General Aman died in a battle in his home with several troops sent to his home to arrest him and died with a fight. That same night, the political prisoners that Derg had marked for execution were taken from Menelik prison, where they had been held, to the Akaki Central Prison where they were executed and buried in a mass grave.[9] "It appears that the general had outlived his usefulness," Bahru Zewde concludes, and was in fact becoming an obstacle to Derg's exercise of power.[10]