💭 The genocidal war in northern Ethiopia ranks among the deadliest conflicts in recent times. UN investigators have said rape was also used as a weapon of war. With a cease-fire agreed, more and more accounts of atrocities are emerging.
Sexual attacks on women and girls have continued since last year’s peace deal between Ethiopia’s government and Tigray leadership, witnesses told DW.
On the day that Ethiopian government forces reached a truce with rebel Tigrayan forces, 16-year-old Hadas was at home with her mother in a village near the Tigrayan town of Adwa. She heard someone banging on the door and then an Ethiopian soldier demanded to be let in.her name in this report.
Hadas, whose name has been changed to protect her from stigmatization and reprisals, described to DW how her ordeal unfolded on that day, November 2, 2022. It was a day which was supposed to bring peace after two years of conflict that killed approximately 600,000 people, displaced millions and left millions more hungry due to a de facto blockade of the Tigray region.
“He entered the house alone. He carried a stick with him,” Hadas told DW. “There was another soldier with a gun waiting outside. He tried to take me to the bush, but I refused. He told me that he had a knife and a handgun. Then he beat me with the stick.”
She started screaming. Neighbors came and tried to save her, but the soldiers threatened them, Hadas said. So they went back to their houses.
Hadas recalled how she started then to cry.
Nightmares
“He asked me for my age,” she said. “I told him I was 14, but he said ‘You are a liar. Don’t you have breasts?’ Then, my mother started crying.”
He raped her multiple times over the course of several hours. The attack left Hadas bleeding heavily. After he left, she sought treatment at a nearby hospital but because of a lack of supplies, they could only provide basic care, Hadas said.
Hadas still has nightmares about what happened to her that day and needs psychological help. She also wants the man who did this to her brought to justice.
“He should be held accountable,” she insisted. “They should be held accountable not only for me, but for all the other victims of rape.”
Human rights organizations have documented sexual assaults, rape, gang rape and other forms of sexual violence committed by Ethiopian soldiers and their allies, like the Eritrean army and local militia throughout the war.
Doctors told DW that many cases went unreported. And health workers confirmed to DW that rapes and other forms of sexual violence have continued well after the peace deal was signed.
A request for comment sent to Ethiopian government spokesperson Legesse Tulu went unanswered.
Eritrean Information Minister Yemane Meskel denied any wrongdoings by Eritrean soldiers in Tigray in a response to DW.
Medicine shortage
Despite the peace agreement, the hospital can only provide a fraction of the medication required by its patients.
Doctor and director of General Hospital Mekelle, Dr. Filimon Mesfin, told DW that he and his colleagues struggled to provide care during the conflict.
“We don’t have any emergency medication or medication for chronic diseases, like hypertension, diabetes, HIV and psychiatric medications — we are out of all this. We can only provide 10% or 20% of the medication these patients need,” he said.
He described having to turn away most patients. The most he and his colleagues could do was to write a prescription in the hope that the patients could somehow find the necessary medication somewhere else.
Mesfin told DW that medication is urgently needed. “These patients cannot wait. They are dying every day,” he said.
Preventable Deaths
He had hoped that things would change for the better after the peace deal was inked in November, but the aid and deliveries of medical supplies that are reaching his hospital is not enough.
“It’s been almost four months since the agreement has been signed. I would have expected these things to be provided by now,” Mesfin said. “These patients, they cannot wait. They are dying every day, they are having so many complications every day.”
And those who make it to the hospital are just the tip of the iceberg, Dr. Mesfin said, because few can afford the transport costs.
Clinic for rape victims
At the start of the Tigray war, Dr. Mesfin established a unit especially for survivors of sexual violence at his hospital.
Over the two years of the conflict, he and his colleagues treated more than 500 victims.
“There were so many gang rapes, so many foreign materials inserted into their genitalia,” Mesfin said.
Dr Mesfin wrote down accounts of rape to apply for NGO funding, he said, adding that especially those committed by Eritrean forces were particularly agonizing to hear.
“These were not ‘normal’ rapes,” he said. “Without exaggeration, I have literally cried writing some of the stories.”
He said that, as a medical doctor, it was very difficult to see what these people have been through, let alone as a human being.
💭 While it is obvious that a horrendous crime was committed against these women, the west is still beautifying the ugly fascist regime. If a tiny bit of humanity is still prevailing on this planet, one should observe how they reacted to the Ukraine and Ethiopia cases. The hypocrisy is jaw-dropping. But, they will pay dearly for that soon. Actually they are, look at France – it’s burning!
War criminal US secretary of state Antony Blinken was there in Ethiopia two days ago:
💭 To Rehabilitate The Genocider Black Hitler Ahmed, SoS Antony Blinken Departs For Ethiopia
💭 Jill Biden and Antony Blinken Awarded a Transgender & an Ethiopian Muslim with International Women of Courage Award
♀️ Cold and Empathyless Female European Ministers Meet Black Hitler – whose Oromo soldiers brutally raped up to 200.000 Christian Women – and Massacred Over a Million Orthodox Christians.
👉 The Franco-German visit, 12 and 13 January 2023
Mme Catherine Colonna, French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs pay a joint visit to Ethiopia with Mme Annalena Baerbock, the German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs.
