Tigrayans settled half a million Tigrayans in Welkait in one go.. add to this the many thousands of TPLF soldiers reseateled in Welkait..
from the book page 36.
Almost half a million migrants had gathered in western Tigray, about 50,000 were living in thirteen temporary camps, scattered in wellwatered, and camouflaged sites, while 430,000 were being looked after in the villages.
The migration routes are organized by REST (The Relief Society of Tigray). Once the families get to the west they report to a checkpoint. Here they are fed, receive any
urgent medical treatment, and are then allocated to a camp or village.
The people are almost totally destitute; dressed in their home woven materials, they had .little other clothing, and few possessions except
plastic containers for water and some cooking pots. None had animals, and when we asked them about their oxen, they laughed:
'Oxen? We haven't even got hens! '
Without exception all had lost their draught animals at least two years before, and had been struggling to cultivate their farms by borrowing or
hiring from those who still had oxen.
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from BBC reporting in
This is BBC's report of Thursday, 3 March, 2005
It shows clearly how Facist TPLF destroyed the Native welkait Amhars and settled Tigrians in the fertile regions of Welkait and Humera
BBC Thursday, 3 March, 2005
BBC - Tigrians settlment in Welkait and Humera: "Hadguy Mirutz was overwhelmed by his new, fertile plot of land"
BBC Thursday, 3 March, 2005
BBC - Tigrians settlment in Welkait and Humera: "Hadguy Mirutz was overwhelmed by his new, fertile plot of land"
"But the government of Meles Zenawi, some of whose members fought to topple the Derg in 1991, see resettlement as one vital component in efforts to give Ethiopia Tigrians food security.
Hadguy Mirutz travelled hundreds of miles for a fertile plot of land. Hadguy Mirutz has decided to abandon his plot of dusty land near Mekele in Tigray. He has volunteered to move hundreds of miles to a new home where he has been told he will get two hectares of rich, fertile soil. He is leaving his wife and four children behind, but they hope to join him in a year.
"I am very excited and very optimistic," says Mr Mirutz as he clambered aboard a bus, one of convoy of 16 taking a thousand people off to a new start. "I know people who have been on a similar programme - relatives and friends who left last year - and they told me the land is fertile. I believe them."
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