Escaping Rape and Murder in Ethiopia's Civil War
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- Опубліковано 31 жов 2021
- One year after fighting erupted in northern Ethiopia the horrors of war still haunt refugees living in eastern Sudan. Julia Steers met with survivors of the Tigray War in refugee camps to see how what started as a political feud has become a prolonged ethnic conflict.
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I'm Tigrayan and i found this very sad, a lot of Tigrayans / Ethiopians / Eritreans that don't support any political parties like HGDEF, TPLF or ENDF are dying in this mademan war /genocide , and a lot of evil people are taking advantage of this situation and making it worst. God help all innocents trapped in war , from north to south, and may all lost souls RIP. This is too sad.
Tigrayan i assume is a community from tigray..........u in ethiopia currently
That’s usually what happens in a war
Civil wars in a nutshell
C'est triste qu'on en arrive là
I am Tigrayian as well. This is so heartbreaking 💔
An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. Praying for Ethiopia 😔
An eye for an eye? It’s literally a war of survival. The Tigray region launched. A surprise attack after being voted out democratically and executed all non-tigrayan captives. Doctors, lawyers and business men who are Amhara are leaving America and their homes to go save their people from TPLF’s ruthless and indiscriminate slaughter of people in North Gonder and Afar. If we aren’t supposed to protect our children and land from genocide, what are we supposed to do, Ask the UN or america for help? Don’t make me laugh.
This is not an eye for an eye! It’s we will finish the TPLF completely
pray to who? if god, then why would something bad happen in the first place if there is a god?
@asonofclay. 1ofmany what do you think prayers will do? Like I’m genuinely asking. Do you think this horrible situation is going to be any better because some people sit in their room and rabble up some words? Praying is useless unless you’re using it for your own sake to grow your mental health.
So true
Africans! When shall we learn?
If you put a Tigray and Amhara side by side one can never tell the difference except for name and possibly religion, essentially they are the same. However the fight for political dominance and greed is fueling this crisis, unfortunately the amount of illiteracy and ignorance won't let people reason. Quite unfortunate
You missed out ethnicity & the stubbornly, excessively high birth rate.
Do you know how that sounds? If you put two human beings beside each other they’re still humans, doesn’t matter if they’re Tigray, Amhara or even black and white. The fight for political dominance and greed crosses all borders so stop acting like this is an African problem when it’s a global problem!
This war is about power and who controls the power and the dictator wants to control the whole power by killing the smartest the strongest man in Ethiopia.. this dictator has killed the amhara leader And he tried to kill Tigray leaders but they outsmarted him and now he's doing everything he can to destroy them by blocking food and by blocking telecommunication Electric medicines by War and by airstrikes but he's losing.. and it is sad that people of Ethiopia can't out smarter him by refusing to fight war for him but they are not that smart...
They complain about colonialism, while today, they colonize our countries! The cry about the way we treat them?, while their own people, slaughter them. They hate our history, but love their own history, of murder, slavery, and inhuman heinous atrocities. They cry about racism, while they support a racial hashtag!. THE IRONY.
@@316JOHNLT what are you talking about? Tplf was Ethiopia's dictator that killed the best and brightest for 27 years.
So heartbreaking, these women are so brave. Poor child too :( their government is crap and does nothing to sort these criminals out. Really hope they start to care about their people and stop the violence
Yeah... TPLF is kinda the aggressor here... They are like ISIS or Taliban... Try want power to themselves and Tigrayans... I mean just go back and see vice's own report on Ethiopia from a few years back...
The Government did nothing wrong, it's the TPLF Rebels that are now massacring amharas. The Government literally has the majority support of Ethiopians
@@befr123 No, it's the Government too. The Government is way too corrupt, but im not saying TPLF did good things they also did bad things. The prime minister of Ethiopia is bad at leading he needs to go back home. Tigray is Abysinna, we have the history mates. You black Amahara
@@based.ethiopian Bro why you being racist, we both orthodox and habesha, and once were one people. Same dialect [Ge'ez], your also black lmaoo.
@Illuminate Liya sorry bro i just was mad
It’s incredible how quickly things have unravelled, just a few years ago I remember hearing only good things about Ethiopia & it’s economic growth especially. As a neighbour I wish Ethiopia and Ethiopians nothing but the best, I’m not sure how they can move forward from this but I hope they will
IKR
@@tulan8227 lying about what, is there or is there not a civil war taking place right now? Kenya just closed the border with Ethiopia, obviously all is not well.
That’s the power of western media.
If they dont like you … they will try to destroy you.
Its time to review the awardance of nobel peace prize award
@@VictoryForFano the western media cartel needs to be dismantled/destroyed.
Same story repeated thousands of times before and destined to be repeated until the end of time.
@____ they speaking Tigrinya. There is no such language as tigray. Grow a brain!!
@____ does it look like a joking matter? Will you be joking if that was ur family. We have families in Tigray which is in a blockade no network, no phone, no food, no banking. We don’t even know if our families are alive or not. Don’t do that please we are suffering this kind of comments are making our fight to have access to the basic needs for our families to survive harder.
@____ Amhara committed genocide against other nations and nationalities they saw as second class for 150 years. But history is history we are talking bout what Amhara militias are doing Tigrayans “innocent Tigrayans” right now.
The only thing that changes is time
I use to watch vice videos alot, now i think u only report only one side of the story. What about the many Amhara people genocide. There are more than half a million people desplaced. This a big media get the full story.
Exactly! Another one sided reporting by the western media.
Trash lies of the western media
There was far more displacements (ethnic cleansing) in Tigray than in Amhara.
