{"id":187295,"date":"2021-06-01T16:40:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T16:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/01\/eritrean-soldiers-killed-19-civilians-in-latest-tigray-atrocity-locals-claim"},"modified":"2021-06-01T16:40:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T16:40:51","slug":"eritrean-soldiers-killed-19-civilians-in-latest-tigray-atrocity-locals-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/01\/eritrean-soldiers-killed-19-civilians-in-latest-tigray-atrocity-locals-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Eritrean soldiers killed 19 civilians in latest Tigray atrocity, locals claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Killings took place near Ethiopia\u2019s Abuna Yemata church on 8 May, according to multiple testimonies<\/p><p>Eritrean soldiers killed 19 civilians in a village at the foot of an internationally celebrated rock-hewn church in Tigray three weeks ago, witnesses, relatives and local residents have claimed, the latest alleged atrocity in the war-torn Ethiopian region.<\/p><p>Most of the victims in the alleged attack were women and young children.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/may\/09\/alleged-atrocities-tigray-ethiopia\">The alleged atrocities in Tigray risk tearing Ethiopia apart | William Davison<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/01\/eritrean-soldiers-killed-19-civilians-in-latest-tigray-atrocity-locals-claim\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/01\/eritrean-soldiers-killed-19-civilians-in-latest-tigray-atrocity-locals-claim\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killings took place near Ethiopia\u2019s Abuna Yemata church on 8 May, according to multiple testimoniesEritrean soldiers killed 19 civilians in a village at the foot of an internationally celebrated rock-hewn church in Tigray three weeks ago, witnesses, re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[708,15623,1268,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187296,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187295\/revisions\/187296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}