Yekatit 12 Monument ( የካቲት 12 መታሰብያ ሐውልት )

Attractive historical monument in the middle of a traffic circle.

Commemorate the Italian atrocities.

Yekatit 12 Square is a monument at ‘Sidist Kilo’. It commemorates victims of “the Addis Ababa Massacre” - an atrocity committed by the Italian occupation force following an attempt to kill Rodolfo Graziani, Viceroy of Italian East Africa on this day: Yekatit 12 or 19th February 1937. The square is surrounded by Yekatit 12 Hospital, Addis Ababa University,  Markos Church, and Lion Zoo.

This moment is the which shows Ethiopian history in the past decades

This is a statue constructed in memory of innocent Ethiopians massacred by the fascist Italians.