Dawit and Bereket were found in the car the next morning with gunshot wounds to their heads, and were buried later that day, according to Reuters. In a statement, the Ethiopia Human Rights Council, an independent watchdog group, alleged that unspecified government security forces had killed Dawit and Bereket, potentially for violating the region’s dusk-to-dawn curfew. In Tigray TV clips on social media, Dawit can be seen covering Tigray People’s Liberation Front forces’ alleged shooting down of an Ethiopian plane in November. CPJ also called and texted Redwan Hussein, the spokesperson of the federal government’s emergency task force on Tigray, but he did not answer. CPJ emailed Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the prime minister’s office but did not receive any replies.

Source: Ethiopian News January 28, 2021 22:29 UTC