Not Another War! Not In Ethiopia!

We are elevating an urgent concern as a constituent of your state. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), in northern Ethiopia, has committed atrocities that continue until this day in the regions of Amhara and Afar. These heinous acts have increased within the last year since the TPLF attacked the Northern Command of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF), on November 4, 2020. This war started with an unprovoked attack on the Northern Command and the killing of the federal soldiers of Ethiopia by the TPLF. The TPLF’s attack was ethnically based and targeted their fellow soldiers, who did not belong to the TPLF’s ethnic group. After the TPLF’s aggression, the Government of Ethiopia responded to the attack with a military operation against the TPLF.

In June 2021, in response to the international communities’ request for a cease-fire, the Ethiopian Government declared a cease-fire; unfortunately, the TPLF refused and continued its offensive on the people of Ethiopia. The international media has portrayed the TPLF as the victim and Ethiopia as the aggressor despite the evidence. The TPLF expanded its war on the people of Ethiopia into the Amhara and Afar regions. TPLF has killed many civilian farmers, women, and children looted hospitals and schools, and desecrated churches. When the Ethiopian Government sent nearly 1,000 trucks filled with humanitarian aid and supplies to Tigray, the TPLF held back the aid from the people of Tigray and used the UN humanitarian aid trucks to invade the neighboring regions of Afar and Amhara where they killed up to tens of thousands. With the shortage of trucks to transport much-needed aid, now the Afar and Amhara regions are in a humanitarian crisis.