“The last red line has been crossed with this morning’s attacks and the federal government is therefore forced into a military confrontation”, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s office remarked on November 4th. With that announcement, in response to an attack by forces of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) on a federal garrison in the Tigray province, Ahmed’s war on the Tigrayan separatists began. For weeks now, Ethiopian forces have laid siege to the province, with accusations of “mass killings” of civilians by Ethiopian Defense Forces (EDF) troops, according to Amnesty International.