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Residents told [[Voice of America|VOA News]] that the [[Tigray Defense Forces]] (TDF) killed 600 civilians in Kobo in the Amhara Region.<ref name="voa20210920">Voice of America (Amharic), 20 September 2022: [https://amharic.voanews.com/a/kobo-civilian-killings-9-20-2021/6236279.html ቆቦ ውስጥ ስድስት መቶ ሰው እንደተገደለ ነዋሪዎች ተናገሩ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921205624/https://amharic.voanews.com/a/kobo-civilian-killings-9-20-2021/6236279.html|date=2021-09-21}}</ref> According to locals, TDF fighters entered villages in [[Kobo (woreda)|Kobo district]] on 9 September searching for weapons, but the farmers were able to repel the soldiers from the villages. As TDF fighters withdrew from the villages to [[Kobo, Ethiopia|Kobo town]], they attacked men and teenage boys who were working their fields in retaliation.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> The vast majority of the massacre's victims were male.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-09-25|title='Then the killing started': Witnesses accuse Tigray fighters|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/then-the-killing-started-witnesses-accuse-tigray-fighters-1.5600383|access-date=2022-02-13|website=CTVNews|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2" /> |
Residents told [[Voice of America|VOA News]] that the [[Tigray Defense Forces]] (TDF) killed 600 civilians in Kobo in the Amhara Region.<ref name="voa20210920">Voice of America (Amharic), 20 September 2022: [https://amharic.voanews.com/a/kobo-civilian-killings-9-20-2021/6236279.html ቆቦ ውስጥ ስድስት መቶ ሰው እንደተገደለ ነዋሪዎች ተናገሩ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210921205624/https://amharic.voanews.com/a/kobo-civilian-killings-9-20-2021/6236279.html|date=2021-09-21}}</ref> According to locals, TDF fighters entered villages in [[Kobo (woreda)|Kobo district]] on 9 September searching for weapons, but the farmers were able to repel the soldiers from the villages. As TDF fighters withdrew from the villages to [[Kobo, Ethiopia|Kobo town]], they attacked men and teenage boys who were working their fields in retaliation.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> The vast majority of the massacre's victims were male.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-09-25|title='Then the killing started': Witnesses accuse Tigray fighters|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/then-the-killing-started-witnesses-accuse-tigray-fighters-1.5600383|access-date=2022-02-13|website=CTVNews|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2" /> |
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[[Human Rights Watch]] (HRW) spoke to residents of Kobo town who witnessed 23 civilians summarily executed by the TDF in that town on 9 September in retaliation for attacks by farmers earlier that day.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=CNN|first=Martin Goillandeau|title=Tigrayan forces summarily executed dozens of civilians in Ethiopia's Amhara region, HRW says|url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/10/africa/tigrayan-force-execution-ethiopia-intl/index.html|access-date=2022-02-13|website=CNN}}</ref |
[[Human Rights Watch]] (HRW) spoke to residents of Kobo town who witnessed 23 civilians summarily executed by the TDF in that town on 9 September in retaliation for attacks by farmers earlier that day.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=CNN|first=Martin Goillandeau|title=Tigrayan forces summarily executed dozens of civilians in Ethiopia's Amhara region, HRW says|url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/10/africa/tigrayan-force-execution-ethiopia-intl/index.html|access-date=2022-02-13|website=CNN}}</ref> |
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A report by [[Al Jazeera]] described it as "the most extensive yet of one of the deadliest known killings of Amhara in the war."<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|title=Witnesses accuse Tigray fighters of Kobo killings|language=en|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/25/witnesses-accuse-tigray-fighters-kobo-killings|access-date=2022-02-13}}</ref> |
A report by [[Al Jazeera]] described it as "the most extensive yet of one of the deadliest known killings of Amhara in the war."<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|title=Witnesses accuse Tigray fighters of Kobo killings|language=en|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/25/witnesses-accuse-tigray-fighters-kobo-killings|access-date=2022-02-13}}</ref> |
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Amnesty International published a report in which witnesses described retaliatory summary executions of over two dozen men and one woman in the town of Kobo. Via satellite imagery analysis, the report corroborated witness testimony that new graves were dug in September 2021 at two church compounds in the town to bury those summarily executed.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ethiopia: Summary killings, rape and looting by Tigrayan forces in Amhara|url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr25/5218/2022/en/|access-date=2022-02-17|website=Amnesty International|language=en}}</ref> |
Amnesty International published a report in which witnesses described retaliatory summary executions of over two dozen men and one woman in the town of Kobo. Via satellite imagery analysis, the report corroborated witness testimony that new graves were dug in September 2021 at two church compounds in the town to bury those summarily executed.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ethiopia: Summary killings, rape and looting by Tigrayan forces in Amhara|url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/afr25/5218/2022/en/|access-date=2022-02-17|website=Amnesty International|language=en}}</ref> |
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The TDF has denied committing atrocities.<ref name=":0" /> |
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| Location | Kobo, Ethiopia |
| Coordinates | 12°11′51.07″N 39°45′9.29″E / 12.1975194°N 39.7525806°E / 12.1975194; 39.7525806 |
| Date | 9 September 2021 |
Attack type | Massacre |
| Deaths | 600 civilians |
| Perpetrators | Tigray Defense Forces |
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The Kobo massacre was an extrajudicial killing event that took place in Kobo district and Kobo towninNorth Wollo Zone of the Amhara RegionofEthiopia during the Tigray War, on 9 September 2021.[1][2]
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Residents told VOA News that the Tigray Defense Forces (TDF) killed 600 civilians in Kobo in the Amhara Region.[3] According to locals, TDF fighters entered villages in Kobo district on 9 September searching for weapons, but the farmers were able to repel the soldiers from the villages. As TDF fighters withdrew from the villages to Kobo town, they attacked men and teenage boys who were working their fields in retaliation.[1][2] The vast majority of the massacre's victims were male.[4][5]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) spoke to residents of Kobo town who witnessed 23 civilians summarily executed by the TDF in that town on 9 September in retaliation for attacks by farmers earlier that day.[2][6]
A report by Al Jazeera described it as "the most extensive yet of one of the deadliest known killings of Amhara in the war."[5]
Amnesty International published a report in which witnesses described retaliatory summary executions of over two dozen men and one woman in the town of Kobo. Via satellite imagery analysis, the report corroborated witness testimony that new graves were dug in September 2021 at two church compounds in the town to bury those summarily executed.[7]
The TDF has denied committing atrocities.[1]
The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission expressed their concern regarding the incident on Twitter:[8][9]
The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is alarmed by disturbing reports it is receiving about allegations of deliberate attacks against civilians in Kobo town and surrounding rural towns by TPLF fighters including shelling on civilian areas, house to house search and killings, looting and destruction of civilian infrastructure. While EHRC continues with its investigation, it reiterates its repeated call on the obligation of all parties to the conflict to protect civilians at all times.
— Ethiopian Human Rights Commission
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