HRW: Ethiopia’s Tigray forcibly recruiting children for war
NAIROBI – Authorities in Ethiopia’s Tigray region have been abducting and forcibly recruiting children as young as 15 as it prepares for renewed conflict with the federal government, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said yesterday. Officials have been grabbing men and boys in nighttime house-to-house searches, from offices and other workplaces such as gold-mining sites, the... The post HRW: Ethiopia’s Tigray forcibly recruiting children for war appeared first on New Era .
NAIROBI – Authorities in Ethiopia’s Tigray region have been abducting and forcibly recruiting children as young as 15 as it prepares for renewed conflict with the federal government, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said yesterday. Officials have been grabbing men and boys in nighttime house-to-house searches, from offices and other workplaces such as gold-mining sites, the rights group said.
AFP has previously reported on the forced recruitment in the northern state, which fought a brutal civil war against the central government in 2020-2022 and again looks on the verge of conflict.
“The Tigrayan authorities’ campaign to forcibly recruit men and boys into their forces is creating a climate of fear throughout the region,” said Laetitia Bader, deputy Africa director at HRW. Human Rights First-Ethiopia previously told AFP that “forced military recruitment is taking place across most areas of Tigray”.