☆ Yesterday Nazi Ukraine – 🐺 Today Fascist Oromo of Ethiopia
😲 Just Unbelievable – Reel Mockery! What a wicked world!
💭 At least 11 people have been killed according to Turkish authorities after flash floods caused by heavy rain submerged the southern Turkish provinces of Malatya, Sanliurfa and Adiyaman.
The water ruined homes, buildings, roads, and various other structures. It also swiftly carried away cars and debris. The area is home to about 2.7 million people still recovering from recent earthquakes. Because of the quakes, thousands have been staying in container homes and tents. Many of those structures are now flooding and drifting away.
💭 Ewww la la! More than 5,000 TONS of stinking garbage is piled up around Paris, with streets smelling of rotting fish as strikes continue over Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms
Tension has been simmering over plans to increase retirement age from 62 to 64
The unpopular bill that would raise the retirement age has got a push forward
Uncollected garbage has piled up in Paris as workers go on strike amid plans
💭 Coordinated Clandestine Training by The USA in Somalia, Djibouti and Eritrea
(Isaias Afewerki (real father Abdullah Hassen) + TPLF’s Debretsion (we suspect he too has Muslim ancestors) and Abiy Ahmed Ali are all CIA agents.
USA is training Somali Jihadists who participated in the Massacre of 1000 Christians at Holy Axum, Ethiopia. These Orthodox Christians were brutally murdered while defending The Biblical Ark of The Covenant from US, Russia, Ukraine, Arab, Turkey, Iran, Israel and Somali backed soldiers of the fascist Oromo regime of evil Abiy Ahmed Ali.
500 years ago Somalis & Oromos were trained by the Ottoman Turks to wage Jihad agains Christians of Ethiopia – and 80 years ago by Mussolini’s fascist Italy – and now, again, by Turkey and USA.
Adding war criminals clan militias into Somali National Alliance (SNA) is the biggest mistake ever for both sides. In 2004 CIA armed and financed clan militias who killed innocent civilians which then led to creating Alshabab terrorist organization. The same mistake over and over again.
Please do watch the 2012 movie, “Prometheus” from Ridley Scot. No coincidence here! Ridley Scot also made the movie ‘Black Hawk Down’ (2001) on Somalia.
💭 “Men of action must cease being men of action to write history, which demands a certain tranquility.”
❖ March 2023 marked 127 years of the historic victory of Ethiopian Christians over an aspiring imperial power, Italy, soon after the shameful Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 that cut up Africa and divided its territory and resources.
On March 2nd, 2023 Ethiopia was celebrating the 127th anniversary of Victory of Adwa in 1896 by Ethiopian Orthodox Christians over Italian invaders. It was THE VICTORY of The Almighty Egziabher God + St. George + Northern Ethiopian Christians over evil.
👉 Addis Ababa, 03. March 2023 – The Historical St. George’s Church
To divert the World’s attention from the ongoing genocide in the Tigray region, the fascist Oromo Army/Police of Black Mussolini a.k.a Abiy Ahmed Entered Illegally The Church Compound and fired tear gas and live bullets inside the historical Orthodox Christian Church at worshipers, just like its Fascist Italy predecessors. The Fascist police also blocked all way leading to the Church which is unprecedented. A Priest was shot dead. Many Parishioners attending church services were injured.
❖ Little girl inside the church compound:
“Your faith will save you,
Saint George will save you,
Don’t run. Saint George the knight will come,
We will not remain crying like this!”
The cowardly world media is silent, the many international Organizations, The UN, The AU, Western and Eastern embassies all risk being complicit in conspiracy of silence. They see and know what’s going on, but, a susual, they say and do nothing!
🏴 Unholy alliance: Edomite West + Ishmaelite East (ESAU & Ishmael)
💭 Roman agents; TPLF + EPLF + OLF + EZEMA and Amhara and Galla groups have massacred and starved to death over a million Ethiopian Chrisians of Tigray for their Western Luciferian Overlords, Arabs, Turks and Iranians in under two years.
👉 13 – 15 December 2022
The U.S. welcomed black Hitler a.k.a Abiy Ahmed, who slaughtered over a million Orthodox Christians. Joe Biden watched the World Cup with genocider Abiy Ahmed Ali.
💭 US SoS Anthony Blinken, The Son of a Holocaust Survivor Shaking Hands With the Devil aka Black Hitler
👉 27 December 2022
Chief of Staff of Army of Ethiopia ‘Field Marshal’ Birhanu Jini Jula pays
an official visit to Turkey. A second visit in six months. By the way, this genocider got the ‘Field Marshal’ title after killing a million Orthodox Christians of Ethiopia.
👉 The Franco-German visit, 12 and 13 January 2023
Mme Catherine Colonna, French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs pay a joint visit to Ethiopia with Mme Annalena Baerbock, the German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs.
♀️ Female European Ministers Meet Black Hitler Who Massacred Over a Million Orthodox Christians
❖ 200.000 Christian Women Raped
☆ Yesterday Nazi Ukraine – 🐺 Today Fascist Oromo of Ethiopia
😲 Just Unbelievable – Reel Mockery! What a wicked world!
👉16 – 18 January 2023
One of the responsible actors of TigrayGenocide, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed receives Jihadist PM Abiy Ahmed. A day earlier, Anti-Orthodox and evil Abiy Ahmed Ali visited the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church under construction in Abu Dhabi. Wow!
