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Africa’s civil society advocates raise alarm on ‘looming Ethiopia genocide’

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By Theodore Jones –

Coalition of African civil society advocates has urged the United Nations (UN) to intervene quickly to avoid Ethiopia’s impending genocide.

In a joint statement signed by 34 civil organizations and 31 activists from around Africa, they cautioned that if the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia is not resolved peacefully, it could result in mass deaths.

“On behalf of concerned Africans and humanity everywhere,” the letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres reads, “we request you to show leadership in taking urgent actions to avert potential genocide in Ethiopia.”

“In the absence of such action, we believe genocide will occur under your leadership as Secretary-General, which will be a stain not only on your record as Secretary-General, but also on our collective humanity at this time.”

Genocide, according to international law, is the deliberate killing of a group of people because of their race, origin, or religion.

It has happened in the past, such as the Nazi extermination of Jews in Germany in the early 1940s, the killing of ethnic Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994, the Khmer Rouge regime killings in Cambodia in the late 1970s and the Armenian massacres in the early 1900s.

The Ethiopian National Defence Forces have been battling the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a former ruling party that Ethiopia now accuses of terrorism, for one year.

In turn, TPLF has accused the Ethiopian and allied Eritrean forces of seeking to eliminate ethnic Tigray people. Efforts to bring the parties to the table have failed.

And the activists said UN chief Guterres should work with the International Committee of the Red Cross to compile all internment centres in Ethiopia and ensure access, monitoring and oversight of conditions by ICRC.

AFP

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