Comitting a wrong to right another wrong will not solve the problem
@@oriont6944 please explain what you mean
I am not Ethiopian but as an African American, it means a lot to me that Ethiopia is the only African country that wasn't colonized. My family told me a few of our relatives (I forget exactly who) joined the volunteers to fight for Ethiopia when Italy invaded. Although many of the volunteers were stopped by the US, it pains me to see this now. Not just in Ethiopia but in many places in Africa. Africa has suffered tremendously but the Motherland is strong. I still believe in a united Africa. It's not easy but it's still worth fighting for. I pray for peace in Ethiopia.
Bless your soul
I’m astonished how little we hear about this war. Its absolutely massive, brutal on a scale the world hasn’t seen in decades, the geopolitical consequences of Ethiopia’s collapse will be massive. Second largest country in Africa and a beacon of stability in the east of Africa, descending into genocidal anarchy, yet barely a thing in our media, it was seen as a mere footnote when an entire town was slaughtered by Eritreans in Tigray. Its bizarre how Syria, Iraq or Yugoslavia got way more attention.
as a tigrean we are small in numbers and most of us are in black out in the region and we don't have oil or diamond in our land only our geolocation , our smart military generals and our innocent beautiful people w/c have many enemies b/c both of our history (in w/c they want to rewrite and make it theirs) and fear of repeating our great civilization i know it sounds dumb but its true i have been trying to know why they do what they do to my people while saying tigreans are "hard working loving and innocent people " but its fear and sometimes i think they want to wipe us and be us ......hopefully we will survive this genocide and open our self and history to the world .
Ethiopia isn't a geopolitical power struggle area like the War in Ukraine, so sadly their plight is ignored. As an American, I find our government and media's behaving like this brutal war isn't happening appalling. Ethiopian lives should be valued by the world just as much as Ukrainian ones. My heart goes out to all the innocent civilians hurt or displaced by this carnage.
It’s truly disappointing to see how absolutely one sided Western media has been in regards to this conflict. While we can acknowledge that atrocities have been committed by the govt this report can’t even acknowledge that the conflict started after an attack on a military base. An attack the TPLF was on record as saying they did.
It’s really scary honestly, to watch journalists frame this in such a one sided way. Especially considering that many of these same outlets have chronicled the TPLF’s crimes. Journalism should be balanced.
Vice famously has huge biases, sucks that Vice is using these people's suffering to push forward their frame of the story and their agenda
Actually the point is that the government doesn’t accept that it committed atrocities. If the government doesn’t let the press in, how can they get a balanced story? They can only go to the camps in Sudan
Blame game won't unite your nation. I was lied by some channel that Ethiopia is a powerhouse in the making. African union.
No it's better termed as shithole nation. Learn from India. I accept we have caste system here in India but we use our brain 🧠 to not go this crazy civil war.
Lord have mercy on Ethiopia. 🙏🏼
Pray for Ethiopia 🙏🏼
An eye for an eye make every one blind.
Just accept both sides committed crime. Forgive once and for all each other. Go prosper Ethiopia. This hopefully promising African nation on the brink of collapse. Oh no!!😭
How do you thing it should have been balanced...I think we are talking about facts...the women was raped yes or non.
I don't think that child was among people who made the attacks!
Vice has a history of doing the same, initially they were extremely unbiased taking on politically incorrect topics, now they have gone full woke.
It would be great this story add from the Amhara Side, cause Amnesty international reported also Tigray fighters also raped in Amhara region of Gonder a place called Nefas Mewcha. This two tribes has been living for many years but result of conflict makes them as an enemy. God bless Ethiopia
Atilfa yichi ashkabach ye TPLF degafi nech she is only reporting one sided. TPLF is the one that brought ethic agendas into Ethiopian politics
For all Amharas this what I will say to you your time will come and we will never show mercy unlike TPLF does when tplf step down that is when we will tear u a part tplf is the one that did to us! We will control the power and we will show no mercy we are going to tear u a part when that happen I will be there my self period!
@@User65432s why tear just gain independent. Amhara tear tigray and tigray come back and tear amhara never ending war. As tigrayan, I only want independent simple nothing more and nothing less.
@@User65432s You wish. You guys are getting pounded lmaoo.
From Kenya.. I wish all the Ethiopian people Peace.
Deal with your Al-Shabaab Kenya is known for al Shabaab Terrorist your struggling stop worrying about Ethiopia 🇪🇹 we are fine
@@daviroza4700 truth hurts bad. Kenya is far more peaceful than you will ever be.
@@vanessawangui3919 you know he isn't Ethiopian ryt
I am from Ethiopia, but the Somali region I just hope the war doesn’t reach the Somali state. Ethiopians stop fighting each other please and please pray for us Somalis I hope they don’t attack us. Allah protect us all Ameen❤️❤️❤️
Don't worry we are training soldiers to protect ogaden.
Wait why is Somali state in Ethiopia 🤔 it should be in Somalia the Somali people should be United
@@mohamedwaititi6192 true but the colonizers gave it to them. They divided the Somali people because we had 3 colonizers French, British, and Italy. There was a war between Ethiopia and Somalia but Ethiopia got help from powerful nations so we didn’t get the land back . It’s very long history
@@Maryiimadon't worry the situation will change once somaliland and somalia are reunited. Then orgaden will automatically be returned. As you see now the somali region has its own government. Not like before where is was controlled by tplf generals.
