Gathering information from interviews with more than 40 survivors and witnesses of the attack as well as others with knowledge of the events, the organization collected consistent accounts of looting, indiscriminate shelling and extrajudicial killings. The Amnesty International report details the systematic killing of hundreds of civilians in Axum, in the country’s Tigray region. “I hope to get justice for my parents and my family.” All his family members were buried in one grave, he said. My cousin was found after four days and they identified him using his identification card,” he added, making his cousin the third family member allegedly killed by Eritrean soldiers. Some of the bodies were taken with a carriage after four days. “Bodies in the city were laid out for three days because they didn’t have anyone to bury them. In the city, Guesh said, many young people were killed. “Many people were killed, including monks in the monasteries.” “There are people who lost three or four people in our neighborhood,” Guesh told VOA’s Tigrigna service in one of the multiple interviews conducted with residents of Axum weeks before Amnesty International’s report. Amnesty International has called the Axum killings, which took place Nov. Within moments, the men, including his 78-year-old father and 17-year-old brother, were executed by gunshots. Sitting in their home in a rural area outside of the historic Ethiopian city of Axum, they were interrupted by Eritrean soldiers storming in. Guesh Liasanewerk’s family had just gathered to celebrate the birth of his sister’s child born four days earlier.
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