Hitsats(Ge'ez: ሕፃፅ), is a village town in Asgede district in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia located 48 km west of Shire in the Shire - Dedebit - Dansha highway.[1]
The town is the administrative center of the Hitsats subdistrict (tabia) and the place of the Hitsats Refugee Camp. Following the genocidal war in Tigray in November 2020, more than 300 civilians were massacred by the Eritrean Defence Forces who entered supporting the Ethiopian National Defence Force.[2][3]
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The town is the administrative center of the Hitsats subdistrict (tabia) and the place of the Hitsats Refugee Camp. Following the genocidal war in Tigray...
The Hitsats massacre was a massacre at Hitsats refugee camp on or around 19 November 2020 during the Tigray War. The civilians killed were 300 Eritrean...
Eritrea against their will. HRCE stated that ten Eritrean refugees at the Hitsats refugee camp were shot dead and forty wounded on 23 November 2020. A few...
reported that 300 refugees in Hitsats camp were executed by the TPLF. According to refugees, pro-TPLF forces used Hitsats as a base for several weeks in...
Netherlands (originally started in "Zuidoost-Azië", southeast Asia); see Hitsats massacre § Humanitarian workers Zoa Morani, Indian actress Luc Zoa, Cameroonian...
interviewed by Agence France Presse (AFP) stated that pro-TPLF forces used Hitsats as a base for several weeks in November 2020, killing several refugees...
living in Shire. Other towns include Dedebit, Adi Mehameday, Hibret and Hitsats. Located in this woreda is Dedebit, where the Tigrayan People's Liberation...
Eritrea during the Tigray War that started in late November 2020 from the Hitsats and Shimelba refugee camps. On 2 February 2021, there were 20,000 unaccounted...
gender based violence, as well as extrajudicial killings in Hagere Selam, Hitsats, Humera, Debre Abbay, and other areas where the conflict is ongoing. The...
Ethiopia located 52 km west of Shire in the way from Inda Aba Guna to Hitsats. The town is the administrative center of the Hibret subdistrict (tabia)...
Elders say people were "slaughtered like chicken" c. 19 November 2020 Hitsats 305 TPLF or EDF Perpetrators disputed. EEPA claims 300 Eritrean refugees...
two warehouse-style structures in the UN World Food Program compound at Hitsats refugee camp had been "very specifically destroyed." Doctors Without Borders...
particular in the "appalling treatment of Eritrean refugees in the Shimelba and Hitsats camps" and called for an immediate independent international enquiry. Many...
conflict. Tigray War massacres and other war crimes: Adigrat, Hagere Selam, Hitsats, Humera, Mai Kadra, Aksum Human rights in Ethiopia Slavery in Ethiopia...
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