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 […]
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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
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INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE STRICTLY EMBARGOED UNTIL, TUESDAY 29 MARCH 2022 AT 01:01 CAT Contact press@amnesty.org for embargoed materials and to arrange interviews Amnesty International releases its Annual Report for 2021 Global leaders peddling false promises of a fair recovery from Covid-19 to address deep-seated inequalities, with only 8% of Africa’s 1.2 billion people fully vaccinated by end of 2021 Utter
Survivors of TPLF Rapes & Massacres | Ethiopia’s Civil War In November 2020, an outbreak of war in Ethiopia wreaked havoc across various regions in Ethiopia (e.g., Afara, Amhara, Tigray, and Oromo). It saddens me greatly that rape has been used as a weapon of war. Widespread sexual violence acts throughout Ethiopia have been
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By Zecharias Zelalem On September 10, 2021, three young men routinely tending to cattle on the main road in the Doro Gibir farming community on the outskirts of the northern Ethiopian city of Woldia, paused to check on crops their family was growing at a site near the country’s A2 highway. It was their last act
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Addis Ababa February 17/ 2022 (ENA) Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has launched a project to conduct national inquiry into the rights of persons deprived of liberty today. The commission held the workshop with relevant stakeholders to provide information and establish a collaborative approach in the process on how to identify, access and analyze patterns
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Embargoed for release until: 00:01 GMT (03:01 EAT) on 16 February 2022 Fighters affiliated with the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) deliberately killed dozens of people, gang-raped dozens of women and girls – some as young as 14 – and looted private and public property in two areas of northern Ethiopia’s
By Andrew Korybko American political analyst The “Ethiopia Stabilization, Peace, and Democracy Act” (ESPDA), popularly known as the “Malinowski Bill” after one of the congressmen who introduced it, doesn’t support either stabilization, peace, or democracy. Rather, it’s the most malicious form of humanitarian imperialism short of a Libyan-like all-out war. ESPDA has mostly been
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Moges Zewdu “Cuius regio eius natio−who rules the region decides on the nation” Ethnic cleansing is a defining feature of modernity in the sense that it is neither the thing of the past nor the by-product of uncivilized world. Fundamentally, ethnic cleansing is, to use Ther’s expression, the dark side of modernity and nation states.(1)
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AFP, Reuters UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has met with the Ethiopian women facing some of the most horrifying consequences of the Tigray conflict. Their accounts, she said, left her near tears. UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said Friday that women had faced “unimaginable” horrors in conflict-torn regions of Ethiopia. Mohammed became the highest-ranking UN official
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By: Shiferaw Abebe I want to be proven wrong but the Prime Minister is out of his mind. I am afraid Sebhat and his group are released as a prelude for an upcoming negotiation with TPLF. Jawar and his group and Eskinder and his group are menajo. This amnesty was not made for them, but
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On August 31, Tigrayan Terrorist forces entered the village of #Chenna and engaged in sporadic and at times heavy fighting with Ethiopian federal forces and allied Amhara militias. Chenna residents told Human Rights Watch that over the next five days Tigrayan Terrorist forces summarily executed 26 civilians in 15 separate incidents, before withdrawing on September
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