Debretsion Gebremichael, leader of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) is appealing for greater international involvement in addressing the Tigray conflict, stressing that justice cannot be served on the local level alone. With communities still displaced and the healing process stalling, he asks urgently for establishing accountability and peace-building measures on the global stage.
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00:00The
00:09Genocide has been committed to Tigray as a population.
00:13Of course, the crime itself is international, but there were other actors who were involved in committing genocide.
00:20So, justice can only be good, not local.
00:24It should be international, and we need an international attention.
00:27We need an international initiative so that the victims will get justice.
00:57Because of the genocidal war we had in the previous 2020-2022,
01:04our people have not healed.
01:07Not only healing.
01:10Most of the IDPs have not gone back home.
01:14And we have also refugees in Sudan and elsewhere.
01:17So, we have not healed at all.
01:21On top of it, if there is another war, then there will be another IDP.
01:25There will be another devastation.
01:28So, this is unthinkable for us.
01:30So, the ladies are right that it's frustrating to hear.
01:37So, we need peace, we need stability, we need recovery.
01:43And we don't need to hear any kind of war.
01:46So, we are against any war.
01:50But we are not the people to control, you know.
01:54We are not the people to make decision on the two countries' conflict.
02:00So, the leadership of the two countries had to resort, you know,
02:05to diplomatic resolution of whatever conflict they have,
02:10or whatever issues they have.
02:11And we also urge the international community to intervene,
02:16to escalate, you know, the situation.
02:18So, it's frustrating, as I said, to hear about a resumption
02:26or a new conflict in this area.
02:29Because we are still, you know,
02:32we have so many millions of victims of this war.
02:35As I said, they have to go back home.
02:38They have to be rehabilitated.
02:40Everyone shouldn't be affected by another war.
02:44And this is, again, another devastation.
02:47With this, we cannot afford.
02:50Because the genocide has been committed to Tigray,
02:53as a population.
02:55But, of course, the most affected women.
02:59Since the genocide committed was not only from the Ethiopian side,
03:06of course, the crime itself is international,
03:09but there were other actors who were involved in committing genocide.
03:14So, well, to have peace,
03:19to have sustainable stability,
03:24we have to get justice.
03:26So, that justice cannot be attained here locally.
03:31They say the crime is international,
03:33and there must be an international forum,
03:35so that the victims will get justice,
03:39and the perpetrators should be penalised as well
03:43for what they have done, they should be accountable.
03:45Otherwise, there will not be a sustainable peace at all.
03:50So, let's go.
03:51Let's go.
03:52Let's go.
03:53Let's go.
03:54Let's go.
03:55Let's go.
03:56Let's go.
03:57Let's go.
03:58Let's go.