"Red Terror" Martyrs' Memorial Museum

Memorial museum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

9°00′37″N 38°45′48″E / 9.010204°N 38.763230°E / 9.010204; 38.763230TypeMemorial museumWebsiteOfficial website

The "Red Terror" Martyrs' Memorial Museum in Addis Ababa was established in 2010 as a memorial to those who died during the Red Terror under the Derg government.^[1]^[2] The museum has displays of torture instruments, skulls and bones, coffins, bloody clothes and photographs of victims. In free tours of the museum, guides describes the history leading up to the Red Terror (starting from Haile Selassie's 80th birthday celebration), the actions taken toward citizens who opposed the Derg, how the prisoners were treated and how they secretly communicated among each other.^[3]^[4]

The museum also features pictorial history of the Red Terror.^[5]

Objects in the museum
Exhibit in the museum
Entrance to the museum

References

^ "Red Terror Martyrs' Memorial Museum". rtmmm.org. Archived from the original on 2019-01-07. Retrieved 2016-12-27.
^ Mulugeta, Mesfin. "A visit to the "Red Terror" Martyrs Memorial Museum of Addis Ababa" (PDF). assimba.org. Retrieved December 27, 2016.
^ "Emerging scholars: travel seminar to Rwanda and Ethiopia memorials, museums, national and international memory and memorialization" (PDF). beyondgenocide.net. Retrieved December 27, 2016.
^ Mahoney, Anne Louise (ed.). "Documenting the Red Terror. Bearing witness to Ethiopia's lost generation" (PDF). Retrieved December 27, 2016.
^ "Pourquoi peut-on affirmer que le régime du Derg (1974-1987) fut violent ?" (PDF). www.guebre-mariam.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 10, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2016.

External links

Website

Authority control databases	VIAF

Ethiopian Civil War (1974–1991)

Background

Scramble for Africa	Italian colonialism Italo-Ethiopian Wars 1887–89 First 1935 crisis Second Italian East Africa WWII Ethiopian–Eritrean Federation Eritrean loss of autonomy
Opposition to Haile Selassie	Ethiopian Empire Mekwanint Gugsa Wale's rebellion Woyane rebellion 1958 Tigray famine Ethiopian Student Movement 1972–1975 Wollo famine 1960 coup attempt
Other factors	Cold War 1973 oil crisis Ethnic discrimination Land reform Neftenya Pan-Somali nationalism

War

Prelude	Eritrean War of Independence (1961–1991) Ethiopian Revolution Timeline 1974 coup d'état
Major events	Villagization Massacre of the Sixty Death of Haile Selassie Red Terror 1983–1985 famine Peasant revolution Hawzen massacre Fall of the Derg regime
Related conflicts	Eritrean Civil Wars (1972–74; 1980–81) Oromo conflict (1973–present) Ethiopian–Somali conflict Ogaden War (1977–78) 1982 border war Somali Rebellion (1978–1991) Somaliland War of Independence (1981–1991)

Impact

Casualties	Casualties of the Ethiopian Civil War Massacres in the Eritrean War of Independence
Aftermath	Somali Civil War Djiboutian Civil War Eritrean independence Eritrean–Ethiopian War Trials of the Derg members
Memorials	"Red Terror" Martyrs' Memorial Museum Downfall of the Derg (holiday)

Groups

Governments	The Derg People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Ethiopian rebels	EPRDF Ethiopian People's Democratic Movement Tigray People's Liberation Front Afar Liberation Front All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement Ethiopian Democratic Union Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Army Ogaden National Liberation Front Oromo Liberation Front Western Somali Liberation Front
Eritrean rebels	Eritrean Liberation Front (1961–1981) Eritrean People's Liberation Front (1970–1991)