The Coordinating Committee of the Armed Forces, Police, and Territorial Army, or the Derg ( Ge ' ez " Committee "), was officially announced 28 June 1974 by a group of military officers to maintain law and order due to the powerlessness of the civilian government following widespread mutiny in the armed forces of Ethiopia earlier that year.

In December 2009, a 96-page report titled Human Rights in Ethiopia: Through the Eyes of the Oromo Diaspora, compiled by the Advocates for Human Rights, documented human rights violations against the Oromo in Ethiopia under three successive regimes: the Abyssinian Empire under Haile Selassie, the Marxist Derg and the current Ethiopian government of the Ethiopian People ’ s Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ), dominated by members of the Tigray People ’ s Liberation Front ( TPLF ) and which was accused to have arrested approximately 20, 000 suspected OLF members, to have driven most OLF leadership into exile, and to have effectively neutralized the OLF as a political force in Ethiopia.

), containing, among other stories, " Tubber Derg, or the Red Well ", appeared in 1833, and Tales of Ireland in 1834.

His official title was Chairman of the Provisional Military Administrative Council ( better known as the Derg ), and he held the position of Head of State in an acting capacity as the military regime had officially proclaimed Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen as " King-designate " ( an act that would later be rescinded by the Derg, and which was never accepted by the Prince as legitimate ).

Brigadier General Tafari Benti ( 1921 – 1977 ) was the Head of State of Ethiopia ( 28 November 1974 – 3 February 1977 ), and chairman of the Derg, the ruling junta.

The Derg, which originally consisted of soldiers at the capital, broadened its membership by including representatives from the 40 units of the Ethiopian Army, Air Force, Navy, Kebur Zabagna ( Imperial Guard ), Territorial Army and Police: each unit was expected to send three representatives, who were supposed to be privates, NCOs and junior officers up to the rank of major.

Many of the Derg members remained in key government posts, and remained as the members of the Central Committee and the Politburo of the Workers ' Party of Ethiopia ( WPE ), which became Ethiopia's civilian version of the Eastern bloc Communist parties.

Once the Derg had gained victory over these groups and successfully fought off an invasion from Somalia in 1977, it engaged in a brutal war between the government and armed groups which included guerrillas fighting for Eritrean independence, rebels based in Tigray ( which included the nascent Tigrayan Peoples ' Liberation Front ), and other groups that ranged from the conservative and pro-monarchy Ethiopian Democratic Union to the far leftist Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party.

* Lough Derg ( Donegal ), a different Irish lake of the same name

His name has been associated from these early centuries with several places in the area, for instance: St. Dabheoc ’ s Chair on the south bank of Lough Derg, the townland of Seedavoc ( St. Dabheoc ’ s Seat ), and a mountain in that townland, Seavadog Mountain.

Following the fall of the Derg, Ras Alimirah, who had in the meantime founded the Afar Liberation Front ( ALF ), returned to Asaita with his son, Hanfadhe Alimirah.

Ethiopia's then-ruling communist Derg regime later established the Autonomous Region of Assab ( now called Aseb and located in Eritrea ), although low level insurrection continued until the early 1990s.

The Ethiopian Democratic Union or EDU, also known as Teranafit ( formerly a separate group based in Shire before it merged with the EDU ), was one of the political parties that formed in opposition to the Derg regime of Ethiopia.

* Gáe Buide and Gáe Derg, spears of Diarmuid Ua Duibhne which could inflict wounds that none can recover from

The border to the northeast is defined by Lough Derg which is the third largest lake on Ireland.

The old navigations were abandoned and the head race constructed from Lough Derg which also served for navigation.

The southern portion of the county is drained by the River Suir ; the northern by tributaries of the Shannon which widens into Lough Derg.

As a result, power came into the hands of a committee of low ranking officers and enlisted soldiers led by Atnafu Abate, which came to be known as the Derg.

Mengistu did not emerge as the leader of the Derg until after the 3 February 1977 shootout, in which Tafari Banti was killed.

The Derg, which countered with its own counter-terrorism campaign, labeled the EPRP's tactics the White Terror.

There was also a famine in 1984, which was the 10th anniversary of the Derg.

He obtained some teaching and a clerkship in a Sunday School office, began to contribute to journals, and " The Pilgrimage to Lough Derg ," which was published in the Christian Examiner, attracted great attention.

Nenagh, the largest town in North Tipperary, lies to the west of the Nenagh River, which empties into Lough Derg at Dromineer, 9 km to the north-west, a popular centre for sailing and other water sports.

