Globe News Net, August 29
More than two years of political strife between Tigray on the one hand, and Ethiopia’s federal government and allies on the other hand ended in one of the bloodiest wars of the 21st century also resulting in the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.
On November 4, an all-out war was ignited following a conflict between Northern Command of Ethiopia National Defense Forces and Tigray’s forces.
Ethiopia’s government and its foreign(Eritrea, Somalia) and domestic(Ethiopian Regional States) allies, helped by UAE’s fighter drones, were able to drive Tigray’s forces and Tigray’s elected regional government out of the capital city, Mekelle, quickly.
Ethiopia’s government declared victory on November 28.
Tigray’s forces later announed that they were ending conventional war and changing their military strategy. That was the beginning of a guerrilla warfare. Sporadic guerrilla insurgencies and occasionally large-scale fighting continued for months.
On the other hand, atrocities on civilians in Tigray by Eritrean, Ethiopian, and Amhara forces became rampant. Massacres, rape, destruction, and deliberate starvation of the entire population were documented by UN bodies and international rights organizations. Amhara forces committed Ethnic cleansing in the Western part of Tigray, driving out the entire Tigrayan population, and massacring a lot among them. Large scale massacres were documented in Axum, Dengelet, MahbereDego, Bora, DebreAbay, Humera, Irob, Tembien, Selekleka e.t.c by various right organizations and international media. Graphic videos of civilian massacres and rape cases became abundant.
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