Posted on 01/16/2021 11:07:15 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
REPORTS of a massacre of 750 people in the cathedral complex that reputedly houses the Ark of the Covenant have emerged from the Tigray region of Ethiopia.
Accounts have come from those who fled the town of Aksum and walked more than 200km to the regional capital, Mekelle.
The massacre was first reported in dispatches from the Belgium-based NGO European External Programme with Africa (EEPA). The area is sealed off to journalists, but many reports of massacres have nevertheless emerged, some of which have been documented by Amnesty International.
The former BBC World Service Africa editor and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Martin Plaut, said that those who escaped the Aksum massacre had reported that the attack began after Ethiopian federal troops and Amhara militia approached the Church of St Mary of Zion.
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“The area is sealed off to journalists...”
So CNN can enter?
CNN passed.
Fascinating place, very ancient. The locals believe the Ark of the Covenant is inside. A single man is appointed to guard it, night and day, and no-one is allowed in the room where it’s kept.
This is what democrats ultimately want to do to us.
JoMa
A very bad idea to fool with GODS holy radio. Ask any Philestine
This is part of an ethnic civil war going on in Ethiopia, Tigray attempting to secede.
It is not related to religion (both sides are predominately Christian) - some Tigrayans tried to take sanctuary in a church, and were apparently taken out and killed anyway.
I’m sure our left wing Black “leaders” will be right on this.[/sarcasm]
Says it all about our so-called news media that this barely gets any mention.
It’s like living in the Soviet Union, you have to get your news from foreign sources.
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