Axum Massacre, Mariam Dangelat, Axuma, Tigray

  1. All we could see on the streets were dead bodies and people crying, On 29 November, Eritrean soldiers shot at anyone who tried to move the bodies of those killed. #TigrayGenocide #AxumMassacre @hrw @UN_HRC @LindaT_G @SecBlinken @UN_HRC @UN @AmnestyEARO https://bit.ly/3DVEAvL Tweet
  2. I asked one soldier, why are you not doing anything, you are Ethiopian, and we are in Ethiopia; you are allowing the Eritreans to do this,” said resident of Axum,#TigrayGenocide #AxumMassacre @hrw @UN_HRC @LindaT_G @SecBlinken @UN_HRC @UN https://bit.ly/3phi2j1 Click To Tweet
  3. I saw a horse cart carrying around 20 bodies to the church, but Eritrean soldiers stopped them and told people to throw them back on the street, #TigrayGenocide #AxumMassacre @hrw @UN_HRC @LindaT_G @SecBlinken @UN_HRC @UN https://bit.ly/3CZn5JQ Click To Tweet
  4. Hundreds were likely killed during a roughly 24-hour period over Nov. 28-29, when Eritrean soldiers carried out house-to-house searches and shot civilians on the street. #TigrayGenocide #AxumMassacre @hrw @UN_HRC @LindaT_G @SecBlinken @UN_HRC @UN https://wapo.st/31iDpYE Click To Tweet
  5. The people at church, everybody was running to go home. Then I started to go home. There were 3 ladies behind me; one of them had a baby with her. Everybody was just running. #TigrayGenocide #AxumMassacre @hrw @UN_HRC @LindaT_G @SecBlinken @UN_HRC @UN https://bit.ly/3paSWSV Click To Tweet
  6. The soldiers went door to door, dragging people from their homes. Mothers were forced to tie up their sons. A pregnant woman was shot, her husband killed. #TigrayGenocide #AxumMassacre @hrw @UN_HRC @LindaT_G https://cnn.it/31f4dcS Click To Tweet
  7. Eritrean armed forces massacred scores of civilians, including children as young as 13, in the historic town of Axum in Ethiopia’s Tigray region in Nov 2020,HRW said today. #TigrayGenocide #AxumMassacre @hrw @UN_HRC @LindaT_G @SecBlinken @UN_HRC @UN https://bit.ly/3IbaE1o Click To Tweet
  8. In the footage below, residents are seen moving the body of one of the more than 700 massacred people. The residents are heard saying 'what a devastation, this has happened to Aksum?!. #TigrayGenocide #AxumMassacre @hrw @UN_HRC @LindaT_G @SecBlinken https://bit.ly/3G1BO8R Click To Tweet

 

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