The weaponization of the International Human Rights Commission by the TPLF’s Patrons/Partners-in-Crime is finally exposed.
The “report” is a political hit job with the singular aim of shamelessly demonizing the Ethiopian Government and the Ethiopian National Defense Force, Militia and Fano, and canonization of the terrorist TPLF.
The Report mentions ONE and ONLY one human rights violation committed by the TPLF terrorist group in its investigation!
The main “conclusions” quoted directly from the “REPORT” are as follows (boldface added for emphasis)
The Commission finds reasonable grounds to believe that the ENDF shelled Mekelle on 28 November 2020, killing and injuring civilians and striking civilian objects days after Tigrayan forces had left the city with their assets. ENDF soldiers committed widespread extrajudicial killings, rapes and other forms of sexual violence, and looting during the seven-month period stretching from 28 November 2020 to 28 June 2021. ENDF personnel also used civilian objects for military purposes and restricted access to medical treatment.
The Commission finds reasonable grounds to believe that Tigrayan forces killed civilians and persons rendered hors de combat, raped, looted, and damaged or destroyed civilian infrastructure and property in Kobo and Chenna in late August and early September 2021.
The Commission finds reasonable grounds to believe that the ENDF conducted a drone strike against the Dedebit IDP camp on 7 January 2022, killing and injuring approximately 60 civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure. It also finds reasonable grounds to believe that there were no soldiers or military equipment in or near the camp on the day of the attack.
The Commission finds reasonable grounds to believe that the ENDF, EDF, and Fano have committed widespread acts of rape and sexual violence against Tigrayan women and girls. In some instances, the attackers expressed an intent to render the victims infertile and used dehumanising language that suggested an intent to destroy the Tigrayan ethnicity. Tigrayan Forces have also committed acts of rape and sexual violence, albeit on a smaller scale.
The Commission finds reasonable grounds to believe that the Federal Government and allied regional State governments have implemented a widespread range of measures designed to systematically deprive the population of Tigray of material and services indispensable for its survival, including healthcare, shelter, water, sanitation, education and food.
Further analysis to follow.
Click to access Inter-Hum-Rights-Comm-Report-9-19-22.pdf
Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam teaches political science at California State University, San Bernardino. His teaching areas include American constitutional law, civil rights law, judicial process, American and California state governments, and African politics. He has published two volumes on American constitutional law, including American Constitutional Law: Structures and Process (1994) and American Constitutional Law: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights (1998). He is the Senior Editor of the International Journal of Ethiopian Studies, a leading scholarly journal on Ethiopia. For the last several years, Prof. Mariam has written weekly web commentaries on Ethiopian human rights and African issues that are widely read online. He played a central advocacy role in the passage of H.R. 2003 (Ethiopia Democracy and Accountability Act of 2007) in the House of Representatives in 2007. Prof. Mariam practices in the areas of criminal defense and civil litigation. In 1998, he argued a major case in the California Supreme Court involving the right against self-incrimination in People v. Peevy, 17 Cal. 4th 1184, which helped clarify longstanding Miranda rights issues in criminal procedure in California. For several years, Prof. Mariam had a weekly public channel public affairs television show in Southern California called “In the Public Interest”. Prof. Mariam received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1984, and his J.D. from the University of Maryland in 1988.
The weaponization of the International Human Rights Commission by the TPLF’s Patrons/Partners-in-Crime is finally exposed.
The “report” is a political hit job with the singular aim of shamelessly demonizing the Ethiopian Government and the Ethiopian National Defense Force, Militia and Fano, and canonization of the terrorist TPLF.
The Report mentions ONE and ONLY one human rights violation committed by the TPLF terrorist group in its investigation!
The main “conclusions” quoted directly from the “REPORT” are as follows (boldface added for emphasis)
Further analysis to follow.
Click to access Inter-Hum-Rights-Comm-Report-9-19-22.pdf
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