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Clip from @JCSteers & @VICENews on Tigrayan refugees who fled to Hamdayat refugee camp in Sudan.

➡️ Sudanese farmer describes soldiers (Tigrinya speakers) crossing to Sudan.

➡️ Tigrayan refugee (a TPLF conscript) describes how TPLF forced them to fight, gave...
...them arms training & told them they could not leave Tigray. He describes fighting in Humera but eventual being overwhelmed & fleeing into the jungle with special police.

It is noteworthy that Mai-Kadra (May Cadera), the site of the...

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...gruesome massacre of some 1100 noncombatant, non-Tigrayan (predominantly ethnic Amhara) civilians by forces loyal to TPLF (including Tigrayan militias, the "Samri" youth group) is located in the Humera area. This territory was part of a collection of subregions annexed to... Excerpt from the preliminary report from @EthioHRC of NovembExcerpt from the published report from @Amnesty of November Excerpt from the article on Borkena of December 6th, 2020 tiExcerpt from the preliminary report from The Ethiopian Human
...the Tigray region under TPLF from the Amhara region by forceful occupation. Thereafter, the junta committed genocide on thousands of the indigenous Amhara in an effort to resettle ethnic Tigrayans on the fertile land & re-engineer the regional demographics.

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