Genocide In the Horn of Africa

Prompt response

An evil persists in the horn of Africa, countrymen are killing each other, not tribal war but organized genocide ordered by the government. Ethnic cleansing, a better term.

A Nobel peace prize was won not too long ago, followed up by a peace keeping mission in Sudan. It was like a revolutionary figure was born, and great reform was coming. Perhaps that was the case, a change did truly happen. Only it involved, not the surrendering of arms, but pointing them at different people.

Today it seems like a truce was signed so a common foe could be fought, troops from both sides are pillaging homes, mass killings are rampant, brutalities immeasurable. Accounts of the dead unburied and left to rot, rape, torture, pregnant women committing suicide, among so many other atrocities.

Firstly, I apologies for taking so long to respond to this very powerful prompt. The prompt by Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) is who’s voices need to heard right now. So many tragedies have transpired recently, fueled by hate or a differing evil. I chose to speak about the plight of a people who do not have a voice, the Tigray people. The reports in Ethiopia are very similar to that of Burma, beautiful pieces by Christina Meier Ph.D and Sylvia Wohlfarth detail the strife of the Burmese and Tigrayan peoples.

Here is Christina’s piece

Sylvia’s piece on the Tigray people

And Lucy’s prompt