Human Rights

This message is prepared in consultation with members of the Executive Committee of OTAGE as a follow up to an earlier letter (attached below) sent to the UN Secretary General and the President of the UN Human Rights Council. Despite our good faith efforts, the two organizations have turned deaf ears to our repeated requests […]

We, the undersigned, strongly protest against the joint report of Amnesty International (“AI”) and Human Rights Watch (“HRW”) issued recently accusing the Federal Government of Ethiopia, the Amhara Regional Government and the Amhara militia and Fano of committing human rights violations in what the report refers to as “Western Tigray.” As argued below, we affirm

Welkait is a great site of mass graves where thousands of people were massacred and buried by TPLF’s tyrannical administration during the past four decades, according to a prominent American photojournalist who visited the area. The photojournalist, Jemal Countess, told ENA that he saw the mass graves last week and was saddened by the content

Internally Displaced Person camp in Ethiopia (Photo: Jemal Countess) BAR Contributing Editor Ann Garrison reports from Ethiopia. I’m writing from Ethiopia, where the war that began in November 2020 continues, with the US backing their former puppet, the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), who ruled Ethiopia with an iron fist from 1991 to 2018, when they

BY ABDUREZAK MOHAMMED The joint report of Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International (AI) on war crimes and crimes against humanity around Welkait has aimed to deny justice to the victims of the terrorist TPLF’s atrocities, according to the latest statement of Amhara state. Meanwhile, the state also asked the two organizations to reconsider

The Amhara people must come to terms to the glaring fact that the neocolonial west, led by none other than the English, is their permanent, mortal enemy and, therefore, must deal with anything and everything coming out of the west based on this very obvious truth.  The recent anti-Amhara report of the England based Amnesty

Ethiopia’s government has said it will carefully examine a scathing report by international rights groups that accuses its military and allied forces of gross rights abuses in Tigray region. But it also poured doubt on the report, which alleges ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, as having “ethnic undertones” and being one-sided. Through

12 mass graves discovered in Welkait Tegede, Telemt ADDIS ABABA- Over 60,000 ethnic Amharas were killed by TPLF during the past 40 years in Welkait Tegede, and Telemt areas, the University of Gondar (UoG) research group announced. The finding of the research that the group conducted has shown as the number of people massacred, displaced

Internally displaced people who fled their homes in Berhale due to the fighting between the Afar Special Forces and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) stand near a makeshift compound, in Afdera town, Ethiopia, February 23, 2022. Malnutrition is rising in the region, said the U.N. World Food Programme, and Afdera’s camps are short of