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Africa-Press-Ethiopia<\/p>\n

Hundreds of unarmed Ethiopian civilians were systematically killed by Eritrean troops in the northern city of Axum, a new report by Amnesty International says.<\/p>\n

The \u201cmassacre in Axum\u201d is believed to have taken place over a 24-hour period between the 28th and the 29th of November last year. Following the killings, the organisation reports, hundreds more locals were detained and told that the shootings would restart if government forces faced continued resistance. Ethiopian and Eritrean forces first entered the city on the 19th of November after days of \u201cindiscriminately shelling the city and firing at those who tried to flee.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEritrean soldiers deliberately shot civilians on the street and carried out systemic house-to-house searches, extrajudicially executing men and boys,\u201d the report says. \u201cThe massacre was carried out in retaliation for an earlier attack by a small number of local militiamen, joined by residents armed with sticks and stones.\u201d<\/p>\n

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According to the report, Eritrean troops fired on Axum residents as they tried to carry the bodies away after the bombing ended. Eritrean government forces are also accused of engaging in the widespread looting of the city. Amnesty International has published satellite images that appear to show fresh mass burials sites in Axum as well as evidence of heavy shelling in the city.<\/p>\n

For almost four months, an ongoing civil war has engulfed Ethiopia\u2019s northern Tigray region. Back in early November, government forces launched a sustained attack on the region after the Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF) allegedly attacked military bases. Tensions were already high after regional leaders held local elections days earlier despite a federal ban on all voting.<\/p>\n

Ethiopian President Abiy Ahmed \u2014 who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 \u2014 has been accused of orchestrating the attempted ethnic cleansing of all Tigrayans.<\/p>\n

Amnesty International\u2019s report is based on interviews with 41 survivors and witnesses, some of whom escaped to refugee camps in neighbouring Sudan.<\/p>\n

One account of the event described how a woman and her child in Axum were killed by the bombing. \u201cShe was outside the compound and moving, trying to find a safe place,\u201d an eyewitness remembered. \u201cThe shell fell on her. She had three kids. Two of them ran but the third was a little kid [she] carried on her back. He was killed with her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another witness told Amnesty International how he and his friends tried to find shelter when the shelling started. \u201cI was with my friends chilling out on the street when the bombing started,\u201d he recalled. \u201cWe were scared and tried to hide underground and in buildings. We found a market and hid there. I saw three people who were friends with each other try to run on the street. Two of them got injured. The third one was killed: half of his face was removed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amnesty International has called for a full investigation into the incident in Axum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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