“Witnesses say Girmay Gebru, who works for BBC Tigrinya, was taken along with four other people from a café in the regional capital, Mekelle.

Mr Girmay is reported to have been taken to a military camp in Mekelle.

The BBC is yet to establish the reason for his detention, but has expressed its concern to the Ethiopian authorities.”

Springtime of Nations has covered the Tigray Conflict before on our YouTube Channel, and unfortunately since our video was published the conditions there have gotten much worse. The Ethiopian National government has been using heavily handed tactics, not just suppression of the foreign press, but in a much more serious sense with the mass murder of civilians. In late 2020 a particularly horrifying act, what is now known as the Aksum massacre took place where Eritrean soldiers working for the Ethiopian government killed between 720 and 800 parishioners at the Church of Our Lady of Zion Orthodox Church, where the civilians were protesting the troops presence at the holy site, one of the ancient churches in Ethiopia said to house the original Ark of the Covenant. This mass murder was successfully suppressed from foreign news until January 2021. The attempt to cover up the evil deeds of the Ethiopian state is the most likely reason that this BBC reporter has been detained without cause. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front’s cause (separation from the Ethiopian state just as Eritrea did before it in 1991) becomes more just the more Ethiopia seeks to keep their Nation chained to them.