😔 Satellite
imagery confirms that the regime demolished the church in Artsakh’s
former capital city of Stepanakert.
The sustained
threats to Armenian religious and
cultural heritage across Artsakh
(also known as Nagorno-Karabakh) have reached a new level following
reports that the Azerbaijani regime has razed another prominent
church in the region.
Satellite imagery
obtained by Caucasus
Heritage Watch (CHW) confirmed that the Holy
Mother of God Church, which stood in the former capital city of
Stepanakert, was demolished within the last eight weeks.
The Artsakh Tourism
and Cultural Development Agency shared the news of the church’s
destruction on social
media on Tuesday, April 21, only three days
before the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Though the
agency did not share photos of the demolition in its notice, CHW’s
researchers were able to pinpoint supporting photographic evidence
within a day by pulling images from the Sentinel-2 satellite from
March 3 and April 2.
“Higher resolution
imagery will provide a clearer picture in the coming weeks,” the
group of scholars said in a statement. “CHW will also continue
working with satellite image providers to try to provide greater
resolution on the timing of the destruction.”
Unlike the
centuries-old churches and burial grounds that have been damaged,
appropriated, or destroyed by the Azerbaijani regime since the forced
displacement of over 130,000 Armenians in
September 2023, the Holy Mother of God Church was consecrated
in 2019 after 12 years of construction. During
the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020, the church
served as a bomb shelter amid the Azerbaijani
bombardment of Stepanakert.
Scholars have warned
that Azerbaijan’s targeted destruction of these sites, having
accelerated since the swift and deadly 2023 takeover of the Artsakh
region, amounts to “cultural
genocide.”
News of the latest
demolition comes shortly after the resignation of the Armenian
Genocide Museum-Institute Director Edita Gzoyan at the request
of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
While accompanying United States Vice President JD Vance and his wife
for a visit to the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial complex in Yerevan last
February, Gzoyan reportedly presented Vance with a book about
Artsakh, which Pashinyan interpreted as a “security issue.”
“On my
instructions, yes, I asked her to write a resignation letter. I
considered it a provocative act, contrary to the foreign policy
pursued by the government,” Pashinyan reportedly said at a
briefing.
In his campaign for
reelection coming up on June 7, Pashinyan, who has long
been blamed for the dissolution of the
33-year-old autonomous state, has repeatedlyreiterated
that further dialogue surrounding Artsakh threatens the 2025 peace
agreement in which Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed to recognize each
other’s (newly established) territorial integrity. On April 20,
Pashinyan most recently emphasized that the “Karabakh
topic,” as in the push for
negotiating the ethnic Armenian population’s right of return to the
region, has been closed for the sake of peacekeeping.
This Friday, April 24,
institutions and individuals around the world commemorated the
victims of the Armenian Genocide, the mass killing of 1.5 million
Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in 1915, which the governments of
Turkey and Azerbaijan continue to deny to this day.
👹 EU Financial Aid: The EU is providing a total of €140
million in direct financial support to the genocidal fascist Oromo
Islamic Regime of Ethiopia for the purchase of more weapons and
military drones from Iran + Turkey + Azerbaijan, UAE, Russia, USA and
Israel.
European Union double standard regarding the
genocidal war in
Ethiopia (specifically the Tigray war, 2020–2022) involves
as the EU and Western nations failed to act
decisively against atrocities compared to other global conflicts.
While reports indicated potential genocide, war crimes, and crimes
against humanity, critics argue the EU's response was inconsistently
applied.
Failed or Weak Action:
Critics argue that despite early warnings of a genocidal war and
ethnic cleansing in Tigray, the EU did not apply the same level of
diplomatic or economic pressure used in other international crises.
Support for genocidal
Dictators:
Some arguments suggest that the EU's broader policy in the Horn of
Africa often prioritizes political stability over human rights,
providing financial support to genocidal regimes
accused of serious human rights violations.
