00:02Thousands rallied in Addis Ababa to protest the alleged forced recruitment of civilians in the Tigray region by the area's
00:10ruling party.
00:12Human Rights Watch said in a report Monday, the Tigray's authorities have been abducting and forcibly recruiting children as young
00:19as 15 in readiness for renewed conflict with the federal government.
00:30It has become impossible for the youth to learn or work and they've lost their peace.
00:35They're being left without legs to walk on or eyes to see and their own elders are doing this to
00:41them.
00:41We have come out today to say enough. The tears of Tigrayan mothers must be wiped away.
00:47They should not leave crying or losing their children, filled with anxiety, wondering where they went or where they ended
00:55up.
00:57Officials have been rounding up men and boys in night-time house-to-house searches from offices and other workplaces
01:04such as gold mining sites, according to Human Rights Watch.
01:11The officials should not trade in the name of the Tigrayan people.
01:16Let this trading stop. Let no youth be sold and let the war end.
01:21The protesters also called for the full implementation of a peace agreement signed in November 2022,
01:29following a two-year war that sold numerous atrocities.
01:33Let's go. Let's go.
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