👉 6 February 2023
President Giorgia Meloni of Italy meets with Black Mussolini Abiy Ahmed Ali
💭 Italy Invited a Genocider, the Black Mussolini aka Ahmed Ali | Woe to Italy, Mount Etna is Boiling!
💭 Giorgia Meloni in 1996: “Mussolini Was a Good Politician, in That Everything He Did, He Did for Italy.” Wow!
👉 18 February 2023
Genocider Abiy Ahmed Ali meets Sultan bin Saad Al-Muraikhi – Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar.
Genocider Abiy Ahmed holds a phone conversation with the dictator of Antichrist Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
👉 05 March 2023
Genocider Abiy Ahmed Ali meets with Turkish-Drone-Financier Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in Doha.
😈 The Genesis of Italo-Oromo Fascism
🔥 Ethiopia: Where Two World Wars Began — and Where the Third Is Brewing
The First Italo-Ethiopian War[a] was fought between Italy and Ethiopia from 1895 to 1896. It originated from the disputed Treaty of Wuchale, which the Italians claimed turned Ethiopia into an Italian protectorate. Full-scale war broke out in 1895, with Italian troops from Italian occupied Eritrea achieving initial successes at Coatit, Senafe and Debra Ailà, until they were reinforced by a large Christian Ethiopian army led by General Ras Alula Abanega.
The Battle of Adwa (29 February-1 March 1896) is of huge significance for Africa in that the decimation of the continent could not be completed. Ethiopia turned out to be the last man standing.
After this Italian defeat the Roman Italians, French and Germans begun infiltrating the Ethiopian state. They initially killed the great Christian Emperor Yohannes IV, his son Ras Mengesha and General Ras Alula – and gradually put the Oromo warlord Menelik ll and his Oromo /Oromara associates into power, who treasonously gave them the historical Ethiopian territories like Eritrea and Djibouti. Just like today, with the help of the Oromo Menelik II, the Romans were able to massacre and starve to death over a million Northern Ethiopian Orthdoox Christians who were the main forces behind the Italian humiliation.
Yes, with this the 1st World War started in Ethiopia – and a few years after the Ethiopia adventure, the Romans/Europeans had to pay a very heavy price for their Jihad against Ethiopian Orthodox Christians. Between 2014 and 2018, the total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I, was around 40 million. There were 20 million deaths and 21 million wounded.
👉 The Romans-Italians came back to avenge Adwa 1896
🔥 Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1941)
Italians using Chemical Weapons on Ethiopian Christians
During the Second Italo Abyssinian war the invading Fascist Italians attempted to colonize Ethiopia to avenge the Adwa humiliation of 1896. However the Ethiopians fought tooth and nail to free their country from the white army.
When the Italian operation even with it’s superior weaponry, war planes and tanks started being defeated by Ethiopian patriots, Mussolini in a panic authorized the Italians to use mustard gas, a deadly chemical weapon that causes horrible burns. The League of Nations had banned it’s use but the Italians decided to break the rules of war.
The Fascists finally took Addis Ababa using this cruel cowardly illegal tactic and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians including women children and the elderly. This video also shows the two armies as they head to war and then images of Ethiopian civilians killed by the poisonous mustard gas. The wounded survivors are shown being treated for their burn wounds.
Like 40 years earlier, and like today the traitor Gala-Oromo & Oromara Soldiers were associated with the enemies and the traitors mixed in disguise with the forces of Fascist Italy to Massacre, Gas and starve to death million of Ethiopian Christians.
The Romans brought another Oromo Ras Teferi a.k.a Haile Selassie into power. He too did the Italian job for them, massacring and starving to death millions of Northern Ethiopian Christians.
Yes, with this the 2nd World War started in Ethiopia – and a few years after the Ethiopia adventure, the Romans/Europeans had to pay another heavy price for their continued Jihad against Ethiopian Orthodox Christians. Between 1939 to 1945 some 75 million people died in World War II, including about 20 million military personnel and 40 million civilians.
🔥 Third Roman/ Italo-Ethiopian War from 1970 till Today
Edomite Romans + Ishmaelite Muslims vs Ethiopian Christians
👉 History repeating itself:
Oromos, Oromaras, Romans, Arabs, Turks and Iranians are bombing Axum Zion again. These evil forces use siege, rape, hunger & forced resettlement tactics in their Jihad against Orthodox Christians of Ethiopis. Their evil agents Menelik ll + Haile Selassie + Mengistu Hailemariam, Isaias Afewerki (actually his real father is Arab Muslim, called ‘Abdullah Hassan’) Debretsion (we suspect he too has Muslim ancestors) and Ahmed Ali all do the Italian job for the historical enemies of Ethiopia. What we are witnessing in Northern Ethiopia the continuation of the Antichrist’s Jihad campaign that begun in stages, 1400, 500 and 130 years ago:-
😈 Menelik ll: Half Oromo + Half Amhara = Oromo (Crypto-Muslim / Man of the flesh)
😈 Haile Selassie: Half Oromo + Half Amhara = Oromo (Crypto-Muslim / Man of the flesh)
😈 Mengistu Hailemariam: Half Oromo + Half Amhara = Oromo (Crypto-Muslim / Man of the flesh)
😈 Abiy Ahmed Ali ´= Half Oromo + Half Amhara = Oromo (Crypto-Muslim / Man of the flesh)
🐷 1. Menelik II. (1844 – 1913)
The genocidal Menelik II Oromo regime was installed by Anglo-Saxons + French + Italians + Germans – after murdering the last true Ethiopian and Christian Emperor Yohannes IV, on 10 March 1889.
