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If the court accepts the case, Tedros will become the first senior UN official to face trial. Tedros himself denied these accusations and any wrongdoing.
The Times reported on December 14 that American economist David Steinman, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, put Tedros last: he was once the leader of a terrorist organization with a communist background. , The crimes are plentiful.
Tedros was Ethiopia’s Minister of Health from 2005 to 2012, and then Minister of Foreign Affairs until 2016. At that time, the “Tiger People’s Liberation Front” (TPLF) of the Communist Party was the main force in the country’s ruling coalition. . Tedros is an important member of the TPLF.
The US government reportedly lists TPLF as a global terrorist organization and is listed in the University of Maryland’s “Global Terrorism Database”. The organization pursues a rule of terror, hunts and indiscriminately kills dissidents and seizes approximately 34% of the lands of the Oromo, the largest ethnic group in the country.
Steinman charged that between 2013 and 2015, Tedros was one of three leaders who controlled Ethiopia’s security sector. He enjoyed the power of the party and the government and was responsible for the murder, torture, indiscriminate arrest and appropriation of land by the government.
Tedros was involved in “intimidation of opposition candidates and supporters (action)”, including “arbitrary arrests and prolonged pre-trial detention”, and was “a crucial decider in the murder, arbitrary detention and torture of the Ethiopian army.” Steinman said.
According to The Times, Steinman’s allegations also include that Tedros oversaw the killing of members of the Amhara, Konso, Oromo and Somali tribes and intended to eliminate all or part of them and cause them serious physical and mental harm.
This is not the first time that Tedros has become the center of controversy in his hometown in Ethiopia.
In October 2017, he appointed the notorious Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe as a “goodwill ambassador” to help fight non-communicable diseases in Africa. Faced with Mugabe’s persecution of human rights and the collapse of Zimbabwe’s health services, Tedros’ decision sparked outrage from medical professionals and human rights organizations. Later, Tedros had to give up supporting Mugabe’s decision.
Earlier this year, President Trump (Trump) of the United States announced that the United States had decided to withdraw from the World Health Organization due to Tedros’s pro-Chinese position.
Editor in charge: Lin Yan #
