Médecins Sans Frontières on 15 July published the findings of its internal investigation into the deaths of three staff members shot in Ethiopia’s Tigray region in June 2021, concluding they were “intentionally and selectively executed” by uniformed soldiers. The charity said it decided to release the 70-page review after four years of what it called unfulfilled promises by Addis Ababa to produce a credible official inquiry. Emergency coordinator María Hernández Matas of Spain and her Ethiopian colleagues, Yohannes Halefom Reda and Tedros Gebremariam, were travelling in a clearly marked MSF vehicle near the town of Abi Adi on 24 June 2021 when the car was intercepted. Their bullet-riddled bodies were later found up to 400 metres from the torched vehicle; all three wore vests bearing the MSF emblem. The review, drawing on satellite images and accounts from civilians and soldiers, places a convoy of retreating Ethiopian National Defence Force troops at the scene and cites a witness who heard a commander order an attack on a “white car”. MSF said the evidence rules out cross-fire or mistaken identity and shows the aid workers were shot at close range while facing their assailants. MSF officials said they held more than 20 high-level meetings with Ethiopian authorities without receiving substantive answers and now want an independent investigation and criminal accountability. The 2021 killings occurred during a war that African Union mediators estimate cost roughly 600,000 lives, underscoring, the group said, the growing danger and impunity faced by humanitarian workers in conflict zones.