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Mass rape, forced pregnancy and sexual torture in Tigray amount to crimes against humanity – report

Romhai @romhai.bsky.social · Aug 1

Mass rape, forced pregnancy and sexual torture in #Tigray amount to crimes against humanity – report

#Justice4TigraysWomenAndGirls

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Research documents ‘horrific and extreme’ attacks by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces and warns that impunity has meant such atrocities are expanding to new regions

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Romhai @romhai.bsky.social · Jul 27

Nearly 120,000, or one in ten, women and girls were victims of sexual violence during the conflict, according to #Tigrayan regional authorities.

#Justice4TigraysWomenAndGirls

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Report reveals full horrors of Tigray war's 120,000 rape victims

Tseday, a mother-of-two, said that she was stopped and raped by 'soldiers from the federal army' as they fled into exile in June 2023, after the Tigray war had ended.

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Report reveals full horrors of Tigray war's 120,000 rape victims

Romhai @romhai.bsky.social · Jul 27

Nearly 120,000, or one in ten, women ji during the conflict, according to #Tigrayan regional authorities.

#Justice4TigraysWomenAndGirls

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Tseday, a mother-of-two, said that she was stopped and raped by 'soldiers from the federal army' as they fled into exile in June 2023, after the Tigray war had ended.

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Romhai @romhai.bsky.social · Jul 17

MSF says three of its workers were ‘intentionally’ killed in #Ethiopia’s #Tigray.

#Justice4Tigray

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MSF says 3 of its workers were ‘intentionally’ killed in Ethiopia’s Tigray

The 2021 incident was ‘intentional and targeted killing’ of three clearly identified aid workers, says medical charity.

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wegahtafacts.bsky.social @wegahtafacts.bsky.social · Jul 13

#Editorial: How the narrative around Western Tigray obscures a crime in plain sight

Western Tigray wasn’t contested, It was occupied & ethnically cleansed. Framing it as border dispute or a fight over a crop is not neutrality, it’s complicity.

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Whitewashing Ethnic Cleansing: How the narrative around Western Tigray obscures a crime in plain sight

For nearly five years, Tigrayans from Western Tigray have endured a calculated campaign of ethnic cleansing, orchestrated through brutality, violence, displacement, and occupation.

MSF says three aid workers were ‘Deliberately Killed’ at the height of the war in Tigray, points to Army presence during the incident

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wegahtafacts.bsky.social @wegahtafacts.bsky.social · Jul 15

#Tigray: MSF confirms the 2021 killing of its aid workers in Tigray was a deliberate attack, points ENDF presence at the incident

“Our colleagues were killed in what can only be described as a deliberate attack,” said Paula Gil, President of MSF Spain.

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Médecins Sans Frontières said an internal review into the 2021 killings of three of its staff members in Tigray confirmed the deaths were the result of a deliberate attack, not crossfire or mistaken i...

Ethiopia's Tigray war: Three aid workers were 'executed' during conflict, MSF official says

Romhai @romhai.bsky.social · Jul 15

The report says both civilian and military eyewitnesses had come forward to directly implicate #Ethiopian army soldiers in the killings, including one who allegedly heard a commander order an attack on the aid workers' vehicle.

#Justice4Tigray

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A Spaniard and two Ethiopians were shot dead during the conflict in northern Ethiopia, MSF says.

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Romhai @romhai.bsky.social · Jul 4

#Eritrea Rearming Risks Regional Destabilisation:

#EritreaOutOfTigray

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Eritrea Rearming Risks Regional Destabilisation: US NGO

Eritrea is rebuilding its army and still destabilising its neighbours, particularly Ethiopia, following a 2018 decision to lift an arms embargo, according to a report by an American rights monitor.

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Romhai @romhai.bsky.social · Jul 3

Power and Plunder:
The #Eritrean Defense Forces Intervention in #Tigray.

#TigrayGenocide

#Justice4Tigray

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Power and Plunder - The Sentry

June 2025 Download the full report In November 2018, the United Nations lifted sanctions on Eritrea, including a two-way arms embargo banning both the import and export of arms, after a successful ca...

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Romhai @romhai.bsky.social · Jul 1

Human Rights First alleges "arbitrary arrests" targeting #Tigrayan youths in Addis Abeba.

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Human Rights First alleges "arbitrary arrests" targeting Tigrayan youths in Addis Abeba - Addis Standard

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Over 200,000 Jobs Created in Tigray, but youth unemployment rate remains alarming

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wegahtafacts.bsky.social @wegahtafacts.bsky.social · Jun 29

#Tigray: Over 200,000 Jobs Created in Tigray, but youth unemployment rate remains alarming

Despite the progress, Tigray continues to grapple with a deepening unemployment crisis, particularly among the youth fueling rise in illegal migration.

