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Nairobi, Kenya (AP) —A bombing in the embarrassed Tigray region of Ethiopia has killed at least 56 people in refugee camps, a Tigray army spokesman said Saturday.
“Another unmanned drone attack,” tweeted Getachew Reda, the latest victim of a recent airstrike allegedly fleeing conflict elsewhere in the region and killing dozens of people in Tigray. Said that it became.
A spokesperson for the Ethiopian government and the military did not respond to requests for comment on the airstrikes, but it could not be confirmed independently. Many of the Tigray remain isolated from the world, and contact with humanitarian workers who find that months of government blockades severely limit their work is limited.
The report of the air bombing at a camp in David, northwestern Tigray, came the day after Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed issued a message of a 14-month postwar Orthodox Christmas reconciliation.
The Ethiopian conflict moved into late December, when Tigre troops fighting the Ethiopian government approached the capital Addis Ababa and then withdrew into the Tigre region. Drone-backed military attacks pushed them back.
The United Nations humanitarian agency said at the end of last month, between December 19th and 24th, “Airstrikes on Tigray have resulted in large-scale civilian causality, including dozens of casualties, reported since October. The most violent series of air raids and casualties that have been done. ” It said most attacks and casualties were reported in towns in southern Tigray.
The United Nations Refugee Department reported Thursday that three Eritrean refugees were killed in an airstrike at Maiaini camp the day before, two of whom were children.
The Ethiopian government announced an amnesty on Friday to some of the country’s most prominent political detainees, including senior Tigray party officials. The Ethiopian Ministry of Justice said the amnesty was given “to make future domestic dialogues successful and comprehensive.”
Ethiopian lawmakers last month approved a bill to establish a committee for domestic dialogue amid international pressure on negotiations to end the war.
It is estimated that tens of thousands of people were killed in the war that broke out between the Ethiopian army and the Tigre army, which once led the country, in November 2020.
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