I think the important thing for Canada to do is to pressure the Government of Eritrea to agree to an immediate cessation of hostility.
The second thing is that people need access to humanitarian aid, because they are dying of starvation. It is really unfortunate. The international community said, “Never again,” but it is happening again and again. The people of Tigray are waiting to have a very concrete kind of action to stop the war, so they can have access to life-saving basic services, their banking services, telephone and everything. Now we don't have any access to our brothers and sisters over there. My brother was killed, and I did not have access to know how and when he was killed. The only thing I heard was that he was killed and that he was buried after one week. Why? People were not allowed to bury him.
What do we really need to quell this genocide? We see that people are really starving over this. Women and 17-year-old girls are being raped. They are doing it right now. In Shire right now, a lot of women are being raped over there. More than 300 people have been taken to an unknown location, so I really think the world must act now, not later.
Thank you.