The satanic "double standard" in the European Union's
foreign policy and humanitarian response frequently emerge when
comparing its actions regarding the war in Ukraine versus conflicts
in Africa, such as in Ethiopia (Tigray region). Critics, including
human rights organizations and African officials, argue that European
support, urgency, and media coverage are disproportionately higher
for Ukraine than for crises in Ethiopia.
Key Areas of Discrepancy:
Refugee Response:
Following the 2022 Russian invasion, the EU rapidly activated the
Temporary Protection Directive, providing Ukrainians with immediate
rights to work, housing, and education. This stood in sharp contrast
to the, at times, violent rejection, deterrence, and restrictive
asylum policies applied to refugees and migrants from African and
Middle Eastern nations, including during the height of the Ethiopian
conflict.
Humanitarian Focus and Aid:
While the Tigray war in Ethiopia was characterized by ethnic
cleansing, sexual violence, and mass starvation, it received a "tiny
fraction" of the global attention and humanitarian funding
compared to Ukraine.
Political Accountability:
The EU has been quicker to impose severe sanctions on Russia for
violations in Ukraine, while its approach to atrocities committed in
Ethiopia has been criticized as slow, inconsistent, and often
focused on returning to normal relations despite ongoing human
rights concerns.
Accountability for Atrocities:
The international community, led by the EU, has moved swiftly to
mobilize mechanisms for accountability regarding war crimes in
Ukraine. In contrast, accountability for violations in Tigray and
Amhara has seen less urgent action, even as the situation has been
described as a "dire human rights situation".
Contextual
Factors Influencing the Response:
Geopolitical and Inter-ethnic Proximity:
The war in Ukraine is perceived by the EU as an existential threat
to its security, influencing a faster and more massive response.
Media Framing:
Positive-centered media coverage of the Ukrainian crisis mobilized
greater political and humanitarian action compared to the often
negative or limited framing of crises in Africa.
Cultural and
Racial Variables:
Some observers argue that Eurocentric views, geographical proximity,
and cultural factors play a role in the speed and nature of the EU's
response.
The European Union, however, maintains that its security and support
strategies are tailored to the specific threats posed in each region
and that its humanitarian support is extensive globally.
EU's
Indifference and Shifting Relations with Ethiopia (2026 Update)
As of April 2026, the EU is moving to normalize
relations with Ethiopia despite continuing concerns over human rights
violations. The EU announced the resumption of direct budget support
to the genocidal fascist Oromo Regime of Ethiopia, a significant
shift from the suspension in 2020 during the height of the Tigray
conflict. This decision has been criticized by groups noting that
grave abuses have continued, particularly in Tigray and Amhara
regions, and that the genocidal Islamic
regime has failed to make meaningful
progress on accountability.
Edomite Europeans give
Nobel Prizes, German-Africa Prize, UN Agricola Medal, weapons,
protections and diplomatic support to their African Puppets to
destabilize and demoralize the African nations, empty them for
Europeans – to wage genocide against Jacobite Christians. Their
Ishmaelite allies like the Evils Abiy Ahmed Ali, Egypt's Abd
al-Fattah as-Sisi, Tunisia's
President Kais Said etc get Billions for the Christian
depopulation campaign.
The European
Union wants to stop migrants on this escape route. It is investing
billions of euros in anti-migration projects designed to stop
refugees in the middle of the desert – far from Europe's external
border. However, this region in the Sahara is so remote that not even
the states to which it belongs have control over it. Thus, Islamic
armies, human traffickers, and bandits also benefit from EU policy.
