{"id":55333,"date":"2022-01-14T11:37:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T16:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=55333"},"modified":"2022-01-14T11:37:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T16:37:30","slug":"msf-humanitarian-workers-in-tigray-murdered-in-an-intentional-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/55333","title":{"rendered":"MSF: Humanitarian workers in Tigray murdered in an intentional killing"},"content":{"rendered":"

M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) said its aid workers \u201cwere murdered not in crossfire <\/em>injuries but was in an intentional killing\u201d.<\/p>\n

More than six months after\u00a0the murder\u202fof its three colleagues namely Mar\u00eda,\u00a0Tedros and\u00a0Yohannes in Tigray region, the full circumstances of, and responsibility for, their killing remain unclear, <\/em>MSF said on Thursday in a statement<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cOver the past six months, we have been making every possible effort to understand what happened to them by continuously engaging with the parties to the conflict. We have met multiple times with various ministries of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) to ensure that their killings are investigated and the findings shared with us. We have made the same requests to the Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF),\u201d President of MSF Paula Gil said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Also, as part of our internal standard practice following critical security incidents, we have gathered and analyzed information that has enabled us to reconstruct a detailed picture of the route that the MSF car took, as well as the location and time of the incident and some of the material circumstances of the killing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis information confirms that the attack was not consistent with crossfire injuries, but instead was an intentional killing of three humanitarian aid workers, as each of our staff members was clearly recognizable as civilians and humanitarians at the time of the incident,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we know so far based on the preliminary results of this internal review is that on June 24, Mar\u00eda, Tedros, and Yohannes were heading on the route south of Abi Adi to search for and collect people injured in areas affected by intense fighting between the FDRE, its allies, and the TPLF. The MSF team based in Abi Adi had received prior information that there were a large number of wounded people in Shoate Egum, a village near where the incident took place. Just over an hour into the journey their car stopped. Their bodies were later found at distances of 100 to 400 meters from the car and their injuries showed that each suffered multiple close-range gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an intentional killing of three humanitarian aid workers, as each of our staff members was clearly recognizable as civilians and humanitarians at the time of the incident. The car, also well identified with the MSF logo and two flags, was shot multiple times and extensively burned,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) said its aid workers \u201cwere murdered not in crossfire injuries but was in an intentional killing\u201d. More than six months after\u00a0the murder\u202fof its three colleagues namely Mar\u00eda,\u00a0Tedros and\u00a0Yohannes in Tigray region, the full circumstances of, and…<\/span> Read more ›<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":55334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4993],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Zegabi-10.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55333"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55335,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55333\/revisions\/55335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}