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Mai Kadra Attack Survivor Adase Mezgebu Speaks

MAI KADRA, ETHIOPIA - MARCH 05: Adase Mezgebu, a resident of Mai Kadra, recounts last November's attacks in Mai Kadra when speaking to a journalist on March 5, 2021 in Mai Kadra, Ethiopia. Tirfe recounts losing her husband, Galege Mengistu, during the attacks on November 9, 2021: "While we were coming home we were attacked by a group of youth. My husband was beaten to the ground with sticks then once on the ground stabbed in the back with knives. I tried to defend my husband and the attackers even threatened my daughter, telling her not to shout. They repeatedly said to him 'We don't care Amhara we are going to kill you.' According to interviews conducted in recent days with several dozen victims, witnesses and local officials, around 1,300 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, 2020. 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: Adase Mezgebu, a resident of Mai Kadra, recounts last November's attacks in Mai Kadra when speaking to a journalist on March 5, 2021 in Mai Kadra, Ethiopia. Tirfe recounts losing her husband, Galege Mengistu, during the attacks on November 9, 2021: "While we were coming home we were attacked by a group of youth. My husband was beaten to the ground with sticks then once on the ground stabbed in the back with knives. I tried to defend my husband and the attackers even threatened my daughter, telling her not to shout. They repeatedly said to him 'We don't care Amhara we are going to kill you.' According to interviews conducted in recent days with several dozen victims, witnesses and local officials, around 1,300 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, 2020. 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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