On October 25, 2022, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a warning of a heightened risk of genocide in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. According to the statement, “the situation has deteriorated exponentially as Ethiopian security forces, supported by Eritrean forces and Amhara special forces, have seized key towns and cities imperiling vulnerable Tigrayan civilians.”
The warning comes also after the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on October 17, 2022, commented that "the situation in Ethiopia is getting out of hand," noting the "indiscriminate" violence and "reports of sexual violence and other acts of brutality against women, children, and men."
In December 2021, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch published a detailed account of the situation in Tigray, indicating that “Amhara security forces are responsible for a surge of mass detentions, killings, and forced expulsions of ethnic Tigrayans in the Western Tigray territory of northern Ethiopia.”
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