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Deliberate Damage to Public Institutions in the Village of Digum due to the War on Tigray

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June 10, 2021

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Dugum (or Digum) is a rural village with only a few public institutions. And yet, these institutions have been deliberately damaged/destroyed by the invading Eritrean and Ethiopian forces. Some of them are deliberately shelled. The Rock-hewn Monastery of Mariam Yerefeda was shelled in three different times. The following table shows the institutions that have been destroyed by the Ethiopian and Eritrean armies. Below the table are videos showing damages to the monastery, the preschool, the elementary school and the health center.

No.	Company Name	Type of property	Type of damage	Address	Source/s	Remark
1.	Dugum complete primary school	– two rooms house – 28 class rooms – 15 computer – 3 laptop – 1 big copy machine – 1 Gestetner – 2 printers – 4 radios – 4 radios – 1 microscope – 4 mattresses – 400 books – library	destroyed destroyed – broken – looted – broken – broken – broken – broken – looted – looted – destroyed – looted – looted	Dugum Kilte Awlaelo	– eyewitness – school principal – school property head	Eritrean and Ethiopian troops
2.	Dugum Preschool	– three rooms with all property	– destroyed and looted	Dugum Kilte Awlaelo	-eyewitness	-Eritrean troops
3.	Dugum health center	– two rooms house – five rooms’ mirrors and doors – one fridge – one property container – four thermos – two pans – three sterilizers	– destroyed – destroyed – broken – broken – broken – broken – broken	Dugum Kilte Awlaelo	-eyewitness	-Eritrean troops
4.	Dugum Saint Mariam Yerefeda church	– one room full of sacred treasure – two generators – two speakers – one building	– destroyed – brunt – broken – damaged	Dugum Kilte Awlaelo	-eyewitness	Eritrean and Ethiopian troops
5.	Dugum administration office	– one room house – one computer – full property with its files	– burnt – burnt – burnt	Dugum Kilte Awlaelo	-eyewitness	Ethiopian troops
6.	Police community office	– one room house with all its property	– burnt	Dugum Kilte Awlaelo	-eyewitness	Ethiopian troops
7.	Union work association	– three rooms house with one computer	– destroyed and looted	Dugum Kilte Awlaelo	-eyewitness	Ethiopian troops
8.	Dedebit microfinance	– one room house with its full property	– destroyed and looted	Dugum Kilte Awlaelo	-eyewitness	Ethiopian troops
9.	Land administration office	– one room house with its full property	– destroyed and looted	Dugum Kilte Awlaelo	– eyewitness	Ethiopian troops
10.	Farmers training center	– one room house with its full property	– looted	Dugum Kilte Awlaelo	– eyewitness	Eritrean troops
11.	Tsebkley youth association	– six rooms house – all properties	– doors broken – looted	Dugum Kilte Awlaelo	– eyewitness – members of the association	Eritrean and Ethiopian troops

Videos Showing some of the damage to of some of the public institutions

Below are some videos recorded in May showing the damage to some of the village’s public institutions.

1. Digum Complete Primary School

2. Digum Preschool

3. Digum Health Center

4. The Rock-hewn Church of Mariam Yerefeda

Related Topics:Eritrea Ethiopia Tigray

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Help End the Genocide

June 11, 2021 at 11:59 am

The Genocide Convention has been ratified or acceded to by 152 States (as of July 2019). Other 42 United Nations Member States have yet to do so. From those, 19 are from Africa, 17 from Asia and 6 from America. Ethiopia , which is administered by a prosperity party hell bein on massacring its own people, is officially famed to be the part of the convention.Ethiopia became the first state to deposit the treaty on 1 July 1949. The treaty came into force and closed for signature on 12 January 1951.
Under the Genocide conventions there are several obligations listed such as,

Obligation to prevent genocide (Article I) which, according to the ICJ, has an extraterritorial scope;
Obligation to punish genocide (Article I);

We urge UNSC to stop the genocide and bring the perpetrators to ICC.
Genocide is not war! It is more dangerous than war! Raphael Lemkin
Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide. Bianca Jagger
Toddlers are emaciated by hunger – their bodies and bones being eaten up , and are at the point of death.
Your excellencies(USNC)We urge you to act as fast as possible, and save the lives of innocents§ You will certainly save your Future Senior Executives from delivering regretful statements before the descendants of the victims of the current genocide and massa starvation in Tigray in the years to come!
https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/
https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide-convention.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention

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