Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'll definitely underline that unfettered humanitarian access should be allowed, not tomorrow, not the day after tomorrow, but now. As we speak, people are dying. If you have seen it on Twitter, there were children gasping due to lack of oxygen, so they can't wait. The children o

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I would say definitely. If you're asking me to tell you some of the stories, I have been hearing a lot of stories. The perpetrators were not only committing sexual violence; they were also telling them they had to purify Tigrayan blood. Let me tell you one story as an example. T

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It's very tough. Sometimes there were actually terrible stories to hear. One woman was raped in front of her husband. He was killed after they raped her, and her two children were looking at her. If you allowed me to, by the way, I could speak the whole day with a bunch of storie

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I was there at the start of the war, and Tigray was one of the regions that had better health care. Actually, in the whole of Ethiopia, we have had this problem of malnutrition, as we are a developing country. Before the siege, the prevalence of malnutrition and lack of basic foo

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Good morning, respected parliamentary members, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Dr. Abel Giday Kebedom. I'm a recent immigrant from Tigray, Ethiopia. I'm a married man and have two kids. Up until January 2021, I served as a medical doctor in one of the larg