The world was aghast as reports of the atrocities started coming out--crimes against humanity and war crimes. The Genocide Convention however did not deter Ethiopia from committing genocide; the federal government under Abiy continues to snub its nose at the international community, showing its contempt for the Genocide Convention. Officials of the United Nations, the United States and its European allies made loud noises in the initial phases of the Tigray war, decrying the war crimes and crimes against humanity by Eritrean, Ethiopian and Amhara troops in Tigray. He put his government propaganda machine into high gear, instead accusing the Tigray Defense Forces (TDF) formed after the invasion to defend the population, of committing unsubstantiated war crimes. After all, what is a half a million lives worth in some remote African region?

Source: Ethiopian News September 10, 2022 17:41 UTC