Several people have said that police are going around detaining ethnic Tigrayans, accusing them without evidence of having ties to the TPLF, and celebrating the TDF capture of Mekelle.
Many businesses owned by Tigrayans continue to be closed down by Ethiopian police. Another witness told African Arguments that they barged in and “the police came in and told everyone they had to leave”. All their neighbouring shops, also owned by Tigrayans, were closed as well. Their bank accounts have also been frozen.
Dagnachew Assefa, an advisor of the Prime Minister Abiy, recently suggested that “Tigrayans out of the Tigray region (Addis Ababa) should be registered and sent back to Tigray,” a possible call for ethnic cleansing.
EU Foreign Affairs Chief Borell calls for further restrictive sanctions over the Ethiopia crisis as I condemns the further isolation of Tigray.