The Great Ethiopian Famine of 1888-1892
The great famine is estimated to have caused 3.5 million deaths. During Emperor Menelik’s Reign, Tigraywas split into two regions, one of which he sold to the Italians who later named it Eritrea. Only two months after the death of Emperor Yohaness lV, Menelik signed the Wuchale treaty of 2 May 1889 conceding Eritrea to the Italians. It was not only Eritrea that Menelik gave away, he also had a hand in letting Djibouti be part of the French protectorate when he agreed the border demarcation with the French in 1887. Some huge parts of Tigraywere put under Gonder. The Southern part, places like present day Alamata, Kobo etc were put under Wello Amhara administration.
🐷 2. Haile Selassie (1892 – 1975)
The genocidal Haile Selassie Oromo regime was installed by Anglo-Saxons + French + Italians + Germans.
In 1943, at the request of the Emperor Haile Selassie, the Royal British Airforce bombed two towns – Maekaelle and Corbetta. Thousands of defenseless civilians lost their lives as a result of aerial bombardment. It is recorded that ‘on 14th October [1943] 54 bombs dropped in Maekaelle, 6th October 14 bombs followed by another 16 bombs on 9thOctober in Hintalo, 7th/9th October 32 bombs in Corbetta’.
Between 2 and 5 million’ people died between 1958 and 1977 as a cumulative result. Haile Selassie, who was emperor at the time, refused to send any significant basic emergency food aid to the province of Tigray,
🐷 3. Mengistu Hailemariam (1937 – )
1979 – 1985 + 1987
The genocidal and Antichristian Oromo Dergue regime was installed by the United States. Declassified CIA documents reveal that Dergue was an Oromo regime.
Due to organized government policies that deliberately multiplied the effects of the famine, around 1.2 million Christians of Northern Ethiopia died from this famine. Mengistu & his Children still alive & ‘well’ while Orthodox Christians are starving again.
🐷 4. Abiy Ahmed Ali (1976 – )
The genocidal and Antichristian fascist Oromo regime was installed by the United States.
2018 – Until today: over 1.5 million Orthodox Christians massacred by this evil monster. 😠😠😠 😢😢😢 Unlike the past famine there is no natural or man-made drought, rather, Abiy Ahmed Ali simply uses war and hunger as a weapon. Abiy Ahmed Ali sent his kids to America for safety and better life, while bombing & starving Christian kids to death.
☆ Soldiers of the fascist Oromo regime of Abiy Ahmed are deploying rape and famine in their war in the Tigray region.
☆ Genocide in Tigray: Over a million Christians Massacred
☆ 200.000 women, girls, even Nuns systematically raped
☆ The already three-year-old siege of Tigray is Causing Starvation for Millions.
☆ Six million People Silenced: Four months since the so-called “Peace Accord” was announced, yet Independent investigators, journalist or humanitarian workers can not gain access to Tigray. The genocidal regime of Abiy Ahmed and its collaborators, the TPLF + ELF + PP + EZEMA + ANM are exploiting the total media blackout, medieval-like siege and humanitarian blockade with aims to buy enough time to hide their genocidal acts, and other egregious crimes they all have committed on the Orthodox Christians of Tigray.
❖ The region of Tigray is the cradle of Ethiopian Christianity and civilization.
👉 For These Muslims Solidarity With Their Christian Neighbors Doesn’t Exist, – Nada! it’s Haram!
For the past two years, when more than one million Orthodox Christians were massacred by Turkish, Arab, Iranian and Chinese drones, these renegade Ethiopian Muslims did not utter a single word. As of now, they are unwilling to provide any assistance. It’s amazing. When the mosque, which they are proud of as ‘the first Hijra or Al-Najashi mosque’ in Tigray was destroyed by Turkish drones two years ago, these Muslims, who are usually the first to riot and kill, did not say a word, nada! Now they are organizing to give their support and help to Turkey. Can there be more betrayal than this?
Five hundred years ago, together with the Ottoman Turks, Ethiopian Muslims carried out a major Jihad campaign against Ethiopian Christians, and were heavily involved in the East African and trans-saharan slave trade. In the 1930s, they sided with Fascist Italy and Benito Mussolini and massacred Christians, destroyed churches and monasteries. Just like what they are doing right now! Traitors, Hypocrites, Antichrist!
🔥 World War III | For the past 500 years, Anti-Christ Turkey is Bombing The World’s Most Ancient Christian Nations: Armenia & Ethiopia
🔥 Ottoman-Portuguese War in Africa – Ethiopian–Adal /Turkish War
☪ Muslims of Ethiopia Who Invited the Turkish Army to Massacre a Million Orthodox Christians of Ethiopia Now hold aid campaign for Turkey’s quake victims
Ethiopians launched an aid campaign and have raised 10 million Ethiopian birr ($186,320) for the victims affected by the 6 February earthquakes in southern Turkey, Anadolu News Agency reports.
