Tigray Genocide

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 […]