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Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum
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Visit on a weekday morning around 9:30 AM when the museum first opens, as the narrow basement corridors get uncomfortably crowded with school groups in the afternoons.
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Entry costs around 200 birr (about $4 USD) for foreign visitors, with discounts for students. No free days available, but the ticket includes access to the adjacent Ethnological Museum, giving you two museums for one price.
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1.5-2 hours
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Schnelle Fakten: The museum occupies what was once the basement prison of the brutal Derg regime, where torture and interrogations took place during the Red Terror that killed an estimated 500,000 to 1.5 million people between 1976 and 1978. Exhibits include blood-stained clothing, bone fragments, and the actual instruments used in executions, preserved exactly as they were found when the regime fell in 1991.
Highlights: Step into the dimly lit basement cells and you'll see walls still stained with the handprints of prisoners desperately reaching out in the dark. One room contains a guillotine-like "meat grinder" machine that guards used to dismember bodies, with the original bloodstains still visible on the concrete floor.
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