As I explained yesterday, documenting atrocities in Ethiopia's war in Amhara is extremely complex, because journalists are banned from any sort of critical reporting, and the war torn areas where atrocities take place are often cut off from the outside world, with the government cutting off communications to conceal its abuses. As such, news of this specific atrocity, which took place in February 2024, took a few days to emerge.
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The drone massacre took place on February 19th. A few days later, the Ethiopian military, confident that none of the survivors were able to communicate with the outside world, issued a statement claiming that its forces carried out an operation that captured and killed "many" rebel forces.
But days later, news reports based on eyewitness testimony began to emerge. The BBC and Reuters were among those who published initial reports, citing eyewitness accounts.