Ethiopia - Tigray War News Updates -- November 12, 2020

 


 * Scores have been killed in 'massacre' in Ethiopia's Tigray region, Amnesty said 
 * 'We have confirmed the massacre of a very large number of civilians,' they said 
 * There was no immediate response from the Ethiopian government 

Amnesty International said Thursday that scores of civilians were killed in a 'massacre' in Ethiopia's Tigray region that witnesses blamed on forces backing the local ruling party. 

The 'massacre' is the first reported incident of large-scale civilian fatalities in a week-old conflict between the regional ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), and the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize. 

'Amnesty International can today confirm... that scores, and likely hundreds, of people were stabbed or hacked to death in Mai-Kadra (May Cadera) town in the South West Zone of Ethiopia's Tigray Region on the night of 9 November,' the rights group said in a report. 

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 Ethiopia - Tigray War News Updates -- November 12, 2020 

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