War Crimes Being Reported In Ethiopia's Tigray Region

 

The Guardian: Ethiopia’s leader must answer for the high cost of hidden war in Tigray 

Abiy Ahmed should hand back his Nobel peace prize over his actions in the breakaway region that have raised the spectre of famine again. 

Seyoum Mesfin, Ethiopia’s long-serving former foreign minister, was one of the foremost African diplomats of his generation. He was gunned down this month in Tigray by the armed forces of a lesser man – Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister and Nobel peace prize winner. 

Some suggest it was the Eritrean military, Abiy’s allies, who killed Seyoum, although their presence in Tigray is officially denied. The circumstances of his death remain murky. As with much of the unreported, unchallenged murder and mayhem currently occurring in northern Ethiopia, murky is what Abiy prefers. 

When he ordered the army’s assault on the breakaway Tigray region in November, he blocked the internet, shut out aid agencies and banned journalists. It’s a conflict he claims to have won – but the emerging reality is very different. It’s a war fought in the shadows, with the outside world kept in the dark. 

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 More News On Reports That War Crimes Are Occuring In Ethiopia's Tigray Region 

Witnesses: Eritrean soldiers loot, kill in Ethiopia's Tigray -- AP 

Abuse accusations surge in Ethiopia's war -- SABC 

WHO Warns of Diseases Spreading in Tigray Because of Conflict -- VOA 

On ‘Rooftop of Africa,’ Ethiopia’s Troops Hunt Fugitive Former Rulers -- NYT 

A humanitarian pause in Ethiopia’s war? -- CSM