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Eritrean refugees become target as old enemies join forces in chaos of Tigray conflict
Witnesses have begun to give accounts of the toll on civilians and the pervasive presence of Eritrean soldiers in the northern Ethiopian region, write Declan Walsh and Simon Marks
Saturday 02 January 2021 13:28
As fighting raged across the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia in November, a group of soldiers arrived one day at Hitsats, a small hamlet ringed by scrubby hills that was home to a sprawling refugee camp of about 25,000 people.
The refugees had come from Eritrea, whose border lies 30 miles away, part of a vast exodus in recent years led by desperate youth fleeing the tyrannical rule of their leader, one of Africa’s harshest autocrats. In Ethiopia, Eritrea’s longtime adversary, they believed they were safe.
But the soldiers who burst into the camp on 19 November were also Eritrean, witnesses say. Mayhem quickly followed – days of plunder, punishment and bloodshed that ended with dozens of refugees being singled out and forced back across the border into Eritrea.
he chaos deepened in the days that followed, when Eritrean soldiers looted aid supplies, stole vehicles and set fire to fields filled with crops and a nearby forested area used by refugees to collect wood, aid workers said. The camp’s main water tank was riddled with gunfire and emptied.
Their accounts are supported by satellite images, obtained and analysed by The New York Times, that show large patches of newly scorched earth in and around the Hitsats camp after the Eritrean forces swept through.
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Re: The reason why Ethiopia is closing Shimbela and Hitsats refugee camps for Eritreans in Tigray (The Independent)
Ya ya DIRTY TIGRYANS. No more income coming. The comp is moved to GONDER and it is time for good people of GONDER to take advantage. Agames are cut successfully!!!
Re: The reason why Ethiopia is closing Shimbela and Hitsats refugee camps for Eritreans in Tigray (The Independent)
Hitsats Massacre (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
The Hitsats massacre was a massacre at Hitsats refugee camp on or around 19 November 2020 during the Tigray War.[1] The civilians killed were 300 Eritrean refugees, according to Europe External Programme with Africa (EEPA),[2] and five humanitarian workers, according to The New York Times,[1] Associated Press,[3] and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.[4]
Massacre
Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) and Eritrean Defence Force (EDF) soldiers arrived in Hitsats refugee camp on 19 November 2020. According to The New York Times (NYT), 40 people were killed in the initial battle between the EDF and local Tigrayan militias, including four civilians.[1]
Civilian deaths
Eritrean refugees
According to a 10 January 2021 Europe External Programme with Africa (EEPA) report, Ethiopian TV stated that 300 Hitsats refugees had been extrajudicially executed by the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). An anonymous source quoted by EEPA disagreed, attributing the executions to the EDF, stating, "Eritrean forces massively killed their own citizens in Hitsats refugee camp to punish them for leaving Eritrea escaping their shoot to kill policy.[2]
Refugees interviewed by Agence France Presse (AFP) stated that pro-TPLF forces used Hitsats as a base for several weeks in November 2020, killing several refugees who wanted to leave the camp to get food, and in one incident, killed nine young Eritrean men in revenge for having lost a battle against the EDF.[5]
Humanitarian workers
The four civilians killed in the initial battle, according to the NYT and Associated Press, were one Ethiopian employee of the International Rescue Committee and three Ethiopian civilian guards employed by the Danish Refugee Council.[1][3]
A fifth refugee worker, a 52-year old employed by the Dutch non-governmental organisation ZOA International [nl], was reported in late December 2020 to have been killed at Hitsats refugee camp.[3]
In early January 2021, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) called for "the unrestricted and safe passage of humanitarian personnel and supplies to all parts of Tigray Region".[4]
Property destruction
Satellite images supported refugees' reports of Eritrean soldiers burning fields and forests.[1] Analyses of satellite images by Planet Labs Inc and DX Open Network showed that on 5 January 2021, there were "at least 14 actively burning structures and 55 others [had been] damaged or destroyed", and that on 8 January there were new fires.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitsats_massacre
The Hitsats massacre was a massacre at Hitsats refugee camp on or around 19 November 2020 during the Tigray War.[1] The civilians killed were 300 Eritrean refugees, according to Europe External Programme with Africa (EEPA),[2] and five humanitarian workers, according to The New York Times,[1] Associated Press,[3] and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.[4]
Massacre
Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) and Eritrean Defence Force (EDF) soldiers arrived in Hitsats refugee camp on 19 November 2020. According to The New York Times (NYT), 40 people were killed in the initial battle between the EDF and local Tigrayan militias, including four civilians.[1]
