![]() It was signed on 2 November, formally ending the war. As Weldesamuel and his neighbours hid in the hills, negotiators from Tigray and the federal government were cloistered in a South African foreign ministry building in Pretoria 2,850 miles (4,500km) away, hammering out the final details of a ceasefire. It would be one of the last battles of a bloody, two-year-long war. In late October, this area of ravines and cliffs was engulfed by fierce fighting, as rebel Tigray forces tried to beat back an advance by Ethiopia’s federal military and its Eritrean allies. “They just left the corpses lying there,” said Weldesamuel.ĭetails are still emerging of this massacre at Mariam Shewito, Endabagerima, Gendebta and other villages near Adwa, a town in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. He was found at the gate of his house, his hands gripping a Bible and a cross. The dead included Weldesamuel’s father, an elderly priest, who was too frail to scramble up to the relative safety of the mountains. ![]() ![]() When he went back, the soldiers had gone, leaving a trail of bodies and burnt-out houses. ![]()
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