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    Massacre ‘of 750’ reported in Aksum church complex, Tigray, Ethiopia

    Massacre ‘of 750’ reported in Aksum church complex, Tigray, Ethiopia

    Interesting. That church, the Church of St. Mary of Zion is on the short list of places where the Ark of the Covenant is being kept.

    REPORTS of a massacre of 750 people in the cathedral complex that reputedly houses the Ark of the Covenant have emerged from the Tigray region of Ethiopia.

    Accounts have come from those who fled the town of Aksum and walked more than 200km to the regional capital, Mekelle.


    The massacre was first reported in dispatches from the Belgium-based NGO European External Programme with Africa (EEPA). The area is sealed off to journalists, but many reports of massacres have nevertheless emerged, some of which have been documented by Amnesty International.


    The former BBC World Service Africa editor and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Martin Plaut, said that those who escaped the Aksum massacre had reported that the attack began after Ethiopian federal troops and Amhara militia approached the Church of St Mary of Zion.


    Up to 1000 people were believed to be sheltering in the church complex. One of the chapels, the Chapel of the Tablet, is believed by Ethiopian Christians to contain the Ark of the Covenant, which is hidden from the view of everyone, apart from a single priest who never leaves the compound.


    Mr Plaut said: “People were worried about the safety of the Ark, and when they heard troops were approaching feared they had come to steal it. All those inside the cathedral were forced out into the square.”


    EEPA’s latest dispatch on the situation in Tigray, on Tuesday, reports that 750 people were shot in Aksum, although this has not been verified. It says that the massacre was carried out by Ethiopian federal troops and Amhara militia.


    The Church is not thought to have been damaged, and Mr Plaut said that the Ark is likely to have been hidden before troops arrived, although it has not been possible to confirm this.
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    Interesting. That church, the Church of St. Mary of Zion is on the short list of places where the Ark of the Covenant is being kept.
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    Church Massacre, Food Shortages Reported as Ethiopian Civil War Continues to Rage In Tigray Region

    The Horn of Africa continues to be enflamed by violence amid a military crisis in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

    For the past two and a half months, war has breached the relative disquiet of Ethiopia, rousing instability throughout several nations in Africa’s northeast. United Nations officials estimate the fighting has forced 2.2 million people to flee their homes.

    Civilians continue to either be recruited by warring factions or targeted with violence. Unconfirmed reports of armed conflict, mass killings, artillery strikes, unsanctioned executions, widespread looting and other human rights violations continue to trickle out of Tigray from refugees who manage to escape the war-torn region.

    There have also been reports of ethnic cleansing, including recent news that hundreds of people were gunned down outside a church.

    Tigray has been a war zone since Nov. 4. Troops from Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the region’s ruling political party, stormed and seized control of the Northern Command, a federal army base in the regional capital Mekelle.

    Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed called it a crossing of “the last red line” and ordered a military offensive. Since then, the Ethiopian National Defense Force has been battling an uprising from Tigray’s “junta” rebel forces.

    Abiy declared victory on Nov. 28, telling the world his army had regained “full command” of Mekelle and the final phase of his military operation was complete.

    But humanitarian workers say the fighting continues and hundreds of thousands have yet to receive assistance because aid efforts are still constrained. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the U.N’s refugee agency, estimates children make up nearly a third of those seeking asylum from Tigray.

    “Refugees are arriving with little more than the clothes on their backs, fatigued and in weak conditions,” UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic said in a statement last week.

    Church Massacre, Food Shortages Reported as Ethiopian Civil War Continues to Rage In Tigray Region (atlantablackstar.com)

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