Formed from the union of the TPLF and the Ethiopian Peoples Democratic Movement ( EPDM ) in early 1989, they were later joined by the OPDO ( Oromo of the TPLF and EPLF, and Oromo members of EPDM ) and the Ethiopian Democratic Officers ’ Revolutionary Movement ( a small body of Derg officers captured by TPLF, most notably at Shire in February 1989, which was later disbanded after the establishment of the Transitional Government of Ethiopia.

Dromineer is home to the Lough Derg Lifeboat, which is the RNLI's third inland lifeboat station and was the first inland station in the Republic of Ireland.

* Lough Derg Yacht Club, which is the third-oldest yacht club in the world and one of two clubs with a fleet of Shannon-One-Design sailing dinghies.

The village hosts some of the district's key events each year, including the Derg Vintage Rally and the traditional Apple Fair which sees the apple growers of County Armagh visit to sell their wares.

" While a colonel, Tesfaye was a member of the Derg, the military committee which seized power from Emperor Haile Selassie, and which would later order the executions of his officials and allegedly the murder of the deposed Emperor himself.

The southern part of county is drained by the River Suir ; the northern part is drained by tributaries of the River Shannon which widens into Lough Derg.

'" Aman fought the majority of the Derg over three central issues: the size of the Derg, which he felt was too large and unwieldy ; the policy to be taken towards the Eritrean Liberation Front ( ELF ); and over the punishment of the numerous aristocrats and former government officials in the Derg's custody.

The Ottaways, writing not long after the incident state, " Precisely how the shoot-out began and which side took the initiative remains a typical Derg mystery ".

" A number of Derg members, including Mengistu, had met that morning to discuss a document which described the " class peace " Tafari Bente had publicly endorsed, and after hours of arguing, it was clear that there was a deadlock on the issue.

Mengistu claimed he had discovered a 47-page master plan in Tafari's possession, which detailed how the EPRP would replace the " scientific socialism " of the Derg.

To end this split, the Derg set up a committee chaired by Captain Mogus Wolde Mikael to reform the Derg's structure.

After a period of civil unrest on September 12, 1974, a pro-communist military junta, known as the " Derg " (" committee ") seized power after ousting the emperor Haile Selassie I.

The committee was formally renamed the Provisional Military Administrative Council later in 1974, but was still popularly known as the Derg.

However, a committee of low ranking officers called the Derg, who had been empowered to investigate corruption in the military, arrested Tsehafi Taezaz Aklilu and most of the men who had served in his cabinet, as well as the new Prime Minister and his cabinet.

This new committee became what was to be known as the Derg.

* 1974 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, ' Messiah ' of the Rastafari movement, is deposed following a military coup by the Derg, ending a reign of 58 years.

* September 12 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is deposed by the Derg.

Along with these two swords, Diarmuid is known to have wielded two spears, the smaller yellow spear Gáe Buide and the greater red spear Gáe Derg.

As the daughter of Dagda, she is also the half sister of Cermait, Aengus, Midir and Bodb Derg.

There is also the Ardnacrusha canal connected with the Ardnacrusha dam south of Lough Derg.

Mengistu Haile Mariam (, pronounced ; born 21 May 1937 ) is an Ethiopian politician who was the most prominent officer of the Derg, the Communist military junta that governed Ethiopia from 1974 to 1987, and President of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia from 1987 to 1991.

However there is no doubt that the Derg under Mengistu's leadership ordered the deaths without trial of 61 ex-officials of the Imperial government on 23 November 1974, and later of numerous other former nobles and officials including the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Abuna Theophilos, in 1977.

The waterborne element of Search and Rescue is provided by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution from 43 lifeboat stations including inland stations at Enniskillen and Lough Derg, the coastguard inshore rescue boats, and community rescue boats at eleven stations: Cahore, Tramore, Bunmahon, Bantry, Derrynane, Banna, Ballybunion, Kilkee, Schull, Limerick City, Corrib / Mask.

Lough Derg or Loch Derg () is a lake in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland.

It is situated on the shores of Lough Derg on the River Shannon.

* Fishing is a popular activity on both the lake and the nearby Nenagh river from Nenagh Boat Club, Lough Derg Yacht Club and Shannon Sailing.

It lies on the River Derg and is near the border with County Donegal.

In exceptionally wet periods, the flow of water out of Lough Derg is greater than 400 m < sup > 3 </ sup >/ s, and it is then necessary for the surplus to be are released down the natural channel through Castleconnell.

As there is no lock at Parteen weir linking the natural channel to Lough Derg, it is no longer possible for any watercraft to enter, by water, this part of the Shannon.

As this is much greater than is available during summer months, water is stored in the major lakes on the Shannon, Lough Derg, Lough Ree and Lough Allen.