In the town of Mai-Kadra, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, ethnic Amhara militiamen find dead bodies as they investigate a massacre of hundreds of civilians. In Gondar University Hospital, in the neighbouring Amhara region, survivors of the bloodshed recover and recall what they lived through.<br />Questions linger over who is to blame for the massacre on November 9, with participants in the three-week-old conflict seeking to absolve themselves of an atrocity that bears the hallmarks of a war crime. Amnesty International, which revealed the killings, and the government-affiliated Ethiopian Human Rights Commission point the finger at groups loyal to the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). But Tigrayan refugees who fled Mai-Kadra for Sudan instead say pro-government forces were responsible for the killings during a brutal assault on the town of 40,000 people.<br />AFP gained rare access to territory controlled by the federal government in the northern conflict zone. An Ethiopian government official accompanied AFP during filming of the report.
