An open letter to President Biden to eliminate Eritrea’s role in the genocidal war in Tigray

Nearly two years have elapsed since the evil forces of Eritrea and Ethiopia surrounded Tigray in
an air-tight enclosure and have been killing its seven million inhabitants mercilessly by aerial
bombardments, artillery shelling, direct shooting, and by starvation. Their most recent war crime
was committed by Eritrean war planes at Adi-Daero where an unknown number of civilians were
killed. The world has chosen to turn a blind eye to these crimes. So Security & Justice for
Tigrayans (SJT) is writing today to plead with your administration to strongly condemn these
civilian killings and to take a firm and swift action to eliminate Eritrea’s involvement in the
assault of Tigray.
Adi-Daero is a small town inhabited by peasants near the Eritrean border. In the morning of
September 27, the despot of Eritrea sent his war planes to bombard Adi-Daero and instantly
turned half of the residential buildings of this small community into rubbles burying people alive
and killing and injuring unknown number of children, women, and other civilians. They chose
doing so on a religious holiday to maximize killing civilians. We beg for a few minutes of your
time to watch this video that shows the devastation and anguish of mothers and children
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qY7tEFfies). As we write this letter, the bombardment
resumed this time on an IDP center near Adi-Daero, killing more than 60 civilians including
children and elderly women and men.
The barbaric act of the Eritrean government is not new. It invaded Tigray from all entry points of
its borders in November 2020 alongside the Ethiopian forces. In the subsequent eight months, its
brutal forces raped and gang-raped, looted anything and everything that they could transport to
Eritrea from household utensils to factory machinery, destroyed what they could not take
including buildings and orchards, massacred boys and men that they found, the list of their
crimes is very long.
Mr. Isaias has now sent his full military might to Tigray to finish what his criminal army did not
accomplish in the last 23 months. Eritrea has mobilized all of its military including its reservists
in close coordination with various Ethiopian forces and is attacking Tigray from many fronts, the
largest being in Sheraro, another small town in Tigray. It has been bombing and shelling border
towns it could not occupy, indiscriminately killing civilians and destroying property. The despot
is realizing that his forces are not making enough destruction because of the resistance from the
Tigray Defense Forces and has now announced the conscription of all able-bodied Eritreans