There is a war that has featured attacks on hospitals, war crimes, the torture of civilians and rape as a weapon of war. That’s how Elizebeth Shackelford, a senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs, began a lecture to Drake students on the Tigray War in Ethiopia on Nov. 30. During the Tigray War, an estimated 600,000 civilians died, compared to 6,555 in Ukraine. But even with greater devastation, the Tigray War has attracted far less public attention than Ukraine. In 2017, Shackelford resigned over what she saw as changes in the direction of foreign policy during the Trump administration.

Source: Ethiopian News December 10, 2022 02:00 UTC