Talk:Haile Fida

A fact from Haile Fida appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 September 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that although Haile Fida was an important political advisor to Mengistu Haile Mariam, the military ruler of Ethiopia, in 1977 Mengistu had him arrested and later executed?

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Fida's Birth Date[edit]

According to this document (it is in Amharic), Haile was born in 1932 EC which could be 1939 or 1940 in Gregorian calendar depending the month. Whether it is 1939 or 1940, the birth date given on the article is wrong. Tumsaa (talk) 08:35, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]