Haile Selassie crushes the Derg

A few princes had the idea of conducting an irrigation program to buy off the remainder of the separatists. that would have brought time.
I've never heard of this - can you provide a source? Also, which separatists? Ethiopia has over 80 different ethnicities, you're going to have to be more specific.
 
the Eritreans. The source is Issac Makowena's why post colonial Africa went down.
The only way I can see the Eritrean independence movements being stopped (or at the least, crippled) is if either Eritrea remains an autonomous province or if the Eritrean Liberation Front and/or Eritrean People's Liberation Front suffer worse casualties in the Eritrean Civil Wars.
 
Sometimes, economic development can calm political grievance.
I doubt that's going to affect the Eritreans' thinking after the heavy-handedness of the Emperor's government in response to protesting the loss of their autonomy and institution of policies that were originally established in the Ethiopian interior, meant for a de-facto absolutist monarchy and not the parliamentary democracy that had existed prior to Ethiopian annexation.
 
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