Massacre of the Sixty

The Massacre of the Sixty, or Black Saturday (Amharic: ጥቁሩ ቅዳሜ^?, tikuru kidami), took place on the morning of 23 November 1974 (Ethiopian calendar: 14 Hidar 1967), when 60 imprisoned former government officials were executed by the Derg at Kerchele prison (commonly called Alem Bekagn - "Farewell to the World") in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It was considered the sudden death of the hopes that Ethiopia's revolution, barely ten weeks old, could remain bloodless, as epitomised by the slogan "Ityopiya tikdem, yala mimin dem” — “Let Ethiopia progress, without any bloodshed”. It presaged the Red Terror and Ethiopian Civil War that would follow.

The 54 below were executed on the orders of Mengistu Haile Mariam.

The remaining six were killed in a shootout at the home of General Aman Andom

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