The two-year war in northern Ethiopia resulted in approximately 100,200 deaths before an African Union-brokered ceasefire was reached in November 2021, a new report reveals. In comparison, the Ukraine-Russia war that began in February led to 81,500 deaths, the same source added.

  • livusOP
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    From the article:

    While headlines worldwide spotlight the distress in Eastern Europe from the Russia-Ukraine clash, a new report reveals the conflict in North Ethiopia has extracted a much steeper cost in human life, largely escaping international media coverage.

    The Ethiopian and Ukraine-Russia conflicts accounted for 89 percent of battle-related deaths worldwide in 2022, according to a new report from the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).

    The institute’s annual conflict trends report found that last year was the deadliest in four decades, with 204,000 battle-related fatalities.

    The two-year war in northern Ethiopia resulted in approximately 100,200 deaths before an African Union-brokered ceasefire was reached in November 2022. In comparison, the Ukraine-Russia war that began in February led to 81,500 deaths.

    “While the war in Ukraine captured most attention, the parallel war between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front was more lethal,” the report states.

    The Ethiopian conflict, already the third deadliest in 2021, drew in forces beyond the two warring parties.

    The report counted an additional 22,300 deaths from other conflicts in 2022, accounting for 11 percent of the total.

    About half of all casualties due to military conflict worldwide in 2022 happened in Ethiopia.

    According to the report, battle-related deaths in Tigray have reached alarmingly high levels while the world’s attention has focused on Ukraine.

      • @InverseParallax
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        I’m sorry, not to take away from the fact that, yes, news coverage is often insanely racist:

        Tigray and Ethiopia are generally considered less likely to somehow spread into ww3.

        Not saying there isn’t a huge component of “well, brown people dying…” I’m just saying when Europe has bullets flying people pay attention for historical reasons.

        But read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congo_War if you want to see a brown genocide (up to 5.4m people) that literally nobody cared about.

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          “Africa’s World War”? Yeah amazing how no one gets taught about that. My mother’s generation was never even taught about the Holodomor though so I guess we’re making progress…?

          I’m just saying when Europe has bullets flying people pay attention for historical reasons.

          Yeah, I agree there are understandable geopolitical reasons people pay more attention to the facts of the Ukraine war. It’s the disregard for the humanitarian aspects of other wars that rankles.

          Western news coverage has been kind of patchy about other things though, like the BRICS membership situation, which will potentially have huge global effects if they adopt a reserve currency.

          Edit: sorry, just realised you weren’t actually talking to me!

          • @InverseParallax
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            Agreed, brics is a concern but considering where russia is, and how China is teetering on their first major recession in their modern era, the major player there is India, and they’re likely to go along with it under Modi who has taken a certain “ahh, fuck it” approach to certain things.

            The holodomor, the Indian famine/genocides up to ww2 (mostly British incompetence with a fair bit of greed, think Indian corn laws), there are a bunch of forgotten crimes, but I think we’re getting better, tigray and Ethiopia prove we still have a long way to go.

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              22 nations have formally applied for membership in BRICS with another 20 or so expressing interest, so I think it probably does represent a shift. I was interested to see there’s some talk of Sri Lanka adopting the Indian rupee to help with its economic crisis.

              On the forgotten crimes front, I feel like we’re still a bit in the “doomed to repeat history” phase, especially when it comes to genocides. But who knows how it will all shake out.

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        41 year ago

        Yeah, it’s crazy how little people talk about it despite it being incredibly deadly.

        Today, Tigray province in Ethiopia has a man-made famine as a result of widespread deliberate destruction of crops, orchards, implements, seeds, and water infrastructure by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces during that war. 1.2 million people were displaced in the first year.

        Food aid has been suspended by the UN and US because it was being diverted by government officials, which has led to an increase in starvation deaths this year, yet if they hear about it at all, most westerners seem to assume it’s from “choosing to grow the wrong crops” smh.

        The western news cycles ignore most of the world.

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        Wait, what was the second one then? The article doesn’t say.