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The February 2021 Kola Tembien massacre was a mass extrajudicial killing that took place in Kola Tembien (Tigrinya: ቆላ ተምቤን) in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia during the Tigray War, on 10 February 2021. [1] [2] Kola Tembien is a district that belongs to the Central zone of Tigray.
The Tigray war erupted in November 2020 following a dispute between the Ethiopian federal government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the ruling party of the Tigray Region, over the region's autonomy. The conflict resulted in thousands of deaths and a humanitarian crisis.
The Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) killed dozens of civilians in Mahbere Dego (Central Tigray). Videos of the massacres are not time stamped; the massacres are believed to have started on 15 January 2021 [2] and continued for several days. [1] The massacres occurred in a similar way as many massacres in the Tigray War.
The Tigray war [b] was an armed conflict that lasted from 3 November 2020 [a] to 3 November 2022. [45] [46] It was a civil war [47] that was primarily fought in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia between forces allied to the Ethiopian federal government and Eritrea on one side, and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) on the other. [48] [49]
The “Tigray: Atlas of the humanitarian situation” mentions 20 victims, [1] 19 of which have been identified. [7] [3]Early January 2021, based on travellers' accounts, Jan Nyssen mentioned that around 1–14 December, 13 boys from Tokot village near Idaga Hamus, aged 12–15, were forced to help EDF soldiers in loading a truck and were then executed. [8]
The Eritrean Defence Forces (EDF) killed 19 civilians in Guh (Eastern Tigray) on 8 May 2021. [1] Most of the victims in the attack were women and young children. According to the accounts, the casualties were from three families who had spent the night in their homes before setting out to hide with the men from the village during the day.
During the Tigray War, the town of Wukro was damaged heavily, and was the scene of numerous killings and massacres committed by the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) and Eritrean Defence Forces (EDF). It was bombed in mid-November 2020, then shelled by artillery fire a few weeks later, resulting in heavy destruction of property and ...
As of 2 February 2021, the highest estimate of civilian deaths in the Tigray War is that given by three of the opposition parties from the 2020 Tigray regional election: National Congress of Great Tigray, Tigray Independence Party, and Salsay Woyane Tigray, which were allocated 15 seats in September 2020, prior to the war. [127]