READ: Were 750 Christians Really Massacred? The Truth About Ethiopia’s Recent Crisis He also decried the looting of all resources of Tigray, farmers being prevented from farming, women being raped, and youth being searched out in towns and villages and then killed and thrown off the cliffs. According to the Associated Press, the video was secretly recorded in April on a mobile phone by a man called Dennis Wadley, who runs a U.S.-based organization called Bridges of Hope.Ībuna Mathias talks about the massacres of civilians that took place in Mahebere-Dego, Maryam Dengalat and Axum in 2020. It was soon after the video of Abuna Mathias came out and CNN’s report from Tigray that the sanctions were announced. In a rare criticism of the U.S., tens of thousands of Ethiopians in the capital and elsewhere in the country recently protested the Biden administration’s sanctions. government has imposed sanctions on Ethiopia.
To put pressure on the Ethiopian government, the U.S. government has insisted that the federal government must declare a ceasefire and negotiate with TPLF, who are now classified as a terrorist group by the country’s parliament. TPLF was defeated but some of its leaders have retreated to the mountains and are engaging in insurgency. The armed conflict was the climax of political wrangling between TPLF and the federal government led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who introduced democratic and economic reforms.
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TPLF was the ideological parent of the country’s former ruling party, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), which ruled Ethiopia for decades with ethnic-based system and repressive policies. (OPINION) A viral video of His Holiness Abuna Mathias, a Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC), describing barbaric killings of civilians in Tigray has prompted heightened concern in the international community about human rights abuses, while many Ethiopians remain cautious and skeptical about whether disinformation campaigns driven by anti-government activists, geopolitical forces, “Ethiopia analysts” and media outlets are influencing Western communities and governments.Ībuna Mathias hails from Tigray, a region in northern Ethiopia, where armed conflict in November 2020 started following forces loyal to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) attacking army bases of the Northern Command of the Ethiopian federal army. This piece reflects the views of the author and does not necessarily represent those of Religion Unplugged, its staff and contributors. Religion Unplugged believes in a diversity of well-reasoned and well-researched opinions.
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