NAIROBI (Reuters) - Ethiopia's state-appointed human rights commission said on Tuesday that a Tigrayan youth group stabbed, strangled, and bludgeoned to death an estimated 600 civilians with the collusion of local security forces during a mass killing in the town of Mai Kadra.
The Nov. 9 attack - first reported by rights group Amnesty International - was aimed at residents of non-Tigrayan origin, the commission said. It called the attack a "massacre," saying accounts from survivors and witnesses suggested that the killings were part of a "widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population."