Alem Bekagn[a] (Amharic: ዓለም በቃኝ, "Farewell to the World"), or 'Kerchele Prison', was a central prison in Ethiopia until 2004. Located in Addis Ababa, the prison possibly existed as early as 1923, under the reign of Empress Zewditu, but became notorious after Second Italo-Ethiopian War as the site where Ethiopian intellectuals were detained and killed by Italian Fascists in the Yekatit 12 massacre. After the restoration of Emperor Haile Selassie, the prison remained in use to house Eritrean nationalists and those involved in the Woyane rebellion. Under the Communist Derg regime that followed, the prison was the site of another mass killing, the Massacre of the Sixty, and of the torture and execution of rival groups in the Red Terror. The prison remained a site of human rights abuses until the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front entered Addis Ababa on 28 May 1991, after which it became a normal prison.[citation needed] The prison was closed in 2004 and demolished in 2007 to allow the construction of the headquarters of the African Union.
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AlemBekagn (Amharic: ዓለም በቃኝ, "Farewell to the World"), or 'Kerchele Prison', was a central prison in Ethiopia until 2004. Located in Addis Ababa, the...
Prison on the morning of 23 November 1974. The prison was commonly called AlemBekagn – "I've had enough of this world". The Ethiopian Revolution started about...
Sebel. Princess Sophia was imprisoned, mistreated and humiliated in the AlemBekagn Kerchele prison, Addis Ababa together with her sisters, other princesses...
Duke of Harar, they were then moved to the Akaki Prison, also known as "AlemBekagn" which translates to "I have had enough of this world". Princess Tenagnework...
steadily worsening conditions, until they were locked in a 15-foot cell in AlemBekagn (the end of the world) prison. After many years of campaigning by the...
was set up, and by nightfall, 62 Ethiopians were tried and shot at the AlemBekagn prison in Addis Ababa. "The Graziani Massacre marked the almost total...
contractors using local materials. The AUCC is built on the site of the former AlemBekagn prison, used during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, and subsequently...
the former Emperor's government were taken from Menelik Palace and to AlemBekagn prison where they were summarily executed. Lij Endelkachew had previously...
storage room in the precincts of the notorious Akaki Prison known as "AlemBekagn" which translates to "I am done with the world". They shared mattresses...
was set up, and by nightfall, 62 Ethiopians were tried and shot at the AlemBekagn prison in Addis Ababa. "The Graziani Massacre marked the almost total...
in detention for seven months at the Kerchele Prison (commonly called AlemBekagn - "Farewell to the World"), the same prison at which her husband had...
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