Supervisor Elham AbolFateh
Editor in Chief Mohamed Wadie

Doctors Without Borders: Ethiopian Troopers Killed Civilians in Tigray


Thu 25 Mar 2021 | 02:18 PM
Ahmed Moamar

"Doctors without Borders “( in French: Médecins Sans Frontières) an international charity organization issued a statement today, Thursday says that a number of its staff deployed to Tigray, a dissent province in the north of Ethiopia, witnessed a detachment of the Ethiopian armed forces as they killed four civilians in the province.

The statement revealed that the employees of the organization saw last Tuesday the bodies of the murdered civilians who seemed that they were killed in an ambush of  Ethiopian soldiers.

After hours of the ambush, vehicles of the victims were still caught fire.

The statement added the Ethiopians afterward stopped the organization’s car and two other vans chanced to follow it.

The soldiers forced men to dismount and seclude them from women boarding the vans.

They let women travel alone then shoot dead the detained wretched men.

Bodies of the dead scattered on the sides of the road.

The Ethiopian soldiers dragged the driver of the organization out of the car and hit him harshly with buts of their rifles and threatened to kill him then let him come back to Mekele, the local capital of Tigray.

0n the other hand, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abe Ahmed Ali unveiled this week that hideous crimes such as rape were committed during clashes with local units affiliated with the  Tigrayan Liberation Front which led   the separatist attempt in the province in 2020.

Abe Ahmed pledged to make the criminals face the music for misdeeds and bring them to justice.

It is worth noting that confrontations in Tigray between the Ethiopian army and the local rebels forced hundreds of thousands of the locals to flee to Sudan.

The Ethiopian Premier went on to say that Eritrean forces crossed the borders to Tigray to support the Ethiopian army to suppress the rebels before five months.

He claimed that the Eritreans were panic by attacks launched by the Tigrayan.

They pledged to withdraw when the Ethiopian forces terminate the rebellion in Tigray.