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The statue symbolizes the anti-colonial struggle of Emperor Menelik who waged the Battle of Adwa, the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War in 1896 and is witnessing Africa’s triumph over European colonialism. It is ordered to be erected by Queen Zewditu, the daughter of Emperor Menelik II, for the memory of her father.
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It served for multiple purposes before its current function as the National Museum. It was built in the 1920’s. It was the residence of Martial Graziani during the Italian occupation.
The first statue was erected in 1941 and inaugurated by Emperor Haile Selassie in memory of Abune Petros, the archbishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox church who supported the national patriots against the fascist Italian invaders.
An attempt on the life of Viceroy Graziani by the two Ethiopians, Abrha Deboch and Moges Asgedom, in February 1937 provoked the Italians to unleash a three-day reign of terror, in the course of which thousands of innocent Ethiopian citizens were killed in cold blood and many of their memory to tell the world and remind Ethiopians of their history.
The Lion of Judah was erected in the square of Addis Ababa Railway Station portraying the devotion of Emperor Menelik’s to link Ethiopia with the outside world by means of the railway line (with the help of his Swiss advisor, then foreign minister, Engineer Alfred IIg).
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This monument was erected in the memory of members of the heroic Ethiopian defense forces, who repulsed the aggressive Somali army led by President Siad Bare that invaded Eastern Ethiopia in 1969 E.C with Cuban support.
