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November 24, 2020
At least 600 died in the November 9 massacre in Mai Kadra, in Tigray, the region of Ethiopia where Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched a military offensive earlier this month against the Tigrinya rebel leaders.
This was denounced by the Ethiopian Commission for Human Rights, which in a report accuses an informal militia of young Tigers and the security forces loyal to the local authorities of being the authors of the "carnage" against non-Tigrinya seasonal farmers.
The massacre took place in the city of Mai-Kadra during the conflict in progress since 4 November between the Ethiopian federal government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front - a local government party - and was immediately denounced by Amnesty International, which had reported "probably hundreds of people stabbed or shot to death".
Today Ehrc gave a more detailed account, accusing the Tigray youth group known as "Samri" of targeting non-Tigrinya seasonal workers working on sesame and millet crops in the area.
The perpetrators "killed hundreds of people, beating them with batons / sticks, stabbing them with machetes and strangling them with ropes. They then looted and destroyed the properties", as the report states, adding that the massacre "could be one of the crimes. against humanity and war crimes ".
The report also says, citing eyewitnesses and members of the committee formed for the burial of the victims, "that the estimated number of 600 people is likely to be higher", but remains undefined.