'New reports and footage emerging from Tigray of extrajudicial killings, murders of civilians, sexual and gender-based violence, and forced displacement are deeply disturbing,' US Sen. Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat, tweeted Saturday.
US Sen. Chris Coons calls"deeply disturbing" reports and footage of executions in Ethiopia's Tigray region.
"New reports and footage emerging from Tigray of extrajudicial killings, murders of civilians, sexual and gender-based violence, and forced displacement are deeply disturbing," Coons, a Delaware Democrat, tweeted Saturday. New reports and footage emerging from #Tigray of extrajudicial killings, murders of civilians, sexual and gender-based violence, and forced displacement are deeply disturbing.
— Senator Chris Coons April 3, 2021 His comments come after a CNN investigation found that men wearing Ethiopian army uniforms executed unarmed men in Tigray. A BBC-led investigation also published Thursday corroborated the same massacre near Mahibere Dego, a mountainous area of central Tigray.