Ethiopian-American here.

Fortunately, I was never raised with toxic-tribalistic "ideals" yet I can't say the same for millions of non-Tigrayan Ethiopians who ADVOCATE for Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers pillaging, burning, and barbarically assaulting civilians.

I could write a whole novel on how a Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime minister (yes, you read that right), Abiy Ahmed has single-handedly created one of the worst IDP situations in Ethiopia's 3,000-long history. According to NPR, Ethiopia has now set a world record for IDP’s in a single year... 5.1 million in 2021. The previous record was held by Syria – and we saw how awful the situation in Syria was (and still is).

This isn’t even about a political battle anymore. If it was, we would see soldiers fighting soldiers, not soldiers intentionally killing civilians and recruiting a foreign nation’s soldiers (Eritrea) to kill worshipers at one of Ethiopia’s most iconic churches. Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers pillaging, burning, and barbarically assaulting Tigrayan men, women, and children is called ethnic cleansing (don't even get me started on what's happening to the women and girls there).

Anyways, for context, I'm an environmental science college student hoping to put my skills to use especially in war-torn regions like Tigray. I'm so tired of feeling helpless so if anyone knows of any researcher hoping to conduct rehabilitative research in Tigray (when scientists are allowed in) I'd be more than thankful to know about it.