{"id":13427,"date":"2022-03-19T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T07:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/?p=13427"},"modified":"2022-03-20T07:31:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T07:31:10","slug":"genocide-culprits-rarely-admit-their-crime-ethiopia-is-no-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/?p=13427","title":{"rendered":"Genocide culprits rarely admit their crime: Ethiopia is no different"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The indecisiveness of the international community despite recurring signals is emboldening the Ethiopian regime to continue committing atrocious crimes in Tigray with impunity<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: Globe News Net<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our world had experienced a list of atrocious war crimes and crimes against humanity in the past decades. Although there existed little agreement and accountability against the list of  Genocide<\/a>  crimes, the UN convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of Genocide<\/a>  decreed in 1948 defined Genocide as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGenocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group\u2019\u2019<\/em><\/p>[1948 UN Genocide Convention]<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Whether we would like to hear or not, more than 500 thousand (half a million) people have vanished<\/a> in Tigray in the last 500 days of a coordinated (planned, financed, and executed) Genocidal war by the evil axis of dictators in the horn of Africa- The Eritrean regime, the Amhara expansionist forces, the Ethiopian brutal regime and forces affiliated with it. The atrocious crimes being committed in Tigray are not too complex to define even for a layperson. It is a textbook example of Genocide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tigrayans in the last couple of years in Ethiopia had been subjected to state-led discrimination<\/a>, ethnic profiling<\/a>, indiscriminate killing<\/a>  , massacre<\/a> , systematic starvation<\/a>, illegal mass detention<\/a> and disappearances<\/a> , barbaric killings<\/a> , ethnic cleansing<\/a>  , weaponized rape<\/a> that includes disabling reproductive organs<\/a>, and widespread emotional and psychological traumas<\/a> . <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking at the genesis<\/a>  of the war and the subsequent rhetoric<\/a>  and war crimes<\/a>  committed by the architects of the war on Tigray, the quest of the victims for an independent investigation and prosecution including naming the atrocious crimes remains above the board. Despite the legitimate voices and plethora of atrocious crimes in Tigray however, the large majority of media, human rights watchdogs and the international community at large had hardly given due attention nor ensured accountability yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs (UNOCHA<\/a>) in its periodic update released on March 17, 2022, indicated that Tigray is experiencing a staggering humanitarian crisis. Less than one percent (0.8%) of people are getting food assistance in the 21st<\/sup> century under the eyes of the international community. The UN body described the situation in Tigray as follows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMany activities remain reduced or suspended in Tigray. In the past week, fewer than 7,000 people received food assistance \u2013 an extremely small fraction of the 870,000 our UN colleagues are trying to assist each week. Partners also warn that less than 10 percent of the required amount of improved seeds have been brought in to Tigray before the start of the planting season, only a month away\u2019\u2019<\/em><\/p>UN<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The WHO director-general in his briefing on March 16\/2022 had alerted the international community that Tigray is passing through an unparalleled\u00a0catastrophe<\/a>\u00a0and requested unfettered access & peaceful settlement of the crisis. The World Food Program (WFP) late in January 2022 had similarly been\u00a0echoing<\/a>\u00a0the prevailing humanitarian crisis in Tigray and Ethiopia at large. According to the WFP report, two million people in Tigray were in urgent need of food by the month of January. People were desperately telling humanitarian workers and the media \u201cwe just sleep and hope we don\u2019t perish<\/em>\u201d. The rest of the humanitarian agencies and NGOs weren\u2019t as vocal except for a rare tweet from the\u00a0\u00a0USAID Administrator<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Samantha Power. As clearly indicated by the USAID chief, the Ethiopian regime along with its cronies had been systematically hindering the passage of humanitarian aid. The government of Tigray had consistently been updating the developmental partners and humanitarian organizations regarding the situation in that it was deserving urgent response and the government of Abiy Ahmed was systematically\u00a0impeding<\/a>\u00a0 the aid.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n