Clashes in the outskirts of Samre and Bora. TDF claims inflicting 500 ENDF+EDF casualties (dead and wounded) in the battles reported here. Also states that intense ENDF+EDF artillery & airstrikes resulted in civilian casualties
Its claimed on March 5 in Keyih Gobo (Red Mountains) in Samre district, an EDF ambush/offensive against a TDF unit failed with 100+ EDF killed and 30+ wounded
Further claimed that on March 7-8 in Bora Selowa area, an ENDF+EDF offensive was repelled (continued below)
Part 3:
(continued from above)
It said ENDF+EDF used artillery, heavy weapons & airstrikes and then entered the town of Bora to attack civilians again but were repelled. The casualties of this battle were 300 ENDF+EDF killed and wounded. Small and heavy weapons were captured
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The reporter then reminds the audience of the Bora-Selewa massacre (which was reported alongside the Debre Abay massacre) by TGHAT in which an estimated 150 people were said to have been killed by ENDF+EDF troops in early January 2021.
Google earth has finally updated its satellite imagery for western Tigray and it’s really bad. Satellite imagery shows that many settlements have been razed to the ground, some repeatedly being burned. This will be a thread covering those burnings. H/t @FijianArmadillo
I’m going to be going through these as I find them. Which is a lot. Virtually every settlement I have found has been affected in some form. Will be starting with what @FijianArmadillo found first. I’ll transition to just screenshots after.
The first location is 13.829500711851056, 36.5104337794971. This village along the road was largely razed to the ground by November 22.
Before After
As war goes on in Ethiopia, ethnic harassment Is on the rise. Ethnic Tigray people all over the country report an increase in discrimination and abuse from the authorities
On a bright day in mid-November, about a dozen police officers with machine guns barged into the home of Lisanewerk Desta, a theologian who is the head of the library and museum department at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and got to work.
The men, who had no warrant, Mr. Lisanewerk said, poured dried goods from his kitchen onto the floor, emptied his clothes drawers and even looked inside his clay coffee pot, seemingly searching for something to incriminate him.
An article by Jan Nyssen, a Belgian physical geographer, and professor of geography at Ghent University, on the ongoing war and its impact on civilian life in Tigray
"Ever since I started research in Tigray in 1994, the fight against famine has been a major priority. With academic colleagues, we tried to assist through studies and projects for environmental conservation. But now, it feels as though we are back to square one" he says
From February to May 2021, more than half of Tigray’s territory is expected to suffer “Emergency” outcomes by the U.S.’s Famine Early Warning System Network—the last stage before “Famine.
An article from the Telegraph on the Debre Abay massacre. As most of you are aware, the article contains disturbing material (mentions of violence, etc)
Chatting as they wander through the aftermath of what appears to be a mass execution of civilians in the Tigray region, soldiers laugh and joke among themselves.
Off to one side they spot a young man who seems to have survived by pretending to be dead.
“You should have finished off the survivors,” the cameraman says in Amharic, Ethiopia’s lingua franca
Around 40 bodies in civilian clothes can be seen in the four-minute clip.
Disturbing video from Adwa shows summary executions of two men in civilian clothing. The first video records gunfire and shows dirt kicked up from behind a wall while civilians and armed men in Ethiopian uniform look on.
The second clip shows armed men in Ethiopian uniform forcing civilians to move the bodies away from the main road. Threatening them and instructing them to drop the bodies and return when they deem the dead men are far enough off the road.
The third clip shows the civilians walking away and the executed men laying in the dirt. The soldiers huddle around a man who seems to be patching a wound. At the end of the video, one of the civilians is called back to the group of soldiers.