Civilian deaths
Eritrean refugees
According to a 10 January 2021 Europe External Programme with Africa (EEPA) report, Ethiopian TV stated that 300 Hitsats refugees had been extrajudicially executed by the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). An anonymous source quoted by EEPA disagreed, attributing the executions to the EDF, stating, "Eritrean forces massively killed their own citizens in Hitsats refugee camp to punish them for leaving Eritrea escaping their shoot to kill policy.[2]
Refugees interviewed by Agence France Presse (AFP) stated that pro-TPLF forces used Hitsats as a base for several weeks in November 2020, killing several refugees who wanted to leave the camp to get food, and in one incident, killed nine young Eritrean men in revenge for having lost a battle against the EDF.[5]
Humanitarian workers
The four civilians killed in the initial battle, according to the NYT and Associated Press, were one Ethiopian employee of the International Rescue Committee and three Ethiopian civilian guards employed by the Danish Refugee Council.[1][3]
A fifth refugee worker, a 52-year old employed by the Dutch non-governmental organisation ZOA International [nl], was reported in late December 2020 to have been killed at Hitsats refugee camp.[3]
In early January 2021, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) called for "the unrestricted and safe passage of humanitarian personnel and supplies to all parts of Tigray Region".[4]
Property destruction
Satellite images supported refugees' reports of Eritrean soldiers burning fields and forests.[1] Analyses of satellite images by Planet Labs Inc and DX Open Network showed that on 5 January 2021, there were "at least 14 actively burning structures and 55 others [had been] damaged or destroyed", and that on 8 January there were new fires.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitsats_massacre
Re: The reason why Ethiopia is closing Shimbela and Hitsats refugee camps for Eritreans in Tigray (The Independent)
Zmeslo the number one HGDEF blind follower:
Migration has two factors
PUSH and PULL
PUSH:
Indefinite national service
Lack of economic opportunity
Lack of freedom of assembly
Lack of freedom of religion
Lack of educational opportunity
Injustice everywhere
Ask yourself: If Eritrea opens refugee camps 50 KM from boarder. will the neighbors flock there in mass to the point of depletion? No!
Stop consuming propaganda, use the brain God gave you just like he gave your rulers brains. You are as good as them if you exercise FREE WILL.
Migration has two factors
PUSH and PULL
PUSH:
Indefinite national service
Lack of economic opportunity
Lack of freedom of assembly
Lack of freedom of religion
Lack of educational opportunity
Injustice everywhere
Ask yourself: If Eritrea opens refugee camps 50 KM from boarder. will the neighbors flock there in mass to the point of depletion? No!
Stop consuming propaganda, use the brain God gave you just like he gave your rulers brains. You are as good as them if you exercise FREE WILL.
Re: The reason why Ethiopia is closing Shimbela and Hitsats refugee camps for Eritreans in Tigray (The Independent)
Eden the gahba agame hoe the whole filthy tegarus would have migrated to Eritrea if Biden tells them that they will be going abroad to the west only if they left their baren land and go to Eritrea.
You must be an idiot that you believe dirty and poor tigray will give any employment opportunities let alone to Eritreans but even to it's own filthy tegarus.
Stop lying that you are educating them either.
You claim that there are 200 thousand Erit refugees in the camps not in higher institutes.
You are trading with their name. You were sending your agames abroad stealing Eritrean identities, you were feeding your dumb a*ss agames including your sherm*uta mom on the funds you beg on their behalf.
Godemet, now you have more thieves tegarus than Eritreans, all over the world. In the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, the Sudan, Yemen and Saudi. Why did the leave the rich tigray, unless they were stealing Eritrean identities.
Don't worry we will get them sooner or later and we will make sure they be deported to the country they claim they are from.
Oh how sweet that going to be.
You must be an idiot that you believe dirty and poor tigray will give any employment opportunities let alone to Eritreans but even to it's own filthy tegarus.
Stop lying that you are educating them either.
You claim that there are 200 thousand Erit refugees in the camps not in higher institutes.
You are trading with their name. You were sending your agames abroad stealing Eritrean identities, you were feeding your dumb a*ss agames including your sherm*uta mom on the funds you beg on their behalf.
Godemet, now you have more thieves tegarus than Eritreans, all over the world. In the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, the Sudan, Yemen and Saudi. Why did the leave the rich tigray, unless they were stealing Eritrean identities.
Don't worry we will get them sooner or later and we will make sure they be deported to the country they claim they are from.
Oh how sweet that going to be.