Despite being struck by civil war and drought, where tens of thousands of lives were lost, the people in Ethiopia gathered forces and mobilised to help the quake-hit victims in Turkey’s 11 provinces.
Since the first day, Ethiopia’s Muslims who went to Turkish representative offices in the country to convey condolences, performed funeral prayers in absentia in mosques and prayed for the quake victims and Turkey.
On Monday, a program was organised in the capital, Addis Ababa, for the aid campaign initiated by Turkey’s Addis Ababa Embassy.
The program participants included Turkish Ambassador to Addis Ababa, Yaprak Alp, Ethiopian Federal Parliament Harar deputy and Ethiopia-Turkey Friendship Group Chairman, Fatih Wazir, TIKA Ethiopia Program Coordinator, Cengiz Polat, and Ethiopian-Turkish Alumni Association President, Fennan Mohammed, as well as philanthropists in the country.
During the program, Muslim donors presented symbolic donation checks to Ambassador Alp in Addis Ababa.
Alp said the Ethiopian government has been supporting Turkey since the first day of the quake, sending thousands of blankets and tents, along with soldiers and professional search and rescue workers.
“Turkey is facing an unprecedented disaster,” Alp said, adding: “Turkey is going through really difficult times, but it is precisely this kind of solidarity, of which we have seen a very good example today, that makes these difficult days bearable, “she added.
Wazir said: “Turkey is reaping the fruits of the seeds of love, compassion and solidarity it has been sowing for years. I don’t know which other country in the world could be the recipient of such an act of solidarity. I don’t know if there is a country in the world that does not owe Turkey a debt of loyalty. God bless Turkey.”
Mohammed, for his part, said that for the alumni, supporting Turkey is not an option but an obligation.
“You can see the traces of Turkey and Turkish NGOs in every inch of Ethiopia. It breaks our hearts when we see the super-human efforts of these organisations not to leave the work they started here unfinished, even in this earthquake disaster. No matter what we do, we cannot repay our debt to Turkey,” he added.
Polat said the Ethiopian people have been going through very difficult times in recent years, and noted: “Our tears have been mixed together since the first day of the quakes. It is impossible to describe with words the appreciation of our Ethiopian brothers and sisters towards Turkey.”
“The Eritreans and Tigrayan forces had been fighting for days in the surrounding area. The Tigrayan troops had taken territory and inflicted heavy losses on their foes before abruptly pulling back, leaving civilians exposed to Eritrean troops
Just days before a deal to end the war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, soldiers from neighboring Eritrea last fall massacred more than 300 villagers over the course of a week, according to witnesses and victims’ relatives.
Eritrean forces, allied with Ethiopian government troops, had been angered by a recent battlefield defeat and took their revenge in at least 10 villages east of the town of Adwa during the week before the Nov. 2 peace deal, witnesses said, providing accounts horrifying even by the standards of a conflict defined by mass killings of civilians.
The massacres, which have not been previously reported outside the Tigray region, were described in interviews with 22 relatives of the dead, including 15 who witnessed the killings or their immediate aftermath. They spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
The survivors are only now willing to talk: As long as Eritrean troops remained close by, villagers were cowed into silence. Once the soldiers finally pulled back in late January from much of Tigray, witnesses and relatives began to give accounts like the following: A toddler killed with his 7-year-old brother and their mother. Elderly priests shot in their homes. A nursing mother shot dead in front of her young sons. Family members beaten back as they clung to fathers and sons being taken to their deaths.
Residents of the village of Mariam Shewitto who had fled the violence said they returned from the bush to find the doors of their homes swinging open, the floors inside black with blood and the air heavy with the stench of death. Others searched for brothers and husbands among half-eaten corpses on a mountain where scores were executed and left to wild animals.
Satellite images first provided by Planet Labs and reviewed by The Washington Post show that at least 67 structures in the area, mostly in household compounds, were severely damaged during the time that witnesses said the killings happened. Additional imagery provided to The Post by Maxar Technologies shows military vehicles matching witness descriptions of Eritrean vehicles, less than three miles from where the massacres took place.
The agreement between the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan rebels brought about a cease fire in a two-year war that had made northern Ethiopia one of the deadliest places in the world. But the deal did not address the status of Eritrean troops. Neither the Ethiopian nor Eritrean government has made any public statement on how Eritrean soldiers who perpetrated mass killings like the most recent one near Adwa could be brought to justice.
Joint investigations by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, whose head is appointed by parliament, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights have documented crimes against humanity and war crimes carried out by all sides up until June 2021. The head of the EHRC, Daniel Bekele, said they had identified many other incidents requiring investigation and they would be dealt with under a transitional justice mechanism.
The U.N. International Commission of Human Rights Experts, a separate body, also documented war crimes by all sides, and said the government and its allies may have committed crimes against humanity. In January, the Ethiopian government asked the United States to support its bid to terminate the commission, calling its work “highly politicized.”
Eritrea, a heavily militarized one-party state often dubbed “the North Korea of Africa,” has consistently denied committing war crimes. On Feb. 9, President Isaias Afwerki told a news conference that such allegations were “fantasy … lies and fabrication.” Eritrean Information Minister Yemane Gebremeskel did not respond to requests for comment on the killings near Adwa.
