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There have been reports of concentration camps controlled by Ethiopian forces housing ethnic Tigrayans including infants as young as two years old, as well as pregnant women and children. Just three weeks ago there were multiple bombings in Tigray’s capital, Mekelle, which resulted in heavy civilian casualties.
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Those of us in the Tigrayan disapora live each day not knowing if our family members are alive news of each massacre, air attack, and mass arrest brings a sense of impending doom, that our family or friends could be among the victims.įriends in the west have taken to the internet to announce the deaths of mothers, siblings, grandparents and friends. Ethiopian soldiers subsequently closed the border, reducing the number of refugees who could flee.įrom a personal perspective, the war has had a huge impact. In the first two months of the war, more than 56,000 Tigrayan refugees fled to Sudan – bringing with them harrowing memories of massacres at the hands of armed militia, Ethiopian soldiers, and troops from Eritrea (which lies to the north of Tigray). UN relief chief Martin Griffiths said last week that “Tigray is probably the worst place to live in the world right now”.
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Now, a year on, we have a manmade humanitarian catastrophe that USAID has called “one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world”. But almost instantly Tigray, a region in the far north of the country that is home to more than 7 million people, was cut off from the world: phone lines were shut down, the internet was cut off, banks were closed and journalists were barred from the region.įor many with family in Tigray, including myself, we braced ourselves, waiting to hear what had become of our family and friends. When on that day the Ethiopian prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, a Nobel peace prizewinner, announced a military offensive in Tigray, it was hard to predict the scale of the human suffering that would ensue. And it’s one which the world has, for the most part, ignored. For myself and many others with family and friends in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, however, that day marked the beginning of a year-long nightmare. O n 4 November 2020 the world was occupied with the results of the US election.