☆ Muslim BioNTech ‘Founders’ Awarded Germany’s Federal CROSS of Merit: Imagine the little-known biotechnology company and Pfizer mRNA partner BioNTech reaped over night €19B last year. Wow! How was that possible?
☆ President of the largest Muslim-majority country in the world Indonesia Joko Widodo
☆ Moroccan actor Mohamen Mehdi Ouazanni aka Satan – playing the part of the devil. Barack Obama
☆ President Obama says that he always carries with him an Ethiopian CROSS
☆ The Altar of Zeus alternately known as the Pergamon Altar built between 197 and 156 B.C. formerly in Pergamon, Asia Minor, (today Bergama, Turkey) is now housed in Berlin’s Pergamon Museum. This is also the same altar that Jesus referred to as, “the Throne of Satan” in Revelation 2:13
‘I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is; and you hold fast My name, and did not deny My faith even in the days of Antipas, My witness, My faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.[Revelation 2:13]
It was also this same altar that Hitler’s architect Albert Speer used as the model for the Zeppelintribune Field used by Hitler to make his most grand speeches to the Nazis.
☆ One month after his visit to ‘Pergamon Berlin’, when President Obama made his initial acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado on August 28, 2008, it was in a nearly perfect replica of what Jesus referred to as “the throne of Satan.”
On July 24, 2008 Obama visited ‘Pergamon Berlin’ and delivered at the Siegessäule monument the following message:
“The walls between races and tribes, natives and immigrants, Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand,” Obama told the rapturous audience. “These now are the walls we must tear down.”
However, for many Germans, that carnival atmosphere in July 2008 proved something of a false dawn. To Obama’s critics, the walls that he spoke of are even higher today.
❖ The historic Hagia Sophia Church in Constantinople/ Istanbul in its original form was built by Emperor Constantine sometime around the year 330AD, less than 300 years after Christ himself walked among us. It was rebuilt two centuries later after a devastating fire and stood as an Orthodox Christian church. Even though it has been out of the control of the Orthodox Church for nearly 600 years and has been used as a museum since 1934, it remains not only an architectural marvel but a testament to the glory of Jesus Christ and a powerful symbol of Byzantium and its legacy for global Orthodoxy. It is currently a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site.
However, Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently issued a decree reclaiming the holy site for Islam.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued a decree in 2020 ordering Hagia Sophia to be opened for Muslim prayers, an action which provoked international furor around a World Heritage Site cherished by Christians and Muslims alike for its religious significance, for its stunning structure and as a symbol of conquest.
The presidential decree came minutes after a Turkish court announced that it had revoked Hagia Sophia’s status as a museum, which for the last 80 years had made it a monument of relative harmony and a symbol of the secularism that was part of the foundation of the modern Turkish state.
This move could be considered an instance of history repeating, as the historic church was conquered by Muslims and converted to a mosque in the 1400’s.
The church is itself an historic marvel. It was built in 537AD by 10,000 workers on the order of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian. It immediately became the foremost cathedral in the imperial city of Constantinople and the entire Christian world, east and west. Emperor Justinian stated that, as a cathedral, it was “one that has never existed since Adam’s time, and one that will never exist again.”
The present structure was the largest religious structure in the world when it was built. This remained true until the completion of the current St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome during the 16th century. Historians of science are still puzzled by how 6th century engineers would be able to build such a large dome without modern tools such as steel and calculus.
Historically it has served as the primary site of Byzantine religious, imperial, and diplomatic ceremony. It is the cathedral church of the Ecumenical Patriarch. After the 8th century, it became the site for crowning new emperors. It has been the site of royal weddings, diplomatic baptisms, signing of treaties, and more, as documented in the 9th century document Book of Ceremonies.
Throughout its storied history, Hagia Sophia has been in different hands over the centuries:
The Orthodox Church from 537-1204 (this includes the 100 years held by iconoclasts during the 8th and 9th centuries);
The Crusaders/Roman Church from 1204-1261;
The Orthodox Church 1261-1453;
The Ottomans/Turks as a mosque 1453-1934; and
As a museum (by order of Turkish President Kemal Atatürk, founder of secular Turkey) 1935-2020.
