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'You should have finished off the survivors': Ethiopian army implicated in brutal war crime video (The Telegraph)

Post by sarcasm » 19 Feb 2021, 13:23

Cameraman tells soldiers to 'finish off survivors' in exclusive video seen by Telegraph that appears to be evidence of slaughtered civilians

The ground of the Tigrayan village is soaked with blood and dozens of bodies lie strewn in the grass.

Groans can be heard from a seriously wounded man squirming on the floor between two corpses.

Chatting as they wander through the aftermath of what appears to be a mass execution of civilians in the Tigray region, soldiers laugh and joke among themselves.

Off to one side they spot a young man who seems to have survived by pretending to be dead.

“You should have finished off the survivors,” the cameraman says in Amharic, Ethiopia’s lingua franca, in an apparent rebuke of the perpetrators of the massacre.

These are scenes from a video clip obtained exclusively by The Telegraph showing the first evidence of what appears to be a war crime carried out by the Ethiopian army. Around 40 bodies in civilian clothes can be seen in the four-minute clip.


Ethiopian and Eritrean forces have for months been battling troops loyal to the former Tigrayan regional government in a war that has left thousands dead and millions on the brink of starvation.

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Re: 'You should have finished off the survivors': Ethiopian army implicated in brutal war crime video (The Telegraph)

Post by sesame » 19 Feb 2021, 13:40

You know they are lying when they say
Cameraman tells soldiers to 'finish off survivors' in exclusive video seen by Telegraph that appears to be evidence of slaughtered civilians

How can a video appear to be showing anything? It either shows it or doesn't.

Ethiopians, this is what we had to deal with all these years, a fake Western media that works for the globalists who want to keep Africans down. They realize that with the TPLF decimated, Ethiopia has a chance to be a great nation and they don't like that. They would rather have Ethiopia dependent and servile. Tell them to [deleted] themselves.

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