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Ethiopia: video of Tigray massacre lifts lid on ‘war without photos’ (The Observers news)

Ethiopia: video of Tigray massacre lifts lid on ‘war without photos’

Screengrab of the video, filmed in the village of Mai Harmaz in Tigray, early January 2021.
Screengrab of the video, filmed in the village of Mai Harmaz in Tigray, early January 2021. © France 24 screengrab
Text by:Liselotte Mas
11 min

Men in uniform slaughtered dozens of people in a small village in the Tigray region of Ethiopia on January 5, 2021, right in the midst of the usually festive Orthodox Christmas season. Thirty bodies are seen on the ground in a video that has been circulating online despite the current internet blackout in the Tigray region, which has been engulfed in a bloody conflict between the army and rebels. The soldier filming the video points the camera at an injured person, saying to a comrade, “You should have finished off the survivors!” Our team was able to verify this video.


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