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Ethiopia says it targeted combatants, not civilians in Tigray
3 years, 6 months ago

Ethiopia says it targeted combatants, not civilians in Tigray

Al Jazeera  

Military spokesman denies it was behind the attack on a busy market in Tigray, but admits attacking rebels in the restive region. Speaking to journalists on Thursday, army spokesman Colonel Getnet Adane said the operation “dismantled” armed forces loyal to the northern region’s former governing party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. ‘Deeply disturbed’ The remarks were the first acknowledgement by …

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Eight months of Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict: A timeline
3 years, 8 months ago

Eight months of Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict: A timeline

Al Jazeera  

We take a look at some of the most important events of the nearly eight-month conflict in Ethiopia’s northernmost region. In February 2021, Amnesty International says Eritrean soldiers killed “hundreds of civilians” in November in the holy city of Axum in Tigray. Just over a week later, Ethiopia says Eritrean troops have “started to evacuate” Tigray but on April 15, …

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‘Horrific’: MSF says Ethiopian troops executed 4 men in Tigray
3 years, 9 months ago

‘Horrific’: MSF says Ethiopian troops executed 4 men in Tigray

Al Jazeera  

Doctors Without Borders says its staff witnessed soldiers drag civilians off public buses and execute them while their driver was beaten. International medical charity Doctors Without Borders has said its staff witnessed Ethiopian soldiers killing “at least four” civilians in the country’s embattled Tigray region. This includes the extrajudicial killings of at least 4 men who were dragged off public …

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Ethiopia: After CNN reveals Tigray massacre UN rights chief says war crimes may have been committed
3 years, 10 months ago

Ethiopia: After CNN reveals Tigray massacre UN rights chief says war crimes may have been committed

CNN  

CNN — The UN’s high commissioner for human rights has called for an independent investigation into human rights violations that may amount to war crimes in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, days after CNN published an exclusive report about a massacre in a village there. On Thursday, Michelle Bachelet said there was a need for an “independent, objective assessment” of the situation …

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Trauma, anger as Tigrayans recount Eritrea troops’ ‘grave crimes’
3 years, 10 months ago

Trauma, anger as Tigrayans recount Eritrea troops’ ‘grave crimes’

Al Jazeera  

Survivors and witnesses in Ethiopia’s embattled region tell Al Jazeera how civilians were raped and killed by troops from neighbouring country. “More than 10 soldiers took turns raping us.” “My husband was killed in our village,” another displaced woman from Mai Kadra said, blaming Eritrean troops, before pleading: “Tell the world we are dying.” Mai Kadra, in western Tigray, was …

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HRW says Ethiopian shelling killed many civilians in Tigray
3 years, 11 months ago

HRW says Ethiopian shelling killed many civilians in Tigray

Al Jazeera  

Ethiopian forces ‘struck homes, hospitals, schools and markets’ in the first weeks of the war, according to the HRW report. Ethiopian forces shelled heavily populated areas in the first weeks of the conflict in the Tigray region, killing at least 83 civilians and displacing thousands, Human Rights Watch has said. “At the war’s start, Ethiopian federal forces fired artillery into …

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Forces from Ethiopia’s Tigray region say Eritrean troops are part of the conflict and the war is far from over
4 years, 1 month ago

Forces from Ethiopia’s Tigray region say Eritrean troops are part of the conflict and the war is far from over

CNN  

CNN — An official from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front has told CNN the war in Ethiopia is far from over and that Eritrean troops are part of the conflict. “We withdrew from Mekelle because we did not want to give them the pretext to bombard the city back to the stone age, to indiscriminately bombard and destroy the town,” …

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Ethiopia: PM Abiy rejects claims army killed civilians in Tigray
4 years, 1 month ago

Ethiopia: PM Abiy rejects claims army killed civilians in Tigray

Al Jazeera  

Abiy Ahmed also told Parliament army would not destroy Tigrayan capital Mekelle after capturing it recently. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said federal troops had not killed a single civilian in their nearly month-long offensive against regional forces in Tigray. On Monday, Tigray leader Debretsion Gebremichael said his forces were still fighting near Mekelle, which fell to government troops after …

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Ethiopia’s Tigray region under control of Ethiopian forces, says PM
4 years, 1 month ago

Ethiopia’s Tigray region under control of Ethiopian forces, says PM

CNN  

CNN — Ethiopian National Defense Forces have taken control of Mekelle, the capital of the country’s Tigray region, according to a tweet from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Fierce fighting had broken out in Mekelle on Saturday, the eyewitness said, two days after Abiy warned the country had entered the “final phase” of a “law enforcement” military operation in the northern …

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Ethiopia enters ‘final phase’ of operation in Tigray region - Prime Minister
4 years, 1 month ago

Ethiopia enters ‘final phase’ of operation in Tigray region - Prime Minister

CNN  

Nairobi, Kenya CNN — Ethiopia has entered the “final phase” of a “law enforcement” military operation in the northern restive region of Tigray after a 72-hour deadline to surrender expired, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed tweeted in a statement on Thursday. “The last peaceful gate which had remained open for the TPLF clique to walk through have now been firmly closed,” …

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Ethiopia: At least 600 civilians killed in Tigray region, rights commission says
4 years, 1 month ago

Ethiopia: At least 600 civilians killed in Tigray region, rights commission says

CNN  

At least 600 civilians were killed during an attack in northern Ethiopia in early November because of their ethnicity, a state-appointed human rights commission said Tuesday. In its preliminary report into the November 9 massacre at Mai-Kadra, a town in the Tigray region, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said an informal group of Tigrayan youths, aided by local officials and …

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‘Save yourselves’: Ethiopia warns Tigrayans of Mekelle attack
4 years, 1 month ago

‘Save yourselves’: Ethiopia warns Tigrayans of Mekelle attack

Al Jazeera  

Tigray official denies capital has been encircled, saying Ethiopian forces could not ‘move an inch for more than one week’. Abiy’s statement came hours after an Ethiopian military spokesman said the army plans to surround Mekelle with tanks and may attack it with artillery to end a nearly three-week war, urging civilians to “save themselves”. In a statement on Twitter, …

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