8:51 the translation is wrong. The gentleman responded by saying "If there is anyone to ask that question to at this time, then the Ethiopian Government and Country Defense Force Officials are the ones who should be asked." One of the few mistranslations in this video. Regardless of your beliefs, do not misconstrue what people are saying as it does more negative than positive.
* the difference is that he doesn't outright blame the government or the defense officials
No, he said “Country’s defense Force”
Where is the mistranslation? In fact, what you provided is a mistranslation. He said the Ethiopian National Defence Forces, not regional forces.
He's right. The translation is accurate, yet not word for word. I believe that's what Alexander Kiflom points out. A meaningless distraction.
@Nehmya Hagos said the person who only heard what they wanna hear
@@BM-df9bp keep screaming that TPLF didn't do a thing... Ow yeah who fired the first rockets 🤔
TIGRE RAGIM MELEZ KILLED 200,000 SOMALIS BUT TIGRINNAN PEAPLES SORRY
Because they are Christians ✝️ bro. No one cares about our people. I have no love for TPLF nor the government. We should start and take arm before the dust settles.
He born from Tigray/an ethnic group but when the war waged against al shabab he was ethiopian prime minister, get the facts straight.
As an Ethiopian, I'm breaking inside. Never saw this coming. Always wanted to go back, guess I'm going to be a foreigner for ever
You said that right brother. Refugees 4 ever
Exactly. I live in the US but was born in Ethiopia (Tigrayian). Ive never felt 100% safe going back as we left because of the Red Terror days in the late 70s. Ive been there once since then. Prayerfully one day it will be safe so we can all go as often as we wish.
Same here 😔
@@lbu9542
These Tigrayans are liars. They are the people who make trouble in Ethiopia. They are a troublemakers, and they don't trust them because of them. Ethiopia is shaking.
War results to destruction and displacement of innocent civilians. I pray for peace and prosperity to all Ethiopians. Hugs from Nairobi Kenya
Tigray started it, we will end it.
@@JohnDoe-bh2lp am not here to argue....what can a country gain from war?
Isn't this guy the same person who was given the nobel peace prize!? Doesn't seem noble at all
its the Nobel prize named after alfred nobel, the fact that nobel and noble sound the same in english is just a coincidence. but yeah i get your point
@@Wapow27 yeah I'm aware the spelling isn't the same. I was just making a point , I'm glad you got it
@@unique1_4u He deserved the peace prize. This war was started by the rebels. not him.
@@joninator7858 🤣...that's absurd, I'm hoping you don't believe that. He's equally responsible for not including the various tribes
@@unique1_4u HE did deserve the peace prize. There is no doubt about that. What do you mean that he didn't include various tribes?
I'm deeply concerned by this misleading, one-sided VICE news video. I have always admired watching VICE news media videos that are well prepared by the hard-working Journalists and media crew. But watching this documentary made by Julia Steer, regarding the war in my home country made me question the credibility of all the videos I have watched on this platform. I'm well aware of the current situation as I have been monitoring the situation closely since the beginning of the war and I'm happy to break down to you the series of events that have unfolded if you have a lack of proper information.
At 0:30 The network blackout is due to the destruction made by Tigrayan forces. Ethiopian telecom rebuilt some of the destructed network lines while Ethiopian forces took control of Tigray but TPLF has killed some workers who were repairing the lines and destroyed all the repaired lines while the TPLF took back control.
At 0:40 Julia Steer wasn't honest how the war started. The war started because on the night of Nov. 3-4 2020, T.P.L.F. forces attacked a federal military base in Tigray. A Federal Military that was keeping the Tigrayan's safe from potential Eritrean attack. Julia never mentioned that. Instead, she portrayed as if the Ethiopian government and Abiy Ahmed as the perpetrators.
While I believe there were human rights violations caused by the war, why didn't she mention the violations made by the Tigrayan forces on Amhara women and kids? Why should her reporting have to be one-sided? All lives are equal right? Also, the human rights violations made by TPLF are far greater than the violations caused by Ethiopian forces, Fano, Eritrean forces as a consequence of the war. I can support this with multiple pieces of evidence if required.
In case you are wondering what The Federal military was doing in Tigray before getting attacked. The Northern Federal Guard has been there for almost 30 years protecting Northern Ethiopia as there always have been tension between Ethiopia and Eritrea over a land dispute. After the Ethiopian government and the Eritrean government declared peace in 2018, the Federal army was working on helping the farmers on seasonal locust swarms before being backstabbed by the people it protects.
I hope to hear back from VICE on this matter. Sharing a false narrative costs Ethiopians a lot and it doesn't help Tigrayans at all. It only makes things worse. Please investigate this, check your sources properly and change the false rhetoric used by your Journalist.
Thank you for putting the story strai
Very misleading you haven't lived here vice don't judge
You are just now seeing that VICE is biased? How saf
Well, to be blunt I am somewhat disturbed by Aby's ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. I mean, like, seriously? You had basically curbstomped the rebels and now the capital is in danger? How the F**k do you blow such a massive advantage? And it's not like Afghanistan where the government is a useless house of cards only kept afloat by Uncle Sam.
If you’re familiar with vice then you shouldn’t be surprised by this
There is so much going on in Ethiopia. If this helps, I’m praying for Ethiopia, for their country to promote peace, sovereignty, prosperity and kindness. I’m also sending healing energy as well for everyone! 🙏🏼☺️
THANK YOU! This is the most woke and positive comment I've read on this video.
Sending you Love and Light from ETHIOPIA!
Thank you Vice for covering this, the more people hear of a struggle, the more they are willing to help!
It never ends in the motherland.
