Guh massacre

rdf:langString Guh massacre

rdf:langString Jason Burke

rdf:langString Guh , Tigray Region, Ethiopia

rdf:langString Location of Guh in Tigray

rdf:langString Eritrean Defence Forces

rdf:langString According to the accounts, the casualties were from three families who had spent the night in their homes before setting out to hide with the men from the village during the day. The scouts came at 8am to the small hamlet, which comprises only a handful of homesteads, and were suspicious of an unusually large store of edible crops, according to the testimony. The foodstuff was the produce of several households that had been gathered for safekeeping. The soldiers accused the villagers of being supporters of the TPLF insurgents and gathered them together in a field near a small river. One shot the two men in the group, aged 45 and 78, then others opened fire on the remainder. There are different reports of the number of attackers. A larger group of Eritrean soldiers who arrived after the shootings reprimanded the scouts responsible for the killings, according to one account. When the male residents of the village returned after some hours in hiding, they found the dead and injured. An infant was among the dead and nine members of one family were killed, a list of the names suggests.

rdf:langString The Guardian

rdf:langString Guh massacre

rdf:langString Ethnic cleansing

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rdf:langString Mass killing

rdf:langString The Guh massacre was a mass extrajudicial killing that took place in (Tigrinya: ጉሕ) in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia during the Tigray War, on 8 May 2021. Guh is a village that belongs to tabiya Debre Selam, woreda Hawzen, Eastern zone of Tigray. It is a small rural settlement on steep slopes below the fifth-century rock-hewn church of Abuna Yemata.