Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Ethiopia’s Invisible Ethnic Cleansing

this is a report from the head of amnesty international and hrw, the most reliable possible. the piece is blocked to non subscribers, a shame. i wondered ab out the tigrayans themselves also having practiced ethnic cleansing against amhars and others? okey, can you paste the whole piece in for us non-subscribers?

ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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Ethiopia's Invisible Ethnic Cleansing

The World Can't Afford to Ignore Tigray

By Agnès Callamard and Kenneth Roth

June 2, 2022

Tigrayan fighters traveling outside Mekelle, Ethiopia, June 2021

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For more than a year and a half, a largely invisible campaign of ethnic cleansing has played out in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray. Older people, women, and children have been loaded onto trucks and forced out of their villages and hometowns. Men have been herded into overcrowded detention sites, where many have died of disease, starvation, or torture. In total, several hundred thousand Tigrayans have been forcibly uprooted because of their ethnicity.

These crimes are an outgrowth of a war that began in November 2020, pitting Ethiopian federal forces and their allies, including troops from Eritrea and the neighboring

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