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In a February 3 interview with @ltghrmcmaster of the @HooverInst, President @PaulKagame of Rwanda proposed that the new US @JoeBiden administration and the United Nations @antonioguterres should address the situation in Tigray, Ethiopia 1
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In a February 3 interview with @ltghrmcmaster of the @HooverInst, President @PaulKagame of Rwanda proposed that the new US @JoeBiden administration and the United Nations @antonioguterres should address the situation in Tigray, Ethiopia 1
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@paulkagame described the situation as too worrying and the toll too high to be left only to Ethiopia or AU.
As the president of a country with the tragic history of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi, @paulkagame words must be heeded with great urgency by @UN SC. 2
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As the president of a country with the tragic history of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi, @paulkagame words must be heeded with great urgency by @UN SC. 2
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There are additional reasons why the @UN SC’s immediate action is necessary:
1.Large presence of Eritrean forces implicated in brutal execution of Tigrayan civilians, killings and forcible return of Eritrean refugees (up to 20k missing) and burning of @Refugees camps. @LindaT_G 3
1.Large presence of Eritrean forces implicated in brutal execution of Tigrayan civilians, killings and forcible return of Eritrean refugees (up to 20k missing) and burning of @Refugees camps. @LindaT_G 3
2. With 4.5 ml people in need of aid, 2.3 ml in emergency (IPC Phase 4), unabated, Tigray may soon face famine (IPC Phase 5) catastrophe. Ethiopian and Eritrean forces have systematically denied people access to objects indispensable for survival @UNReliefChief @SamanthaJPower 4
3.With more than 2 ml IDPs, more than 66,000 refugees hosted in Sudan (may sharply surge to over 200,000) if a corridor is open to Sudan, Tigray now represents a humanitarian global burden at a time when "humanitarian needs have never been higher" @FilippoGrandi @NRC_Egeland 5
4. Ethiopian government has built an intricate web of checkpoints and bureaucracy to deliberately impede access to aid. @UNEthiopia teams have been shot at and detained. People in parts of Tigray are systematically denied access to objects indispensable for survival. @mbachelet 6
5. There are reasonable grounds to believe that collective punishment, systemic atrocities, destruction of heritage sites, pillaging, widespread rape, deliberate starvation and displacement occurred. And Ethiopia’s failure to protect refugees breaches international law @UNESCO 7
6. Embroiled in a civil and international war, Ethiopia is no more an exporter of net stability, but a source of problems. The electoral crises and security tensions in the region, such as Ethiopia and Sudan, Kenya and Somalia, and GERD may draw forces into proxy war. @Haavisto 8
7. For these reasons, @UN SC needs to consider Tigray in its regular (top) agenda, and adopt mechanisms for:
a. immediate and verifiable removal of Eritrean forces, and ceasefire
b. investigation of grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions including missing Eritrean refugees. 9
a. immediate and verifiable removal of Eritrean forces, and ceasefire
b. investigation of grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions including missing Eritrean refugees. 9
c. adopt measures to ensure humanitarian access to avert looming famine
d. Take punitive measures on spoilers
e. request SG @antonioguterres to appoint, with urgency, an investigation, monitoring, verification commission to implement these actions @JosepBorrellF @EstoniaUN END
d. Take punitive measures on spoilers
e. request SG @antonioguterres to appoint, with urgency, an investigation, monitoring, verification commission to implement these actions @JosepBorrellF @EstoniaUN END
