A conflict between the central government in Addis Ababa and the People’s Liberation Front of Tigray has been smoldering for a year and a half. New findings from a human rights commission do not bode well.
According to the East African country’s Human Rights Commission, 9,000 people from the conflict region of Tigray are interned in camps in Ethiopia. Commission chairman Daniel Bekele called for their immediate release.
The people were “held captive” in two camps in the Afar region because of their origin. This was the first time that the state commission spoke explicitly of camps. She had previously criticized the fact that people from Tigray were being persecuted and sometimes imprisoned because of their origin.
According to the commission, the camp inmates were arrested six months ago in Tigray. “Families are separated from each other. The people hardly get humanitarian assistance and medical treatment. People have already died in the camps because of illness,” says a report. The commission blamed “regional security forces” in Afar, which also received political support, for the detentions. The region borders the embattled Tigray region.
The conflict between the central government in Addis Ababa and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) for control of the region began a year and a half ago. Ethiopia’s government announced this week that it would seek a peaceful solution to the Tigray conflict with the support of the African Union. With almost 115 million inhabitants, the multi-ethnic state on the Horn of Africa is the country with the second largest population in Africa. For a long time it was considered the anchor of stability in the region.
Source: Stern
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