For more than a year and a half, a largely invisible campaign of ethnic cleansing has played out in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray. Some ethnic Amharas viewed these changes as an annexation, believing that the territory should have become part of the Amhara regional state. In subsequent days, Amhara forces and Ethiopian federal troops targeted Tigrayans in a wave of revenge killings, arbitrary detentions, and eventual expulsions. Then in late 2021, Amhara forces carried out yet another wave of forced expulsions and killings in Western Tigray. The United States, the European Union, and regional powers should also call for credible independent investigations into the abuses in Western Tigray.

Source: Ethiopian News June 02, 2022 16:46 UTC