Ethiopia: Western Tigray

Nearly six years since the outbreak of the war in Tigray, the federal government's narrative of a "law enforcement operation" has collapsed under the weight of a singular, undeniable reality: the state-sponsored occupation of Western Tigray. While the guns of the formal conflict have largely fallen silent, the constitutional order in the occupied Western Tigrayan territories has not been restored. Instead, it has been replaced by a federally funded, paramilitary-backed administration that represents the