Staff at Africa’s largest airline are being ethnically profiled and excluded from work because they come from a region embroiled in a civil war with the Ethiopian government.
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Ethiopians from conflict-torn Tigray say they’re facing ethnic profiling
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has declared that the conflict in the northern Tigray region has come to an end. Abiy is calling for reconciliation and unity. But Ethiopia’s society remains as fractured as ever. On top of that, authorities are being accused of ethnic profiling as The World’s Halima Gikandi reports from Addis Ababa.
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“I saw many dead people being eaten by dogs,” Tela said from a refugee camp just over the border in Sudan, his voice breaking. “I saw many people dying on the road. Many difficult things, difficult to express, difficult to imagine.”
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Humanitarian sources are telling CNN that the Ethiopian army are trying to block its citizens from fleeing the conflict.
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“We jumped over dead bodies. Our neighbors were dead, but we couldn’t bury them so we just kept running. Abiy’s actions are terrible.”
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“This is inhumane, slaughtering people, stealing all their belongings, I feel the world has betrayed Tigray because people are doing nothing while people are being killed,” said Berhan.
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“We don’t want to go back, because we saw the administration of Abiy Ahmed. He kills us, Tigrinya speakers with the help of the Eritrean government,” Bereket Gebremichael said, referring to the official local language spoken in the Tigray region.
“We don’t want to be killed, so we don’t want to go back until Abiy Ahmed hands over to the people” of Tigray region, he added.
A crisis on top of crises – first COVID, now forced to flee their homes.
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“They were looting our properties and wanted to kill us so we all fled. We heard our people being shot. We saw dead bodies, so my family and I took what we could from our properties. We have farms that we should be harvesting but we left everything behind. Some even left their family members.”
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Filippo states that most of the refugees had to leave their family and work; makes mention of it being a harvest time so a major source of livelihood is lost.