On July 22, 2020 The Minority Rights Group published a press release on ethnic cleansing of minorities in Ethiopia. On October 25, I made a note that there had been almost daily ghastly attacks in the west of Ethiopia over recent months. In some places people were saying they were just waiting to be slaughtered; they felt utterly insecure. By October I had long despaired at the lack of international protest and awareness. In this article I attempt to unearth the flow of logic that lies beneath the surface.
The conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region explained02:05
Washington, DC (CNN)The US has condemned Eritrea and Ethiopia for coordinating their troops to close off a key aid route to Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region, following an exclusive CNN investigation published earlier this week that found that Eritrean soldiers were blocking critical humanitarian aid to starving and wounded civilians.
The United States is gravely concerned by the increasing number of confirmed cases of military forces blocking humanitarian access to parts of the Tigray region. This unacceptable behavior places the 5.2 million people in the region in immediate need of humanitarian assistance at even greater risk.
Amhara region militiamen ride on a truck as they head to face the Tigray People’s Liberation Front near the border of Ethiopia’s semi-autonomous region of Tigray Nov. 9, 2020. An Ethiopian Catholic priest says atrocities are still occurring in Tigray. (Credit: Tiksa Negeri/Reuters via CNS.)
NAIROBI, Kenya — A priest from the Catholic Eparchy of Adigrat in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray says killings, abductions and rape are still occurring in the region where a military offensive launched in November.
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Image:TIKSA NEGERI
The United States is deeply concerned about increasing political and ethnic polarization throughout Ethiopia, the U.S. State Department said on Friday, adding that Washington will work with allies to secure a ceasefire in the Tigray region, provide assistance and hold human rights abusers accountable.
FILE – An 11-year-old girl holds her year-old brother at the doorway to a classroom now used as living space at the Tsehaye primary school, which housed people displaced by conflict, in Shire, Tigray region, Ethiopia, March 15, 2021.
Six months into the conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, the specter of widespread hunger and starvation looms, as continued military operations and violence stall aid delivery and threaten the approaching planting season, according to the United Nations and several other observers.
Washington’s warning comes as Congress members push for sanctions on Asmara
Tigrayan refugees wait in line to receive food from Muslim Aid at Hamdeyat Transition Center near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, eastern Sudan, on Wednesday. AP
US envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman called on Friday for Eritrean troops to “immediately withdraw” from Ethiopia’s Tigray region, where the seven-month conflict has put over five million civilians at risk.
In a week-long trip to Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan and Egypt that concluded on Wednesday, Mr Feltman relayed directly to Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki the need to remove his troops from Tigray.
Il premier Abiy l’aveva definita operazione di polizia interna garantendo una conclusione rapida. in un video anche il patriarca ortodosso etiope lo smentisce e denuncia il tentativo di genocidio
Il premier etiopie Abiy Ahmed e, sotto, un gruppo di sfollati a Scirè in Tigrai – Reuters
La più alta autorità religiosa ortodossa eriope rompe un silenzio rumoroso di sei mesi sulla guerra nel Tigrai. Lo fa con un video di 14 minuti postato ieri su Youtube che è la smentita più autorevole del premier Abiy Ahmed. Sua santità Mathias, 80 anni, patriarca ortodosso della nazione con la più antica tradizione cristiana d’Africa, ripreso sullo smartphone il 26 aprile da Dennis Wadley, direttore dell’organizzazione statunitense Bridges Worldwide, chiede in aramaico che cessino le violenze e accusa il governo etiope di voler compiere un genocidio contro il popolo tigrino.
Tempo di lettura stimato: 2minutiLe autorità etiopi hanno diffuso i risultati dell’indagine condotta sulla strage di civili commessa lo scorso novembre ad Axum, nel Tigray, denunciata nei mesi scorsi da Amnesty International e Human Rights Watch e attribuita alle forze armate etiopi ed eritree.
