Re: Planned Forced Return of Two Refugees into Extreme Danger in Eritrea Your Excellency, We are writing to you most urgently about the cases of Eritrean refugees, Alem Tesfay Abraham and Kibrom Adhanom, who have been illegally detained at Al Qanater prison, Cairo, since 2012 and…
ETHIOPIA SHOULD LIFT THE UNJUSTIFIED SUSPENSION OF 2 AID AGENCIES IN TIGRAY
On July 30th 2021, Ethiopia suspended the operations within its territory of two International Aid Groups, the Norwegian Refugee Council and Doctors Without Borders. This startling intervention by Ethiopia’s government comes at a time when reliable international experts predict that hundreds of thousands of civilians in Tigray…
Letter from Eritrea to UN Security Council Blames USA for Interference and Destabilization in Tigray
On 7th June 2021, Eritrea’s foreign minister presented a letter to the UN Security Council which blamed U.S. administrations for supporting the Tigray People’s Liberation Movement (TPLF) during the last 20 years and blamed the current US administration for the war in Tigray, northern Ethiopia.” Osman…
EU Removes Development Assistance Funding from Eritrea, Citing Human Rights Abuses in Tigray Conflict
The European Commission plans to remove more than €100 million ($120 million) of development assistance originally designated for Eritrea citing human rights violations in Tigray, where the Eritrean military is implicated in massive human rights abuses and possible war crimes, including the massacres of civilians. Since the 2018 rapprochement…
TIGRAY: Massacres of 1,900 People in Tigray Confirmed by Eye-Witness Report Which Implicates Eritrean Military. Withdrawal of Eritrean Forces from Tigray Seriously in Doubt
A recent authoritative research study by Ghent University in Belgium has revealed the extent of the massacres of civilians in Tigray since the conflict began in November 2020. The report identifies 151 massacres, in which over 1,900 were killed in cold blood. The researchers state from eye-witness testimony that Eritrean soldiers…