{"id":14142,"date":"2022-04-21T11:23:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T11:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/?p=14142"},"modified":"2022-04-21T11:23:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T11:23:11","slug":"open-letter-from-the-govt-of-tigray-to-the-secretary-general-of-the-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/?p=14142","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter from the Gov&#8217;t of Tigray to the Secretary General of the UN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/secureservercdn.net\/198.71.233.26\/yky.03a.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Open-letter-to-SG-of-the-UN-from-GoT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read full text<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mekelle, Tigray<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am writing to you to highlight the multifaceted crises currently afflicting Ethiopia, imperiling the integrity of the state and threatening to tear the country at the seams. At present, Ethiopia is in the midst of cataclysmic social, economic and political upheavals whose ramification will reverberate for generations to come. At the root of the country\u2019s seemingly insurmountable crises is the declaration and vicious prosecution of a genocidal war on Tigray, resulting in massive dislocation and unleashing a conflagration that has metastasized throughout the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One tragic element accelerating the country\u2019s journey to the abyss is the cruel and inhumane blockade of Tigray, putting millions of people at risk of death by starvation. The UN\u2019s relief chief, Martin Griffiths, had highlighted the deleterious impact of the \u201cde facto blockade\u201d of Tigray on humanitarian operation months ago. While limited aid\u2014far from sufficient to meet burgeoning needs \u2013had been trickling into Tigray from July through mid-December, no humanitarian aid was delivered from mid-December through the end of March overland. In fact over the last 4 months, only 67 truckloads of supplies have arrived in Tigray, representing a mere 6 percent of what is required to meet increasing needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mekelle, Tigray I am writing to you to highlight the multifaceted crises currently afflicting Ethiopia, imperiling the integrity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14,32],"class_list":["post-14142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-amn","tag-english"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1-74.png",747,457,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1-74-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1-74.png",300,184,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1-74.png",640,392,false],"large":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1-74.png",640,392,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1-74.png",747,457,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1-74.png",747,457,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1-74.png",747,457,false],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1-74.png",590,361,false],"woocommerce_thumbnail":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1-74-300x300.png",300,300,true],"woocommerce_single":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1-74-600x367.png",600,367,true],"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1-74-100x100.png",100,100,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Axumawian Media"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14144,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14142\/revisions\/14144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}