Tigray is being deliberately and strategically starved as the Ethiopian Government weaponizes hunger and uses starvation as a method of war. Ethiopian and Eritrean troops along with Amhara militia have burned crops, prevented civilians from farming, burned homes and whole villages, blocked roads, and have ethnically cleansed communities during the #TigrayGenocide. Over 4.5 Million Tigrayan civilians are at imminent risk of starvation, with increasing reports of civilians starving to death.
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“Now, though, there is no drought and no harvest failure. Tigrayans are hungry today because starvation is being used as a weapon of war—relentlessly and systematically.
The United Nations estimates that 4.5 million people in Tigray are in need of food assistance—80 percent of the region’s population. The Famine Early Warning Systems Network, a global hunger monitor established in the mid-1980s with funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development, puts Tigray in “emergency” status—one step short of a declaration of famine, with death rates on the rise. Accurate data from the region is hard to come by, but a reasonable guess is that 100 children are dying each day.” - Alex de Waal | Tuesday, April 6, 2021
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“The suffering is widespread. Central and eastern Tigray, as well as parts of the north-west, are facing “crisis”or “emergency” hunger levels, according to the UN’s Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), meaning that households are suffering from acute malnutrition (see map). The next and final phase on the IPC scale is “famine” marked by an extreme lack of food, resulting in starvation or death. Before the conflict broke out, Tigray was largely free from hunger; now the UN estimates that 4.5m need food aid.” - The Economist | April 22, 2021
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