I do not speak for the Government of Eritrea. I speak for the Coalition of Eritrean Canadian Communities and associations. We follow closely the situation in Eritrea. I'm actually speaking to you now from inside Eritrea, where I have been since October 5.
I would like, though, if you will allow me, to first empathize with our Tigrayan brothers and sisters, particularly the lady who presented here this evening.
I do want, though, to warn this committee that the massive disinformation propaganda and roots can give you a totally different direction as a committee as you're collecting this data. The genocide propaganda started on November 4. As the war had not started, the campaign of genocide had been pre-emptively started. I would humbly ask you to consider your information and look at the place and the path of the start of this genocide accusation.
In regard to the Eritrean implication of that, things will come up and become more clear in the future. Unfortunately, we do not have too much information at this time, while the conflict is going on.
There are two things we would like you to consider, though.
First, the Ethiopian government warned that 60,000 Eritrean uniforms were produced inside Tigray in order to fake Eritrean soldiers—