About this book
The Tigray War (2020–2022) may have claimed as many as 700, 000 lives. Fought between the national defence forces of Ethiopia and Eritrea and the Tigray Defence Forces, the conflict unleashed horrific atrocities on civilians, including widespread massacres. The war was shrouded in secrecy due to a communications blackout and a siege on Tigray, making it nearly impossible for people in the region to report on events and for the outside world to grasp the scale of the tragedy. This book, the first in a three-part series, uncovers Eritrea's concealed role in the war, including its involvement in massacres and particularly cruel and inhumane sexual violence. These acts were designed not only to terrorise, but to break the spirit of the Tigrayan people, with the aim of erasing Tigray as an ethnic and cultural group. This book also explores how the war has fundamentally altered the Tigray region—a transformation that may be difficult to reverse—described through the lens of the concept of hysteresis. Drawing on a collaborative investigation between universities inside and outside Ethiopia, and primarily employing an ethnographic approach, the study concludes that genocide may have occurred in Tigray. The international community, it argues, has a duty to investigate these claims.
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Table of contents
- Front cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Disclaimer
- Book Series
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Content and Editorial Decisions
- Acronyms
- Timeline of Key Events
- 1 Yesterday We Said Tomorrow: Hysteresis and Panarchy in War
- 2 "Game Over": Key Markers of the Tigray War in Redefining the Region
- 3 From Hidden to Open War in Tigray: Structural and Proximate Causes
- 4 Regional War by Design: The Involvement of Eritrea in the Tigray War
- 5 Weaponising the Media: Exploring the Role of Ethiopian National Media in the Tigray War
- 6 Famine as a Weapon in the Tigray War and the Siege
- 7 Bodies for Battle Fields: Systematic Use of Rape as a Weapon of War in Tigray
- 8 "Vultures were circling the Areas": Massacres During the Tigray War
- 9 Throwing Bodies into the Tekeze River: Assessment of Massacres
- 10 'Followers of the Devil's Code 666': The Writing on the Wall of an Intent to Eradicate a People
- 11 The Turning Points towards the Unequal Protection of Eritrean Refugees in Ethiopia: From Protection to Abduction
- 12 “He had Orders, and His Superiors were Outside”: Strategic Rape as Genocide in Tigray
- 13 Genocidal Intent in the Tigray War: Establishing Reasonable Grounds Based on Evidence
- About the Authors and Editors