<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengistu_Haile_Mariam" id="mwAWs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Mengistu Haile Mariam">Mengistu Haile Mariam</a>, president of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Democratic_Republic_of_Ethiopia" id="mwAWw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia">People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia</a>, flees <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia" id="mwAW0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>, effectively bringing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Civil_War" id="mwAW4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ethiopian Civil War">Ethiopian Civil War</a> to an end.