Thread by @theskypriestess

Dear @Malala @MalalaFund I would like to know if you are aware of what has been and still is happening to the #ChildrenOfTigray Due to a siege imposed by the Ethiopian Government, 7 million ethnic Tigrayans have been systemically starved and cut off from the world for 530 days

7 million people have been cut off from the outside world with no access to food, water, medicine, aid and education. In this time, half a million have died and 120,000 women and children have been brutally raped, sometimes by their own families made to do so at gunpoint.

29% of the children in Tigray, northern Ethiopia are severely malnourished and babies are dying of starvation.

theguardian.com/world/2021/nov…

As of October 2021, 1.4 million children have not had access to school.

The siege started in November 2020. 530 days in and there are no signs of change yet.

globalcitizen.org/en/content/tig…

I have not seen any attempt to address women & girls sanitary needs during this conflict either. Access to medicine & psychosocial support is also limited.

Please address this situation using your unique platform @Malala so the children of Tigray will have a future. Thank you.