Three years ago today in the Welkait region of Ethiopia the slaughter began. As forces of the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front attacked 5 military bases of the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) Northern Command and over 100 soft targets as part of a coup attempt against the Ethiopian Government, a youth militia known as the Samri from the Tigray region began murdering ethnic Amhara day laborers on the farms on the outskirts of the town of Mai Kadra. The slaughter began in the early days of the week of the first week of November and continued until the 10th of November. It is crucial that the world not only be made aware and be educated about this but that justice is sought for the survivors and families of those murdered. Let us honor the memory of those who had their lives violently and brutally snuffed out solely because of the ethnicity they were born into. MAI KADRA, ETHIOPIA - MARCH 05, 2021: A road sign at the entrance to town on March 5, 2021 in Mai Kadra, Ethiopia. According to interviews conducted in recent days with several dozen victims, witnesses and local officials, around 1,300 (at the time but the figure has since been updated to 1600) ethnic Amharas were killed during a series of attacks by the Samri TPLF (Tigray People’s Liberation Front) Youth Group, TPLF militia and local Tigrayan police from November 6 to November 10, 2020. Over the course of four days, Samri youth from several towns in Tigray, in addition to TPLF militia and local police, killed farm workers on farms owned by TPLF-affiliated farmer/investors before moving onto Mai Kadra itself, conducting door-to-door searches for ethnic Amharas. Most victims were slashed or hacked; many victims who survived the initial attacks with bladed weapons were shot to death. The violence occurred during a wider conflict between the Ethiopian government and the TPLF that ignited on November 3, 2020, when forces of the TPLF attacked the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) Northern Command headquarters in Mekelle and 4 other bases in the region. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

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