Mekete Tigray UK
04 – 12 – 2022
“Tigrayans are being targeted with ethnic cleansing in the contested Western Tigray zone, according to a new report by human rights groups. The onslaught of rape and killings amounts to “war crimes,” they added. Tigrayans in Ethiopia are facing a relentless campaign of ethnic cleansing being carried out by security forces from the neighboring Amhara region, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said
Wednesday. The two rights groups in a joint report released Wednesday detailed how Tigrayan civilians in the disputed Western Tigray Zone of the country are allegedly being killed and subjected to various forms of sexual violence and abuses, including rape.
Some of these Tigrayans also faced mass detentions and forcible movements, a campaign that — along with
the other reported abuses mentioned — “amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity,” said the
rights groups in a statement. The report also alleged that newly-appointed officials in Western Tigray and the security forces from the neighboring Amhara region had some support and possible collaborations from the Ethiopian federal forces to carry out the alleged atrocities.”
source — https://www.dw.com/en/ethiopia-tigray-civilians-targeted-in-crimes-against-humanity-says-report/a-61370149
“It is not the fault of the Tigray people. Many barbarisms have been conducted in Ethiopia, but what is
happening in Tigray is of the highest brutality and cruelty. This is genocide of an entire people. They want to wipe-out the people of Tigray from the face of the Earth. I have said a lot of things but no one allows the message to be shared. Rather, it is being stifled and censored. The whole world should know it. The World must act now including all religious organisations to make their voice to stop the genocide.”
(The Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Abune Mathias, 8 May 2021)
“I vividly recall the shocking images back in 1984 of a million emaciated Ethiopian men, women and
children, many of them from Tigray, who had fled the country in the midst of a massive famine caused by
prolonged drought, widespread food shortages, and discriminatory government policies. Today, the people of Tigray are being subjected to human rights atrocities on an appalling scale, and they are being denied urgently needed humanitarian aid – aid that is being blocked by the Ethiopian and Eritrean militaries as well as other armed groups. The terrible reality today is that famine, crimes against humanity and genocide are occurring in Tigray, and they are occurring for one reason: the complicity of government officials in Addis
and in Asmara. In fact, there are reports that the situation in Tigray could be worse than in Darfur.”
(US Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Press Statement on Tigray; 6 June 2021)
“We must stop barbaric crimes against women. Gang rapes and mutilation are being carried out in the Tigray conflict but the world prefers to look the other way. Innumerable witness accounts leave no doubt that war crimes are being committed on a huge scale in Tigray, the region of Ethiopia where a military offensive
against rebels was launched last November. Often committed by the armed forces of neighbouring Eritrea, working alongside Ethiopia’s own army, these actions include mass sexual violence against women and girls.
Such reports are terrible enough but it is only when you go into the details that you can fully appreciate that these crimes are against the very core of humanity. The accounts from Tigray include women being
repeatedly raped next to the bodies of husbands or brothers who had tried to protect them; being told the men in uniform raping them are deliberately selected for being HIV-positive; assaulted with….”
(Lord William Hague, The Times, 31 May 2021)
“Every now and then, East Africa breaks into world consciousness. It happened in the mid-1980s, when
Ethiopia underwent a terrible famine. Teams of pop stars made two hit “Charity Singles”: “We are the
World” and “Do they Know it is Christmas?”. Today, Ethiopia is again in the news, for War in Tigray, a
region in the country’s north. What is happening there is worse than war, if such a thing is possible. Tigray is a theatre for war crimes and crime against humanity. To make it more interesting – if that is the word –
Ethiopia’s head of state is the 2019 Nobel Peace Laureate, Prime Minister of Ethiopia.”
(Jay Nordlinger, National Review; 22 March 2021)
“The unfolding catastrophes in the War on Tigray: 52,000 civilians killed over 90 days; 4.5 million Tigrayans
in need of urgent emergency aid to avert famine of the 1984/85 proportions; 2.2 million Tigrayans internally displaced; close to 100,000 refugees in Sudan; almost 100 % of crops in the fields in Tigray burnt; more than 75 % domestic animals in Tigray killed; and more than 75 % of health facilities, schools in Tigray looted, destroyed, or burnt”.
(https://savetigray.substack.com/p/a-special-place-in-hell-video-update?)