600 Killed in Tigray Unrest, Ethiopia Rights Body Says
A rampage carried out by a local youth group assisted by police and militia led to the slaughter of at least 600 people on November 9 in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the national human rights body said.
The bloodbath in the town of Mai-Kadra is the most violent attack on civilians during Ethiopia’s ongoing internal conflict between federal forces and leaders of Tigray’s ruling party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.
According to an earlier report by Amnesty International, “scores, and likely hundreds, of people were stabbed or hacked to death” in the November 9 attack in Mai-Kadra.
However, a report by Ethiopian Human Rights Commission on Tuesday provides a more concrete account, faulting the Tigrayan youth group known “Samri”.
The report indicted the Samri for targeting non-...