The December 2020 Gijet massacre was a mass

extrajudicial killing An extrajudicial killing (also known as extrajudicial execution or extralegal killing) is the deliberate killing of a person without the lawful authority granted by a judicial proceeding. It typically refers to government authorities, whether ...

that took place in

Gijet Gijet is a town in southern Tigray, Ethiopia. This town has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 2070 to 2100 meters above sea level. Gijet is the largest settlement in the Saharti Samre district. During the Imperial era The ...

() in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia during the Tigray War, on 30 December 2020.Annys, S., Vanden Bempt, T., Negash, E., De Sloover, L., Nyssen, J., 2021.
Tigray: Atlas of the humanitarian situation
/ref> Gijet is the central town of ''woreda'' Saharti, southeastern zone of Tigray.

Massacre

The Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) killed 21 youngsters, including a seven-year-old child in Gijet (SE Tigray) on 30 December 2020.Situation Report EEPA HORN No. 42 - 31 December 2020
/ref> Typical massacres committed by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers in the Tigray war are (1) revenge when they lose a battle; (2) to terrorise and extract information about whereabouts of TPLF leaders; (3) murder of suspected family members of TDF fighters; and (4) terrorising the Tigray society as a whole such as in case of mass killings in churches.The World radio (2 April 2021)
Counting the victims in Tigray
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Perpetrators

Dimtsi Woyane reported the perpetrators of this massacre as being the Ethiopian army.

Victims

The “Tigray: Atlas of the humanitarian situation” mentions 21 victims of this massacre.

Reactions

The “Tigray: Atlas of the humanitarian situation”, that documented this massacre received international media attention, particularly regarding its Annex A, that lists massacres in the Tigray War. After months of denial by the Ethiopian authorities that massacres occurred in Tigray, a joint investigation by OHCHR and the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission was announced in March 2021.France24, 18 March 2021
UN rights chief agrees to joint Tigray probe
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