No one knows the number of dead in Ethiopia’s year-long war. But one man has confirmed the deaths of more than 3,000 Tigrayans, the target of much of the violence.http://apne.ws/gfo315G
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On the other side, a diaspora group has confirmed close to 2,000 Amhara killed. Experts call these a small fraction of the toll. Here are some of the victims’ stories.http://apne.ws/4cOhWTz
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Victim Number 1,599: Zeray Asfaw He was pulled from his own wedding party in the Tigray region and shot dead by soldiers, along with the best man and the father of the bride. “They killed all the men. They specifically killed all the men,” a friend says. http://apne.ws/Y4j3YBm pic.twitter.com/nFu6KIMViJ
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Victim Number 2,915: Amdekiros Aregawi Gebru He was shot by soldiers while taking a woman in labor to a hospital in the Tigray region. He got her there, then bled to death. “He tried to explain the situation, but they are very cruel,” his brother says. http://apne.ws/QYbAOzZ pic.twitter.com/vYogQE5B6z
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Victim Number 190: Mulu Gebremedhin He was shot by soldiers in Axum in the Tigray region, one of hundreds killed in the war's deadliest known massacre. “They killed him in front of his house,” his brother says. “His son saw it.” The boy was 8. http://apne.ws/Oji0rnl pic.twitter.com/y8MA0gCcew
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Amhara victim: Alemu Kassaw His wife says Tigray fighters killed him when he was trying to flee their community of Kobo in July. She had fled earlier and a relative told her of his death. “I thought he had escaped,” she says. The couple had four children.http://apne.ws/yFBSxwh
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Victim Number 348: Berhe Akelom He was shot dead in the earliest days of the war by soldiers who pounded on his door and demanded he come out. He was a lawyer and an “excellent person,” a colleague says. “He was my best friend.”http://apne.ws/m3VKnf8
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