Äthiopien

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Ethiopia At Crossroads As Drone Attacks Worsen Tigray Crisis

While drone attacks kill dozens of people in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed continues to push for national dialogue to end the conflict. Will his plan succeed? [...]

The [government-imposed] blockade has created "hell and is an insult to our humanity," World Health Organization Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, himself a Tigrayan, told reporters. Stressing that he was speaking from a neutral position, Tedros said the situation was "serious and desperate." The UN said the blockade was preventing millions of people from accessing life-saving medicine. While releasing the Human Rights Watch World Report 2022, Executive Director Kenneth Roth mentioned Ethiopia's Tigray crisis as "a place of concern for the coming year." [...]

On the contrary, airstrikes have intensified in the country's north. This week, at least 17 people were killed in a drone attack. [...] The government denied it was behind the civilian bombings and instead blamed the TPLF for using propaganda to get the international community's attention. "The allegation of government airstrikes in Tigray on civilians is completely false," Legese Tulu, Ethiopia's government communications minister, told DW in an exclusive interview. "How can a government strike its citizens? People in Tigray are our brothers and sisters. The government never targets civilians," Legese added. [...]

Human rights organizations accuse both sides of committing alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. [...] "I am shocked by reports that drone attacks on IDP camps in Ethiopia last week resulted in numerous civilian casualties," Luise Amtsberg, Germany's commissioner for human rights policy and humanitarian assistance, told reporters. "These attacks not only cause terrible suffering but also worsen the chances of resolving the conflict." Amtsberg also urged those bearing arms in Tigray to guarantee humanitarian organizations full access to people in need.

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