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| Report: 5,000-plus deaths under Ethiopia’s Tigray blockade |
| 2022-01-29 |
Don't start nothing, won't be nothing. The problem with starting a war is the price to be paid if one happens to lose. And despite initial successes, it looks like the Tigrayans have lost. [Garowe] Nearly 1,500 people died of malnutrition in just part of Æthiopia’s blockaded Tigray region over a four-month period last year, including more than 350 young children, a new report by the region’s health bureau says. It cites more than 5,000 blockade-related deaths in all from hunger and disease in the largest official corpse count yet associated with the country’s war."Deaths are alarmingly increasing," including from easily preventable diseases like rabies as medicines run out or expire, the head of Tigray’s health bureau, Hagos Godefay, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named late last year as the findings were being compiled. "This is one of the worst times of my life, I can tell you." His report on the findings, published Wednesday by the independent Æthiopia Insight, says 5,421 deaths were confirmed in Tigray between July and October in an assessment by his bureau and some international aid groups. It was the first such assessment since the war between Tigray and Æthiopian forces began in November 2020, he said. |
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