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Thousands of Ethiopians including students, labour officials and the last emperor Haile Selassie were killed at the hands of the so-called "derg" regime, which was overthrown in May 1991.
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The Milesian Irish had cherished the belief ever since the disastrous day of Kinsale, that an O'Donnell from Spain, having on his shoulder a red mark (_ball derg_), would return to free them from the
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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The Milesian Irish had cherished the belief ever since the disastrous day of Kinsale, that an O'Donnell from Spain, having on his shoulder a red mark (_ball derg_), would return to free them from the
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2 Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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Ever since my boyhood, in consequence of the legends which I had heard from my father, about the far-famed Lough-derg, or St. Patrick's Purgatory, I felt my imagination fired with a romantic curiosity to perform a station at that celebrated place.
The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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When tplf took the power from derg most tigrians became active partipant of tplfs policies.
unknown title 2009
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People asked you were esepa, you were killing people with derg, you were abusing people because you put on that gruesome uniform.
unknown title 2009
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Long live Woyane they let people run private airlines during amhara derg the government was busy selling salt measuring in teaspoon full foe 5 cent and "shera chama" in kebela store.
unknown title 2009
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Didn’t you spot her in her windaug, wubbling up on an osiery chair, with a meusic before her all cunniform letters, pretending to ribble a reedy derg on a fiddle she bogans without a band on?
Finnegans Wake 2006
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