2020 Shire massacre
Coordinates: 14°06′00″N 38°17′00″E / 14.1°N 38.28333°E
| 2020 Shire massacre | |
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| Part of Tigray War | |
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| Target | Tigrayans |
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| Deaths | 200 civilians |
| Perpetrators |  Eritrean Defence Forces |
The Shire massacre was a mass extrajudicial killing that took place in Shire Inda Selassie (Tigrinya: ሽረ) in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia during the Tigray War, on 15-17 November 2020.[1] Shire is the capital city of the Northwestern zone of Tigray.
Massacre[edit]
Soldiers of the Eritrean Defence Forces killed 200 civilians in Shire (Northwestern Tigray) on 17 November 2020.[1] Days later, Ethiopian state television broadcast a fiery exchange between civilians in Shire, and Ethiopian soldiers, who had recently arrived in the area. The Tigrayan elders spoke in vivid detail of the horrors that had befallen the town since the outbreak of war. Residents had been slaughtered like chicken by Eritrean troops, the elders said, their corpses abandoned to be “eaten by hyenas”. They also spoke of rampant looting and vandalism: “All government assets have been destroyed and looted.” [2] Typical massacres committed by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers in the Tigray war are (1) revenge when they lose a battle; (2) to terrorise and extract information about whereabouts of TPLF leaders; (3) murder of suspected family members of TDF fighters and (4) terrorising the Tigray society as a whole such as in case of mass killings in churches.[3] The Shire massacre essentially falls in the last category.
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Perpetrators[edit]
Local elders and “The Guardian” interpreted the identity of the perpetrators as Eritrean soldiers.[2]
Reactions[edit]
The massacre was reported in detail on Ethiopian television and in “The Guardian”. [2] The “Tigray: Atlas of the humanitarian situation”,[1] that documented this massacre received international media attention, particularly with regard its Annex A, that lists the massacres.[3][4][5][6]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Annys, S., Vanden Bempt, T., Negash, E., De Sloover, L., Nyssen, J., 2021. Tigray: Atlas of the humanitarian situation
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Guardian, 21 December 2020. 'Slaughtered like chickens': Eritrea heavily involved in Tigray conflict, say eyewitnesses
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The World radio (2 April 2021): Counting the victims in Tigray
- ↑ EuroNews, 2 April 2021 – See film embedded in the news item: G7 'seriously concerned' about human rights violations in Ethiopia's Tigray region
- ↑ CBC, 2 April 2021: As It Happens: The Friday Edition (from 28:00 to 35:30) Tigray, Ethiopia Massacre
- ↑ The Guardian, 2 April 2021: Ethiopia: 1,900 people killed in massacres in Tigray identified
External links[edit]
- Twitter: author @tvbempt; hashtags #NeverForget #SayTheirNames #Shire
- World Peace Foundation: Starving Tigray
- Tigray: Atlas of the humanitarian situation
- TGHAT: A compilation of the verified list of civilian victims from different sources
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