Back to the Dark Age in Tigray, akin to the only modern Gulag state of Eritrea!
Posted: 24 Jun 2026, 15:43
Tigray’s main political party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), issued the proclamation in early June 2026 after driving out regional leaders appointed by the federal government and initiating an intensive conscription drive that bears similarities to Eritrea’s abusive national service system.
They used to release many directives in the same sense as to this so called proclamation to repress the Oromo people while they were in power at Arat Kilo now they have brought it to their own home base by backtracking what ever they claimed to have brought to the people in the name of "liberation", akin to only Eritrea's own "liberation".The security and mobilization proclamation contains vague and overly broad language that is open to abuse, and stipulates imprisonment and the death penalty as punishment for a range of offenses. The proclamation was adopted amid increasing tensions between the TPLF and the Ethiopian federal government, sparking fears of further atrocities against Tigrayan civilians.
It is highly likely that the so called proclamation was taken from Eritrea's own blue print on the issue at hand here.
The world shouldn't allow the creation of yet another gulag in the Horn of Africa, while the miseries created by that of Eritrea itself is repulsive enough for human civilization!
As part of the current conscription drive, local authorities and Tigrayan forces have ordered former fighters to report to their units and are going door-to-door and carrying out mass, forced round ups of potential fighters, including children, according to reports from local human rights organizations and the media.
The new proclamation, seen by Human Rights Watch, which was reportedly adopted without public scrutiny, establishes a framework for compulsory military mobilization for those whose “health and age permit.”
The proclamation imposes the death penalty for a range of vague or broad offenses, including causing damage or harm to strategic defense supplies, seriously threatening the peace and security of Tigray, collaborating with the enemy, or undermining or dissolving the unity and territory of Tigray irrespective of citizenship. Human Rights Watch opposes capital punishment under all circumstances, as a practice unique in its cruelty and finality.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/06/23/eth ... busive-lawThe proposed mobilization system bears troubling similarities to aspects of Eritrea’s national service system, which United Nations investigators and human rights organizations have rightly criticized for coercive recruitment, indefinite military service, restrictions on freedom of movement, and punishment of those who evade conscription and their families, Human Rights Watch said.