Author Issayas Yrgaw Bahta's book, "the TIGRAYan Electrician," sheds light on the horrors his father experienced during a similar conflict in 1976 and the parallels to the current situation in Tigray. The road map to peace can succeed only if accountability for the war crimes and rehabilitation of what is left of the Tigrayan society remain at the core of all the efforts. Author Issayas Yrgaw Bahta experienced the unbearable weight of silence covering up injustice as a teenager when the same Ethiopian authorities murdered his father in 1976. In the last three years, the Ethiopian government has perpetrated the same crime on a massive scale against his father’s birthplace, the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia. Sadly, the world at large has little, if any, knowledge of the tragedy in Tigray, likely the largest man-made humanitarian catastrophe of the 21st century.

Source: Ethiopian News April 12, 2023 14:34 UTC