UMM RAKOUBA – The only thing the survivors can agree on is that hundreds of people were slaughtered in a single Ethiopian town.Witnesses say security forces and their allies attacked civilians in Mai-Kadra with machetes and knives or strangled them with ropes.
The stench of bodies lingered for days during the early chaos of the Ethiopian government’s offensive in the defiant Tigray region last month.
Several mass graves have been reported.What happened beginning Nov. 9 in the agricultural town near the Sudanese border has become the most visible atrocity in a war largely conducted in the shadows.