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Ethiopia’s War Leads to Ethnic Cleansing in Tigray Region, U.S. Report Says

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Ethiopia’s War Leads to Ethnic Cleansing in Tigray Region, U.S. Report Says

Ethiopian refugees who fled the Tigray region at a United Nations compound in Sudan in December.An internal U.S. government report found that people in Tigray are being driven from their homes in a war begun by Ethiopia, an American ally — posing President Biden’s first major test in Africa.

 

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Eritrea’s Anti-forced conscription campaigners demand accountability in the war in Tigray

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January 28, 2021 796 Read

As a campaign we actively supported the United Nation’s Commission of Inquiry (COI) Eritrea Report in 2016 that found Isaias Afwerki and the PFDJ regime guilty of crimes against humanity, committed in Eritrea and state sponsored slavery. Whilst we continue to demand the end of slavery in Eritrea and support peace in our region, today we vehemently oppose the war in Tigray and Isaias’ involvement. Eritrea has no parliament or rule of law and the ruling party has no mandate to govern or represent Eritrea.

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US says Eritrean forces should leave Tigray “immediately”

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Ethiopia, News

Source: Associated Press

By CARA ANNA

 
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United States said all soldiers from Eritrea should leave Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region “immediately.”

A State Department spokesperson in an email to The Associated Press cited “credible reports of looting, sexual violence, assaults in refugee camps and other human rights abuses.”

“There is also evidence of Eritrean soldiers forcibly returning Eritrean refugees from Tigray to Eritrea,” the spokesperson said.

The statement reflects new pressure by the Biden administration on the government of Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country and the anchor of the Horn of Africa, and other combatants as the deadly fighting in Tigray nears the three-month mark.

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The ‘peace’ that delivered total war against Tigray

Written by: ethiopia-insight.com
January 23, 2021
by Yosief Ghebrehiwet

The Abiy-Isaias-Amhara pact was structured to result in either the complete conquest of Tigray or mutual destruction.

Peace in the troubled Horn of Africa region supposedly made a spectacular arrival on 5 June 2018 when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia agreed to implement the peace accord between Ethiopia and Eritrea as specified in the Algiers Agreement.

Two weeks later, President Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea formally reciprocated. Then he went further: he declared that his government’s primary goal would now be “Ethiopia’s stability,” deferring the actual demarcation on the ground to an unspecified time; a reversal of his approach for the previous 16 years.

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European Union directly accuses Eritrean troops of fighting in Tigray War

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Ethiopia,

“There are regional spill-over effects of the conflict, with for instance Eritrean troops being involved in the military operations in Tigray and with Ethiopian troops being withdrawn from Somalia.” Josep Borrell, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy / Vice-President of the Commission

Source: European Union

We need humanitarian access to Tigray as urgent first step towards peace in Ethiopia

15/01/2021 – 01:02

15/01/2021 – HR/VP Blog – For more than two months, conflict has been raging in the Tigray region in Ethiopia. The situation is desperate for the local population and the conflict is unsettling dynamics both within Ethiopia and the whole region. I have passed a clear message to the Ethiopian leadership: we are ready to help, but unless there is access for humanitarian aid operators, the EU cannot disburse the planned budget support to the Ethiopian government.

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Ethiopia’s worsening crisis threatens regional, Mideast security

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Ethiopia, News

“Ethiopia’s fragmentation could portend displacement on a scale not seen in modern times.”

Source: Al-Monitor

Ethiopia’s worsening crisis threatens regional, Mideast security

With the Horn of Africa increasingly becoming an integral part of the Middle East’s security landscape, the fallout from Ethiopia’s current crisis will have a significant impact on states of the region.

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  1. Massacre at Tigray’s Mariam of Zion cathedral in Aksum
  2. Ethiopia – What next for Abiy Ahmed?
  3. Ethiopia-insight: With Abiy in his corner, Isaias eyes TPLF knockout
  4. Situation Report EEPA HORN No. 42 – 31 December 2020
  5. Abiy Ahmed’s aim to ‘Pentecostalize Ethiopian politics’
  6. Urgent call to protect and save Eritrean refugees in the Tigray Region and other Parts of Ethiopia from abduction, killing, and forced repatriation to the war zone
  7. Fleeing Ethiopians Tell of Ethnic Massacres in Tigray War
  8. Jawar Mohammed: The war in Tigray is a result of Ethiopia’s mismanaged transition

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