As a museum, the Hagia Sophia presented Christian history to the entire world, opening a dialogue between people of all faiths. But the Christian frescos that adorn its walls are about to be strategically covered up. It has already been announced they will be covered with curtains during prayer because Islamic law forbids images of people.
Erdoğan claims the doors will still be open to Muslims and non-Muslims, but what are the odds that tourists will flock to an active mosque? It seems more likely that now the famed church and the Turkish government’s re-appropriation of it are meant to serve as a symbol of Islamic conquest. Even an official from neighboring Greece called the move “a direct challenge to the entire civilized world.”
Imagine if any foreign leader announced that it was seizing a Muslim mosque and converting it to a Christian church. There would likely be zero-tolerance from the Muslim world. And yet Erdoğan made it clear he rules over Turkey, including Turkish Christians, with impunity, almost provoking Western leaders to challenge him, stating:
The way Hagia Sophia will be used falls under Turkey’s sovereign rights. We deem every move that goes beyond voicing an opinion a violation of our sovereignty.
And this is not the first time under Erdoğan that Turkey has taken possession of Christian churches. As the New York Times reported in 2016:
The Turkish government has seized the historic Armenian Surp Giragos Church, a number of other churches and large swaths of property in the heavily damaged Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, saying it wants to restore the area but alarming residents who fear the government is secretly aiming to drive them out.
“For the first time in history the ineffectiveness of a medicine is being blamed on those who refuse to take it.” ~ Dr. Robert Malone
☆ 331 million American
1.1 million dead= That’s 331 x .0036 of the population
☆ 5.46 billion have been vaccinated about 71.1 percent of the world
5.46 billion x .0036= 19,656,000 dead so far from the vaccine
And it’s just getting started. Billions dead at the end of this year.
💭 SECRET CDC REPORT: Since the Covid Jabs Were Rolled Out, at Least 1.1 Million Americans Have “Died Suddenly”
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has quietly confirmed that at least 1.1 million Americans have “died suddenly” ever since Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) “vaccines” were introduced under Operation Warp Speed.
Since the time when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency use authorization (EUA) for the jabs, more than six million Americans total have died. Of this, 1,106,079 deaths are considered to be “excess,” based on the five-year average from 2015 to 2019.
Other government data confirms that mortality rates per 100,000 people are highest among the “fully vaccinated” population, suggesting covid injections are the cause of all this excess mortality. (Related: The CDC has been removing covid jab injury and death reports from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System [VAERS].)
People really started dying AFTER the jabs were released, not before
Thus far, every single week in 2022 has seen a significant and noticeable number of excess deaths. At one point, upwards of 350,000 excess deaths were being reported per week, though the average has since decreased somewhat.
“This means 1,700 more Americans actually died by week 38 of 2022 than those who died by week 38 of 2020, despite the fact there was a huge wave of alleged Covid-19 deaths during this period,” reports The Exposé about what the data shows.
Put another way, there are more excess deaths occurring in the post-jab era than there were in the pre-jab era when the media and the government were scaring everyone about “covid.” It turns out the real threat is the jabs.
💭 Trying to Solve a Covid Mystery: Africa’s Low Death Rates
The coronavirus was expected to devastate the continent, but higher-income and better-prepared countries appear to have fared far worse.
💭 As in the case of Ethiopia the cause of death is different
🔥The Third World War began on October 24 / 2013(Ethiopian calendar – on the Days of Saints George and Abune Teklahaymanot) on November 4, 2020, when the Edomites and Ishmaelites opened their Jihad against Axum Zion (on the Ark of the Covenant). The US presidential election took place on this very day.
❖ Keep your hands off Axum Zion!❖
💭 Tell me who is against Axum Zion (The Ark of The Covenant) and I will tell who is who.
