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Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum

Bole Road, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
+251- 11-5156197
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Ranked #1 of 14 attractions in Addis Ababa
Type: Speciality Museums
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Amsterdam
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 19 May 2013 NEW

I found this museum one of the most impressive and moving I have ever visited. We had a guide with us who could tell from his own experience about what happened during the red terror years. It is rather a small museum, and doesn't take too long to visit but I advise to take a guide because it makes the... More

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Melbourne, Australia
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 17 May 2013 NEW

This is a well put together museum. We met a man there called "fru" who was a survivor from this period of time and he walked us through the museum and explained his experience very interesting

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Richmond, VA
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed 5 May 2013

Overall, the museum is well worth a visit. It's smaller than I expected, but makes it an easy one hour visit max. Having read some reviews, we were open to having a volunteer guide us through the exhibit as we were humbled to have a survivor talk through the events with us. It got a little awkward at the end... More

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Vancouver, Canada
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 3 May 2013

Our group got a guided tour of the museum by a survivor of this dark time in history. It was sobering, eye-opening and well worth a visit. Definitely take a guided tour (which they are happy to give for a donation to the museum); you will get way more out of your visit.

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London, United Kingdom
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 27 April 2013

The musuem is very small but very impactful. Someone from the team will guide you around personally which makes the experience all the more powerful. Well worth a visit.

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Beijing, China
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 14 April 2013 via mobile

disturbing and shocking but something that you must see. 725 mass graves were found containing 4855 bodies with an estimated half million killed. this is the only private museum in Ethiopia and relies on donations which are well worth it both to educate the children who were born after the horrors of the Derg and foreign visitors to see a... More

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Bethesda, Maryland
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed 10 April 2013

Touring this small museum with a survivor of the Derg's Red Terror campaign, I was struck by similarities to the much larger Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. They both present a documented account of man's inhumanity to man. I lived in Addis Ababa for a year under Haile Selassie, whom the Derg overthrew, and spent a few days there... More

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Las Vegas, Nevada
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed 2 April 2013

A reminder to humanity of our violent side - never again should this country suffer such bloodshed for the sake of a few. A dictator that one day should be brought to justice.

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sharjah
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed 20 March 2013

Like most of the historical and important places in national history , this place is also an example of bad up keep. the guard asked me money for taking a picture.

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Washington DC
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed 28 February 2013

A reminder that genocides continue to occur, and we need to be reminded of them to try and prevent them from occurring again

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