A senior official working with Ethiopia’s Justice Ministry did not specifically address the killings but said it would be seeking public input around the country, including in six places in Tigray, on issues such as accountability and redress for abuses during the war.
War arrives on their doorstep
The civil war erupted in November 2020 when Tigrayan fighters seized federal military bases across Ethiopia’s northern region, claiming an attack by government forces was imminent. The Eritrean military entered the conflict almost immediately to help fight against its longtime enemy, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). The TPLF had dominated Ethiopian politics for nearly three decades, but its power was curtailed after Abiy Ahmed became prime minister in 2018.
During two brutal years of fighting, the conflict largely passed by many of the tiny villages outside of the northern town of Adwa.
But on the morning of Oct. 25, the war arrived on the doorstep of 92-year-old Gebremariam Niguse in the village of Mariam Shewitto. The Eritreans and Tigrayan forces had been fighting for days in the surrounding area. The Tigrayan troops had taken territory and inflicted heavy losses on their foes before abruptly pulling back, leaving civilians exposed to Eritrean troops, villagers said.
“We were too close to the road,” one of Gebremariam’s relatives recounted bleakly. “We were the first house they came to.”
The Eritreans shot Gebremariam dead in the compound of his home. They also killed his son, two daughters, a son-in-law, daughter-in-law and 15-year-old granddaughter, relatives and witnesses said. The daughter-in-law, Tsige, had her 5-month-old baby on her back when the soldiers arrived, one relative said. The soldiers told her to untie the baby and set it down, then shot her dead in front of her 10-year-old son and his four younger brothers, according to the relative. The boys stayed with the bodies of their parents, too terrified to leave, for a night and a day, the relative said.
The soldiers continued their slaughter deeper into the village, gunning down many people in or near their homes, witnesses and relatives said. The victims included 15-year-old Samson Gebreyohannes Legesse, who sold eggs to save up for the university; an elderly priest who was shot in the chest and discovered in his living room by his son clutching a cross; and another priest killed along with his son and grandson.
The killing in Mariam Shewitto continued for three days as soldiers went house to house, witnesses said. At least 140 people were killed, according to a tally of names provided by survivors. While some men were killed with their families, others were taken, tied up and marched to a mountain called Gobo Soboria, where they were shot dead. When the soldiers came for a man named Hagos Gebrekidan, his 10-year-old son clung to him, crying, until the Eritreans pulled him off and took Hagos away, a witness said.
One man said he was hiding on the mountain, but a group of soldiers found him. He was marched past groups of bodies with their hands bound behind their backs before he broke free and ran. He was shot but survived by tumbling into a ravine and hiding under some bushes, he said. He tried to stanch his bleeding for hours with his shirt while listening to the Eritrean soldiers just above looking for signs he was still alive.
Another man from Mariam Shewitto, in his 60s, said that eight soldiers came into his house and demanded to know where his children were. When he said they were not home, they shot him and looted the house, down to the bedsheets.
“They came to check if I was dead twice, but when they kicked me, I just played dead,” he said. Eventually, he crawled into the forest and met a small girl, begging her for help. Neighbors tore up some women’s clothes to bandage his wound and, lacking medicine, smeared honey on it. For four days, they took him into their house late at night but returned him to the forest before dawn, fearing soldiers would discover him in their home and kill them all, he said.
Satellite imagery collected by Maxar Technologies on Oct. 27 shows at least 25 vehicles — identified by three analysts as military vehicles — either stopped or moving very slowly less than three miles east of Mariam Shewitto. Survivors said Eritrean vehicles were in the area at the time.
Less than two miles farther to the east, largely confined to an area just south of Mariam Shewitto Church, more than 60 structures were severely damaged by Nov. 1, according to a review of satellite imagery provided by Planet Labs.
When the Eritreans finally left Mariam Shewitto on Nov. 1, the villagers emerged from hiding and searched for their loved ones. Survivors found that many of the bodies had been partially eaten by animals. Some bodies still had faces; others had identity cards in their pockets. Others were just limbs. Yohanis Yibalh, a taekwondo enthusiast who drove a motorcycle taxi, was seen being marched away; only part of his body was found, a relative said.
One woman said she lost her husband and 11 other relatives. When she discovered her husband in his distinctive white and gray shirt and coffee-colored trousers it was so late in the afternoon that there wasn’t enough time for a proper burial. She and two other women scraped soil over his body to protect it from hyenas, she said.
She recalled her husband was a kind man who always brought home treats for their three children. When asked for her fondest memory of him, she hesitated, then offered, “Every day was special.”
Horrors on all sides
As Tigray emerges from the war, few places have been left unscathed, and no side is blameless.
Peace deal ending Ethiopia’s Tigray war yet to dispel fear of more atrocities
Residents, rights groups and journalists have documented frequent mass killings of civilians, systematic gang rapes and sexual slavery by Eritrean soldiers.
Ethiopian government troops have also been blamed for repeated war crimes and other atrocities. The Ethiopian government has said it has arrested more than 50 of its own soldiers for crimes that included rape and killing civilians, but the trial records and identities of the soldiers have never been made public. Ethiopian prison guards also killed scores of Tigrayan detainees at a camp near Mirab Abaya in November 2021, and at least seven other locations, according to an exclusive report in The Post, citing witness accounts.
