The death toll in the massacre in Ethiopia reaches at least 600 people. This is evidenced by data from the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC), published in Twitter . P >
EHRC suggests that even more civilians may have died: some people are missing, someone hid outside the city. The commission carried out the calculations after visiting the city of Mai-Kadru in the Tigray region and several other Ethiopian cities.
According to human rights activists, the massacre was staged by the Samri group with the support of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray (NFOT), which is seeking independence for the region. Together with the rebels and police, the NPF allegedly carried out raids, as a result of which hundreds of people were killed for their origin. Survivors also said that some people who were not affected by the massacre helped the victims hide and sheltered them in their homes, churches and fields.
The conflict between government forces and the NFOT entered a military phase on November 3 – the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali . At the same time, it is known that the armed formations of the NFOT significantly outnumber the government forces.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray was an insurrectionary movement for many years, after which it turned into a political party. On September 9, 2020, the Tygrai administration held elections in the region without the permission of the central government, which declared the vote illegal.