Over his first public comment on the war in Tigray province, Head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Apona Matias said that what is happening in Tigray is genocide and ethnic cleansing.
He accused the Ethiopian government of planning to annihilate the people of Tigray.
According to the Associated Press, a US news agency, Matias revealed over a video clip pictured last month, that his previous attempts to address tens of millions of followers of his church were thwarted by the government.
He spoke in the Amharic language (the official language of Ethiopia) and said what had happened in Tigray is not the mistake of its population so the whole world should know that.
He explained that the Ethiopian troops committed atrocities including vandalizing churches, ransacking, and forced starvation.
The head of the Orthodox Church in Ethiopia appeals to the world to intervene to terminate the conflict in Tigray.
He affirmed that he talked about many things but the government did not permit publishing his messages, censored them, and put a gag order on them.
Matias went on to say that there are many atrocities committed, by the Ethiopian army, these days all over Ethiopia, but what is happening in Tigray is of the utmost brutality and cruelty. "
On the day- before- yesterday, Thursday, the United Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said that the humanitarian situation in the Ethiopian province of Tigray is extremely appalling.
And the United Nations (UN) Humanitarian Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, noted earlier that people are dying of starvation in the northern Tigray region, which has been struck by the conflict in Ethiopia.
He warns that the humanitarian situation has deteriorated and sexual violence is still being used as a weapon of war.
He explained that there is no doubt that sexual violence is being used in this conflict as a weapon in war, and as a means to humiliate, intimidate and traumatize an entire people today as well as for the next generation.
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