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Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church patriarch condemns Tigray ‘genocide’ Al Jazeera English © Abune Mathias is the sixth patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church [File: Mulugeta Ayene/AP Photo. Abune Mathias is the sixth patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church [File: Mulugeta Ayene/AP Photo] The head of Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church has accused government forces of carrying out “genocide” in the country’s Tigray region, where a six-month conflict between federal and allied troops and forces loyal to the former ruling party is believed to have killed thousands of people. In a video shot last month on a mobile phone and taken out of Ethiopia, the elderly Patriarch Abune Mathias addresses the church’s millions of followers and the international community, saying his previous attempts to speak out were blocked.

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