Similar
EU genocidal policies towards Ethiopia
The
disposal of bodies in Western Tigray, by contrast, appears to have
been carried out more haphazardly. Early in the Tigrayan war, corpses
were discovered floating down the Tekeze river into neighboring
Sudan. Following an international outcry the tactics seem to have
changed,
As long as the
evil European, American and Arab puppets, war criminals Abiy Ahmed
Ali, Isaias Afewerki, the Oromo & Amhara special forces continue
blocking Tigrayans (potential migrants to Europe heading for EU) from
crossing the Ethio-Sudanese border in whatever possible form: By
rounding them up, mutilating & dismembering -- at the border
within Africa – and throwing their dead bodies to the Tekeze river
across the border, EU won't issue sanctions against evils Abiy
Ahmed, Isaias Afewerki and their partners in crime. The are doing a
good job in preventing undesired ancient Christian Ethiopian migrants
(We saw that when the UN The US and EU all blocked ancient Christians
of Syria.
Now, the EU
even went further to reward the black Hitlers and Mussolinis of
Ethiopia and Eritrea,, with billions of Euros. The two evils have
already massacred up to two million ancient Orthodox Christians since
November 2020. Yes, appreciation reward, instead of sanction!
In preparation for the genocidal Jihad against Orthodox Christians,
that started on November 4, 2020, Europeans gave the 2019 Nobel Peace
Prize, and in 2021, at the height of the Tigray siege and genocide,
The
German Africa Prize, to the evil Oromo PM of Ethiopia, Abiy
Ahmed. Just unbelievably cruel – the world upside down, isn't it?!
💭
Nobel Peace Prize For Genocide, And Now FAO Hunger Medal
For Starvation: They Really Hate Africans & Christians
👹 These Evil Edomite Entities Deeply Hate Jacobite Christians
(Spiritual Israel) . They are all working together to reduce the
population and, in particular, to eliminate the Ancient
Christians. It's obvious!
👹 These
Evil Edomite Entities Deeply Hate Jacobite Christians (Spiritual
Israel) . They are all working together to reduce the population and,
in particular, to eliminate the Ancient
Christians. It's obvious!
EU Financial Aid: The EU is providing a total of €140 million in
direct financial support to the genocidal fascist Oromo Islamic
Regime of Ethiopia for the purchase of more weapons and military
drones from Iran + Turkey + Azerbaijan + UAE + Russia + USA + Israel.
👉 Courtesy: Human Rights
Watch, by Philippe Dam, April 22, 2026
European Union Partnership Commissioner Jozef Sikela announced on
April 21 the resumption of EU’s direct budget support to the
Ethiopian government: the final step towards normalizing relations
with the country.
European Union Partnership Commissioner Jozef Sikela announced on
April 21 the resumption of EU’s direct budget support to the
Ethiopian government: the final step towards normalizing relations
with the country.
The move comes as Ethiopia’s dire human rights situation has
deteriorated ahead of June 1 national elections.
The EU initially suspended its direct budget support to Ethiopia in
2020 amid the war in northern Ethiopia, which was marked by ethnic
cleansing, forced displacement, large-scale massacres, and widespread
sexual violence.
The November 2022 truce never completely ended grave abuses in the
Tigray region: violations continued during the conflicts in Amhara
and parts of Oromia. EU member states made clear that complete
cessation of hostilities and accountability for past violations were
key conditions for the resumption of full economic support to
Ethiopia.
Now, rising tensions between Tigray’s main political party, the
Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), and the federal government
raise serious concerns of renewed atrocities.
In addition, the government has made no meaningful progress towards
accountability for conflict-related abuses. After the EU refrained
from renewing an international investigation into abuses in Ethiopia,
the government’s transitional justice process effectively stalled.
At the same time, the authorities have imposed heightened
restrictions on independent media, harassed and detained journalists,
threatened civil society groups, and severely curtailed peaceful
assembly and free speech. A number of youths were reportedly arrested
in the capital, Addis Ababa, in April simply for listening to a
popular Ethiopian musician’s latest recordings, some critical of
the government. The government has offered no clarity on
investigations into the apparent abduction of the managing editor of
the Addis Standard, a leading independent media outlet. Just weeks
before the elections, these developments are especially troubling.
Ethiopia’s increasingly dire human rights context suggests that the
European Commission likely overlooked whether its own human rights
benchmarks were met before resuming direct budget support.
