‘ Horrible’: Witnesses recall massacre in Ethiopian holy cityNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Bodies with gunshot wounds lay in the streets for days in Ethiopia’s holiest city. But they were forbidden from burying their dead by the invading Eritrean soldiers. Eritrean and Ethiopian soldiers had arrived in Axum more than a week earlier, with heavy bombardment. “We buried them en masse” in graves near the Zion church and others. He said he ferried bodies to a mass grave by the Zion church and estimated that he saw 300 to 400 there.

Source: Ethiopian News February 18, 2021 07:07 UTC