👉 The Ukraine war shows us:
😈 United by their Illuminist-Luciferian-Masonic-Satanist agendas The following Edomite-Ishmaelite entities and bodies are helping the genocidal fascist Oromo regime of evil Abiy Ahmed Ali:
☆ The United Nations
☆ The World Bank
☆ The International Monetary Fund
☆ The European Union
☆ The African Union
☆ The United States, Canada & Cuba
☆ Russia
☆ Ukraine
☆ China
☆ Israel
☆ Arab States
☆ Southern Ethiopians
☆ Amharas
☆ Eritrea
☆ Djibouti
☆ Kenya
☆ Sudan
☆ Somalia
☆ Egypt
☆ Iran
☆ Pakistan
☆ India
☆ Azerbaijan
☆ Amnesty International
☆ Human Rights Watch
☆ World Food Program (2020 Nobel Peace Laureate)
☆ The Nobel Prize Committee
☆ The Atheists and Animists
☆ The Muslims
☆ The Protestants
☆ The Sodomites
☆ TPLF
💭 Even those nations that are one another enemies, like: ‘Israel vs Iran’, ‘Russia + China vs Ukraine + The West’, ‘Egypt + Sudan vs Iran + Turkey’, ‘India vs Pakistan’ have now become friends – as they are all united in the anti-Christian, anti-Zionist-Ethiopia-Conspiracy. This has never ever happened before it is a very curios phenomenon – a strange unique appearance in world history.
✞ With the Zionist Tigray-Ethiopians are:
❖ The Almighty Egziabher God & His Saints
❖ St. Mary of Zion
❖ The Ark of The Covenant
💭 Due to the leftist and atheistic nature of the TPLF, because of its tiresome, imported and Satan-influenced ideological games of: „Unitarianism vs Multiculturalism“, the Supernatural Force that always stood/stands with the Northern Ethiopian Christians is blocked – and These Celestial Powers are not yet being ‘activated’. Even the the above Edomite and Ishmaelite entities and bodies who in the beginning tried to help them have gradually abandoned them.
💭 Prominent Virologist Dr. A. Oveta Fuller, who advocated for emergency use authorization of three Covid vaccines, has suddenly died from a brief unknown illness.
✞ She died.67 years old.
A. Oveta Fuller, Ph.D. associate professor of microbiology and immunology at University of Michigan Medical School. She served as the director of the African Studies Center (ASC).
👉 Areas of Interest
HUMAN VIRUS ENTRY, PATHOGENESIS AND INFECTION PREVENTIONS
Our laboratory based research has sought to understand molecular mechanisms of how human pathogenic viruses enter into cells to mediate infection, membrane fusion and spread, and how these affect replication, pathogenesis and disease. The studies include exploring mechanisms of entry and early events for human herpesviruses- HSV-1 and HSV-2 . In conjunction with chemical engineering and human genetics researchers we have sought to develop microchip technologies for rapid and inexpensive detection of genetic variations in influenza virus. Experimental systems that examine viral entry, cellular receptors, pathogenesis, protein structure/function and fusion of biological membranes are used to determine possible approaches to control or prevent infection by viral pathogens. We seek to apply fundamental molecular information to development of new anti-virals, detection of genetic variation, and development of community based interventions for infectious disease prevention.
A recent focus in Preventive Medicine and Medical Education is use of a science-based HIV/AIDS intervention through religious leader networks to actively address infectious disease health disparities. Specifically, we seek to validate effectiveness of a prevention model designated the “Trusted Messenger Intervention” (TMI) that reframes HIV as a virus infection that can be controlled. TMI works with clergy and faith leaders within official established networks so they become more confident to use their substantial community access and influence to effectively address HIV/AIDS.
A major objective of this community-based research is to build capacity of clergy and religious leaders to take biomedical research advances into their community organizations. This is one way to link science and medical based understanding with group and individual actions. Outcomes of TMI are measured by surveys and focus groups for effects on HIV/AIDS stigma, increase in understanding of HIV/AIDS and increase in completion of HIV voluntary counseling and testing (VCT). VCT is a key step in stopping virus transmission and reducing the incidence and death from AIDS and other preventable diseases.
This collaborative and community based research focus is with public health faculty colleagues and community religious networks and community faith leaders in Zambia, Botswana and South Africa. Recent study sites in the USA have been identified in work with the Center for AIDS Research at Vanderbilt University and Meharry Medical College.
