Killed in incident
Date
28 - 29 November 2020
Civilians killed
100 - 800
Reported Perpetrator(s)
Eritrean Defence Force, Ethiopian National Defence Force
Gebrehiwet Gebrekidan
Age: unknown
Gender: male
Type of death: Execution
Date of death: undated
Axum Town, Axum Town, Tigray
Among the hundreds of civilians massacred trying to defend the lotting of The Ark of the Covenant from Aksum’s Maryam Tsion church by the Eritrean and Ethiopian soldiers. He was an employee of the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE).