{"id":1151,"date":"2021-04-29T19:13:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T19:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news25.org\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2021-04-29T19:13:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T19:13:33","slug":"clean-out-our-insides-ethiopia-detains-tigrayans-amid-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.news25.org\/clean-out-our-insides-ethiopia-detains-tigrayans-amid-war\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Clean out our insides&#8217;: Ethiopia detains Tigrayans amid war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-key=\"media-placeholder\">\n<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-0-2-141\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/afs-prod\/media\/171df01252bb40d1837334b4c8421056\/800.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"517\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">IMAGE COPYRIGHT\/ AFP\/ A Tigrayan employee of the state-owned Ethiopian Airlines, who said he fled the country after being released on bail, poses for a portrait at an undisclosed location in April 2021. \u201cWe need you very badly today,\u201d he recalled federal police saying as they took him from his home without explanation. He said he saw almost 100 high-ranking military officials during his two months in detention ending in January 2021. (AP Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"count-caption Component-countCaption-0-2-150\">\n<div class=\"Component-imageCaption-0-2-156\">\n<div class=\"embed-caption Component-root-0-2-157 Component-embedCaption-0-2-153\" data-key=\"embed-caption\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Article\" data-key=\"article\">\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) \u2014 Ethiopia has swept up thousands of ethnic Tigrayans into detention centers across the country on accusations that they are traitors, often holding them for months and without charges, the AP has found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">The detentions, mainly but not exclusively of military personnel, are an apparent attempt to purge state institutions of the Tigrayans who once dominated them, as the government enters its sixth month of fighting in the Tigray region. Detainees, families and visitors spoke of hundreds or even more than 1,000 people in at least nine individual locations, including military bases and an agricultural college.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">The government of Nobel Peace Prize winner Abiy Ahmed acknowledges that it has locked up a small number of high-level military officials from the Tigrayan minority. But the AP is reporting for the first time that the detentions are far more sweeping in scope and more arbitrary, extending even to priests and office workers, sometimes with ethnic profiling as the sole reason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">A military detainee told the AP he is being held with more than 400 other Tigrayans, and lawyers are not allowed to contact them. Even families can\u2019t visit. The AP is not using his name for his safety but has seen his military ID.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">\u201cThey can do what they want,\u201d he said on a smuggled phone. \u201cThey might kill us\u2026.We are in their hands, and we have no choice but to pray.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">Many of the military personnel were not combatants but held jobs such as teachers and nurses, according to interviews with 15 detainees and relatives, along with a lawyer and a camp visitor. Civilian employees of state-owned companies also have been held. The arbitrary locking up of non-combatants is against international law, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross, which has met with family members of detainees but declined to answer questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">Conditions vary, but some detainees are given just one meal a day and crowded dozens to a room in sweltering metal shelters, at a time when COVID-19 infections are rapidly rising in Ethiopia. Families worry that needed medications are withheld. Detainees and families the AP tracked down did not directly witness beatings or other such physical abuse, but almost all asked not to be identified out of fear for their lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">Once detained, the Tigrayans often end up in Ethiopia\u2019s opaque military justice system. That means they can lose the right to private lawyers and face judges who one lawyer said tend to hand out the maximum penalty. With fewer means to challenge their detention, detainees say they feel helpless, their fate in the hands of the people who accuse them of treason.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news25.org\/houses-of-horror-child-sex-abuse-in-indonesias-schools\/\">\u2018Houses of horror\u2019: Child sex abuse in Indonesia\u2019s schools<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news25.org\/carrie-underwoods-faith-shines-through-on-church-hymns\/\">Carrie Underwood\u2019s faith shines through on church hymns<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">One Tigrayan living in the United States said she could understand war between soldiers but objected to the detention of two cousins with non-combat roles in communications and peacekeeping. One hasn\u2019t been seen or heard from since November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">\u201cIs the danger in their blood? In their DNA?\u201d she asked. \u201cI thought they were Ethiopians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">The mass detentions and house arrests are\u00a0an extension of the war\u00a0in the Tigray region marked by massacres, gang rapes, expulsions and forced starvation, which witnesses call a systematic effort to destroy the\u00a0Tigrayan minority\u00a0of more than 6 million. The detentions are all the more striking because Abiy was once praised for releasing thousands of political prisoners in a country long known for locking up people deemed a threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">Tigrayans are further targeted by state media reports amplifying the government narrative of pursuing Tigray \u201ccriminals\u201d and their supporters. Family members of detainees are sometimes stripped of their jobs, kicked out of military housing and subjected to frozen bank accounts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">Tigray leaders were prominent in Ethiopia\u2019s repressive government for nearly three decades and are blamed by Abiy and others for fostering sometimes deadly ethnic politics, but they were sidelined when he took office in 2018. After national elections were delayed last year, they held their own vote in Tigray and called Abiy\u2019s government illegitimate. Ethiopia then accused Tigray fighters of attacking a military base and launched an offensive, unleashing a war that has killed thousands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">Ethiopia\u2019s government is \u201conly after the top leadership\u201d of Tigray\u2019s former rulers, the minister for public diplomacy at the country\u2019s embassy in Britain, Mekonnen Amare, told the AP. \u201cSo there is no such thing as mass detention or mass abuse of rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">But in a leaked video posted online earlier in the war and verified by the AP, a senior military official said of Tigrayans, \u201cWe had to clean out our insides. \u2026 Even if there may be good people among them, we can\u2019t differentiate the good from the bad. To save the country, we made it so they were excluded from doing work.\u201d Now the security forces were \u201ccompletely Ethiopian,\u201d Brig. Gen. Tesfaye Ayalew said in what appeared to be an internal briefing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">Ethiopia\u2019s attorney general\u2019s office, which has said it would set up a hotline to report ethnic profiling, did not respond to questions from the AP, and neither did a military spokesman. The U.S. State Department said it could not confirm reports of people detained in camps, but noted that it has paused most security assistance to Ethiopia because of concerns over the Tigray crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">Another Tigrayan who spoke to the AP from custody, his voice hushed on a borrowed phone, said he is being held without charges along with more than 30 pilots, technicians and other military personnel. He said families at times have no idea where relatives are, and his own mother still thinks he\u2019s working, just far away. He despairs of justice in military court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">\u201cIf peace comes, maybe they\u2019ll release us,\u201d he said. \u201cIf not, we don\u2019t have any future. I fear even they may kill us.\u201d Then he hurriedly ended the call.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">Estimates of the number of detainees and camps vary. More than 17,000 Tigrayans were in the military alone when the war began and have been detained, according to an estimate given to a researcher by Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe, a former senior Ethiopian official and Tigrayan who founded the Institute for Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">Along with the at least nine centers cited by detainees, families and visitors, the AP obtained three separate lists that allege several others across the country. One detainee who escaped a center in Mirab Abaya in southern Ethiopia estimated that more than 1,500 people were held there alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">A man who visited two other centers said detainees had counted 110 people in one, mostly military commanders, and 270 in the other, many of them commandos and air force officers. Some had served in the military for more than 30 years with no history of misconduct, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">The visitor described 40 to 50 people living in a room made of metal sheets. The detainees told him they were not allowed to speak in groups or have family visits or phone calls, and they didn\u2019t get enough food.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">\u201cThe area is very hot, extremely hot\u2026..they don\u2019t look good,\u201d said the visitor, whom the AP is not identifying further to preserve his access to the centers. He said detainees alleged that people are held in at least 20 places across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">\u201cIt\u2019s scary, you know?\u201d he said. \u201cThese people were serving their country as military personnel but were attacked by their own government\u2026.They have been identified as treasonous by the community, so they\u2019re seriously worried about their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">Their families also are worried about them. A man in the capital, Addis Ababa, wept as he described not seeing or speaking to his brother, a human resources staffer with the military, for three months. His brother\u2019s family has been evicted from military housing, he said, sharing photos of their items strewn outdoors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">\u201cHe was serving his country honestly,\u201d the man said. \u201cThe situation is not good, not only for me but for all the Tigrayan people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">Another detainee had been serving in a neighboring country on a peacekeeping mission when he was called home to Ethiopia and seized, his son said. He was freed on bail, and the AP has seen the federal court