive-date=30 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030164414/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dDRWAAAAIBAJ&pg=6032%2C2832764|url-status=live}}</ref>}} General [[Aman Mikael Andom]], a Protestant of Eritrean origin,<ref name="evang" /> served briefly as provisional head of state pending the return of Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, who was then receiving medical treatment abroad. Selassie was imprisoned briefly at the 4th Army Division in Addis Ababa<ref name="evang" /> before being moved back to the Grand Palace where the Emperor spent the last months of his life under house arrest.<ref name="fate">Meredith, Martin (2005), ''The Fate of Africa: From the Hopes of Freedom to the Heart of Despair''. Public Affairs, {{ISBN|1-58648-398-6}}, p. 216.</ref>[[File:The Ethiopian Royal Family.jpg|thumb|200x200px|Following the [[1974 Ethiopian coup d'état|1974 coup d'état]], much of the [[Ethiopian royal family]] fled the country, were imprisoned, or were executed.]]

Though initially most of the imperial family was detained at the late [[Prince Makonnen|Duke of Harar]]'s residence in the north of the capital, most were later moved into Addis Ababa's [[Kerchele Prison]], also known as "Alem Bekagn". On 23 November 60 former high officials of the imperial government were summarily [[executed by firing squad]],<ref name=shinn44>{{Harvnb |Shinn | p = 44}}.</ref> including Selassie's grandson, Rear Admiral [[Iskinder Desta]], General Aman and two former prime ministers.<ref name= fate /><ref name=arexsxtu>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DaRVAAAAIBAJ&pg=3163%2C5786259|work=Eugene Register-Guard|location=(Oregon)|agency=Associated Press|title=Army rulers in Ethiopia execute 62|date=24 November 1974|page=1A|access-date=21 September 2020|archive-date=25 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125225216/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DaRVAAAAIBAJ&pg=3163%2C5786259|url-status=live}}</ref> These killings, known to Ethiopians as [[Massacre of the Sixty|"Black Saturday"]], were condemned by the Crown Prince; the Derg responded to his rebuke by revoking its acknowledgment of his imperial legitimacy, and announcing the end of the [[Solomonic dynasty]].<ref name="shinn44" />