Axum massacre neither occurred nor substantiated- USAID investigation confirms no victim or burial place

The intensified efforts that the Ethiopian government has been exerting to counter the defunct-TPLF associates disinformation campaigns and what the government described it as “their habitual lies” seems to have persuaded the latter to absurdity.

One of the sympathizers of the crushed faction, Deputy Africa Director at Human Rights Watch Ida Sawyer, recently twitted that ‘hyenas had eaten the corpses’ on May Quho, Tigray State with a view to justifying why they had not shown a single body or burial place from the alleged ‘Axum massacre.’

It was recalled that USAID’s investigation team recently deployed in Axum town could neither find a single burial place nor meet with relatives of the ‘dead people,’ one of the TPLF affiliated media said last Thursday.

The investigation team led by Asmelash (PhD) met with the deputy administrator of Axum’s St. Mary of Zion Church following Amnesty International’s massacre on the alleged incident in Axum.

According to him, the church representatives failed to show the burial grounds of the ‘victims’ to the investigation team claiming that they buried the bodies in different places and at churches of Axum. The investigators desire to meet families of the ‘dead’ was also unfulfilled.

Illogically, Sawyer still stated that she has an eyewitness whom claimed to ‘count 25 remains that could not be identified.’

While addressing over 10,000 newly-graduated volunteer corps on Saturday, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) said that many do not want to see Ethiopia in peace and progress and they are trying to compel the nation into submission. “The media attack is an extended arm to put us under pressure, but our aim is unstoppable,” he remarked.

The Ethiopian Herald