Ethiopian nun speaks of widespread horror she and colleagues are seeing on a daily basis inside the heavily isolated region of Tigray
A Tigrayan refugee who was raped as she fled the conflict in Ethiopia. ‘Rape is starting at the age of 8 and to the age of 72,’ a nun reports. Photograph: Nariman El-Mofty/AP
Thousands of women and girls are being targeted by the deliberate tactic of using rape as a weapon in the civil war that has erupted in Ethiopia, according to eyewitnesses.
In a rare account from inside the heavily isolated region of Tigray, where communications with the outside world are being deliberately cut off, an Ethiopian nun has spoken of the widespread horror she and her colleagues are seeing on a daily basis since a savage war erupted six months ago.
“Rape is starting at the age of 8 and to the age of 72. Many, many have been raped. This has all happened so quickly,” said the sister, who cannot be named to protect her security but is based in the regional capital of Mekelle.
(CNN) The top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee is calling on the Biden administration to enact sanctions in response to the ongoing human rights abuses in the Tigray region of Ethiopia after a CNN investigation found that Eritrean soldiers were blocking critical humanitarian aid to starving and wounded civilians.
The Irob minority group in Ethiopia is facing an existential crisis in addition to the mass atrocities inflicted by the ongoing conflict in the Tigray state.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched military forces in response to “traitorous” attacks on military camps that has since escalated to thousands of civilian casualties, hundreds of thousands of people who have been internally displaced within Tigray, and 63,000 refugees who have fled to Sudan since fighting broke out on November 4th, 2020.
The embattled region the Irob occupy “has been turned totally upside down,” Teklay, resident in the capital Addis Abab, told Al Jazeera.
“Many, perhaps up to 50 per cent of the original population…fled to regional cities in Tigray and even to Addis Ababa, leaving mostly elderly and children behind” he added.
Authorities have detained journalists without charges and revoked the accreditation of a reporter for The New York Times.
Refugees eating at a makeshift camp at a secondary school for internally displaced people in Mekelle, the capital of Tigray, in March.Credit…Simon Marks for The New York Times
NAIROBI, Kenya — One Ethiopian journalist was taken away by police officers as his distraught 10-year-old daughter clung to him. Another fled the country after she said armed men ransacked her home and threatened to kill her.
This week Ethiopia’s attorney general’s office released its findings into allegations of atrocities committed by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces in Tigray’s historic city of Axum in late November 2020. The press release stated that most of those killed were fighters who died in clashes with Eritrean troops, and not civilians.
We want the world to know the genocide and atrocities that are taking place in the Tigray region of Ethiopia against innocent civilians by the ruthless and godless Ethiopian and Eritrean forces! The above graphic photos are a tiny example of the mass massacres recurring almost daily in the whole Tigray! The international community are asked to speak out and condemn such kind brutal ethnic cleansing against Tigrayans by Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia and Isaias Afeworki of Eritrea for mere of their ethnicity and racial prejudice!!!
Congressional leaders have called for sanctions to be put in place to pressure Ethiopian and Eritrean forces to withdraw from Tigray
US congressmen specifically hammered Ethiopia and Eritrea for failing to live up to their March agreement to remove Eritrean forces from Tigray. Getty Images
The US Congress is pressuring the Biden administration to place sanctions on human rights abusers in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, pointing to the continued failure of Ethiopian and Eritrean forces to withdraw from the region.
“We understand that the Biden administration is reviewing all options, but nothing has been announced or finalised, which is why we are pushing them on this,” a congressional aide told The National on Wednesday. “It has been over six months since the conflict started.”
No matter how expensive is the cost and the time too take us, we shouldn’t STOP from fight the good fight , until our people be freed from the invading forces of 🇪🇹& 🇪🇷 and restore our elected government of #Tigray! #TigrayElectedTPLF#TigrayWillPrevailhttps://t.co/XP76PLcWCu
— Tesfay #TigrayWillPrevail 💛❤️ (@TesfayTsehaye6) May 7, 2021
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