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🔴Forces occupying Humera, Ethiopia are throwing thousands of people into makeshift "concentration camps".

Sources say after a series of victories by Tigrayan Defence Forces, the occupying forces in Humera started to purge ethnic Tigrayans

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Ethnic Amhara forces have been going "door-to-door" to round up ethnic Tigrayans in the latest harrowing evidence of population cleansing in Ethiopia's blood-drenched civil war.

Witnesses told @Telegraph of forces cutting off limbs and dumping mutilated bodies into mass graves

🔴"They took her to Tekeze river and shot her," said one resident, who knew a victim well.

"Before they killed her, they removed her eyes and cut off her legs. They did not let anyone pick her body up and bury her"

Humera is a city of 50,000 near Ethiopia's border with Eritrea and Sudan.

Because of its strategic location, it was one of the first places to be attacked when Ethiopia's PM Abiy Ahmed and Eritrea's dictator launched a devastating pincer attack to crush Tigray's government

@Telegraph understands that on 15 July, Amhara forces held a public meeting in Humera to decide the fate of Tigrayans.

"They said this; 'We should exterminate all Tigrayan residents in the city. We must cleanse them all," said one man who claims he attended the meeting

"If it is written in your identity card that you are Tigrayan, there is no mercy," one man said.

At the beginning of August, 43 bodies were found floating down the Tekeze River, which separates the region from Sudan.

@Telegraph understands that these were victims of the purge

The elderly, children and pregnant have been taken to several detention centres and warehouses across the city, which have been turned into makeshift "concentration camps", survivors said.

@Telegraph could not confirm these accounts due to major reporting restrictions in Tigray

One man @Telegraph spoke to claimed that he had escaped from a centre by convincing militiamen he was not fully ethnic Tigrayan.

"We were 250 detainees. The Amhara forces take detainees every night... The ones they take never come back"
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Witnesses say people were being killed and dumped in pits around the warehouses and in craters outside the city.

Satellite imagery partially corroborates the sources - showing a pit outside one of the warehouses, which has been gradually filled since mid-July

The state president for Ethiopia's Amhara region Agegnuh Teshager and the Ethiopian Prime Minister's Office were both approached for comment on The Telegraph's findings bit neither responded.

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