They could live in America and really have it bad according to the sjws
Precisely
The motherland is trying to beat WW2's world record. A single conflict can't do it
I’d like to know more about why the people in Tigray felt the need to hold their own elections in the first place, seems like a reasonable enough thing to do unless they were trying to completely secede from greater Ethiopia.
Abiy were planning to postpone the election even before covid. After the pandemic started he postpone and arrest opposition leaders. Tigray Region use the right and went on to have their own election. After that abiy with Eritrean dictator prepare for war for months before invading Tigray.
you are not great you primitives
@@sofoniasshishay9958 Your comment is nothing more than a conspiracy theory. There is no evidence of Abiy planning to postpone the elections before covid.
Bro, it's all propaganda. CNN (apparently also Vice News) and the US are trying to dismantle Ethiopia by fabricated lie just like what they did to Iraq or Afghanistan.
@@Yasaliha shut up
Painful to see Ethiopia Mother crying and Morning their dead, such cruel action are done by all parties whether you call Ethiopian Government, TPLF, and Eritrean solders! None of the parties are innocent?
Don't forget the amharas
@@politics9714 amhara are people that support the Ethiopian government the majority anyway.
@@politics9714 it's not political party maybe if you mean fano which is rebel
@@politics9714 Yes, the Amhara are also the victim of the violence, not only Tigrian people. But, my point is that the rote cause of all the evil action are the political elites (TPLF, Federal Govn't and Amhara Regional Gov't) of Ethiopia!
@@A.D.540 Fano is not rebel, they are Savages blind by hate.
The reason for the war is the attack against Ethiopia defence forces on November 4th.
It is a war, none can be spared as there is no perfect war where only millitary personnel act on each other but leave the people untouched. I hope people who live in the conflict zone can get possible help, and hope this civil war will end soon, the longer it drags on, the more suffering will happen.
There is old african war in tribes like the dholuo had little to no deaths on the warriors absolutely none on women
It saddens me such a thing happened to any human let alone my fellow citizens but is it fair to report only suffering from one side? The TPLF had done so much worse but you won't report it! Disappointed by vice!!
Uhm no, most war-crimes were committed by the Federal Government.
How do they sleep at night, with this level of fear!
Exhaustion? Also they most likely don't, but take short naps.
They can sleep like babies and laugh out loud as soon as the cameras are off 😂
isnt it cracy
The mainstream media and the west are supporting the Tigray people liberation front, a communist dictatorship that was 2nd worst only to North Korea than supporting a nobel peace prize winner wanting a democracy. Shits propaganda and a proxy war for US and China
Under Tigray rule 1 and 5 people were a spy for the government and even ed snowden talkes about how they spied on ethiopian americans in the states. They were americas pitbul, so the west turned a blind eye to their human rights abuse. The tigray have always felt supierior and have a rule or ruin mentality
Yo Africa is the motherland just amazing it’s nowhere in the world like it ! All these amazing wonderful cultures , land , resources, animals but things have just been corrupt thanks to the English & Portuguese enslaving Africans smh
Don't forget the French.
The story these people will have to tell in the future. Breaks my heart but I know God has them close to his heart. Please lord, I pass my blessings over to them! Help them
This is something we should be taking about. I truly appreciate Vice for it's work on reporting on international situations.
Fake report paid by the TPlF terrorist. Fabricated lies and UN report reveal what happened inside Ethiopia.
Wtf? the Iraq invasion was way more than 7-8 years ago. Vice did a piece on exposing, the lies from the invasion. Literally you are talking out of your ass dude
the whole program is not showing you the whole picture...
We will get through this
Proud Tigrayan ❤️
Yes you would dear, but tplf won't
This is heartbreaking 💔
After watching this I am so embarrassed that I have ever felt wronged in any way.
@Free Thinker your ignorance is showing.
@Free Thinker hur dur hating Amurica dur! Get into the line pal, all countries on this planet are hated by someone else, you're not an exception.
2:01 the house at the camp is labeled as tplf so your source is a tplf's special force so how can we beleive you why are you laying as the whole international media we tought you were different shame on you vice
As a sudanese i feel ashamed that our brothers from different mother is going through what we had in sudan..
So sad but i hope things will be better soon
Ohhh, my country. Where are you going with my heart my dear homeland and motherland 💔😢😭😩
Lol
@@Abdimalik68 what's funny?
😂😂You are not Ethiopian.at least feel sorry for us after you change your name.
@@andrethevegan_ it’s funny how Amharas are crying 😭 everywhere 😂
@@eyobedet5144 why should I change my name? Should my name be Christian to be ethiopian?
Vice after Abiy and his dogs are removed from power can make the longest and mind blowing documentary of 2021....please let the world know the extent of evil entertained in Ethiopia by the govt and its allies
Speechless!
This is barbaric!! Gang rapes etc
TPLF have been doing it to Tigrayans to pin it on the ENDF and Amhara. Notice how Vice always refers to them as "Amharas" or "Amhara Fanos" and not just Fano? It's because there's a racist agenda against Ethiopia's second largest ethnicity which had a history of defending Africa. Now you Westerners are ANGRY because the TPLF was your largest asset in Ethiopia for exploitation and they're losing.
Judgement day is coming for these barbaric savage ENDF, Amhara militias, Fano gangs
@@JohnDoe-bh2lp exactly 💯
@@aida4865 Do you have anything to say now? 🙄
Reporting from sudan one sided story
Abiy messed up bad, he should have attacked the TPLF government not the people, there’s a reason why they’re all signing up to fight.
He did attack the TPLF government but the problem is that most Tigrayans would take a bullet for TPLF.
