Ethiopia targeting Tigray with starvation crimes as military tactic: report
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06/04/2021 - 17:18 A child displaced from western Tigray waits to receive food at a school where they are sheltering in the regional capital Mekelle. © AFP - Eduardo Soteras 5 min Famine is looming in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region as military operations specifically target food systems with systematic looting and pillaging of food and farms forming part of efforts to use hunger as a weapon of war, according to a new report published on Tuesday. Advertising Read more
“The sole reason for the scale of the humanitarian emergency is that the coalition of Ethiopian Federal forces, Amhara regional forces, and Eritrean troops are committing starvation crimes on large scale,” says the report by the World Peace Foundation, an organisation based at Tufts University.
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