Mereja Forum

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'In Ethiopia, a campaign of ethnic cleansing marked by atrocities is pursued in Tigray'

While the Ethiopian government strives to hide the disaster resulting from its war of extermination in Tigray, a group of researchers deplores the international community's indifference.



On July 1, Arte broadcast an exceptional report entitled Ethiopia: Tigray Humanitarian Crisis. This is the first documentary made in over a year by independent journalists in Tigray. It says and clearly demonstrates that this famine is the product of a war where the goal of Tigray's opponents is annihilation. Unable to defeat the region militarily, they have laid siege to it, cutting Tigray off from the world in order to erase it from public consciousness, in Ethiopia as elsewhere. And this situation has continued for a year. The report shows the result: famine, disease and death. The victims who testify are without hope. The doctors and people in charge of helping the poorest people, the first to be affected by the famine, express a terrible feeling of powerlessness and abandonment by the international community.

The documentary provides a stark rebuttal of the official position of the Ethiopian government, which is trying to cover up this disaster by maintaining a ban on access to the region for journalists and other observers. The government claims there has been a return to normalcy as evidenced by the partial lifting of the blockade on Tigray and efforts at "national dialogue." Most Western diplomats, including those from France, are anxious to put an end to this war, which has tarnished the image of a "reformist" and "liberal" Ethiopian prime minister – highly praised only four years ago – and accept these gestures as signs of progress.

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