• @rcbrk
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    92 years ago

    Copy-pasting the central chunk of the article for those of us too lazy to click the link:

    Since a truce was declared in Tigray three weeks ago, about 2,000 trucks should have been able to bring food, medicines and other essentials to the conflict-ridden area, he said during a virtual press briefing from Geneva on Wednesday. Instead, only about 20 trucks had arrived, he said.

    “As we speak, people are dying of starvation,” said Tedros, a former health minister in Ethiopia and an ethnic Tigrayan. “This is one of the longest and worst sieges by both Eritrean and Ethiopian forces in modern history.”

    He acknowledged that the war in Ukraine was globally significant, but asked whether other crises were being accorded enough attention.

    “I need to be blunt and honest that the world is not treating the human race the same way,” he said. “Some are more equal than others.”

    Tedros described the situation in Tigray as tragic and said he “hopes the world comes back to its senses and treats all human life equally”.

    He also criticised the media’s failure to document atrocities in Ethiopia, noting that people had been burned alive. “I don’t even know if that was taken seriously by the media,” he said.