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More than 200,000 youths, returnees, and women in Tigray have secured temporary or permanent jobs over the past fiscal year, according to T.V.E.T and Job Creation Bureau

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More than 2.5 million people at risk as WFP prepares to halt food aid in Tigray

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wegahtafacts.bsky.social @wegahtafacts.bsky.social · Jun 30

#Tigray: More than 2.5 million people at risk as WFP prepares to halt food aid in Tigray

Gebrehiwot Gebregziabher, head of Tigray’s disaster & risk management commission said WFP is set to halt its humanitarian assistance starting next month.

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Gebrehiwot Gebregziabher (PhD) head of Tigray’s disaster risk management commission said the WFP is set to suspend its food assistance operations in Tigray starting next month, threatening to push mil...

Tigray sees 50% drop in national Exam attendance compared to the pre-war period, says regional education bureau

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wegahtafacts.bsky.social @wegahtafacts.bsky.social · Jun 30

#Tigray: Tigray sees 50% drop in national Exam attendance compared to pre-war period

“More than 36,000 students are registered to take the exam, a steep decline from the 94,000 students who sat for the examination during the pre war.” Dr Kiros Guesh

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The national 12th grade examination officially began in Tigray today, but officials say the number of students sitting the exam has dropped by 50% compared to pre-war period due to the devastating imp...

Eritrean leaders orchestrated industrial-scale looting operations in Tigray, alongside atrocities: new report - Addis Standard

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Romhai @romhai.bsky.social · Jul 1

#Eritrean leaders orchestrated industrial-scale looting operations in #Tigray, alongside atrocities:

#Justice4Tigray

#TigrayIsSuffering

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Eritrean leaders orchestrated industrial-scale looting operations in Tigray, alongside atrocities: new report Addis Standard News -

Rusted screws, metal spikes and plastic rubbish: the horrific sexual violence used against Tigray’s women

Romhai @romhai.bsky.social · Jun 30

Tens of thousands of #Tigrayan women report brutal wartime abuse by #Ethiopian and #Eritrean soldiers, such as gang-rape and the insertion of objects into their uteruses. But justice seems a distant prospect.

#Justice4TigraysWomenAndGirls

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Tens of thousands of Tigrayan women report brutal wartime abuse by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers, such as gang-rape and the insertion of objects into their uteruses. But justice seems a distant pros...

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Romhai @romhai.bsky.social · Jun 19

IDPs in #Tigray launch three-day protest in #Mekelle demanding return home before rainy season.

#TigrayIsSuffering

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IDPs in Tigray launch three-day protest in Mekelle demanding return home before rainy season - Addis Standard

IDPs in Tigray launch three-day protest in Mekelle demanding return home before rainy season Addis Standard News -

Romhai @romhai.bsky.social · Jun 17

Conflict and displacement leave thousands of children in limbo as classrooms remain closed across contested areas of #Tigray.

#TigrayCantWait

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U.S. Aid Freeze Unleashes Devastating Health Crisis in Ethiopia: New PHR Research - PHR

Romhai @romhai.bsky.social · Jun 17

U.S. Aid Freeze Unleashes Devastating Health Crisis in Ethiopia: New PHR Research
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)

#TigrayIsSuffering

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An abrupt freeze on United States foreign aid is catalyzing a preventable health catastrophe in Ethiopia, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) said today in a new research brief. PHR calls on the Trump a...

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Romhai @romhai.bsky.social · Jun 10

Abiy Ahmed: A Peace Laureate, Who Chose War as Ultimate Option in the Quest for Peace.

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Abiy Ahmed: A Peace Laureate, Who Chose War as Ultimate Option in the Quest for Peace

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 for ending a conflict with Eritrea, has faced severe criticism since for his government’s authoritarian actions and the vi…

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Romhai @romhai.bsky.social · Jun 5

"The level of death and destruction that occurred in #Ethiopia in the last seven years brings into focus @AbiyAhmedAli’s cultivated stupidity in the sense that Bonhoeffer defined the term. Nothing has any effect on him other than his idiosyncratic goals. "

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Worse Than Evil: How stupidity fueled Ethiopia into a raging inferno - Addis Standard

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Tigray Interim Admin seeks explanation from federal gov’t over cargo trucks halted in Afar, Amhara regions - Addis Standard

Romhai @romhai.bsky.social · Jun 3

War in #Tigray traumatically violates women's dignity.

#Justice4TigraysWomenAndGirls

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Romhai @romhai.bsky.social · May 30

#Tigray Interim Admin seeks explanation from federal gov’t over cargo trucks halted in #Afar, #Amhara regions.

#EndTigraySiege

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Tigray Interim Admin seeks explanation from federal gov’t over cargo trucks halted in Afar, Amhara regions Addis Standard News -