December 2020 Gijet massacre

Gijet massacre
Part of Tigray War
Gijet is located in Tigray Region
Gijet
Gijet
Gijet is located in Ethiopia
Gijet
Gijet
Location of Gijet in Tigray (Ethiopia)
LocationGijet (Tigrinya: ጊጀት), Tigray Region, Ethiopia
Date30 December 2020
TargetTigrayans
Attack type
Deaths21 civilians
PerpetratorsEthiopia Ethiopian National Defence Force

The December 2020 Gijet massacre was a mass extrajudicial killing that took place in Gijet (Tigrinya: ጊጀት) in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia during the Tigray War, on 30 December 2020.[1] Gijet is the central town of woreda Saharti, southeastern zone of Tigray.

  1. ^ Annys, S., Vanden Bempt, T., Negash, E., De Sloover, L., Nyssen, J., 2021. Tigray: Atlas of the humanitarian situation[self-published source]