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#In_Pictures: #Axum_Massacre 4th year commemoration
Residents of #Axum city in the #Tigray region gathered on Thursday for a somber remembrance of the Axum Massacre, four years after the tragic events in late November 2020. Families and survivors gather to honor the memory of hundreds of civilians who were executed by #Eritrean forces during the first month of the two-years brutal war in Tigray regional state.
Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International (AI) and the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC), among others, have all released reports on the massacre, shedding light on the level of atrocities committed in three successive days. The investigations revealed that Eritrean forces systematically killed hundreds of civilians in the city of Axum. The reports also documented widespread human rights abuses, including door-to-door executions in a deliberate targeting of unarmed residents.
Through moments of grief, prayer, and silent resilience held on Thursday, survivors and residents of the city called for justice, and expressed their hope for peace and healing.
Pictures: Dimtsi Woyane
Memory, honour and prayers of course, but the relatives and all those who have lived this massacre expect accountability and justice against the perpetrators and instigators of these heinous crimes. No progress to date.
“We need justice, but it’s been 4 years and nothing has happened. They have just forgotten about us,” said a woman whose husband died in the #Axum massacre. Brilliant reporting by @FredHarter from 2 of Tigray's worst massacre sites where wounds cannot heal https://t.co/SFNrKmCkGX
In early 2021 Ethiopia’s leaders in closed-door meeting told the then #EU Envoy Pekka Haavisto that “they are going to wipe out the Tigrayans for 100 years.” The envoy then warned the world about the imminent #EthnicCleansing in #Tigray.
@IntlCrimCourt@hrw@amnesty@UN_HRC
Today in history, on November 4 2020 Abiy deliberately declared an aggressive war on #Tigray people and their government That war caused many Tigrayans to die indiscriminately in the Tigray. Abiy committed genocide in Tigray that caused the destruction devastation and anarchy which today led #Ethiopia to collapse,
Abiy Forces launched an attack on the northern Ethiopian command, which caused the war to spread through the Tigray region.
Afte liberating the Abiy allied forces from Tigray territory
TDF forces were able to enter the capital city of Addis Ababa, but instead accepted the international community's request not to enter into the capital city of Addis Ababa
Abiy Ahmed's administration, in collaboration with foreign governments, has committed inhumane atrocities in the Tigray region, including the rape of women, the looting of public property, and the destruction of industries and farms.
On this day when Abiy Ahmed declared war on the Tigrean people, The war caused countless deaths, displacements, injuries, rapes, and lootings against the civilians in the Tigray caused by Ethiopian forces, in collaboration with Eritrean forces who invaded the Tigray region. However, after they entered, the Tigrean people resisted the aggression of Abiy Ahmed's allies which eventually led to the Tigray government approaching the capital city of Addis Ababa. The world then called on Tigray government to return to home and the TDF forces accept that
That war that Abiy Ahmed declared that night on November 4th, which led to Ethiopia heading towards collapse is still going on in several regions of Ethiopia like Amhara and Oromo regions,
The @UN General Assembly has elected 18 members of the Human Rights Council for the 2025-2027 term:
Benin
Bolivia
Colombia
Cyprus
Czechia
Democratic Rep. of Congo
Ethiopia
Gambia
Iceland
Kenya
Marshall Islands
Mexico
North Macedonia
Qatar
Rep. of Korea
Spain
Switzerland
Thailand
Famine In Tigray Continues to Be a Political Battle
The US Agency for International Development's Famine Early Warning Systems Network (@FEWSNET) describes parts of #Tigray, along with neighboring #Afar and #Amhara, as facing an ‘emergency,’ one step short of outright famine. 1/