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How Abiy Ahmed’s Government Engineered Genocide in Tigray A former senior official in Ethiopia’s federal government has publicly admitted that the 2020 war on Tigray was deliberately provoked to target and purge ethnic Tigrayans, lending powerful confirmation to long-standing accusations by Tigrayan leaders and international human rights groups. Taye Dendea, a former Minister of Peace and senior member of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party, said in a recently published interview that the federal government intentionally initiated the war in order to single out and remove Tigrayans from the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF). “Do you think it is TPLF who started the war? It is us who deliberately started it. We had no other way to single out ethnic Tigrayan members of the national army,” Taye said during an interview with Horn Observer, recorded shortly before his arrest. He added that the attack on the army’s Northern Command, which the government had blamed on the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) to justify its military assault, was used as a pretext to justify a mass purge of Tigrayan soldiers and an ethnic campaign that soon extended far beyond the military. Taye’s admission echoes a previously leaked audio recording of Brigadier General Tesfaye Ayalew, a senior ENDF commander, who was heard saying: “We had to clean out our insides… Even if there may be good people among them, we can’t differentiate… so we excluded them from doing work. Now the security forces are completely Ethiopian.” According to verified reports, more than 17,000 ethnic Tigrayan soldiers were disarmed, detained, or expelled from the army in the first weeks of the war. Simultaneously, ethnic Tigrayans across Ethiopia were subjected to widespread profiling, mass detentions, dismissals from public and private employment, and in many cases, disappearances. Throughout the war, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and senior officials insisted the conflict was a “law enforcement operation” triggered by an alleged TPLF attack on Northern Command bases in November 2020. The government framed the military campaign as an effort to restore constitutional order. However, human rights groups, UN investigators, and independent journalists have documented a very different reality one of systematic ethnic targeting, mass killings, sexual violence, forced starvation, and the displacement of millions of Tigrayans. The government’s narrative now appears increasingly hollow in light of multiple recent revelations. From the outset of the war, Tigrayan leaders and civil society maintained that: . The war was a premeditated genocidal campaign, prepared months in advance. . Tigrayans in the army, civil service, and society were systematically purged, imprisoned, or killed. . The federal government used siege warfare, coordinated attacks with Eritrean and Amhara forces, and blocked humanitarian aid to deliberately inflict suffering on Tigrayan civilians. .Independent investigations, including those by the United Nations and international NGOs, have consistently supported these claims. Taye Dendea’s testimony reinforces calls for the international community to act decisively: 1. Demand full accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the conflict. 2. Insist on the safe and dignified return of displaced Tigrayans, especially those from Western Tigray, still under illegal occupation. 3. Push for full implementation of the Pretoria Agreement, which remains stalled due to the Ethiopian government’s lack of compliance. Taye’s admission provides a stark reminder of the true nature of the war on Tigray a war driven not by constitutional concerns but by ethnic hatred and political calculation. As millions of Tigrayans remain displaced and waiting for justice, and as the Pretoria peace process falters, the world can no longer look away. The victims deserve recognition, justice, and restoration.

During the conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia, that began on 4 Nov 2020, troops supporting the federal government have committed widespread rape against ethnic Tigrayan women and girls.