We, the Tigrayan Diaspora, independently organised as Mekete Tigray UK and as UK Citizens and Residents of Tigrayan Ethiopian origin, are yet again expressing our horror and are protesting in front of the Turkish Embassy in London, UK, against the Turkish government’s direct and proven complicity in the genocidal war being waged against the Tigrayan people by the Ethiopian and Eritrean regimes. The Tigrayan people, a proud African and black people, have been subjected over two years now to the worst war the World has witnessed in the 21st Century. War Crimes, Crime against Humanity, Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide have been committed in Tigray as testified by the latest UNHRC report and numerous corroborated evidences including from the Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International to mention but a few. Some of the global testimonies on the genocidal war on Tigray are cited below as exemplars:
“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).
“A Pogrom is happening in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is killing its own citizens wantonly. That is chilling, but true: by attempting to extirpate Ethiopia of Tigrayan ethnicity and heritage, Ethiopia’s military and government stands accused of purposeful ethnic cleansing, a precursor to all-out genocide, as outlawed by the UN Convention against Genocide”
(Professor Robert Rotberg, Former President of the World Peace Foundation; 28 January 2021)