@@user-qy6tu9ip9v Nope this is false. He attacked Tigray not TPLF. At the beginning, he had no issue.
@@yikeslikes4457 Yes he did have issues. There are multiple reports of Tigrayans willing fighting for TDF during the early portion of the war. I don't even support Abiy but saying he targetted Tigrayans and not TPLF is foolish. If that were the case then Abiy could have easily finished the population off.
You can't expect Abiy to control the actions of everyone in an armed conflict. He should have had an independent investigation to find who these criminals are and being them to justice.
@@user-qy6tu9ip9v Are you kidding me? Why did he start imprisoning and firing Tigrayans all over the country immediately after the war started?
Wow. Amazingly brave woman
There are more than a million ethniclilly Amhara displaced but you did your report only based on ethnic tigrayan 70 000 refugees
Your point exactly? What is the cause of these displacements? Who caused the displacement of the Amhara people? Abi Amhara Your are basically saying report on my tribe because their suffering is more important.
@@semiragualraya1041 That isn't what he is saying at all. He is saying why do they only care about TIgrayans and NOT the rest of Ethiopia?
@@DWEthiopia Because Tigrayn are the one who are targeted by the dictator and Tigrayn are the one who are starving because the dictator blocked the food from getting to Tigray.. Tigrayn are the one who are living without electric internet phone bank transportation everything is shut down.. and Tigrayn are the one who are been being airstrike everyday.. Tigrayn are the one who are fighting Eritrean soldiers Amhara militia Ethiopian soldiers and Somalian soldiers and is still fighting... And may God give the victory to TDF soon in Jesus name 🙏🙏🙏💛❤️💛❤️💛❤️💛❤️💛
@@Lemlem7682 All I hear from your comment is Tigrayans lives matter more than Amhara, Oromos, and Afar. I guess we will have to wait and see what happens in the region. If Tigrayans like yourself only care about your own people, that is fine. But please make sure you stay in your region and don't use the resources of the rest of the country since you only care about your own people. You know you can't do that and that is why your rebel soldiers are in other regions right now.
2 million Tigrayans are internally displaced. Stop the whataboutism. Wrong is wrong. God help Tigray
this is so tragic, I hope Tigray is given support and heals
Where’s the news on this? All I hear is Ukraine every 5 seconds
Thank you vice. Please don't stop 🙌🏾 please. Tigray needs your voice.
First of all TPLF start the war not the Ethiopian government second how about the 1600 Amhara that have been killed in one day after identifying there Amhara identities by checking there ID in Tigray region.VICE where is the fair Honesty. Journalists have an obligation to seek out the truth and report it as accurately as possible.
Aren't you tired to keep repeating always the same lies ?
The world is not as stupid as you imagine.
Everybody knows that Ahmed, with the support of genocidal minds like yours, is starving a population of 7 million tigrayians. The they are dying by lack of food, medecines and are umable to withdraw money from their bank accounts.
You are simply a fashist criminal (very probably an amhara...)
Shame on you, your people and your bloody dictator Abiy Ahmed !!!!
@@thierrystoudmann4082 "The world is not as stupid as you imagine." Nailed it, thank you very much for being on the side of TRUTH!
Also I’m not sure if you were evening listening but they stated in the beginning that Abiy Ahmed had created a blackout and refused to let the journalists speak to people in the country which is why they were interviewing people in a refugee camp in Sudan and not Ethiopia. Why would he create a blackout and refuse the press if he had done nothing wrong and had nothing to hide? 🧐
@@thierrystoudmann4082 you have no idea what is going on.My relationship with Tigray people is with blood and dignity so mind your on business buddy
@@bisratbaheru5468 like one of the leady said on the interview. Were good, freindly neighborhood untill the war broke out ........ you can full other people but you can't full those people you suffocated to death, that is actually if they can survive.
Decade after decade Ethiopia's intra-ethnic conflict never stops, Balkanization may be the answer
@Thugnificent Terra-Belle If I am not mistaken in the 1800s ET was much smaller than her current size. In those days leadership expanded the country a lot with a view to newly acquired areas acting as a buffer to protect the central/ original ET against European colonization but this had the consequence of absorbing a lot of new ethnicities and laying the foundation for modern conflicts not limited to the current one. Do you have an opinion on this statement?
@@tnasr3254 today ethiopia came in 1921 although the force conquest expanstion started in 1885. took 69 ethnic including 12 empires. each with different faith,culture,trdation,political structure, non-history connection,langague and life style. this is why ethiopia is in conflict.
Situation is very interesting now with the TDF and OLA controlling much of the A2. Something like 90% of all imports come from Dijbouti via the A2 and other routes are hardly viable. I’ve been following this was since it started and can’t say I expected it to reach anywhere close to Addis Ababa this fast.
They’ve completely lost all of the land
@@rootin222 yeah they took what they can’t maintain
Thank you voice this is heartbroken 😭😭😭💔💔
i dosent even able to imangine the horror these woman were going through , you can see it in their eyes the will never be the same.... so sad
I was expecting to you to report this #TigrayGenocide and much gratitude
“Tigray genocide” is another propaganda tool for western media
@@beet95 exactly
Amnesty and UN said there wasn't a genocide in Tigray. Stop lying.
It is so hard to see my country like this , i am praying 🙏 alway for peace ✌️ I hope one day justices will come !
It's sad, although I'm a West African, I don't sleep anymore
@@wawawawar4559 it is has been worse now in capital city of Addis Ababa right now , the war has spread everywhere in Ethiopia we all worried 😟 right now what is gonna happen next !
