The unfortunate conflict in Tigray – Cuba en Noticias

Two years after the outbreak of war in the Ethiopian region of Tigray, this conflict continues to drain material resources, destroy lives and create a complex humanitarian situation, with no serious sign of lasting peace.

After a six-month truce, hostilities have recently resumed accompanied by enhanced recrimination, which alternates with an increased influx of IDPs and refugees.

Few indications of change are currently centered on some statements by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front about its willingness to speak with representatives of the Ethiopian government, its opponent.

But in fact, the discontinuity in the theater of military operations – which tends to expand into neighboring areas – limits the possibility of political understanding and casts doubt on whether it will happen soon.

Although nothing is impossible, important and unusual actions can happen out of sight, but the real thing so far is armed violence, without delving into the ethno-political issue.

War is no longer the last option (Photo: ethiopia-insight.com)

Perhaps the required media synthesis does not provide all the nuances of defining the behavior of the crisis, causing the complex humanitarian situation that the conflict unleashed two years ago when the FPLT attacked a federal army base, as accused and designated as terrorist by Addis Ababa. the gathering.

In any case, when the contradictions between the parties led to the war in 2020, many believed that the solution to the problem would be quick, but the event of the war was complex and thousands of people today suffer from the repercussions of that process.

CNN reported that on November 4, 2020, after the LTTE was accused of attacking a federal army base on the outskirts of Mekele, the capital of Tigrin, and attempting to seize weapons, the Ethiopian government decided to set out with national forces from other regions in an operation against the group.

It is estimated that in the first twelve months the conflict affected at least seven million civilians, but the 2022 statistics indicate nine million citizens, many of whom have plunged into deep humanitarian decline and need assistance.

This is the main result; Early on, the United Nations warned that food shortages were “extremely critical” for the nearly 100,000 Eritreans who had, since before the war, been in four refugee camps in the Tigray region.

:The effects of the war in Tigray are growing daily (Photo: abcnews.go.com).

The aggravation of the situation was verified by the statements sent in this regard by UN agencies and aid groups: in a short time things escalated and are still going on.

A year after its outbreak, the conflict was already one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises with millions of people in need of assistance and lacking basic logistics to survive.

Clashes prevent farmers from planting fields and tending crops, while hospitals outside the regional capital, Mikkeli, have little or no resources to care for their patients.

A year ago, the Ethiopian Minister of Peace, Mfrihat Kami, defined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine as a criminal and said: “We wanted to create a peaceful environment for agricultural work and humanitarian operations in the north of the country, but the front launched a war against civilians and prevented assistance leaving millions of people vulnerable.”

The outcome of the war is clear: a massive increase in the number of displaced people and constant accusations among the contenders for this crisis, and although the national and international environment “reduced the Ethiopians’ interest in the internal fire (…) they always looked sideways towards the north”.

This is how Rafael Arzuaga Junko, Prinsa Latina’s chief correspondent in Addis Ababa, partially described the social and political environment in which competition is moving in a northern direction.