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on November 23, 2022
💭 Mette Frederiksen is Prime Minister of Denmark since June 2019, and Leader of the Social Democrats since June 2015. She is the second woman to hold this office, and the youngest Prime Minister (45) in Danish history.
🛑 While America is waiting for Kamala Harris to be its next President, in Europe, the young, inexperienced and ‘feminist’ women who hold real power as heads of government include Prime Ministers and Presidents:
☆ Mette Frederiksen (45) in Denmark
☆ Kaja Kallas, PM (45) in Estonia
☆ Kersti Kaljulaid, President (52) in Estonia
☆ Sanna Marin (37) in Finland
☆ Ingrida Šimonytė (48) Lithuania
☆ Katrín Jakobsdóttir (46) in Iceland
☆ Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu (40) in Kosovo
☆ Natalia Gavrilița, PM (45) in Moldavia
☆ Maia Sandu, President (50) in Moldavia
☆ Zuzana Čaputová (49) in Slovakia
☆ Katalin Novák (45) in Hungary
☆ Katerina Sakellaropoulou (66) in Greece
☆ Élisabeth Borne (61) in France
☆ Giorgia Meloni (45) in Italy
☆ Ana Brnabić (47) in Serbia
☆ Eva Magdalena Andersson (55) in Sweden
The latter three deserve special mention as Meloni is Italy’s first female leader, Brnabić is the first woman and openly gay PM in Serbia’s history while Andersson is the first female prime minister in Sweden’s history.
💭 Chuck Schumer says Democrats want to pass an immigration bill because “we have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to.” Schumer then calls for amnesty for “all 11 million or however many” illegal immigrants in the U.S
Yes, you are being replaced. Once derided as a racist conspiracy theory, “replacement theory” is not only confirmed but even touted by Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer who yesterday claimed that millions of illegals must be granted amnesty because the US population “is not reproducing on its own.”
Of course, that’s because so-called “vaccine” injections — actually mRNA depopulation bioweapons — are causing widespread abortions, stillbirths, infertility and deaths. As expert analyst Ed Dowd told this reporter yesterday, post-vaccine excess mortality across the population at large is running around 32%, meaning an extra 2,400+ Americans are dying each day thanks to the mRNA jabs. And that’s on top of the 7,700 or so that normally die each day, bringing the total daily deaths in America right now beyond 10,000.
After pushing the genocidal vaccine, Sen. Schumer’s claim that “we have a population that is not reproducing on its own” seems tone deaf. Does he not realize his own vaccine mandates are killing off Americans? (Most likely, he knows full well.)
Illegals — who are not required to be vaccinated and are therefore fully capable of reproducing — are pouring into the country by the millions while both Dem and GOP senators push genocide for Americans. This is the crime against humanity that’s playing out right now, right in front of our eyes… and Schumer isn’t even trying to hide it anymore.
This is Satanic Ritual Abuse, Modern Day Child Sacrifice – Murderers! In Ethiopia The Galla-Oromos are also massacring children. The Luciferians chose them because the Gala-Oromos are doing the same satanic work in our country. How many children have these evil people who are prepared for the death of hell sacrificed in Ethiopia?! God knows! Even by taking unborn babies out of the mother’s womb, they used the innocent as a sacrifice to the satanic entity; ‘Waqqeyo-Allah-Lucifer’. May they burn in hell!
💭 In a tragic turn of events, Santino Godoy Blanco, just 4 years old, has passed away from pneumonia on Nov. 3, according to multiple reports.
If that name sounds at all familiar to you, that’s because Blanco was the face of one of Argentina’s various vaccination campaigns.
Santino Godoy Blanco was a 4-year-old boy from the town of San Miguel. In addition to being a soccer fanatic and a fan of Platense, he liked to model. A month ago the boy had starred in “Activa hugs”, a vaccination campaign promoted by the Ministry of Health of the Nation. His face today is part of all public health centers.
You can see an example of the type of campaign that Blanco was featured in below:
San Miguel murió un nene en un hospital y su familia denuncia abandono de persona.
