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In November 2020 long-simmering tensions between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF), which formerly dominated national politics, boiled over into outright conflict. Abiy, the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner, announced in a pre-dawn Facebook post on November 4 that he was sending troops into Ethiopia\u2019s northernmost Tigray region to detain and disarm the TPLF’s leaders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He promised the war — or \u201claw enforcement operation,\u201d in his words — would be quick and would cause minimal, if any, harm to Tigray\u2019s roughly six million people. The international goodwill Abiy had accrued during his short time in power ensured that many observers took him at his word — at least at first. It\u2019s now more than two years since the war began, and during this time the very limited number of journalists that were allowed to cover the conflict were able to confirm a large number of atrocities perpetrated by both sides of the conflict: rape as a weapon of war, massacres, incipient famine arriving to the affected populations and thousands of people displaced in a conflict that it\u2019s replicating into many other regions of the country.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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