Today marks a year since the grisly massacre took place in Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church holiest places, #Axum, over a span of 3 days.
*Remember it & mourn the innocent victims killed by #HGDF mercenaries from neighbouring #Eritrea, while Ethiopian soldiers looked from the sides.
*Remember it & mourn the innocent victims killed by #HGDF mercenaries from neighbouring #Eritrea, while Ethiopian soldiers looked from the sides.
Remember it b/c it’s a chapter in the Church’s history that will potentially split መንበረ ተ/ሃይማኖት & መንበረ አክሱም while priests, deacons, theologians & self-anointed gate keepers of the Church in the center kept passionately supporting the war.
https://twitter.com/tsedalelemma/status/1372544315503828994?s=21
Most import’ly, remember it as a dark chapter when the center collectively kept a policy of silence & of denial about a mass murder committed against civilians at the heart of a sacred place, an identity of Ethiopia’s historicised narratives of civilisation & of Christianity.
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