Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  No. To be clear, what all of the other international organizations have said is that when it comes to atrocities in Tigray, Tigrayans, the Eritreans, the Amhara and the federal government have committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes of starvation and war as war tools.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Okay. When it comes to genocide, no credible report has come claiming there is a genocide in Amhara or genocide in Tigray.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  This is why I say that the international community should not be in the business of arbitrating genocide and counter-genocide claims. What we need is an international investigation. Now what we see is Tigrayans and Amhara activists claiming genocide was committed to their people.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think Ethiopia's political problem lies with three tribal groups—the Amhara, Tigray and Oromo—but Ethiopia has 84 different tribes or ethnic groups. The only way this process can move is to move the centre of gravity of the political process away from the Amhara-Oromo-Tigray nexus.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you so much. Yes. I think about 10% of global trade goes through the Red Sea, and about 40% of the the trade between Asia and Europe is channelled through the Red Sea. Ethiopia is an anchor nation, because of its size and population, to the entire Horn of Africa. I believe the European Union representative for the eastern African countries once said that Ethiopia is not like Yugoslavia: It doesn't implode in.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Well, it broke because it moved sovereign power from “we, the people of Ethiopia” to “we, the tribes of Ethiopia”. After three decades, or 30 years, Ethiopians started to think as ethnic groups or tribal groups, and that's exactly what we are witnessing here today. Our Amharan friends are talking about only Amhara.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In November 2022, the Ethiopian government and the TPLF signed a ceasefire in Pretoria. Sadly, the humanitarian crisis has not improved. The prime minister has launched a new war in the Amhara region on top of an already raging war in the Oromo region. These two regions account for 61% of the nation's population and 87% of its food production.