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The Washington Post has published a report in which it claims Ethiopian guards and villagers massacred 83 Tigrayan prisoners at a camp in southern Ethiopia last November.

The Washington Post said the previously unreported killings occurred on November 21st 2021 at a prison camp near the town of Mirab Abaya that housed more than 2,000 detained Tigrayan soldiers. The Ethiopian government has not yet commented on the claims.

Katharine Houreld is East Africa bureau chief with the Washington Post. She has been tracking the killings of prisoners at eight different prisons in Ethiopia and has spoken to witnesses and families of the dead. She told Newsday: 鈥淢ost of the killings are being carried out by prison guards, that鈥檚 members of the Ethiopian military and in鈥� Mirab Abaya the local population took part as well.鈥�

(Picture: Shows a person's hands holding prison bars. Credit: Getty Images.)