Authorities in Ethiopia continue to deny ethnic violence shown toward the citizens of Tigray.
A humanitarian truce has been agreed upon in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, where there has been an ongoing war for over a year and a half.
While this sounds like positive news, the work to undo the damage caused by the conflict is immense, and needs a great deal of support.
The war in Ethiopia has affected the lives of millions of people, both in Tigray, and in surrounding areas like Amhara and Afar.
It began as a dispute between the national Ethiopian government and the regional Tigrayan government, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.
Since November 2020, millions of people have been displaced, and countless innocent lives have been taken.
Humanitarian aid was illegally blocked from entering war regions on several occasions, and the United Nations called out human rights violations being perpetrated by all parties to the conflict.
In fact, on April 4, 2022, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a joint report titled, “’We Will Erase You From This Land’:
Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing in Ethiopia’s Western Tigray Zone”, which highlights just how serious these violations have been, and exposing ethnic cleansing and genocide occurring in Western Tigray.
On the release of the report, Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of HRW said: “Since November 2020, Amhara officials and security forces have engaged in a relentless campaign of ethnic cleansing to force Tigrayans in Western Tigray from their homes.
Ethiopian authorities have steadfastly denied the shocking breadth of the crimes that have unfolded and have egregiously failed to address them.”
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