'Terrified' survivors recount attacks on civilians in Tigray

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Survivors of the Ethiopian government's attack on the dissident Tigray region speak of soldiers killing civilians during the month-long operation. Jano, a soft-spoken woman in her sixties, tried to escape, running with her eldest son, 46-year-old Miskana, along a dirt road leading out of the village. But on the way, she says, they encountered Ethiopian government soldiers who turned them around, forcing them into a nearby house with two other terrified families. The soldiers made the men including Miskana sit down and, before Jano fully realised what was happening, shot them dead with Kalashnikov rifles.