Tigrayans in Washington, DC, held candle lightening ceremony in memory of the massacred Tigrayans in the genocidal war waged on Tigray regional state by PM Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia and President of Eritrea, Isaias Afeworki

 

Prayer for Tigray People

 ዝኸበርካ ኣምላኽና ኣቦ እግዚኣብሄር ፈጣሪ በሓቂ ትሪኢን ትሰምዕን ኣሎኻ ኣብ ትግራይ ህዝብና ዝበጽሕ ዘሎ ግፍዕን መከራን ኣዝዩ ዘንገፍግፍ እዩ:: ናይ መፍቲሒ ቁልፊ ኣብ ኢድካ ከምዝኾነ ንኣምን::

በጃኻ ኣምላኽ ብቁልጡፍ መፍቲሒ ክተምጽእ ንልምነካ ኣሎና::

“When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you.” ‭‭(Isa 43:2‬ ‭NLT‬‬)

 

A Short Memorial Video of Some Tigrayan Victims of Genocidal War and Assassinations in 2020

 

An interview with the renowned journalist Finian Cunningham on Tigray crisis and beyond (Source: Facebook)

 

TMH NEWS 12-23-2020 ንህዝብና ድምፂ ንኹኖ

 

Call for Worldwide Protests

 Call for Worldwide Protests - Friday, Jan 8, 2021, and Friday, Jan 22, 2021

 It is clear that Tigreans all over the world have been conducting concerted struggle to draw the attention of the international community to the genocide and ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Abiy, Esayas, and reportedly Arab Emirates Drone bombardments on Tigrai, Ethiopia. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the efforts of destroying Tigrai are being backed by some transactional leaders of some countries including a few from superpower countries who cannot see justice and the peaceful livelihood of millions of people any different than disposable materials for making profits and consolidating power.

In the 21st century, we are witnessing that transactional forces with narrow group interests are forging fronts in undermining the universal values and ideals for justice and peace. These forces are systematically engaged in silencing the voices and interests of people across many regions in the globe. The current reality in Tigrai is no different than this. The inactions on the humanitarian catastrophe in Tigrai is proof that it means nothing to these transactional forces so long as it meets their unlimited hunger for money and power. The calamity in Tigrai and our resultant struggle should, therefore, be seen as a response within the framework of such overt and covert infrastructure of a system of global injustice aimed at re/configuring parties, regimes, systems, countries, and regions in quest of pursuing the narrow interests of these forces. So while we must remain resolute and continue our struggle, we should not be surprised if the international community in general and these forces, in particular, fail to respond to the plights of our people with a commensurate sense of responsibility and urgency.

Albeit, it may be too little too late, yet our concerted efforts so far are bearing some fruits. We are happy to see responses coming from the international community, particularly Europe. This means we have to continue our all-round advocacy, diplomacy, and lobbying efforts to expose all the doers and the enablers of the genocide against our people and hold them accountable for their in/actions on the world stage. To this effect, our challenge to the international community remains simple and linear. On what, moral, ethical, and legal grounds could possibly the world remain silent when about 7 million people in Tigrai, Ethiopia are completely deprived of food, water, basic medical supplies, communications, mobility, and humanitarian assistance for more than 44 days by an unelected dictator? Genocide is unfolding in Tigrai, the world is watching, and history is repeating itself.

As part of our concerted efforts to this end, therefore, we are calling for 2 major worldwide protests for Friday, Jan 8, 2021, and Friday, Jan 22, 2021. We are thus calling all Tigrians and supporters of Tigrai to coordinate and plan to conduct these protests in their respective countries and/or states.

We should also continue holding recurring protests as we see them fit the specific situations of our respective localities, including holding continued protests at UAE embassies around the globe. 

Sincerely,

SJTE and Other Tigrean Associations

MULTINATIONAL FEDERALISM 12-19-20 (Source: Tigrai Media House)

 

King 5 News report on the war waged by Abiy Ahmed on the Tigray region that is terribly affecting Tigrayans diaspora here in the United States

 

Five Reasons Why the UN Security Council Needs to Deal with the Humanitarian Crisis in Ethiopia (Source: AfricanArguments.org)

 

Five Reasons Why the UN Security Council Needs to Deal with the Humanitarian Crisis in Ethiopia

BY ALEX DE WAAL

DECEMBER 14, 2020

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UN Security to hold first meeting on Tigray – Credit: Eskinder Debebe – Citizen

Today, the UN Security Council members are expected to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Tigray.

It’s a matter for UN Security Council urgent business for several reasons.

First, it’s an internationalized crisis: there are over 45,000 refugees in Sudan and within weeks there could be three times that number. There are over 100,000 Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia, and the Eritrean army has overrun their camps and is reportedly forcing conscripting youth, while the Federal Government is proposing to send over 100 Eritreans who made it as far as Addis Ababa back to Tigray, likely into the hands of the Eritrean army.

Second, there’s little doubt that starvation crimes are being committed in Tigray. There is good reason to suppose that parties to the conflict—the Ethiopian federal forces and militia, the Tigrayan forces and the Eritrean army—are violating the prohibition on using starvation as a weapon. These violations demand an international investigation.

Third, Ethiopia will be asking international donors—including the United States, Europe and Japan, among others—to foot the bill. Just five years ago, Ethiopia was on the point of graduating from the status of famine-prone country, with its large-scale path-breaking programs for food security. Not only is there a vast man-made food crisis enveloping in Tigray, but it’s now deeply uncertain whether Ethiopia can muster the financial and institutional capacity to deal with a large-scale nationwide food security challenge such as that which threatened in 2015. Having invested heavily over the last 25 years in the achievements of Ethiopia’s pro-poor developmental state and famine prevention mechanisms, international aid donors have a legitimate interest in preventing relapse.

Fourth, the African Union has failed Ethiopia thus far. There has been no African Union Peace and Security Council meeting on the topic. South Africa discouraged the UN Security Council from discussing the conflict. The African Union envoys were rebuffed. Yesterday, Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok announced an emergency summit of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on Ethiopia. His initiative needs the highest level of international backing.

Fifth, under UN Security Council resolution 2417 of May 2018, the United Nations Secretary General is required to report swiftly to the Council on any situation of armed conflict that threatens widespread food insecurity. The Ethiopian and Eritrean war in Tigray is precisely such a scenario for enacting this provision.