In recent months reports have emerged highlighting the deteriorating situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. The ongoing armed conflict began on November 4, 2020, when “Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered the Ethiopian Defense Forces (EDF) to militarily engage with the Tigray Regional Paramilitary Police and militia loyal to the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) in what he stated was a response to multiple attacks by the Tigray security forces on the EDF North Command base in Mekelle and other military camps in Tigray Region.” A few days later, on November 9, 2020, evidence of the mass killing of several hundred people, mainly Amharans, in the western Tigray town of Mai Kadra, began to emerge. Subsequent weeks have seen reports of thousands killed, including civilians, and thousands fleeing to Sudan. In December 2020, the U.N. alleged violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law, including the deliberate targeting of civilians, extrajudicial killings and widespread looting.
It did not start there and did not end there. Months before the atrocities, human rights organizations were sounding the alarms of atrocities to come. At the end of August 2020, Genocide Watch issued a genocide warning for Ethiopia “due to the government’s inaction to stop ethnically motivated violence between Oromo, Amhara, Tigrayan and Gedeo peoples.” In October 2020, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, warned about the high risk of further atrocities: “The multiple conflicts currently roiling Ethiopia and the willingness of antagonists to use violence against civilian populations indicates a risk of further atrocities. As more separatist actors and armed groups take advantage of unrest spreading to further regions of Ethiopia, state security could again target civilians. Leaders in the Tigray region have already defied the central government by conducting regional elections in advance of the delayed national elections, now slated for 2021. The armed youth-led mobs who targeted and killed Oromo and Amhara community members in July have not faced justice. Resentment directed at the Abiy administration from the Oromo opposition is only growing.”
Recent reports suggest that the situation is not getting better either. At the end of January 2021, U.N. Special Representative of the Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten, reported on serious allegations of sexual violence in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, including a high number of alleged rapes in the capital, Mekelle. As Patten states: “There are disturbing reports of individuals allegedly forced to rape members of their own family, under threats of imminent violence. Some women have also reportedly been forced by military elements to have sex in exchange for basic commodities, while medical centers have indicated an increase in the demand for emergency contraception and testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) which is often an indicator of sexual violence in conflict. In addition, there are increasing reports of sexual violence against women and girls in a number of refugee camps.”
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Re: Mass Atrocities, Including The Use Of Rape And Sexual Violence, In The Tigray Region Of Ethiopia (Forbes)
I believe the game ladies were contemplating being raped by the Ethiopian army but since ENDF is disciplined and principled they do not touch them.
Deep inside they are upset because they are not wanted. Even during junta time in the past, most of Agmae junta's leadership were married to beautiful Gondere women, not The Tigre ugly ladies. The resentment is deep-rooted in the agame women's heart. They planed to use the opportunity and avenge the Agame gayyyy ( [deleted]) males. However, ENDF and Fano just shunned them and damaged their ego. Now they are crying the agame ladies crying wolf because it is the Agame criminal from jail that are shuging them not the dreamed ENDF and Fano. They can't comprehend it that ENDF and everyone else shunned them except the agame criminals.
Deep inside they are upset because they are not wanted. Even during junta time in the past, most of Agmae junta's leadership were married to beautiful Gondere women, not The Tigre ugly ladies. The resentment is deep-rooted in the agame women's heart. They planed to use the opportunity and avenge the Agame gayyyy ( [deleted]) males. However, ENDF and Fano just shunned them and damaged their ego. Now they are crying the agame ladies crying wolf because it is the Agame criminal from jail that are shuging them not the dreamed ENDF and Fano. They can't comprehend it that ENDF and everyone else shunned them except the agame criminals.