Video Period 25 minutes 35 seconds
Amnesty Worldwide and Human Rights Watch launch joint report on atrocities within the Tigray area.
Mass killings, rape, torture, individuals disadvantaged of meals and forcibly transferred.
These are a number of the most critical allegations from nearly 18 months of struggle within the Tigray area of northern Ethiopia.
Amnesty Worldwide and Human Rights Watch say proof of ethnic cleaning and struggle crimes is being ignored internationally.
They accuse officers and safety forces from the neighbouring Amhara area of a coordinated marketing campaign towards Tigrayan individuals.
Preventing since November 2020 has thus far killed hundreds of individuals and compelled many extra to hunt refuge in bordering nations Sudan and Eritrea.
Ethiopia’s authorities is pledging to make the responsible accountable however says the report’s “ethnic undertones” may drive hatred.
So what needs to be the response to the allegations?
Presenter: Mohammed Jamjoom
Visitors:
Ann Fitz-Gerald – director of Balsillie College of Worldwide Affairs in Waterloo, Canada
Laetitia Bader – Horn of Africa director, Human Rights Watch
Gebrekirstos Gebreselassie – founder and editor, tghat.com – web site documenting the struggle