@@abuabuabdu9992 Is it an ethnic war ?? In the democratic republic of the congo when the war had started I would cry, I was very young, I was afraid that the syndrome of Rwanda would start again. Ethiopia had taken off economically, it was even going to catch up with Kenya. What a loss. a war neither party wins.
@@wawawawar4559 ya it is z same thing happen here in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 right now ethnic clash 😭also wiz one party divided in two too the economic is getting worse right now I don’t know where it is gonna take us we all need peace right now
Please try to be fair, It is only a one sided report. At this time tplf-terrorist-group has killed and looted Amhara and Afar.
What do you expect after they did all this atrocities they didn’t give Tigray people a flower open ur eyes
Heart breaking.
Y’all seen what the mother said “I will make sure they avenge their father” Amhara Militias have caused so much damage that will not be solved easily. We Tigrayans have endure this kind of brutality so many times, Menelik, Haile Slassie, Mengistu, and now Abiy and his Amhara Friends. Enough is Enough!!
The mother will be taken care of. Mengistu is Oromo, Abiy is Oromo, and so are most of Abiy's cabinet. TPLF started this conflict. Look at the Amharas they brutally executed in Mai-kadra.
@@user-qy6tu9ip9v they were not Amharas, Amhara militias massacres 1000+ Tigrayans in Maikadra. Y’all always cry victim after massacring innocents 🤦🏾♂️ at least now the world knows who y’all really is.
@@atakilti75 All of the reports show that Amharas are the victims. Even Debretsion confirmed it during an interview early on in the war. ID cards of the victims were also found.
@@user-qy6tu9ip9v no he did not, he said Amhara civilians are not our enemies and they should stay indoors and nothing will happen to them from our forces. He did not say Amharas were the victims in Maikadra. Stop trying to make Amharas are the victims in this war. Amhara was the first to join the fight when Abiy declared the genocidal campaign on the people of Tigray.
@@atakilti75 He literally admitted to committing the massacre. The ID's of the victims shows that they are Amhara. This has been reported thoroughly.
I find it hilarious how Getachew Reda also told Amharas in Dessie and Kombalcha to stay home and they will be safe but TDF has been shelling the area and so far in the last 24 hours TDF and Tigrayans living in Dessie and Kombalcha have executed well over 200 Amhara civilians and over 60 Eritreans in Dessie. Stay home and you'll be safe huh?
@2:08 Could not stop my tears...look at the little girl eyes 😢😢😢 The world is full of monsters, just wait for chance to act.
Why so much suffering …we are just dot in this universe. live for 50 or 60 years please leave them to live happily 😢😭😢😢prayers from hindus 💕
Very dissapointed in what vice did why didnt you do one from the ethiopian side of the war were doing this for a reason they killed our troops
A future Yugoslavia now in Africa. I think it will be good to have self rule for Tigray and all the regions. But will that really end the stupidity?
Abey is our hero , tplf making all this nonsense
After we are done with the TPLF we will come for all who conspired with them.
Ethiopia will 🏆win
and just like ur fore fathers u shall fail and live in shame and knowing even with the help of many enemies u couldnt wipe tigreans and take our history and culture....but this time it will be ur last i promise u that
Prime minister Abiy Ahmed does not begin the war the Tigray rebels attacked the military base of Ethiopia in southern part of the country killing more than 300 solders in a night that were helping farmers during the day. Even BBC and Reuters have made report on this(That are currently making false news against my country) and why didn't you report that TPLF had released all of its prisoners that were accused of murdering and raping before the government had entered the region. I had expected a lot from this media but what is underneath it is supporting any rebels that are causing downfall to countries.
It Doesn’t matter who started the war this are civilians who have been raped so is this how Amharas respond then?
I believe you news agency stand for the truth if so do a news about what the TPLF has done to others don't be one sided
It's not even comparable. Plus, it's the Nobel Peace Prize winner who is not letting in independent journalists and investigators. That is why she is in Sudan and not in Ethiopia.
Benjamin seems to live a great life 90 day fiance
Lol I was gonna say the same thing. Does TLC know ?
My fav UA-cam video right now no lie ua-cam.com/video/XXU7zhDou0I/v-deo.html }}}
@@dgonz666 that was filmed a long time ago.
@@mytruecrimelibrary 90 day fiancé ? Not days ago. The current episodes have them with face masks still. Maybe a year but not days ago.
@@dgonz666 I said it was a long time ago, not days ago.
As a Eritrean this is heartbreaking, I understood every single word these strong women said and the heartbreak is awful so i can only imagine what they felt. The Ethopian minister needs to go and i hope someone will bring peace to both the inoccent amhara people and tigray people.
What about Esayas
@@eyobberhanu5958 I also think his time in the goverment needs to end.
@@rahwadebessay2002 who gonna rule if you remove both PM of 🇪🇹 &🇪🇷
@eyob berhanu TPLF I guss 😅😂 imagine tho, what the country would look like 😮😮😮
@@eyobberhanu5958
Maybe an election and a new system is needed where all ethnic groups feel safe
0:45 well thats why the wars going on: no ones hitting anything
My heart broke watching this 😔
The report failed or deliberately ignored to report why , how and who started the conflict. Short and incomplete report.
Stay in ur lane. Last i checked ur not part of ethiopia. Kapish
"why, how, and who started the conflict" does not justify mass raping, sexual slavery, mass civilian massacre.
