MPs say they will push ahead with their Tigray report as urgently as they can, spurred on by witnesses who described mass rapes and starvation
“A lot of the testimony was gut-wrenching,” said Liberal MP Sameer Zuberi, chairman of the Commons subcommittee on international human rights.
“What the experts were saying at committee was that this meets the legal definition of genocide, so that must be taken very seriously,” he said. In his testimony, Dr. Kapila described a pattern of dehumanizing hate speech in Ethiopia’s state media, co-ordinated attacks on civilians in Tigray, a deliberate blockade of food and medicine to the region, and the systematic destruction of urban and rural livelihoods by cutting off electricity and communications – all orchestrated by the command and control structures of the Ethiopian and Eritrean authorities.
“There is mounting evidence of intent to destroy Tigrayans as a group,” said Ms. Teich, who was testifying on behalf of a Canadian Tigrayan organization. Hayelom Kebede Mekonen, a former senior official at Tigray’s biggest hospital, Ayder Referral Hospital in Mekelle, counted 533 rape victims who needed treatment from the hospital during the first six months of the war alone.
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