メンギスツ・ハイレ・マリアム
Under the regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam, who ruled Ethiopia from 1974, some 250,000 drought- and famine-stricken peasants from the highlands - mostly Amhars from Wollo province - were relocated to Benishangul-Gumuz from 1979 and especially in the mid-1980s.