War of Independence Memorial

War of Independence Memorial - Taulud Island, Massawa, Eretria.

In 1963, the Eritrean War of Independence began. During this war, which lasted three decades, more than 150,000 people, guerrillas and civilians died, more than 400,000 people became refugees. The war was finally won in 1993 and Eritrea was officially declared an independent country on May 24, 1993.

Built in honor of the victory, the memorial consists of three tanks that were captured during the war. Now these majestic iron giants stand on marble slabs that rise above the ground and remain a memory for all the inhabitants of Eretria, the price of victory. Tanks on marble slabs as if ready to go into battle again, but already protecting not the enemies, but the people who raised them as monuments.