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Ethnic Cleansing of Tigrayan in Northern Afar
Ethnic Cleansing of Tigrayan in Northern Afar was a campaign of ethnic cleansing by Afar Special Force, Red Sea Afar Democratic Organisation, Eritrean Defence Forces and Ethiopian National Defense Force with the help of local militia as part of Tigray genocide starting December 24, 2021. in just in a matter of days over 1000 were believed to be killed,100s of women were raped, over 50 were displaced to Tigray Region and over 12000 people were sent to a concentration camp in afar. Teklitget (talk) 12:03, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

Background
Throughout 2019 and 2020, tensions progressively increased between the Ethiopian federal government and the Tigray regional government over the consistent verbal and physical attacks against members of the Tigrayans minority.

Federal-state relations totally deteriorated after the region held local elections in September 2020, which the TPLF claimed to have won in a landslide, despite the Ethiopian government having postponed elections until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After the elections, both sets of governments proclaimed the other illegitimate; the federal government maintaining that the regional elections had been extra-constitutional and neither free nor fair, and the regional government insisting that the federal government did not uphold the constitution which stated that elections should occur every 5 years and that its mandate had expired, rendering its authority null and void.

On November 4, 2020, the Tigray region government announced that the Northern Command of the federal military had defected to Tigray (though it would take another ten days for the last and final camp to fall to Tigray region defense forces). Not long after, the Tigray region government publicly announced it had foiled a plot by the federal government to use the arms stationed in Tigray to attack the region.

Teklitget (talk) 12:20, 16 July 2022 (UTC)