ADDIS ABABA, DECEMBER 19, 2021 – The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a terrorist designated group, and its legacy of rights violations are unraveling through time. The group was recently reported, by the Ethiopian Press Agency, to have committed numerous human rights violations against civilians in Kasa Gita and Chifra of Afar. EthiopianCitizen will present each story that comes to light in Afar and Amhara. But for this article, we will focus on two places of Afar, Kasa Gita and Chifra.
Kasa Gita
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| Dhahra Warey |
“My daughter was everything to me. She was my closest helper. After she was killed, I lost everything. My heart is broken. I do not know how to mourn”, says Dhahra Warey remembering her 15 year old daughter who was killed when the TPLF terrorists were shelling with heavy artillery Kasa Gita town, Afar.
Dhahra, carrying her twin babies, often visits the grave yard where her daughter is buried and cries a lot. Her daughter was the only person supporting her with the chores at home. She was the one taking care of her when she gave birth. It is Dhahra’s wish that the TPLF terrorists are eliminated.
Hawa Haji also narrates her story of how her 9 year old daughter and others were massacred when the TPLF forces were about to flee fearing imminent take over by Ethiopian forces.
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| Hawa Haji |
“The TPLF men first told us that they had nothing to do with us, the civilians. But when the Ethiopian National Defense Forces and the Afar Special Forces were about to capture the town, they began attacking us, killing children and women indiscriminately. They told us it was our people who were attacking them”, said Hawa Haji to Ethiopian Press Agency reporters at the town.
“They killed my daughter on Wednesday and they did not allow me to bury her. This has hurt me a lot because I was unable to bury my daughter with dignity,” said Hawa Haji.
The TPLF terrorists forbade Hawa to fulfill her religious duties as a Muslim which is to immediately bury the dead after washing and cleaning their bodies. Hawa was only able to bury her daughter after three days when Ethiopian forces liberated her home town. She said the TPLF had no mercy for the Afar people.
Ever since then Hawa visits the grave of her daughter where she vents out all her sorrow and distress.
Chifra
Ahmed Wagris Hati was a father of five children living at Rodora village surrounding Chira town. When the TPLF came to their town many people were fleeing including Ahmed’s father Wagris who begged him to come along. But Ahmed refused. He said he cannot leave his brother who was wounded fighting the terrorists. Seeing Ahmed’s stubbornness, his father Wagris had no choice but to leave the place.
Then came the TPLF terrorists ravaging and killing anyone they believe to be a threat. They were destroying and looting the town. At this moment Ahmed was tending to the wounds of his brother at home.
But when he heard that the TPLF men were about to destroy the only school in the village, he went out and begged them to leave the school alone. He told them this is the only school his and the village’s children go to.
Unfortunately, the TPLF men were not a force to be reasoned with. One of them took out and shot Ahmed on the street. They killed Ahmed who only wanted to save the school and never wished to start a fight with the men.
Even worse, the monstrous TPLF men prevented Ahmed’s body the dignity of burial. They threatened anyone who wanted to get close to his corpus. And Ahmed’s dead body was left rot in the scorching 37 degrees weather for fifteen days.
This is just a few of the human right violation legacy of the TPLF terrorists in Afar which the United States, the European Union including the United Nations have failed time and again to denounce.
As Ethiopian forces liberate towns occupied by the terrorists, more and more horrific stories are yet to come out especially in North Wollo and Wag Himra zones of Amhara region.
However, the rights violations which the TPLF men committed as recorded by the joint investigations conducted by Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) could have been sufficient enough for the international community and the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to work with the Ethiopian government instead of working against it and exacerbate the situation with utter disregard for the nightmarish experience victims.
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