Urgent Letter to Mr. Joseph R. Biden, President of the United States

October 6, 2021

President Joseph R. Biden
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC

Dear Mr. President,

I am a Catholic Clergyman, a naturalized citizen of the United States who was born in Tigray (specifically in the Eritrea-Ethiopia contested Irobland area) in the northeastern part of the Tigray Regional State of Ethiopia. I am breaking my silence by writing this letter in response to the group of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Archbishops from North America (USA who have been recently campaigning in Washington, D.C., in support of the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed Ali; Abiy Ahmed declared and has been carrying out a genocidal war and ethnic cleansing against the Tigray Regional State and its people since November 2020. I am compelled to write this open letter of urgent reminder to you, the President of the United States because I have been deeply troubled and affected like Tigrayans everywhere by the atrocities and genocidal war that has been going on against my people in Tigray. The people include the voiceless minority people of Irob residing in the northeastern Tigray of whom I am a descendant.

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