Santino Godoy Blanco, 4 year old star of vaccination campaign in Argentina, dies pic.twitter.com/rEwJ6KZqrT
Aún no hay consenso científico sobre las causas concretas del exceso de muertes en España, pero los expertos señalan varios factores. “Es un año muy malo de mortalidad y es peor todavía de lo que parece”
💭 Los brotes, las mayores incidencias y la saturación de los hospitales que se están produciendo durante la segunda ola de coronavirus en España son para los expertos el preludio de un repunte de la mortalidad que parece estar tomando forma según el último informe del Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), que observa un tercer periodo de demasía entre el 1 y el 27 de septiembre en el que se produjeron 2.722 muertes más de las esperadas. De ellas, el 81 % (2.192) se corresponden a casos de COVID-19.
💭 There is still no scientific consensus on the specific causes of excess deaths in Spain, but experts point to several factors. “It’s a very bad year of mortality and it’s even worse than it looks”
The last half year has been, by far, the one more deaths has registered in Spain since the Covid and since there are comparable records. The more than 10,000 that has officially caused the virus and almost 5,000 attributed to heat they are already worrying figures.
But the biggest problem is in excess mortality from all causes, amounting to 27,060, well above the data for 2020 and 2021 in the warm six months of the year, from May to October. The total since January already accumulates 33,165.
What is happening? No one knows exactly. According the daily mortality monitoring system for all causes ( Momo ), not only have there been records in total deaths, but also in attributable to heat, which are 4,800. In addition, they have been accounted for 10,410 deaths by Covid in the last six months. Even if we add these two causes, there would still be 11,850 more deaths not attributed to the climate or the virus.
In that same period, between May and October, the excess of deaths was 14,567 in 2020 and 10,004 in 2021. Therefore, the unexpected deaths in these last six months exceed those of the two previous courses together. Or, in other words, almost double those of 2020 and triple those of 2021, always attending to the warm months. In fact, the excess of deaths in these last six months of 2022 already exceeds that observed throughout 2021, including winter, which was 24,490.
“It is a very bad year of mortality and it is even worse than it seems, because there is a thing called a harvest effect, which is the premature collection of mortality, “explains Salvador Peiró, spokesman for the Spanish Society of Public Health and Health Administration ( Sespas ) and researcher at Fisabio.
The effect is as follows: in a health crisis, many vulnerable people die, among others, who, under normal conditions, would have done so during the following months or years. So, there comes a time when statistics begins to reflect fewer deaths of those expected.
“The expected situation behind the Covid waves would be a mortality defect, not an excess, because many people who had died in the following year had already died from Covid. However, we have not noticed that effect, “says Peiró. Most of the excess mortality in recent months is concentrated in summer, with 19,218 deaths not expected. Many of them, this expert shuffles, could actually be linked to heat, even if statistics do not attribute them. “But this is all speculative. What we know is that there is an excess of mortality”, he adds.
In any case, the effect of extreme temperature would always add to other causes, since heat stroke, by itself, causes very few deaths. In this sense, more and more studies point to the fact that SARS-CoV-2 infection, although overcome, leaves us in a more vulnerable situation. “At least for the year following the Covid, there are people who have an increased risk of mortality from various causes cardiovascular: heart attacks, stroke … “, reviews Peiró. Which leads us to the following hypothesis: what happens if heat and Covid interact?
“There may be interactions between factors, and the model we have for pure heat may not be the same as a model for heat plus having passed the Covid. It is possible that one cause increased the other: that we were not adding, but multiplying. There is probably a component to it too. We probably have many effects at once, “sopes the Sespas spokesman. Another unusual fact that leaves 2022 is that its greatest excess mortality has occurred in summer, when heat waves and Covid coincided, and not in winter, as usual.
The trend is still worrying: the excess deaths observed in October doubles that of last year, with more than 1,500 unexpected deaths, none attributed to temperatures, and still pending the update of the last days. Is he seventh consecutive month that records an excess in 2022, while the three years prior to the pandemic -2017, 2018 and 2019- had fewer deaths than expected in October.