document for his release. But then he was sent to a military camp, accused of creating instability although he wasn\u2019t in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">\u201cI spoke with him yesterday. He sounded stressed,\u201d his son said. \u201cPeople with the military gave him the phone in secret. He\u2019s a proud person. It\u2019s unsettling to hear him like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">His father has lost about 10 kilograms (22 pounds) because of the lack of proper food, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">The transfer of people into the military system after being released on bail in the federal courts is illegal, said a lawyer in the capital, Tadele Gebremedhin, who has worked on more than 75 cases involving detained Tigrayans from the military and federal police. He said detainees at one center he visited on the outskirts of the capital sleep about 25 to a room, get food once a day and are denied family visits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">\u201cThey are innocent,\u201d the lawyer said. \u201cThe only thing is, they\u2019re Tigrayans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">Civilians have been held, too. One employee with state-owned Ethiopian Airlines said he fled the country after being released on bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">\u201cWe need you very badly today,\u201d he recalled federal police saying as they took him from his home without explanation. He said he saw almost 100 high-ranking military officials during his two months in detention, from late November to late January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">Dozens of Tigrayan priests and deacons were detained in the capital, most for a month, according to Lisanewerk Desta, who leads the library and museum department of the Ethiopia Orthodox Church. He also said he has spoken with a detainee at a center near Harar who estimated that more than 2,000 military personnel were held there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">\u201cI don\u2019t have words. How to explain this kind of hatred?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">Beyond the camps, an unknown number of Tigrayans are under house arrest. A man described how one parent, a nurse in the military, has been barred from work since the war began and is under a curfew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">The United Nations human rights office said it was aware of reports of arbitrary detention of Tigrayans but did not have reliable estimates \u201cgiven the lack of transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">The government-created Ethiopian Human Rights Commission did not answer questions, instead sharing recent statements on Tigrayan detainees and ethnic profiling. In a statement this week, the commission said the denial of fair trials, family visits and medical treatment is \u201cstill rife\u201d at several detention centers, and detainees are often unable to tell families where they are.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">The commission spoke earlier this year with 21 detainees at a federal police center in the capital, with some describing \u201clengthy pre-trial detention periods and being subjected to insults, threats, beatings and to physical injuries from shots fired at the time of their capture.\u201d However, the commission said detainees were in good health and the conditions of detention met acceptable standards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">Tigrayans dispute that. In neighboring South Sudan, more than a dozen members of the United Nations peacekeeping mission refused to board a flight home in February when their stay ended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">On Thursday, United Nations spokesman Farhan Haq told the AP a number of Ethiopians in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Sudan\u2019s Darfur region are \u201cseeking international protection\u201d as several hundred troops are being repatriated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">For detainees, it is unclear what happens next. Two people told the AP that a campaign to \u201cre-educate\u201d them has begun, including lectures promoting Abiy\u2019s political party. One person said their cousin had gone through the training, and another said their relative had been told it would start soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">The risk for the government is that the detentions could turn Tigrayans who once swore their loyalty into active opponents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">Teklebrhan Weldeselassie, an air force pilot, said he and colleagues were accused of being in contact with Tigray\u2019s now-fugitive leaders. He escaped house arrest and fled Ethiopia, but he said colleagues have told him they are among an estimated 1,000 Tigrayans detained near the air force headquarters in Debre Zeit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">Once shocked by being suspected as a traitor, he is so horrified by Ethiopia\u2019s treatment of Tigrayans that he now says he would consider taking up arms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-167 Component-p-0-2-158\">\u201cBefore, I didn\u2019t plan to fight on the side of Tigray,\u201d Teklebrhan said. \u201cAt this time, if I get a chance, yeah, of course I would defend my people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/africa-ethiopia-race-and-ethnicity-health-coronavirus-5f22a5aea128cbd659fbf4f810aac973\">ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) \u2014 Ethiopia has swept up thousands of ethnic Tigrayans into detention centers across the country on accusations that they are traitors, often holding them for months and without charges, the AP has found. 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