House Of Glass

Tigrayan refugee children waiting in line for breakfast.

For months, the Ethiopian army and its coalition partner Eritrea have been creating famine by destroying everything essential for human survival – food and farms, clinics and hospitals, water supplies – and blocking humanitarian aid. Mass killings have been documented by human rights organisations. The Telegraph obtained – and verified – shocking video footage of Ethiopian soldiers rounding up and murdering a group of young men. Soldiers have raped thousands of women and girls, subjecting many of them to extraordinarily cruel torture. There are tens of thousands of unaccompanied children, their mothers either held captive in army camps or sheltering in safe houses and clinics, traumatized and terrified, and not knowing what has happened to their little ones. — Telegraph.co.uk

 

Living in a house of glass

Presumes the resident's character

Is a house of class,

And a shade deeper than his avatar.

That's a nod to you, Ethiopia,

Eating yourself up like cancer

Working a body against its organs.

You dash your people's hearts

Against the bedrocks

To your personal hurt,

Have you counted the cost?

Cause this is the shoe nail

That got a Kingdom lost,

Cause what you got

Is multinational aid workers

Totally getting offed,

With constant closure of your borders

When fighting intensifies to stall

Access to humanitarian assistance

Proves y'all stuck on the comeuppance

Eritrean soldiers are bringing up the rear

And hell may care

If Tigray's strung on a repeat nightmare.

I thought y'all used to be one nation?

Why y'all in a hurry to suck

On one and the other's blood?

Why can't y'all just get along?

Akpan