Mekelle፡Telaviv, Nairobi, Pretoria, London, (Tigray Herald)
Voices of Diaspora Tigray for Change (VDTC)
Warns another war loming in the Tigray region of Ethiopia
The genocidal war in Tigray revealed the inhuman and deliberate role of Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and his governing military forces. The massacres and atrocities committed were not random acts of violence but were conducted primarily by Eritrean security forces to inflict maximum damage on the people of Tigray and their assets.
The former United States Secretary
of State, Antony Blinken, officially stated that the Eritrean army committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Tigray including murder, rape, forced displacement, and other forms of persecutions based on ethnicity. The atrocities committed were massive, widespread, cataclysmic and well-planned ..
The Eritrean regime is guilty of deliberately destroying critical infrastructure, targeting and destroying schools, hospitals, roads, electricity infrastructure, and public institutions, rendering Tigray’s crucial services inoperable and subjecting the region to humanitarian breakdown.
Thousands of Tigrayan youths were arrested and murdered by Eritrean soldiers. Their bodies were desecrated and thrown in rivers, forests, and remote mountain ranges – yet another part of a systematic ethnic cleansing campaign.
Mass and systematic sexual violence was also perpetrated against Tigrayan women and girls, at times in the form of torture and mutilation. Sexual violence was used as a weapon of war, and it was not unusual to leave the victims with sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS.
Millions of Tigrayans were also forcibly displaced from their homes by Eritrean and allied forces, creating one of the biggest internal displacement crises in Africa.
President Isaias’s hostility towards the Tigrayan people is not new, but it goes back many years. In 1977, his forces had blocked famine-stricken civilians from crossing into safety in Sudan, a pattern repeated in recent years with the blockade of war-torn areas to humanitarian aid.
Your Excellency
A new danger of war now looms over Tigray and the broader Horn of Africa. Despite the Pretoria Agreement, the Eritrean army continues to amass its forces near Tigray’s border. Military sources indicate a new military buildup and possible preparations for yet another round of aggression.
President Isaias Afwerki has actively sought to undermine the Pretoria peace process, apparently in concert with other political forces in the region, in what appears to be an attempt to maintain chaos and maintain regional influence Voices of Diaspora Tigray for Change (VDTC) President Isaias Afwerki is not merely a regional bully; he is a mastermind of mass atrocity.
His war with Tigray is a campaign of ethnic eradication. The international community can’t allow this regional warmonger to plan and execute yet another devastating war.
We call for an immediate and firm response to warn President Isaias Afwerki from engaging in another destabilizing war in the region and hold his cohorts accountable. Justice must be served, impunity must end, and the people of Tigray must be rescued from further brutality.
Sincerely,
Voices of Diaspora Tigray for Change (VDTC)
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