The Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom,
10 Downing Street,
London, SW1A 2AA
OPEN LETTER
Dear Prime Minister,
Subject – The Imperative and Urgency of the UK Government’s Responsibility to Stop the Genocidal
War on Tigray, Ethiopia
We, concerned UK citizens and residents of Tigrayan Ethiopian origin organised under an open, democratic and inclusive platform of Mekete Tigray UK are yet again writing to the UK Government to convey our continuing horror and sadness of the abject failure of the UK Government, the EU, the US and Western countries in general to stop the Genocidal War on Tigray.
Russia and China are aiding and abating the Tigray Genocide so long as their appeasement of the Ethiopian and Eritrean dictators advances their hegemonic designs on Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. Apart from the usual expressions of diplomatic clichés of “concerns”, “worries” and “call for dialogue”, the UK Government has not taken concrete or bold actions to stop the war in Tigray.
In essence and in terms of their practical effects on the ground to date the UN’s and Western governments’ lack of decisive actions are tantamount to appeasement of the perpetrators – the regimes in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Amhara Region. It is a public record that the PM of the UK or the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs has not spoken in public for 500+ days now on the genocidal war that has been raging in Tigray. Similarly and sadly, President Biden has yet to speak in public about the war in Tigray, Ethiopia. The Patriarch of the second largest Orthodox Christian Church in the World, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Christian Church, who is under house arrest and is being persecuted by the Ethiopian regime, spoke in despair about the Tigray Genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity to alert
and urge the world to act as follows: