Ethiopia: Remarks by Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield at a U.S.-EU-Hosted High-Level Roundtable on the Humanitarian Emergency in Tigray

(AS DELIVERED) I guess that's where we'll start now is just by saying I feel like we've been muted for the past seven months on Tigray. But, again, where I started is to thank you, Nima, and to welcome everyone to the U.S.-EU High-Level Roundtable on the Humanitarian Emergency. And I'm honored to be joined by my colleagues from the U.S. government, the European Union, the United Nations, as well as civil society. I'm also saddened to be here today. I'm saddened by what has brought all of us into this room.

On Monday, Reuters reported first-hand stories of victims in Tigray. One Tigrayan woman – a coffee seller in a Sudanese refugee camp – said an Ethiopian soldier gave her an ultimatum when he caught her fleeing her home: "Either I kill you or I rape you." This report is just one of many we've heard over the past six months since the situation started.

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