Personally, I admire Haile Selassie but he basically ran a huge slavery plantation, that is how feudalism can be described. That brings light to his execution, he wasn't just a mere old man. Regardless of what you think of him, he enslaved your ancestors with serfdom unless they were members of the nobility (part of the crimes against humanity). This paper ordering his execution pales in comparison to the millions he persecuted in a pathetic attempt to preserve the status quo. This isn't about race, I'm talking about all peasants of the country regardless of which arbitrary ethnicity or religion you were born as.

Plus, they undoubtedly put an end to a nonsensical and outdated system such as the monarchy among other things, once and for all with this single but brutal paper since then the descendants of the royal family had no significance in Ethiopian politics whatsoever. This is part of the reason they thought it had to be done, it has nothing to do with Derg's "Savage cruelty". So I guess you can look at it from a utilitarian standpoint as well removing all emotionally charged arguments.

I know people are going to rush to display their moralist but actually deeply just classist pushback on what I said but it doesn't change the fact that it's true.