I crossed the street from my Addis Ababa hotel and walked into one of the most unsettling museums I have ever visited.
Like any good museum documenting human atrocity, it is not designed to comfort the visitor..it is designed to confront you.
The museum sits directly across from Meskel Square, an ironic and jarring location given how central that space is to public life in Addis Ababa (it became Revolution Square after the overthrow of Selassie). Inside, the museum documents state-sponsored murder, torture, imprisonment, and terror carried out against perceived political enemies, students, intellectuals, and ordinary civilians.
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on Live and Let's Fly.