If
the Commission’s goal is to advance economic and social benefits
for Ethiopians, it should prioritize other recipients and other forms
of aid and at least reaffirm the EU’s commitment to accountability
and the protection of civilians. Absent such a message, Sikela’s
announcement seems to reward a repressive pre-electoral phase,
crushed civic space, and renewed risk of atrocities with fresh cash
and public praise, betraying the European bloc’s previous calls for
justice and respect for human rights.
😳 This
is another grotesque mockery of the suffering of Christian
Ethiopian victims of
the fascist Oromo Islamic regime's genocide in Northern Ethiopia.
😕
Imagine EU technocrats traveling
today to Moscow to meet President Putin
and
unfreeze
the billions of
Russian Assets. The G7 countries plus the European Union announced in
May 2023 that the approximately $300 billion (€275 billion) in
Russian Central Bank assets that had been frozen in these countries
would remain frozen. Mind
you, Putin has done
nothing in comparison to the most evil demonic individual of all,
Abiy Ahmed Ali. So, European leaders and Ambassadors are telling
Black Hitler: "Together we massacred two million Christians, and
we will visit you, we will praise you, we will reward you because you
are with us to finish up and weaken the rest with GMO, vaccines and
chemicals! Well done! Let us rejoice now in the name of Lucifer!
Hail Satan!"
* Today, the
Deadliest country no one wants to report truthfully about is
Ethiopia.
😕 The European Union exactly knows, that, since the
beginning of the genocidal Jihad in the Northern Ethiopian regions of
Tigray, Amhara and Afar in November 2020 till today:
❖ – 1.5
Million Orthodox Christians were brutally Massacred
❖ – 200.000
Orthodox Christian Women, children and nuns were Raped and abused
❖ – Over a
Million Ethiopians were forced to migrate to other countries
❖ – 4.4
million internally displaced people severely impacted by conflict,
hostilities and climate shocks
❖ – Over a
Million female Ethiopian slaves were sold to Arab countries
❖ – 20
million Ethiopian are forced to experience food insecurity
by the fascist Islamo-Protestant, Oromo army of the prosperity gospel
heretic and crypto Muslim PM Abiy Ahmed Ali, and his UN, Arab,
Israeli, Turkish, Iranian, European, American, Russian, Ukrainian,
African allies.
🔥
The Wars in Tigray, Ethiopia and
Ukraine showed us the following:
😈
United by their
Illuminist-Luciferian-Masonic-Satanist agendas The following
Edomite-Ishmaelite nations, entities, bodies and individuals are
waging Jihad against the ancient Christian nation of Axumite Ethiopia
– as they all actively and openly assist, empower and protect, the
genocidal fascist Oromo Islamic regime of evil Abiy Ahmed Ali:
☆
The United Nations
☆
The World Health Organization
☆
António Guterres
☆
Tedros Adhanom
☆
Klaus Schwab
☆
Elon Musk (Starlink)
☆
Peter Thiel (Palantir)
🔥
THE EUROPEAN UNION
☆
The African Union
☆
The United States, Canada &
Cuba
☆
Presidents Biden & Trump
☆
Russia
☆
Ukraine
☆
China
☆ Israel
☆
Iran
☆
Arab States / Arab League /UAE
☆
Egypt
☆ Turkey
☆
Azerbaijan
☆
Southern Ethiopians
☆
Amharas
☆
Galla-Oromos
☆
Eritrea
☆
Djibouti
☆
Kenya
☆ South
Africa
☆ Nigeria
☆
Sudan
☆
Somalia
☆
Pakistan
☆
India
☆
Amnesty International
☆
Human Rights Watch
☆
World Food Program (2020 Nobel
Peace Laureate)
☆
The Nobel Prize Committee
☆ The World Economic
Forum
☆
The World Bank &
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
☆
The International Criminal Court
(ICC)
☆
The Atheists and Animists
☆
The Muslims
☆
The Protestants
☆
The Sodomites
☆
Mainstream Media
☆
Social Medias like Facebook,
YouTube, X, Tic Tok
☆
Tigray People's Liberation Front
(TPLF)
💭
Even those nations that are one
another enemies, like: 'Israel vs Iran', 'Russia + China vs Ukraine +
The West', 'Egypt + Sudan vs Iran + Turkey', 'India vs Pakistan' all
have now become friends – as they are all united in the
anti-Christian, anti-Zionist-Ethiopia-Conspiracy. This has never ever
happened before, it is a very curios phenomenon – a strange unique
appearance in world history.
