The Order of Primus St. Croix Presents:

"On the evening of September 11, 1974, the Derg announced on television: 'As a present for the New Year, we invite the emperor to a film presentation, on the Wollo Famine,' and let loose a flood of carefully orchestrated propaganda against the emperor. The next morning, Major Debela Dinsa stood before the emperor and in the name of the Derg made the speech that declared that the emperor was deposed from his throne. In response to the speech, the emperor said: 'Change takes place all the time. If the change is for the benefit of the country, it should not be superseded by anything else.' After that, glancing at Leul Ras Imiru, who had been sent by the Derg to witness the act of deposition, he walked out of the Jubilee Palace, ready to go to wherever he was to be taken. He was led into a small Volkswagen and taken to the headquarters of the Fourth Army Division. On the way, he was vilified by people who were, by pre-arrangement of the Derg, lining the streets throug