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…
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…
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…
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…
On the International Day of Reflection on the Rwanda Genocide, CSW and Human Rights Concern Eritrea are urging greater international action to end the ongoing violence in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, where credible information continues to emerge indicating that atrocity crimes may be underway. In 1994 an…