Amhara Association of America Statement on the Situation in Welkait, Raya, and the Tigray Region
Amhara Association of America Statement on the Situation in Welkait, Raya, and the Tigray Region March 2, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Amhara Association of America (AAA) issued the following statement in response to several recent reports on the war in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region and Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s February 27, 2021 call for the “immediate withdrawal of Eritrean forces and Amhara regional forces from Tigray” as “essential first steps” to ending the conflict:
A February 26, 2021 New York Times article claims that “an internal U.S. government report” documents a “systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing” in Western Tigray by “Ethiopian officials and allied [i.e. Amhara] militia fighters.” Western Tigray is a reference to the woredas (districts) of Welkait, Kafta Humera, Tegede, and Telemet, which Amharas refer to collectively as Welkait.
