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   From: bksherman@komo.com   
      
   At least 800 people were reportedly killed in Ethiopia as   
   worshippers and soldiers risked their lives to protect what   
   Christians there say is the sacred Ark of the Covenant from   
   local militia.   
      
   Ethiopian Christians claim the Ark — the wooden chest built to   
   hold the Ten Commandments of Moses — is being kept safe in a   
   chapel in the holy northern city of Axum in the Tigray region.   
      
   The battle between Ethiopian soldiers and rebel fighters   
   happened in the fall, The Sunday Times reported, but it is only   
   being reported now.   
      
   “When people heard the shooting they ran to the church to give   
   support to the priests and others who were there protecting the   
   ark,” Getu Mak, a local university lecturer, told The Times.   
      
   “Certainly some of them were killed for doing that.”   
      
   Little was known about the deadly siege since Tigray is cut off   
   from the world and journalists had been blocked from entering   
   the region.   
      
   A deacon residing in Axum told the Associated Press he helped   
   count the bodies, gathered victims’ identification cards and   
   assisted with burials in mass graves.   
      
   He believes that an estimated 800 people were killed at the   
   church and around the city.   
      
   “If you attack Axum, you attack first of all the identity of   
   Orthodox Tigrayans but also of all Ethiopian Orthodox   
   Christians,” Wolbert Smidt, an ethnohistorian who specializes in   
   the region, told the AP.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2021/02/20/at-least-800-ethiopians-killed-   
   after-defending-ark-of-the-covenant/   
       
      
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