✞
With the Zionist
Tigray-Ethiopians are:
❖
The Almighty Egziabher God &
His Saints
❖
St. Mary of Zion
❖ The
Ark of The Covenant
In these days, senior officials are traveling from
the Middle East, Asia, Europe and North
America to Addis Ababa to save THEIR Black Hitler, aka genocidal Abiy
Ahmed, who massacred more than a million Orthodox Christians of
Ethiopia.
The genocidal
war in exposed some of the most extreme forms of gender-based
violence, where even the most vulnerable members of society were
deliberately targeted. Among those most profoundly affected were
pregnant women, lactating mothers, and religious women, individuals
traditionally afforded protection and respect within communities.
Instead of being shielded from harm, these women became victims of
calculated and merciless acts of sexual violence intended to degrade,
terrorize, and inflict irreversible damage on both individuals and
the broader social fabric.
Pregnant and
lactating women could not escape the widespread gender-based violence
that characterized the conflict. Based on the Quantitative findings
of War-Induced Genocidal Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in ,
Ethiopia, Vol 1, 9.9% of survivors were pregnant, while 16.9% were
lactating at the time of the incidents, revealing the alarming scale
at which perpetrators attacked women even during critical stages of
motherhood. These assaults were carried out mercilessly, with no
regard for the safety of unborn or newborn children, often resulting
in severe physical injuries, pregnancy complications, miscarriages,
and lasting reproductive health challenges.
Survivor
testimonies provide critical insight into the nature and impact of
sexual violence committed against pregnant and lactating women during
the conflict in . The account below reflects the experiences of women
who endured severe violence while they were in vulnerable maternal
conditions. A 45-year-old survivor from the western zone recaptures
that she experienced gang rape in March 2021 by 7 EDF perpetrators
while she was 9 months pregnant. She experienced the gang rape in a
place named Adi-Tsetser while she was fleeing home to Shire. One of
the perpetrators, a female soldier, compressed her abdomen, causing
her lasting pain. As a result, the survivor gave birth to a stillborn
baby.
The experience
described above was not an isolated incident. Multiple survivors
reported similar acts of violence while pregnant or caring for
infants. On January 24, 2021, EDF soldiers gang-raped a 35-week
pregnant woman who was nearly expecting a child. However, the
perpetrators never satisfied with raping her for hours. One of the
soldiers then inserted his hand down into the womb of the woman and
cruelly pulled out the fetus.
The
consequences of these violations extend beyond the immediate
suffering of survivors. Sexual violence against pregnant and
lactating women disrupted maternal care, endangered infant survival,
and deepened the physical and emotional burden on families already
affected by war and displacement. By targeting women in their
maternal roles, these acts of violence not only harmed individuals
but also threatened the health, stability, and continuity of
communities, leaving enduring impacts that will be felt across
generations.
😔
Ethiopia:
The Next Phase of Genocide of Christians | Protestant + Islamic Jihad
by The Heathen Galla-Oromos
* The
Deadliest country no one wants to report truthfully about is
Ethiopia.
