Encyclopaedia Britannica's biography of Haile Selassie I, documenting his 1930 coronation as Emperor of Ethiopia, the Derg's September 1974 coup that deposed him, his subsequent house arrest at his own palace in Addis Ababa, and his death there on 27 August 1975, officially attributed to respiratory failure after a prostate operation though later evidence pointed to strangulation on the military government's orders.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica's biography of Haile Selassie is written and edited in house without an academic peer review process, the middle tier reflecting a professionally fact checked general reference rather than a specialist Ethiopian studies or Rastafari studies source, used here for the confirmed date, place and disputed circumstances of his 1975 death, corroborated by JSTOR Daily's account of the Rastafari movement's reaction below. NotesUsed for the September 1974 coup, Selassie's house arrest at his own palace in Addis Ababa, and the 27 August 1975 date, place and disputed circumstances of his death.
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PublisherEncyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
URLhttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Haile-Selassie-I
Source Typeencyclopedia
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