Denunciation — Tigray

Tribunal Denunciation No. 2026-D-005
Issued Orthen, Ignis 22 • Anno Covenant II
(10 April 2026)

Finding

The war in Tigray, waged from November 2020 to November 2022 by the Ethiopian federal government, Eritrean forces, and Amhara regional militias against the Tigray People's Liberation Front and the civilian population of the Tigray region, produced mass atrocities that have yet to be fully counted, acknowledged, or answered for.

Estimates of the dead range from hundreds of thousands to over half a million — the majority from starvation and lack of medical care caused by a deliberate siege. The Ethiopian government imposed a communications blackout, expelled journalists, and restricted humanitarian access for months while its forces and their allies carried out systematic violence against civilians.

The Record

Extrajudicial killings were documented across Tigray, including the massacre at Axum — a city sacred in Ethiopian tradition — where Eritrean soldiers killed hundreds of civilians in a single weekend in November 2020.

Sexual violence was used as a weapon of war on a scale described by Amnesty International and the United Nations as systematic. Women and girls were raped, mutilated, and subjected to sexual slavery. Healthcare facilities were deliberately destroyed.

Starvation was engineered. Agricultural land was burned. Livestock was slaughtered. Markets were looted. Aid convoys were blocked. The siege was not a byproduct of war — it was the strategy.

The Cessation of Hostilities Agreement signed in Pretoria in November 2022 ended the fighting. It did not deliver justice. There has been no independent investigation with enforcement power. There has been no accountability for the commanders who gave the orders.

What the Covenant Declares

We denounce the weaponization of starvation against a civilian population.

We denounce the use of sexual violence as a deliberate instrument of war and terror.

We denounce the communications blackout that was designed to ensure these atrocities were committed in darkness.

We denounce the Eritrean government for its direct participation in mass atrocities on foreign soil.

We denounce the international community for accepting a peace agreement that traded silence for stability, and for treating accountability as an obstacle to reconciliation rather than its foundation.

The dead of Tigray remain uncounted. The perpetrators remain unnamed. This is not peace. It is amnesia with a ceasefire.

Entered into the Covenant Ledger under the Tribunal Seal.
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