And there have been widespread allegations of gruesome sexual violence, torture, and mass executions of Tigrayans, which observers say amounts to ethnic cleansing.
There are reports of famine as the region remains under a government-imposed siege. Many were said to have been sent to Awash Arba, a military camp located in the northern Afar region, which borders Tigray to the east.Įthiopia’s nearly year-long civil war has devastated the Tigray region. After the Tigray Defence Forces, led by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), retook the regional capital Mekelle in late-June, hundreds if not thousands of ethnic Tigrayans were arbitrarily detained by Ethiopian authorities across the country and transferred to undisclosed locations. Tigrayans recently released from a military camp in the Afar region of Ethiopia say they faced torture and inhumane conditions.
A man obscured in a window in Addis Ababa.
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