Mai Kadra (also spelled May Kadra; Tigrinya: ማይ ካድራ) is a town in Tigray Region, Ethiopia near the Sudanese border. Mai Kadra was the site of the deadliest massacre during the Tigray War.
May Kadra | |
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Town | |
| ማይ ካድራ | |
  May Kadra Location in Tigray and Ethiopia  May Kadra May Kadra (Ethiopia) | |
| Coordinates: 14°04′12″N 36°34′03″E / 14.07000°N 36.56750°E | |
| Country |  Ethiopia |
| Region |  Tigray |
| Zone | Mi'irabawi Zone |
| Woreda | Kafta Humera |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (EAT) |
Overview
editMai Kadra is a market town on the Gonder–Humera road, in the Kafta Humera district of the Mi'irabawi (Western) Zone of the Tigray Region. Approximately 30 kilometers south of Humera, its population was estimated as 4,000 to 4,500. Prior to the Tigray War, migrant workers, mainly from the Amhara Region but also from a few other areas, would travel to Mai Kadra for seasonal work on large sesame and millet farms. These migrant laborers would arrive every September to help with the harvest.[1]
Mai Kadra massacre
editOn 9-10 November 2020, an ethnic massacre occurred in Mai Kadra in which hundreds of ethnic Amhara civilians were killed.[1][2]
References
edit- ^ a b "Rapid Investigation into Grave Human Rights Violation Maikadra - Preliminary Findings". Ethiopian Human Rights Commission. 24 November 2020.
- ^ Rights, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human (3 November 2021). "Report of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC)/Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Joint Investigation into Alleged Violations of International Human Rights, Humanitarian and Refugee Law Committed by all Parties to the Conflict in the Tigray Region of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia".
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