I don't know how that would justify these crimes even if it were true, but it's Abiy who started the war, backed by Amhara extremists who wanted to bring an old system where they were dominant, and the despotic Isaias who has grudges against Tigrayans for defeating him at the war he started out of jealousy. Tigrayans are defending themselves. You guys seem pretty successful at disseminating your propaganda because Tigrayans are relatively small in number and you've cut them off from the rest of the world since the war started. That probably explains the relatively large number of likes you're getting.
This war is terrible, no one should suffer what is happening but please tell the story of both sides. The war started when TPLF attacked a military basis in Tigray. The TPLF has advanced into Amhara and Afar so they are obviously not interested in autonomy for Tigray but returning to power over the whole country. While they were in power they stoked the ethnic animosity seen today. While the Tigray people are victims the TPLF is not.
That’s too nuanced for a vice video.
Our soldiers 😩
Summarized perfectly
It's Abiy who started the war, backed by Amhara extremists who wanted to bring an old system where they were dominant, and the despotic Isaias who has grudges against Tigrayans for defeating him at the war he started out of jealousy. Tigrayans are defending themselves. TPLF(Tigray's gov) captured the army bases because Tigray was already surrounded from all directions and the war even had started in some places already. They have no choice but to neutralize the imminent attack from within before dealing with the attack from outside. You guys seem pretty successful at disseminating your propaganda because Tigrayans are relatively small in number and you've cut them off from the rest of the world since the war started. That probably explains the relatively large number of likes you're getting.
@@BM-df9bp ok, so say you are right and a group of Amhara wanted to dominate power, if the TPLF wins they will do the same thing. Neither side is right in that case. Division along ethnic lines is just wrong, period. In all of history it’s never turned out to be a good thing. The everyday people end up suffering. I see no evidence that the TPLF wants all people of different ethnic groups to come together but Abey has eluded to that. One Ethiopian is strong and can grow, there’s so much potential but a divided Ethiopia and animosity between ethnic groups will just weaken the country.
Vice what took you so long to report this why why?
Heartbreaking 😭😭😭💔💔💔
Abiy Ahmed ceased fire but your leaders wants war so continue fighting
yeah the same way he said their were no Eritrean soldiers fighting and the same way he said not a single person died ...
God protect Ethiopia 🇪🇹 ❤️
Karma is knocking at the door
Virginia, hanging out with little boys in spandex I see?
@@Pats4lyfe Karma is definitely knocking on TPLF's door , getting rid of their toxicity
@@Pats4lyfe karma has to with reincarnation, karma is not what many westerners think it is lol.
@@Pats4lyfe It really is. After 30 horrible years of TPLF rule and genocide, it’s finally all crumbling back down on them.
Ethiopian live for 30 years under the barbaric tplf. Wining 90+% with support of usa and European countries. Vice news is all about secession. Instead of trying to find out the fact, cross examining the fact if they get story many people can click it on UA-cam that's all. That is all about this story. The victim might be a real victim but there are alot of similar victim on the other side. Trgrayans have a very good motivation to lay as well. As mentioned it above they gover the country with iron fist for 3 decades withe the help of west now ethiopia and Ethiopians don't have a shoulder to bare the same eventhough USA and European are prescribing the same. Long live ethiopia long live africa.
I'm Ethiopian, I find this very heartbreaking and sad. It only reports one side story! And the fact that you didn't even mention any violations and war crimes committed by the tplf army proven by evidence makes me question your so-called report.
Govt wouldn't allow her to
Correct never expect honey from our enemy , western media.
our fathers breaks the bone of the white people , no other country except Ethiopia won over colonialism, in the war of Adawa all who came in to conquer were killed by our heroes. So the white have grudges on Ethiopia.
Is the journalist not aware that TDF made the first attack, or maybe it doesn't fit vice agenda? One sided reporting, is the best journalism.
Preach brother
The clap back is STILL unethical. So regardless of agenda what they are doing is absolutely incorrect. TDF forces made the first move....not the women men and children killed and raped. But of course we gotta focus on who started what first. The POINT and PURPOSE of this is to bring about the exposure of what happen to the innocent majority but I mean go off 🤷🏾♂️
@@apolloalvarez6694 What happened in Tigray is horrible, but I am still surprised how you think who started the war is not important. Hadn't TDF massacred the federal soldiers and bombed cvilian airports in Bahir dar and asmera, we wouldn't be talking of this war. Why do you feel the need to protect a media that completely ignores a terrorist action but focus on repercussion of the war against the government. Not only that, but only focus on Tigray, how about the massacre of non Tigrayans living in tigray, Maikadra massacre, What about of the death of amhara youth after the invasion of TDF on civilian soil. Are those lives not important? Most of the Ethiopians have already noticed the strong bias in this war, how the reporting is one sided, and we started a movement #no more and yet Twitter disabled our trending. This how the west is silencing the majority Ethiopians.
Now the Ethiopian army is on the backfoot retreating back and losing ground every passing hour. They already lost the Tigray region, half of Afar region and half of Amhara region. Commercially vital cities of Dessie and Kombolcha have fallen to the TPLF hands, now they're just 350km from the nation's capital: Addis Ababa. I see the same pattern the TPLF destroyed the Ethiopian army back in 1991 and conquered the country.
This time it will be a long civil war the government is already giving everyone weapons this won't be easy
Well this comment didn't age very well.
It's ironic they ask at the end ....can you live together again after all this? ..Even the USA dropped a nuclear bomb and made the biggest man made massacre in Japan. But they are now allies after nuking them, perishing countless souls.
