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Al Jazeera
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Zecharias Zelalem

‘Collective punishment’: Ethiopia drone strikes target civilians in Amhara

An Ethiopian soldier finishes training in Dabat in the middle of conflicts in the Horn of Africa nation that began in 2019 [File: Amanuel Sileshi/AFP]

Weeks after a deadly drone attack on November 30 killed five civilians in the town of Wegel Tena in Ethiopia’s Amhara region about 570km (350 miles) north of the capital, Addis Ababa, a witness is still reeling from the trauma.

“It’s extremely difficult to even describe the scene of the aftermath,” said Gebeyehu, who requested use of his first name only for safety reasons. “Bodies were burned so badly they had turned to dust. I saw the finger bones of one of the victims still shaped as though it was still clutching a mobile phone.”

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