MEKELLE, October 16, 2025 (Tigray Mass Media Agency) —Commission of Inquiry on Tigray Genocide (CITG) has released a detailed report revealing that the Tigray war from November 2020 to November 2022 was marked by widespread sexual and gender-based violence, which the Commission says amounts to genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.
According to the report, which is available on the commission’s official website https://citghub.org/, out of 481,201 respondents surveyed, 286,250 approximately 59.5% survived at least one form of Gender-Based Violence (GBV). Among them, 166,621 (58.4%) individuals endured sexual violence, including rape and sexual slavery. The Commission reports that more than 152,000 (53.1%) survivors of GBV experienced rape, while 12.67% were held in sexual slavery, often for weeks or months and subjected to repeated assaults.
The report further indicates that psychological violence affected about 54.8% of survivors, and severe physical assault was reported by roughly 36.43%. Among these cases, 975 survivors were burned with chemicals and 529 were killed during the assaults. The Commission emphasizes that sexual violence was also perpetrated against boys and men, confirming that the crimes were widespread and indiscriminate (CITG, 2025). Read more…