Excess mortality, which is the difference between deaths expected according to the statistical average and those that actually occur, is affecting other European countries this year, like the United Kingdom or Germany, although in Spain it has been especially pronounced.
Another possible cause of the excess we are suffering, apart from those we do not yet know, It could be the crisis in the health system, which has not adequately cared for vulnerable people in recent years. “Grow up the heat and the unsolved health problems in 2020 and 2021, plus the Covid cases that contribute to dying with and not by Covid, since Covid causes or worsens other diseases, “summarizes Jeffrey Lazarus, co-director of the ISGlobal Viral and Bacterial Infections Program, a center promoted by the” La Caixa “Foundation”.
“Dying with Covid, even if it’s not from Covid, is also a major public health problem. And there will be many people who do not die, but lose quality of life, “says Lazarus, author of important work on the pandemic. “You have to assume that people continue to die for Covid, with Covid and indirectly for Covid; for example, people who were found late for cancer. And there could be other causes that escape us, “says Joan Caylà, spokesman for the Spanish Society of Epidemiology and president of the Foundation of the Tuberculosis Research Unit.
“No one can say the percentages, but here there may be people who really would have died for Covid; others with Covid; others, due to chronic problems that have not been adequately addressed, “Caylà lists. “And there would even be the possibility of an epidemic of deaths from other causes, but it would not be very great, because it would have been detected,” he said. “Mortality figures are impressive and objectify the importance that Covid has had, also indirectly”.
What we already know is that SARS-CoV 2 causes “a lot of symptoms”, Not only pneumonia, and we will soon learn more, as science continues to advance, about the cardiovascular and other consequences that the pandemic has left us. Maybe that’s one of the keys. “With the cryptization strategy, you wanted to compare Covid and the flu, and they are not the same, “Caylà warns.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – Dozens of women and girls have been raped and hundreds of civilians killed during fighting in Ethiopia´s Tigray region, according to an official document seen by The Associated Press.
Roughly 40 girls and women between the ages of 13 and 80 were raped in the town of Sheraro in northwestern Tigray, according to the document prepared by Tigray´s regional Emergency Coordination Centre. The center includes regional government bureaus, U.N. agencies and nongovernmental organizations.
The document reports eight more rapes, “including gang rape,” in the district of Tselemti, also in northwestern Tigray.
Issued Oct. 14, the document did not state who was responsible for the sexual violence. Nor did it state the time frame in which it occurred.
According to diplomatic sources, Eritrean and Ethiopian forces took control of Sheraro last month. Eritrean troops have fought alongside Ethiopia´s federal military since hostilities resumed in Tigray on Aug. 24 after a lull in fighting.
Diplomats have expressed alarm over reports of civilian casualties in the region as Ethiopia´s federal military this week took control of the major town of Shire and the federal government expressed its aim to capture Tigray´s airports and federal institutions.
A humanitarian worker based in Shire told the AP the town´s airport is now manned by Eritrean forces. Ethiopian and Eritrean forces have captured warehouses belonging to NGOs there, and Eritrean forces are specifically looting vehicles, according to the aid worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of safety fears.
U.S. officials have called on Eritrean forces to withdraw from Tigray and urged the parties to agree to an immediate cease-fire. The administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, Samantha Power, has described the human cost of the conflict as “staggering.”
The internal document seen by the AP said 159 individuals have been “shot dead” in the Tahtay Adiyabo, Dedebit and Tselemti areas of northwestern Tigray, adding that others were maimed by gunshots and shelling.
A further 157 people were “taken by Eritrean forces” in Tselemti, Dedebit and Sheraro, according to the document, which said there is “no information (on their) whereabouts.”
The latest fighting has halted aid deliveries to Tigray, where around 5 million people need humanitarian help. A lack of fuel and a communications blackout are hindering the distribution of aid supplies that were already in the region.
Ethiopia´s federal government said Thursday it would participate in African Union-led peace talks expected to begin in South Africa next week. Tigray’s fugitive authorities are yet to confirm their attendance but have previously committed to participating in talks mediated by the African Union.
