The human tragedy in Ethiopia
He is a global doctor and has
been battling a deadly global epidemic like Corona for the past several months
while in private life he is going through a severe ordeal. Dr. Tedras, the
Director-General of the World Health Organization keeps his
personal grief a secret and refrains from expressing his grief in public, but
when I do a little, he bursts into tears. Dr. Tedras belongs to the Ethiopian
region.
This is the same area where Ethiopian
and Eritrean troops have been committing serious crimes against humanity since
November. US Secretary of State Anthony Blankenship has called the atrocities
genocide, but the world, in general, has ignored the tragedy.
Children are starving in Tigre,
men are being beaten to death with sticks. Women and girls are being subjected
to widespread mass humiliation. Ethiopian opposition parties have
claimed that more than 50,000 people have been killed so far, but this has not
been confirmed by independent sources. The last few months have seen the worst
scenes of violence, starvation, carnage, and destruction.
Dr. Tedras says,
"The weapon of hunger has been used here, the weapon of humiliation has
been used, indiscriminate killings and massacres are going on." Hunger
reigns throughout the region. It is a tragic and painful tragedy that cannot be
described in words. “Her 68-year-old cousin was killed trying to save her life
in a church.
Another of his loved ones, a 16-year-old schoolboy, was shot in the street. All internet and phone connections have been cut off. As a result, Dr. Tedras is unable to make any contact with his family members in Tigress who have been tortured or may have been killed. Although Dr. Tedras is a well-known public servant, he would have been a refugee by now. He is currently based at the World Health Organization's headquarters in Geneva and his safety cannot be guaranteed if he tries to return to Tigre. Ethiopia's army chief has declared him a criminal.
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Declan Wash, a colleague
of mine in the New York Times, pointed out in a report the atrocities in which
a 26-year-old woman was beaten to death with bottles of alcohol, and girls
under the age of eight were sexually assaulted. Is facing UN High Commissioner for Human
Rights Mark Lukacs narrates the story of a woman whose husband was
murdered and whose child died in her womb and was gang-raped in front of her
children ۔ I have known and admired Dr. Tedras for the last 15 years,
but we were surprised when he supported the dictators.
When I asked Dr. Tedras why he
refused to engage in any kind of political dialogue, including putting
international pressure on Ethiopia to stop the massacre of
Tigris residents. They look very confused. He wants to be seen as neutral in
the performance of his duties in a global organization, so he refrains from
speaking out against the genocide of his own people.
Ethiopian Prime Minister
Abe Ahmed, who came to power in 2018 and was initially hailed as a great
reformist leader, is behind the anti-human actions in Tigre. He also won the
2019 Nobel Peace Prize. The roots of the Tigris crisis seem to be rooted in
ethnic conflicts and power struggles. For the last three decades, the Tigris
have dominated the central government. During this time, Dr. Tedras gained
considerable notoriety, first as Minister of Health and then as Foreign
Minister. The Tigran-majority government maintained an effective grip on power
in which the living standards of the people tended to rise, but it was an
oppressive government that tortured its critics and imprisoned journalists. ۔ This
caused great unrest among other groups in Ethiopia.
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After coming to power, Prime
Minister Abby Ahmed began evicting the Tigrin people and sent troops to
the area in November in the name of crushing the so-called insurgency. But as a
result of a civil war with the Tigrin fighters, Eritrean troops entered the
area to help the Ethiopian army.
If the civil war spreads further, there is a danger of Sudan joining it. All parties to the conflict have committed atrocities and crimes against each other, but the most serious allegations are being made against Ethiopian and Eritrean forces and their allies.
As head of the World Health
Organization, Dr. Tedras has made every effort to ensure that the cod vaccine
is distributed fairly among all countries. Keep quiet Dr. Anne Sparrow, a
professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine who has also been Dr.
Tedras' advisor, says: All the while trying to cope with Tigre's
plight.
Dr. Tedras was also
reluctant to give this interview, but when he gave this interview, he could not
control his emotions. "We are facing code and we are doing our best to end
it," he said in an interview. And then the one who hid the sorrows
exploded and for more than a minute he could not speak and kept sobbing. I
always respect the person who can't control himself when talking about war
crimes. I hope that President Joe Biden and other world leaders will pay
attention to the tragedy of Tigre and the suffering of the people who are currently
starving.
