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Mai Kadra Attack Survivor Portrait

MAI KADRA, ETHIOPIA - MARCH 05: One of several survivors who came to Abune Aregawi Church to share experiences of the last November's massacre at Mai Kadra, on March 5, 2021 in Mai Kadra, Ethiopia. According to interviews conducted in recent days with several dozen victims, witnesses and local officials, around 1,300 (now 1600) ethnic Amharas were killed during a series of attacks by the Samri TPLF (Tigray People’s Liberation Front) Youth Group, TPLF militia and local Tigrayan police from November 6 to November 10, 2021. Over the course of four days, Samri youth from several towns in Tigray, in addition to TPLF militia and local police, killed farm workers on farms owned by TPLF-affiliated farmer/investors before moving onto Mai Kadra itself, conducting door-to-door searches for ethnic Amharas. Most victims were slashed or hacked; many victims who survived the initial attacks with bladed weapons were shot to death. The dead were found in the streets, in ditches, in holes dug by TPLF officials and strewn throughout the farmlands where they worked. The violence occurred during a wider conflict between the Ethiopian government and the TPLF that ignited on November 4, 2020, when forces aligned with the TPLF attacked the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) Northern Command headquarters in Mekelle, the capital city of the Tigray region. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

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MAI KADRA, ETHIOPIA - MARCH 05: One of several survivors who came to Abune Aregawi Church to share experiences of the last November's massacre at Mai Kadra, on March 5, 2021 in Mai Kadra, Ethiopia. According to interviews conducted in recent days with several dozen victims, witnesses and local officials, around 1,300 (now 1600) ethnic Amharas were killed during a series of attacks by the Samri TPLF (Tigray People’s Liberation Front) Youth Group, TPLF militia and local Tigrayan police from November 6 to November 10, 2021. Over the course of four days, Samri youth from several towns in Tigray, in addition to TPLF militia and local police, killed farm workers on farms owned by TPLF-affiliated farmer/investors before moving onto Mai Kadra itself, conducting door-to-door searches for ethnic Amharas. Most victims were slashed or hacked; many victims who survived the initial attacks with bladed weapons were shot to death. The dead were found in the streets, in ditches, in holes dug by TPLF officials and strewn throughout the farmlands where they worked. The violence occurred during a wider conflict between the Ethiopian government and the TPLF that ignited on November 4, 2020, when forces aligned with the TPLF attacked the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) Northern Command headquarters in Mekelle, the capital city of the Tigray region. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)
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