Dedebit airstrike

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Dedebit airstrike
Part of the Tigray War
LocationDedebit, Tigray Region, Ethiopia
Date7 January 2022
Attack type
Deaths59
Injured30
PerpetratorsEthiopia Ethiopian Air Force

On 7 January 2022, the Ethiopian Air Force carried out an airstrike on a camp for internally displaced people in the town of Dedebit in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia.[1][2][3] According to aid workers and the Tigray People's Liberation Front, 59 people were killed and 30 others were injured.[4][1][2][3] The airstrike occurred in the context of a wider campaign of airstrikes and bombardments of Tigrayan settlements which left 108 people dead.[4][5]

Most of the victims were reported to have been hiding in a camp set up inside a school at the time of the attack.[6]

It was later revealed that the Ethiopian military may have bought the drones from Turkey, as the drones used were Baykar Bayraktar TB2.[7][8]

On March 24, 2022, Human Rights Watch requested the Ethiopian government to investigate the airstrike, which it described as a war crime.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Ethiopia: At least 56 killed in Tigray air strike on camp for internally displaced, aid workers say". Sky News. 8 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Aid workers say Ethiopia air strike in northwest Tigray killed 56 people". Reuters. 8 January 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Dozens killed in Ethiopian air strike on IDP camp in Tigray". Al Jazeera. 8 January 2022. Retrieved 10 January 2022.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ a b York, Geoffrey (14 January 2022). "Ethiopian air strikes kill 108 civilians in Tigray region, UN says". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  5. ^ "Ethiopia wants WHO to investigate Tedros over Tigray remarks". Deutsche Welle. Archived from the original on 14 January 2022. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  6. ^ a b AfricaNews (24 March 2022). "Human Rights Watch calls on Ethiopia to probe possible "war crime"". Africanews. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  7. ^ "Tigray conflict: What do we know about drone strikes in Ethiopia?". BBC News. 31 January 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  8. ^ "Evidence from civilian bombing in Ethiopia points to Turkish drone". POLITICO. 25 January 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
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