Secretary of State Antony Blinken says "acts of ethnic cleansing" are being committed. Some fleeing Tigrayans accuse the Amhara forces that are now in control of rapes, killings and looting - accusations Amhara denies. 28-29 - Eritrean troops kill hundreds of people in the town of Axum, Amnesty International says, describing it as a potential crime against humanity.įebruary-March 2021 - Tens of thousands of civilians move east, deeper into Tigray, as they flee Western Tigray, whose fertile fields are also claimed by Amhara. 28, 2020 - Abiy tells parliament that operations in Tigray are over and soldiers control the Tigrayan capital Mekelle. 14, 2020 - The TPLF fires rockets at two Amhara airports and at the Eritrean capital Asmara, accusing Eritrea of sending soldiers into Tigray. Tens of thousands of Tigrayans begin to flee from Western Tigray into Sudan. Then Tigrayan civilians say they are attacked by Amhara militiamen. First Amhara civilians say they are attacked by Tigrayan militiamen. 9, 2020 - The first of two rounds of ethnic killings begins in the town of Mai Kadra, claiming hundreds of lives. In the subsequent days, Eritrean soldiers and forces from the neighbouring region of Amhara mobilise to reinforce Ethiopian troops.
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