This report is – truly – difficult reading. I reported from Africa for the BBC for nearly 30 years. I saw atrocities of all kinds. I wrote a book about Ethiopia’s war against Tigray with Sarah Vaughan. But the detail in this report, particularly against women, is horrifying. I could hardly bear going through it. The photographs are so graphic they are difficult to look at. Yet, we must.
The women were – by far – the largest number of victims. But men and boys were also grossly abused. This is just one example of what the interviews revealed.
Though the young men told the soldiers that they were civilians, they continued torturing them. Later, they started gang raping them all anally and orally in just one room. They repeatedly raped and tortured them from around 10:30 am to 5:00 pm.
And so the evidence mounts up…
Martin
Martin Plaut 
Justice deserves for this woman. Victimize
to those who 459 Ethiopian soldiers they’ve been cut, killing and raping those women. They were killing innocent kids throw them 100 ft lower to the ground 😭 but before they receive Justice they’ve been released overnight at midnight people not to see them, by those bandas bloody hand moron denkoro psychopaths, also, they need these people hair responsible for their own crime
Thank you Mr. Martin Plaut for your open, humanly and just understanding of the report and the depth of the societal generational effect of the genocidal war, which the west has paid a deaf ear and the ‘TPLF’ group almost denied it.
Kahssay Gebreyesus
Consultant*
Mekelle & Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Mr. D. *Lammy MP MR. Marco Rubio Ambassador Warren A. Stephen
Your Honourable Messieurs:
We believe that the whole world has heard of the genocidal war in Tigray (northern Ethiopia); however, the active (political/humanitarian) sections of the international community have not given due consideration to this deadliest war of the 21st century. On the magnitude of this devastating war there is overwhelming documented evidence, which we can provide on request or can be accessed from sources such as UN-HRC, New Line Institution, Mr. Martin Pault ’s EEPA Reports, APGC (led by Lord D. Alton) Amnesty International, Al-Jazeera, even BBC World Service & The Guardian (no matter it may be scanty), CNN Reports, EU Report (esp. presented by Mr. Pekka Haavisto & MPE Mike Wallace), Ethio-Forum, Zara Tigray Media Network, GSTS etc.
Thus the Tigrian academic living & working in the UK , in collaboration with various community groups have been impelled to release this reminder communique on behalf of the Tigrian Diaspora in the UK. We are obliged to bring this matter to our respective MPs for the following reason:
1. Almost all members of the Diaspora have lost either a close/distant relative or a friend/ neighbour; as well as a relative/s/ who is/are a victim/s/ of rape (used a weapon of war).
2. As a result of these atrocities befell/still befalling on our roots, has affected our individual performance in the UK socio-economic performance, be it in teaching, or medical profession or super-market management.
3. As concerned citizens and proven solid allegiances to the Kingdom, we do not want to be an additional burden to the NHS, the pride of this society. We say this based on information our medical folks told us the frequency & the number of Tigrians visiting various of our hospitals has increased exponentially, as a result of the depression induced by the ongoing barbarity of their respective families in Tigray.
4. As taxpayers and active members of this society, we strongly believe that our government has the social & moral obligation to maintain the sanity and stability of its citizens. If necessary, we are more than happy to provide any additional information, although there are plenty of documented sources of facts & figures on this genocidal war that devoured over 1,500,000 people, either by hot-battles or by the aftermath of the war. Needless to say, but worth mentioning is the fact that it should be apparent that the nearly 5,000,000 displaced people are the potential immigrants to the Western hemisphere unless they are helped to return to their original abodes and villages. This is because nothing can stop them from attempting any possible means of survival, as their deprivation of the minimal basic necessities are compounded by war & natural calamities, specially those who are sheltered in tattered tents within the Sudan borders.
In this light, we would like to appeal earnestly to the good conscience of our MPs and the active international at large, including the media, to air out our shared concern and put the necessary pressure to our government in order to take the necessary measures, as it did in various troubled countries of the world, with collaboration other international stakeholders, such as UN & EU.
May we take this opportunity to express our heart-felt appreciation and gratitude to those who approached Col. A.A. Ali to avoid the genocidal war in 2020. The list we have long however for just a sample we like to mention here: ex- president Thabo Mbeki, President P. Kagame ex-president, Ex-president Ellen Jonson, Yoweri Museveni. On the other side of the coin, we would like also to remember those who directly/indirectly encouraged this genocidal war, that wiped out over 1,000,000 citizen, that used over 120, 000, female folk as a battle ground, that displaced over 3 to 5,000,000 people, and that intentionally destroyed 80 % of the Tigray civil infrastructures.
The ‘past is passed’ but what we would like to appeal to all anti-war sagacious people like Mr. Thabo Mbeki and if there are repenting pro-war elements to help us thwart the currently looming war between Eritrea & Ethiopia, whereby both are intending to use Tigray as a battle ground.
With great anticipation, we remain.
TADA-UK, Mekete -UK, TWA-UK, TYA-UK
Tigray Academic Diaspora in Europe,_UK-Branch
On behalf of Community of Tigrian Diaspora in the UK
London, UK.
11th Nov. 2025