Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: 'Civilians massacred', says Amnesty International

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Source: BBC

Fighting between government forces and the TPLF broke out last week.

There has been long-standing tension between Ethiopia's government and the TPLF, which controls Tigray, the country's northernmost state, and it has boiled over into military clashes, including air strikes by federal forces.

Some witnesses said the attacks were carried out by forces loyal to the TPLF after they had been defeated by federal troops in an area called Lugdi.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered government forces to engage forces loyal to the TPLF on 4 November after he said military camps had been attacked.



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1. This the province adjacent to Eritrea

Ethnically similar, historically antagonistic to the Ethiopian plateau.