* Since the beginning of the genocidal Jihad in the Northern
Ethiopian regions of Tigray, Amhara and Afar in November 2020 till
today:
❖ – 1.5
Million Orthodox Christians were brutally Massacred
❖ – 200.000
Orthodox Christian Women, children and nuns were Raped and abused
❖ – Over a
Million Ethiopians were forced to migrate to other countries
❖ – 4.4
million internally displaced people severely impacted by conflict,
hostilities and climate shocks
❖ – Over a
Million female Ethiopian slaves were sold to Arab countries
❖ – 20
million Ethiopian are forced to experience food insecurity
by the fascist Islamo-Protestant, Oromo army of the prosperity gospel
heretic PM Abiy Ahmed Ali and his UN, Arab, Israeli, Turkish,
Iranian, European, American, Russian, Ukrainian, African allies.
😔 In this episode of Wars That Don't Pay, @UnderPeriodismo
and Amnesty International explain the genocidal
war in Ethiopia. Armed groups, the Ethiopian army, and
Eritrean forces are razing entire villages, executing civilians, and
using torture and sexual violence against women and girls as weapons
of war. The country is experiencing famine, and 21 million people are
in need of humanitarian aid.
😔 En este episodio de Guerras que no garpan
@UnderPeriodismo y Amnistía Internacional explican la guerra
genocida en Etiopía. Tanto los grupos armados, como el ejército
etíope y las fuerzas eritreas arrasan pueblos enteros, ejecutan
civiles y usan la tortura y la violencia sexual contra mujeres y
niñas como arma de guerra. El país atraviesa una situación de
hambruna y hay 21 millones de personas que necesitan ayuda
humanitaria.
😔
Tigray, Ethiopia: Rape as
a Weapon: “A
Christian Womb Should Never Give Birth”
👉 Courtesy:New LinesInstitute, by Klara Vlahčević Lisinski, Washington D.C., October
14, 2025
The genocidal
war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, which erupted in November
2020 between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front and a coalition
of Ethiopian federal forces, Amhara regional militias, and Eritrean
troops, quickly devolved into one of the most brutal and
under-reported humanitarian crises of the decade. At the center of
this violence was a gendered campaign of terror: widespread and
deliberate sexual and reproductive violence (SRV) targeting Tigrayan
women and girls. This violence was not incidental to the conflict but
formed a strategic axis of ethnic cleansing, deployed through the
systematic destruction of women’s bodies, reproductive autonomy,
and societal roles.
As Ethiopian and Eritrean
troops advanced into Tigrayan towns and villages, women became
targets of extreme brutality. Survivor testimonies collected in
displacement camps and medical clinics describe a pattern of sexual
violence marked by rape, gang rape, forced impregnation, sexual
slavery, genital mutilation, and sterilization. These acts followed
military incursions with haunting regularity, particularly in places
like Humera, Adigrat, and Shire. Women were often told during their
assaults that they were being “punished” for their ethnicity and
that their wombs would be “cleansed” of Tigrayan blood – a
chilling articulation of intent that was repeated in numerous
survivor accounts.
SRV committed by armed
combatants in Tigray is characterized by its scale, coherence,
brutality, and unmistakable ethnic and gendered intent. The female
body was weaponized as a battleground to extinguish the reproductive
capacity of an ethnic group and shatter the cohesion of its
communities. In countless cases, rape was paired with physical
mutilation that left survivors infertile, disabled, or suffering
chronic pain. Forced pregnancies were not only tolerated by occupying
forces; they were part of the message. In many instances, access to
emergency contraception or abortion was deliberately denied, and the
denial of post-rape care was used as a tactic to deepen harm.
The consequences for
survivors extend well beyond the battlefield. Many women now face
lifelong trauma compounded by stigma, rejection by their families, or
forced parenthood of children born of rape. In Tigrayan culture, as
in many others, sexual violence carries immense social stigma,
further isolating victims and silencing their stories. The
psychological damage of these crimes is deepened by the lack of
medical care, social services, or avenues for justice. Women and
girls displaced by the conflict, both internally within Ethiopia or
across borders, suffer quietly, navigating chronic pain and shame in
isolation.
