Ethiopian Crisis: Seeking immediate international intervention

By Adam T. Uqbamikael and Metkel Yosief

Currently, Ethiopia is going through a bloody armed conflict in its norther region of Tigray with many accounts and eye witnesses confirming arbitrary and callous acts of execution, rape, looting, displacement, and starvation of the Tigray population and the thousands of Eritrean refugees within the Tigray region. Many have discussed and provided theories for the conflict between the parties. Yet, the origins for this war are often only explained from a contemporary perspective while important ideological and historic influences of this conflict have generally been left out…