Ethiopia: Western Tigray

2020-2022

Websites

Ethiopia Case Study: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has a designated page the covers the Western Tigray conflict.

Ethiopia Tigray crisis: Warnings of genocide and famineConcern is mounting about the devastating effects of the conflict raging in Tigray since November.

There’s Genocide in Tigray, but Nobody’s Talking About itThe reasons range from Internet shutdowns to just pure racism.

Ethiopia is at war with itself. Here's what you need to know about the conflict | CNNWhen Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, he was lauded as a regional peacemaker. Now, he is presiding over a protracted civil war that has the potential to destabilize the wider Horn of Africa region.

Ethiopia’s Invisible Ethnic CleansingFor 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.

Crimes Against Humanity in Ethiopia's Western Tigray ZoneThe campaign of killings, rape, mass detentions, amounts to war crimes.

Videos

Vice reports on the war in Ethiopia during the second year of the war.

"Soon after fighting broke out in Ethiopia's western Tigray region last year, conflicting accounts surfaced of an ethnic massacre in a farming town called Mai Kadra. Now Reuters has uncovered how the violence began and the brutal cycle of vengeance and slaughter that followed."