Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray War, an account of the conflict and its long and complex historical roots by Sarah Vaughan and Martin Plaut, former Africa Editor of the BBC, will be published this week by Hurst Publishers. What they have to say is explosive: that the entire justification for the war was based on a lie — the … Continue reading Ethiopia’s Tigray war and the ‘big lie’ behind the century-defining 600,000 civilian deaths