Ethiopian guards massacred scores of Tigrayan prisoners, witnesses say
Tigrayan fighters have also been credibly accused of war crimes, including the rape and murder of Eritrean refugees living in their region and the forcible recruitment of young people into their ranks by jailing relatives if they refused. When Tigrayan forces pushed into the neighboring regions of Afar and Amhara, residents reported hundreds of rapes, looting and the killing of civilians. Early in the war, a Tigrayan youth militia in a town called Mai Kadra killed hundreds of mostly Amhara laborers. The TPLF leaders have denied these allegations, saying in particular their group did not carry out killings in Mai Kadra.
While the Ethiopian government has extensively documented crimes committed by Tigrayan fighters, it has not yet conducted such detailed investigations into crimes against Tigrayan civilians.
Hundreds of civilians killed in Tigray, Ethiopia’s rights commission says
Many of those left behind are glad for the November cease fire. But survivors are living surrounded by the dead.
“We want the world to hear what happened,” said a woman who reported losing seven close relatives in the massacre near Adwa. “We want people to know what happened to our families.”
Too many to mourn properly
The week of slaughter by Eritrean soldiers extended well beyond Mariam Shewitto to villages including Geria, Adi Bechi, Adi Chiwa, Mindibdib, Kifdimet and Kumro, according to lists of victims shared with The Post and cross-checked by reporters. Some of the lists were neatly typed; others were scrawled on notepaper or recited over the telephone.
In Kumro, between 35 and 40 villagers were killed, one woman said. “They were hiding, but the old ones stayed in their houses. They thought they would be safe,” she said. Her 11-year-old son found his grandfather’s body, she said. The soldiers had burned the thatch that covered the stone houses, the fodder for their livestock, even the beehives, she said.
In Rahiya, Eritrean troops killed a teacher named Letemichael Fisseha Abebe with her 7-year-old son and another aged 20 months, a relative said. Her husband Dawit Weldu, also a teacher, was killed four days later in nearby Endabagerima along with his brother, a construction worker, the relative said.
A local official in Endabagerima said at least 80 people were killed there. Residents said many were buried at a famous monastery nearby. Some of the dead were families from outside the area that had come to take nearby holy waters, said a resident. No one knew their names.
At least 48 people were killed in the village of Geria, according to lists provided by two survivors. The victims included seven Muslims, many farmers, a 65-year-old mentally ill woman and a priest.
At least 34 of the victims were buried in Abune Libanose Church near Kumro, said a woman who attended a mass ceremony for the dead at the end of November. “The mourning was bitter for us. Some people didn’t come because they were afraid,” she said, her words tumbling out. “We didn’t know who to cry for. Your father, sister, mother, brother?”
Families gathered in groups to exchange condolences, she said. Some mourners had lost so many relatives they weren’t sure which group to stand with.
Individual condolences would have taken hours, even days, so representatives from each group would murmur “Tsinat Yihabkum” — “may God give you strength” — to another family’s group, then move onto the next one.
There were no priests to wave incense or perform the traditional ceremony of fithat on the bodies. She said they were all among the dead or mourning.
– Excellent reporting on a woefully underreported war.
– Important reporting, makes for horrific reading that shocks me to my core. Utterly barbaric.
– Important reporting to recognize the horror of war and invasion across the world and not just in the Steppes at the Black Sea. All of these atrocities are crimes against humanity. The International community must respond with commensurate outrage against an attack on Ethiopia as it does against an attack on Ukraine.
– We only care about the white Christians of Ukraine.
– There certainly is bias in the relatively sparse reporting of wars in Africa between the native peoples there, and the war in Ukraine. So I appreciate this reporting.
– Maybe if WP and other media made mention of this war and atrocities as much as they do what’s happening in Ukraine some of the violence could have been prevented. It’s so obvious to see what others deny exists. Our prayers to those left behind.
– My heart goes out to these victims. Can’t their killers be tried?
– Very heartbreaking. Children who had nothing to do with the conflict being killed. There has been almost no reporting on the war there last year. The loss there is great yet nobody without a connection to the people seem to care.
– And the Prime Minster Abiy Ahmed Ali still has his Nobel Peace Prize? Jesus Wept!
– For two years I have followed the sparse reporting here on the civil war in Ethiopia. Nearly every article has comments from people purporting to be Ethiopian and calling for the genocide of ethnic minorities like those in Tigray.
It’s disgusting. I understand this is humanity at its worst, but the moderation needs to be stepped up. These articles do not attract thousands of comments.
– This is why no one pays attentions to wars in Africa. Ethiopia used to be a great place, one of the founders of the Christian Church, and with one of the world’s oldest alphabets. Now it’s just Rwanda. Even Russians are not going door-to-door killing Ukrainians.
– What the press is not saying…Ethiopia was historically a Christian nation.
The Muslims eventually took over, militarily supported by Muslim nations like Turkey. I’m really not sure the two faiths will ever peacefully get along.
