Over seven hundred civilians are massacred by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_National_Defense_Force" id="mwAYo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ethiopian National Defense Force">Ethiopian National Defense Force</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrean_Army" id="mwAYs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Eritrean Army">Eritrean Army</a> in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksum_massacre" id="mwAYw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Aksum massacre">Aksum, Ethiopia</a>.<sup about="#mwt71" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./November_28#cite_note-12" id="mwAY0" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAY4">[12]</span></a></sup>
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