Haile Selassie, was one of Africa's most charismatic leaders and ruled Ethiopia for 44 years before he was overthrown in 1974. He was allegedly murdered in 1975 at the age of 83 by Marxist officers who had seized power a year earlier. His body was buried near a latrine, an insult to a man who had enjoyed almost absolute power After the regime that toppled him was ousted in 1991, his remains were placed in a mausoleum holding another former emperor, Menelik II, and other members of the family dynasty. But he had wanted to lie inside the granite tomb in Holy Trinity Cathedral. In November 2000, 25 years after his death, he went to his final resting place in the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa after a visually stunning reburial ceremony.

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