News: 'If they find you, they take you': Rights report details alleged forced recruitment campaign across #Tigray
Young men are sleeping in fields, abandoning their homes, and moving between relatives' houses to avoid what a new rights report describes as a widening campaign of forced military recruitment across Tigray.
A report released by Human Rights First Ethiopia (#HRFE) alleges that authorities and local structures have carried out coercive recruitment drives in several parts of the region, including #Axum, #Adwa, #Shire, #Adigrat, #Mekelle, #Wukro, and rural districts in the Central and North Western zones, prompting fear among families still recovering from the devastating two-year war.
"They come house to house looking for young men," one resident quoted in the report said. "If they don't find the son, they question the parents. People are living in fear."
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