May 21, 1991 (, Xinwei April eighth day), the Ethiopian Mengistu regime collapsed. May

1991 21, the President of Ethiopia door Ge Situ was forced to resign, (L $ dj��.c��m) and away from home to seek political asylum in Zimbabwe. The armed anti-government organizations of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (DFLP) took the opportunity to launch a fierce attack on the Capital Region government forces quickly rout. DFLP captured located about 50 kilometers southeast of the capital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's largest military airport on the 26th, and cut off the last land route leading to the capital; 28, occupied the presidential palace, to take over state power; began to lift in the 29th before government troops armed. 30, some senior officials of the former government the DFLP army to surrender.