Rights group Amnesty International said Thursday that "scores and probably hundreds" of civilians have been massacred in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region. Witnesses blamed forces of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which rules Tigray, for the bloodshed. They said the TPLF carried out the massacre after Ethiopia's federal government troops defeated them in the Lugdi area.
Tigray's president and TPLF chairman Debretsion Gebremichael denied wrongdoing saying Tigrayan troops were "acting in self-defense." However, Amnesty confirmed that "scores, and likely hundreds, of people, were stabbed or hacked to death in Mai-Kadra (May Cadera) town in the southwest Zone of Ethiopia's Tigray region on the night of 9 November". It claimed it saw "digitally verified gruesome photographs and videos of bodies strewn across the town or being carried away on stretchers"....