The Martyr’s /Yekatit 12/ Monument
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 horror which befell the citizens of Addis Ababa is depicted in bas-relief on 28 meters of the monument which was designed by two Yugoslav architects. The massacre was originally narrated by bronze lettering carved on open-book-like stones on four directions around the obelisks. Unfortunately, these letters have now disappeared.