Both the U.N. Security Council and the African Union’s Peace and Security Council were due to discuss the conflict on Friday.
A World Food Program spokesperson told the AP “an armed group” entered its warehouse in Shire on Oct. 18, a day after Ethiopia´s federal government announced the town’s capture.
“WFP is actively working to confirm if the armed individuals remain and if any humanitarian stocks or assets have been taken or damaged,” the spokesperson said.
All sides have been accused of atrocities since the conflict in northern Ethiopia began almost two years ago.
Last week a report by the Amhara Association of America advocacy group said the Tigray forces had killed at least 193 civilians and raped 143 women and girls since August in the Raya Kobo area of the Amhara region, which borders Tigray.
The conflict, which began nearly two years ago, has spread from Tigray into the neighboring regions of Afar and Amhara as Tigray´s leaders try to break the blockade of their region.
“Calling out the atrocities for what they are would at least put Ethiopia and Eritrea on notice that the world is watching, and the long arm of international justice could ultimately prevail. Offenders in Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia and Sierra Leone, to name a few, ultimately faced justice after all.”
While the world’s eyes are trained on the war in Ukraine and whether Vladimir Putin is unhinged enough to use nuclear weapons, another war rages mostly unseen some 3,000 miles away in Ethiopia.
The war is centered on the northern region of Tigray, where a long-standing political conflict between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) turned violent in 2020. The region has been under a near total blockade for most of the time since, cut off from humanitarian aid, electricity, telecommunications and banking, leaving 5.3 million civilians in dire straits. The Ethiopian government’s renewed offensive has escalated the crisis even further.
Accurately estimating the dead while war continues is difficult, but the best estimates available suggest at least half a million people have died so far from direct violence, starvation and lack of access to health care. Starvation seems to be a feature rather than a bug in the government’s battle plan. More recent estimates suggest that this number have died in combat alone, possibly bringing the overall deaths closer to a million.
To put it in perspective, the United Nations estimates about 6,000 civilians have been killed in Ukraine so far, and estimates put military deaths in the tens of thousands. Even if these estimates are low, the best available numbers suggest that the scale of death in Ethiopia exceeds that in Ukraine many times over. And yet Ethiopia has received a small fraction of attention, both from policymakers and the media.
The U.S. and others must take a more direct approach before the worst fears of the Tigrayan people are realized.
Those fears include a genocide of the people of Tigray. In response to the latest offensive, the United Nations, African Union, United States and other countries have called on all sides to cease hostilities. But generic calls for everyone to stop fighting and quiet behind-the-scenes diplomacy that has been the favored approach so far are a woefully inadequate response.
Tigrayan authorities have indicated that they would respect a cease-fire, but Ethiopian government officials have instead doubled down to lambaste the “evils” of its enemy. Meanwhile, the Ethiopian government has reportedly dropped leaflets in Tigray stating that anyone remaining behind would be considered a combatant, raising clear concerns that all Tigrayans, a distinct ethnic group, would be targets in an assault.
Sources from the area claim Ethiopian and Eritrean forces (their allies) have been instructed to kill three Tigrayans each, including elderly and children, and that victims’ limbs and skulls are on display.
These stories are unverified given the lack of humanitarian and media access to the region. But given the language and actions of Ethiopia so far, along with the death toll and atrocities already committed, there is little reason not to take them seriously.
Eritrea’s role has complicated efforts to reach a peace, too, as few countries have any leverage to influence its actions, and the TPLF is its sworn enemy. There is no guarantee that Eritrea will stop fighting even if the Ethiopian government comes to the table.
While it’s true that all sides have committed abuses, the scale is hardly comparable, with Ethiopia and Eritrea committing the lion’s share of wanton violence and harm against civilians throughout the conflict. When one side holds this level of responsibility for continuing conflict and suffering, those who hold any sway must speak out clearly and directly against it.
At this stage, peace looks like a long shot, but that does not excuse the inadequate efforts made so far.
The U.S. and the United Nations are often loath to invite criticism by directly calling out states for violent acts against their own people when those states are friends and partners, as Ethiopia is.
