For 8 months, the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF), Amhara special forces and militias, and Eritrean Defense Forces with Somali soldiers committed unimaginable crimes against humanity, war crimes, and acts of genocide, as they brutally invaded and occupied most ofTigray. With the military support of the UAE, Turkey, China, and Russia, these crimes have continued in areas of Tigray still occupied, while the rest of Tigray is bombed and starved under a deadly siege.
The bombings and shelling of towns and villages, indiscriminate attacks on civilians, and weaponized Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV)are a few of the various forms of physical violence that have been inflicted on the people of Tigray.
Conservative estimates indicate that more than 70,000 Tigrayans have been killed since the onset of the war, with tens of thousands more injured. Over 6 million people in the region are in dire need of emergency food aid, at least 900,000 are in conditions of famine. Close to 70,000 people have fled to neighboring Sudan, while over 2.2 million people are internally displaced, sheltering in makeshift camps and schools. The region’s healthcare infrastructure has completely collapsed as most health facilities are not functioning with no supplies.
The Ethiopian government has limited local and international media from entering Tigray in an attempted state-orchestrated cover-up
of its crimes in the Tigray region.