A hyena kills a two-year old boy in an IDP center in Mekelle

Yesterday morning, at a IDP center known as Seb’a kare in Mekelle, a hyena killed a two-year-old Naod HaileSelassie. Naod and his elder brother were playing outside their tent when the heyena attacked him and killed him. The community stopped the hyena from eating the body, but it was too late to save him alive. Members of the IDP center said that hyenas are increasingly daring to enter their tents and were already taking animals such as chickens. The IDPs urged for their return to their homes.

The Situation of the IDPs in Tigray.

It is known that a large section of the Tigrayan population has been displaced by the genocidal war waged on Tigray and Tigrayans by Ethiopia and its allies. The IDPs in Tigray are from southern Tigray, the areas bordering Eritrea, the areas bordering Afar and Amhara, and other areas inside Tigray. The overwhelming majority of the IDPs, however, are from Western Tigray, where Ethiopia and its allies committed a systematic ethnic cleansing of Tigrayans, and still continue to do so. Despite the Pretoria Agreement which stipulates a return to constitutional order and return of IDPs, a large swath of Tigrayan lands remain under occupation and the IDPs continue to languish in squalid conditions in IDP centers across the part of Tigray under the control of the Tigray Interim Administration, and perish in perilous migratory journeys.

The Commission of Inquiry on Tigray Genocide released a special report titled “The Plight of Internally Displaced Persons in Tigray: A Special Assessment Report” a while ago. The report says “hundreds of thousands of IDPs continue to live in dire conditions in congested makeshift camps, with little access to basic needs, including food, healthcare, and shelter. The promised return has been obstructed. Justice mechanisms have not been materialized, and hence perpetrators enjoyed impunity, and neither reconciliation nor reparations have taken place. As a result, many IDPs feel abandoned, with their aspirations for dignified return, recovery, and justice dwindling day by day, and life conditions worsening.”

The whole report is below.