It won’t likely end the war, but that is a weak excuse for not trying harder. The innocent people of Tigray deserve acknowledgment, and there is a chance that such international pressure, in combination with policy choices that reduce Ethiopia’s support, through international institutions and individual countries alike, could influence the path Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed chooses.
Calling out the atrocities for what they are would at least put Ethiopia and Eritrea on notice that the world is watching, and the long arm of international justice could ultimately prevail. Offenders in Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia and Sierra Leone, to name a few, ultimately faced justice after all.
We must stop shying away from uncomfortable conversations when so many lives are at stake. If U.S. leverage is inadequate, we should press the countries who arm and support Ethiopia and Eritrea, and the international financial institutions like the World Bank which keep the country afloat as its economy falters.
The time for quiet diplomacy is over. The time for alarm has long since passed. Echoing what we’ve heard repeatedly about the plight of Ukraine: If Ethiopia stops fighting, the war ends, but if Tigray stops fighting, in the absence of international oversight and an inclusive peace process, the impoverished people of Tigray might end instead.
Just a quick, brief statement. The Security Council just met to discuss the conflict in Ethiopia, in a closed meeting. And I want to take the opportunity to thank the A3 and the African Union for leading on this process, including the statement that was issued by the African Union today, and we were briefed by the African Union.
It is disappointing that the council did not agree on issuing a statement, which is why it’s important for me to come out here today.
As the Secretary-General said this week, “The situation in Ethiopia is spiraling out of control. The social fabric is being ripped apart, and civilians are paying a horrific price.” In the past week alone, we’ve seen a serious uptick in fighting and violence. Thousands of Ethiopian, Eritrean, and TPLF forces are engaged in active combat. The scale of the fighting and deaths rival what we’re seeing in Ukraine, and innocent civilians are being caught in the crossfire. Over two years of conflict, as many as half a million – half a million – people have died, and the United States is deeply concerned about the potential for further mass atrocities. And we all should be.
We’re also horrified by the recent death of an aid worker from the International Rescue Committee and the injuries of others. We heard today that a total of 26 humanitarian workers had been killed over the course of the past two years – that’s approximately two per month. This tragedy underscores the serious dangers facing humanitarian workers in the region. And as I told the Security Council just now, it’s past time for all of the parties to lay down their weapons and return to peace. It is past time for a cessation of hostilities and for unhindered humanitarian access to all those in need. And it is past time for Eritrean Defense Forces to halt their joint military offensive and for Ethiopia to ask Eritrea to withdraw its soldiers from Northern Ethiopia.
💭 Malawi Police Exhume 25 Bodies of Ethiopians in Mass Grave. A mass grave was discovered in a government forest reserve in Mzimba district.
Following the discovery of a mass grave in which 25 bodies were found, Malawi police have arrested 72 Ethiopian men who were found hiding in a forest reserve in the northern border town of Karonga.
Ten Malawians have also been arrested on suspicion of being part of a syndicate involved in trafficking the Ethiopians.
On Wednesday, a mass grave was discovered in a government forest reserve in Mzimba district, some 300 km (185 miles) south of where the Ethiopian men were arrested on Thursday.
Young boys from the area are said to have gone into the forest reserve to harvest honey when they were first greeted by the pungent smell of rotting bodies before they discovered body parts including heads and limbs.
The boys reported the matter to village elders who in turn notified the police who went to the forest and discovered the mass grave.
On Thursday morning, a separate grave near the one found on Wednesday was also discovered, where another four bodies were unearthed.
Homeland Security Minister Jean Sendeza, who has travelled to the scene of the mass graves, says authorities plan to conduct a post-mortem to ascertain the causes of death.
Human trafficking has become a huge challenge in Malawi, where hundreds of people are regularly arrested and deported for illegally entering the country with the help of organised syndicates.
Last April, up to 140 illegal immigrants were arrested by Malawi police. They included 133 Ethiopian nationals, six from Bangladesh and one from Pakistan. They are yet to face trial.
Police say the 72 Ethiopians and 10 Malawians arrested on Thursday will soon be taken to court to answer various charges connected to human trafficking and violation of immigration laws.
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