The New Lines Institute
report “Conflict-Related Sexual and Reproductive Violence in
Tigray” identifies a clear geographic and temporal correlation
between the advance of Ethiopian and Eritrean forces into Tigrayan
territories and the occurrence of SRV. As these forces moved into new
areas, reports of mass rape, genital mutilation, and forced
sterilization surged. This pattern suggests that SRV was not merely a
byproduct of war, but a strategic tool employed to achieve military
and political objectives.
The use of SRV in Tigray
aligns with patterns observed in other conflicts where rape has been
recognized as a tactic aimed at destroying an ethnic group, such as
in Bosnia and Rwanda, demonstrated that this was not an isolated
atrocity but rather a symptom of gendered power structures that
persist in conflicts worldwide. Despite this, international justice
systems remain ill-equipped to address gendered genocidal strategies
effectively. The slow pace of legal recognition, under-resourced
mechanisms for documenting SRV, and the lack of survivor-centered
accountability processes hinder efforts to bring perpetrators to
justice. The Tigray case illustrates how mass sexual violence can be
systematically deployed with the intent to destroy an ethnic group,
yet remain underrecognized as an act of genocide, despite
overwhelming qualifying evidence.
Impunity for these crimes
cannot be separated from the way women’s experiences are often
sidelined in post-conflict justice and policy. In Ethiopia, there is
little political will to prosecute SRV cases, especially those
implicating state actors. Survivors who come forward risk harassment,
retaliation, or re-traumatization. Without international intervention
and survivor-centered frameworks, most perpetrators will not be held
to account – and most survivors will go unheard.
Addressing this requires
more than legal innovation. It requires reimagining justice and
recovery through a gendered lens. That begins with recognizing that
SRV is not a side effect of war, but a method of warfare that
specifically targets women’s bodies, choices, and futures.
Reparative systems must prioritize not only legal accountability but
also comprehensive physical and psychological care. Ensuring that
survivors receive comprehensive and sustained support – not only in
the immediate aftermath but throughout their long-term recovery –
must be a key priority of any meaningful transitional processes.
Efforts to rebuild Tigrayan society must involve survivors at the
center, not on the margins.
Documentation is another
critical front. The report notes that real-time evidence gathering
was hampered by blackouts, displacement, and stigma. Many survivors
did not – or could not – seek help in time for their injuries to
be recorded, while others feared the social cost of speaking. Moving
forward, civil society organizations need the tools and funding to
document SRV safely and confidentially, even during conflict.
Survivors must be empowered, not retraumatized, by this process.
Prevention, too, requires
gendered foresight. SRV does not erupt in a vacuum; it is preceded by
warning signs: dehumanizing propaganda, militarization of civilian
spaces, impunity for prior sexual crimes, and nationalist ideologies
that fuse ethnic purity with control over women’s reproduction.
These indicators must be integrated into early warning systems and
peacekeeping mandates. Gender-based atrocity should never again catch
the international community by surprise.
Matthew
2:16, “Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise
men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children
that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years
old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired
of the wise men.”
Text: Matthew
2:16-23
Satan was the
real motivator of Herod’s actions. Ever since the Lord first
prophesied that a man would bruise his head, Satan has been seeking
out this “seed” of the woman (Gen. 3:15).
It appears that
Satan is able to perceive when the Lord is making a major move in the
earth. In the days of Moses, Satan moved Pharaoh to kill all the male
children of the Israelite slaves, and here he motivates Herod to kill
all the male children in Bethlehem. No doubt he was seeking to
eliminate this “seed” who was going to bruise his head.
Once again, we
see children being slaughtered today. This time it’s through
abortion. Our youth are also being attacked in unprecedented ways. Is
it possible that Satan thinks this is the generation that is to bring
in the second return of the Lord? Is he, in desperation, trying to
stay off his doom by destroying this generation?
We need to have
enough spiritual perception to recognize that just as in the days of
Moses and Jesus, this slaughter of the innocent children today is an
indication of an even more important struggle in the spiritual realm.
We might be the generation that sees the Lord come back. Praise the
Lord!