– I visited Ethiopia more than twelve years ago. A fascinating country with a lot of youth and not enough employment possibilities. The northwestern, mountainous region of the Tigrayans had for centuries prevailed politically and culturally. It holds the lion’s share of the holy sites of Ethiopian Christianity that dates from the earliest centuries of the faith, even earlier than the Christianization of Germanic Europe and of Scandinavia. The numerical growth of other sectors of Ethiopia have ultimately eroded the political near monopoly of the Tigrayan, who are Semitic, whilst the rest of the huge country is racially ‘negro’, though everybody is coloured. The Tigrayan refused to fully accept the rule of national leaders not of their sort, the loss of their region’s prestige. There is a lot of politics, and financial reasons for the civil war, also the Christian and Moslem divide. Wonderful the cuisine of Ethiopia, wonderful people I met there.
– Showing that “never again” was forgotten before the ink dried. shame on all our governments for ignoring human rights to make a buck.
– There but for the Grace of God. May the victims rest in peace and may these nations/groups stop the horrors.
💭 Tense moment as Russia’s UN ambassador interrupted a minute of silence for victims of Ukraine war at Security Council.
Russia’s ambassador to the UN broke a minute of silence honoring victims of the Ukraine war.
Nebenzya said the council should honor “all victims of what happened in Ukraine, starting in 2014.”
This comes a day after the UN voted for Russia to withdraw its troops immediately from the country.
No such action, either at the United Nations or the African Union, for over million victims of Ethiopia war. Nothing! Never!
💭 Moral Equivalence To Deny Genocide, Improvised Peace Treaties to Doge Accountability.
UN boss Antonio Gutterez was in Ethiopia last week for the African Union Summit. No minute of silent there for the victims of the #TigrayGenocide. He even didn’t want to travel to the genocide hotspot in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia. He went to Ukraine’s war zones several times.
Antonio Gutterez and WHO boss Tedros Adhanom are all part of the genocide team. Tedros Adhanom who is originally from Tigray is a member of the Communist TPLF which, alongside The fascist Oromo regime of Ethiopia, the fascist Junta of Eritrea and other local and international groups started the genocidal war to exterminate ancient Christians of Tigray and Northern Ethiopia. Now they all are trying to save themselves and all their evil partners by continuing the defacto siege – and by persuading the UN to stop the independent investigation. ‘Ethiopia seeks to end U.N.-ordered probe into Tigray war abuses‘
No peace without justice and accountability; and neither justice, nor accountability without truth first.
The fascist Oromo regime of Ethiopia and TPLF have ignored Amnesty International’s half-heated requests to access Tigray – and to assess the extent of the damage, the scale of the devastation, the genocide, abuses and human rights violations. Why are AI quite on this matter? Why don’t they keep insisting on the need to get permission to enter Tigray?
The fascist Oromo regime of Ethiopia which alongside the TPLF is responsible for the death of more than a million Orthodox Christians has been hindering both International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia (ICHREE) and African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) from conducting independent investigations into crimes and atrocities in Northern Ethiopia.
The genocidal Oromo regime, TPLF and their partners are saying: “In the past two years we have killed enough Christians, now no investigation is needed, let’s forget everything – and reconcile and move on….’
This is something unheard of in world history. This is beyond ridiculous! These are pure demons in human form.
If there is one thing Ethiopia’s two years war is markedly recognized globally for, it is the unimaginable atrocities committed against civilians, ranging from several types of cruelties that constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity – such as mass murder, mass sexual violence and sexual slavery – to, by some indicators, a potential genocide upon proper designation.
Atrocity comparisons tend to be odious, but the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has verified 7,199 civilian deaths in Ukraine. The number of combat deaths is in the tens of thousands.
By contrast, the number of casualties in Ethiopia might never be known. The best estimates have been put together by Jan Nyssen, a geographer at Ghent University in Belgium, who has calculated that up to 600,000 non-combatants died during the Tigrayan war between November 2020 and November 2022. Many of them starved to death. If one adds fighters who died in combat, the total number of deaths could approach 1 million.
At the Munich Security Conference a week ago, US Vice-President Kamala Harris accused Russia of committing crimes against humanity. But given the simultaneous near-planetary silence on Tigray, it is safe to conclude that not all crimes against humanity are equal.
According to the Ukrainian government, the U.S. leads all countries with $196 billion in total military, financial and humanitarian aid to Ukraine between Jan. 24, 2022, through Nov. 20, 2022. Germany has sent the second-most funds, with $172 billion sent in that span.
👉 Compare this to what is happening to the Orthodox Christians of Ethiopia’s
☆ Since 2020 Genocide in Tigray: Over a million Orthodox Christians Massacred
☆ 200.000 Women, Nuns, Girls Raped in
☆ The Siege ofTigray is Causing mass Starvation for Millions
The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, The Lord Jesus Christ will return and balance the books soon! I hunger and thirst for righteousness.
Those who cannot sympathize will be forced to empathize. Be careful when you invalidate someone’s struggle…the shoe may be on the other foot one day. It certainly will.
👉 Anyways, 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 Abby Ahmed Ali:
☆ The United Nations
☆ The World Health Organization
☆ Antonio Gutterez
☆ Tedros Adhanom
☆ Klaus Schwab
☆ The European Union
☆ The African Union
☆ The United States, Canada & Cuba
☆ Russia
☆ Ukraine
☆ China
☆ Israel
☆ Arab States / Arab League
☆ 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 World Economic Forum
☆ The World Bank & International Monetary Fund
☆ 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.
“Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor’s crown.”
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