Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm sorry, but can you repeat that, sir?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think it must be understood that the people of Tigray were under a 360° siege. Tigray was under siege. That must be clearly understood. During that siege, from every direction in Ethiopia, the Amhara, Oromo, Afar, Eritrean, Somalian and, of course, Ethiopian forces—all of them—were against Tigray, and Tigray was under siege.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you. More than 100,000 have been externally displaced. Socio-economic infrastructure, including health facilities and educational institutions, factories and small industries have been destroyed by the joint forces of Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Amhara region. It is reported by the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, New Lines Institute, and the U.S.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  He said that Tigrayans will be wiped out for 100 years. Thank you.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. My opening statement focuses on the situation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. During the two-year war, from November 2020 to November 2022, in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, about one million civilians have been killed; more than 120,000 women have been raped; about two million people have been internally displaced, and more than 100,000 persons have been externally displaced.