I'd like to thank everybody for their patience and indulgence.
As many of you heard, we encountered some technical difficulties. It's just us in the room, and nobody is tuning in from outside. The outside witnesses we wanted to hear from cannot join us today, unfortunately. All of us here in the room are experiencing this meeting together. The evidence will be recorded in writing and made public. What you say today will be public, so be mindful of that, despite the fact that the cameras are not rolling for the outside world.
In order to make things work and spice things up a bit, we've essentially changed things up. We have four guests here to give us statements. We'll continue as we initially planned, with five minutes for the first statement from Mr. Gebremariam. We'll then have two and a half minutes for the rest of those on the panel: Ms. Embaye, Mr. Werkneh and Ms. Tekie Berhane.
This is the 13th meeting of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights. We are studying the human rights situation in Tigray today. We'll continue in this first panel until 7:30. We'll continue as usual, where each and every party has a round of questions. We'll only do one round of questions.
I want to remind everybody present to follow the public health authorities' guidelines and the directive of the Board of Internal Economy to remain healthy and safe.
Without further ado, go ahead, please, for five minutes.