I am Ethiopian.and i m heart broken for the mothers and all that are victims of this chaos. Vengeance is not a solution but TPLf have been damaging the country killing people for years and no one covered those violations. There is a rooted political games involved here that is not understandable even for journalists. TPLF is killing even today but the real facts are not seen here. The wealthy, corrupted politicians are doing these in the background.
ur sick as a society .....just dont forget tgose words when the time comes
@@nathnaeltsegaye8505 TDF is literally getting their cheeks clapped.
This is cruelty...God must come to the rescue now,humans have become monsters
they are not humans bro .
How can I help?
Pls do so if u can
Good to see reporters doing reporting. To bad it will not get the views it deserves.
You are very biased. what about the massacres committed in afar and Wollo by the TPLF when are you going to report that.
It's not even comparable to what the Amhara militia, Abiy's federal forces, and Isaias' forces have committed in Tigray. Plus, It's the Nobel Peace Prize winner who is not letting in independent journalists and investigators. That is why she is in Sudan and not in Ethiopia. You guys seem pretty successful at disseminating your propaganda because Tigrayans are relatively small in number and you've cut them off from the rest of the world since the war started.
The thing that really amazes me is where was the international media when the TPLF dominated, tortured people and committed unspeakable human rights violation for the past 27 years and in addition why didn't the media report war crimes committed by the TPLF on ENDF despite the fact major TPLF officials admitting to attacking the northern command and testimonies from survivors of the massacre.Something to really think about 🤔🤔🤔
The Tigray leadership always played with fire. It was their doing that’s causing suffering
they should ally with neigbhbouring african nations . ethiopians are black when there is war and when its over they back at pretending they are not "real black" and that they are a lost tribe
@@PHlophe The African Union HQ is located where?
@@PHlophe 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@PHlophe most of Ethiopia’s neighbors would just watch with popcorn. Karma takes it’s time but it came back around.
You should be guessing
Wish I could help them
u could just by spreading the story and joining the nearby tigrean diaspora in protest against the war and the silence of the world .
Thank you vice news,!
if its not possible for vice news or any other journalists to enter Tigray region, then don't make any biased news until it will be. this is only from one side. i grieve for all the women's in this video but its not Abiy to be blamed its the TPLF that started the whole war without the consideration for their own people and state. i don't know why the news are going the other way. i expect unbiased news from vice, what a shame!!!!!
They support TPLF
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 My people have suffered so much and May the Lord Jesus heal you and restore you and comfort you! And thank you for reporting for what's happening to Tigray people And I used to be a refugee in Amracuba myself when I was a 8-years-old for the same reasons in the '80s because dictator Mengstu hailmariam wanted to kill us after he
killed my father! Me and my mom and sister ran to Sudan barefoot... And now history is repeats itself again another dictator is killing his own people and The world is watching without doing anything to save human life...
Sorry that happened
@@thelastchristosever8910 Thank you so much🙏
@@Lemlem7682 Shouldn't have attacked ENDF bases and executed non-Tigrayans while bombing Eritrean civilians in Asmara. Every action has a consequence.
@@JohnDoe-bh2lp you really need to get out the comments section. Divisive attitudes as yours are what start these wars in the first place and you are only perpetuating that. Find something productive to do with your day- we are all sick of seeing your ridiculous comments.
@@JohnDoe-bh2lp eritera cross to tigray boder when tigray told them not to cross dont blame tigray for what eritera did. also endf was paid to kill tplf at night that is why tplf took quick action once it got called that coup is about to happen. do research before you judge
God bless the people of Tigray
You're sick. Supporting a people whose sole purpose for the past 30 years was the genocide of Amhara people. Search up the UN's population decrease in Amhara and Afar, the infrastructure development, etc.
@@JohnDoe-bh2lp You're lying. What does "UN's population decrease" even mean lol? If you wanted to say report, I would love to read that report.
@@JohnDoe-bh2lp stop lying
Please try to provide the full picture. The other parts of the country are also significantly affected by it. It is a lot bigger than this.
I swear civil wars will never end in Africa always some war going on
I pray the criminals see their own crimes on their own love ones.
what would that solve?
@@Tommy-5684 it will teach them not to do it again....what you dont want happens to you don't do it to others.
@@alulan3282 not neccerly its just as likely to fuel a cyle of violance
Then suffering would continue. The best way is that the criminals get put down, the people who did this should be punished and cruelly, not their loved ones.
@@mikloridden8276 unless this is done with reffrence to a higher authority eg the state or an international juditial body the cycle is still perpetuated
This is crazy
you leader is crazy he would have negotiated
I really feel pain for tigrayans. I wish the Ethiopian media cover something like this couse they're always speaking as if Tplf tried to ovethrow a Democratic government and the government is just trying to protect the constitution. I know Tplf did some bad things too but it's really heart breaking seeing Tigraians suffer so much because of the federal government
Americans think they have so bad. Live here and you will change your mind. Glad people escaped this horrible place.
The west media just love reporting this kind of reports about africa....they exaggerat what exactly happed.
These women aren't lying, it's awful what happened to them and others.
@@aurora6920 I'm un Ethiopian miss.... the reporting is inaccuratee tigray peoples started the war....they massacred thousands of amhara and oromo people for more than 50years when they where in power.
@@aberhittesfamaryam3799 no you're the one that's inaccurate the people of Tigray did nothing you're blaming >5 mill people like a whole population?? The comment section can't be flooded with Tigrayans speaking their truth because they can't access internet now but I promise you the truth will come out eventually.
This is good! It’s an eye opener it will make me question all other reports and videos done by western media. There is always two side of story and they will beat the drum if it fits their agenda.
Ethiopia 🇪🇹 a hot mess, only Trump would have made things right
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