Debretsion Gebremichael, the deposed president and fugitive from the Ethiopian region of Tigray, spent his youth in the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), before rising through the ranks once the party was installed at the helm in Addis Ababa. On Friday, the Ethiopian army promised a reward of 10 million birrs (about $250,000) to anyone who could locate the leadership of the TPLF, including Mr. Debretsion, who has been on the run since federal troops took the regional capital Mekele on November 28 and has been unreachable for nearly two weeks. Debretsion - whose date of birth is unknown - was born in the town of Shire, Tigray, to a Christian Orthodox family. He abandoned his studies in the 1970s to join the TPLF, then spearheading the armed struggle against Hailemariam Mengistu's military-Marxist Derg regime (1974-1991).