Hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans have been silently displaced, abused and scrutinized in atrocious actions played by the Amhara region and the Ethiopian Federal troops where children, women and men not only lost their homes and loved ones but also their dignity and human rights. This ethnic war has caused children in Western Tigray to miss out on education, lose their homes and go through malnutrition and hunger ever since the conflict started in November 2020.
War´s background and facts
The Tigray region is a state that belongs to north-western Ethiopia and is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, the Amhara Region to the south and the Afar Region to the east and southeast. In 1990, Western Tigray which is bordered by Sudan and Eritrea was added to the Tigray region that was newly formed as a state and a fertile territory for conflicts over borders and identity. This conflictive environment reached its peak when officials from Amhara Region allied their forces with the Ethiopian Federal troops in order to take control over the Western Tigray in November 2020.
Based on extensive interviews that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch organized between December 2020 and March 2022, it is known that, starting from November 2020, Tigrayans have been suffering from constant abuses from Amhara regional security forces and civilian authorities in Ethiopia´s Western Tigray Zone (Human Rights Watch, 2022). These abuses have transitioned into war crimes and crimes against humanity where killings, tortures, sexual assaults, mass detention, and forcible displacement were some of the means used to atrociously attack the Tigrayan civilian population (Amnesty International, 2022). Read more…
There is a great hope for Tigray to recover again. Thank you for all your hard work.