BRUSSELS – Last Friday afternoon, members of the Tigray community in the Netherlands were received at the Embassy of Ethiopia in Brussels for a formal meeting with His Excellency Ambassador Eshete Tilahun and his diplomatic colleagues. The purpose of the meeting was to address the critical situation in the Tigray region and to hand over […]
De Tigray gemeenschap in Nederland is uitermate tevreden met het vonnis van de rechtbank Amsterdam van 2 augustus 2024 over de gedane uitlatingen door een voormalig CDA-politicus Myra Koomen naar aanleiding van de rellen op 17 februari 2024 bij het Haagse zalencentrum Opera, waar de Federatie van Eritrese Gemeenschappen in Nederland (FEN) een evenement organiseerde. […]
Op zondag 30 juni hebben Tigreërs in Nederland gedemoniseerd tegen het geweld tegen vrouwen in het noorden van Ethiopië, in de provincie Tigray. De demonstranten hebben hun solidariteit met de slachtoffers van seksueel geweld in Tigray betuigt en eisen gerechtigheid voor alle slachtoffers van seksueel geweld, ontvoeringen, moord en andere misstanden in de regio. Urgent Call for […]
Op zaterdag 17 februari 2024 zijn in Den Haag rellen uitgebroken tussen een groep regeringsgezinde Eritreeërs en tegenstanders van het regime. Het te betreuren incident vond plaats in het Haagse zalencentrum Opera op een politieke bijeenkomst georganiseerd door regeringsgezinde Eritreeërs. Relschoppers gooiden met stenen en politievoertuigen werden in brand gestoken. Volgens het OM zijn bij […]
Tigrayan community in the Netherlands conducted a peaceful demonstration on Friday, November 4, 2022 between 11:00 and 13:00 at the Museumplein in Amsterdam in commemoration of 2nd year of TigrayGenocide. The Federal government of Ethiopia waged war on the Tigrayan people on November 4, 2020, and Tigray has since kept in the dark due to […]
Position Statement of Doctors and other health professionals of Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital – College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University Please find the original content in PDF-file here. We, the Doctors and other health professionals of Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital – College of Health Sciences, at Mekelle University, hear and experience firsthand the daily suffering […]
A devastating war is being waged in Tigray since November 4, 2020, with no foresight for lasting end. War crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and systematic acts of genocide are being committed on the people of Tigray. Tigrayans are enduring cascaded layers of ethnic-based systematic attacks, including total siege, systematic mass killing, weaponized mass […]
On Nov 4, 2020, an all-out civil war started in the Tigray region, one of the nine federal states of Ethiopia. What began as a political and constitutional crisis in Ethiopian politics has unfortunately escalated into a full-fledged international war between the Tigrayan forces, and military forces from, at least, four countries . Tigray has […]
On November 4, 2020, a war broke out in Tigray, the northern federal region of Ethiopia. Since then, Tigrayan civilians have been at the receiving end of deliberate and harrowing crimes being perpetrated by armed forces. More than 150,000 civilians, mainly Tigrayans (but also Oromo, Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz, etc.), are believed to have been killed in […]
Tigray is the cradle of East Africa with a history that goes back thousands of years. Tigray is a home to the kingdom of Axum, the then epicenter of power of the Red Sea and second only to the Roman and Persian empires, with which it had a very active trade of ivory and salt. The […]
