Ethiopia’s leaders said they intend to wipe out Tigrayans, claims EU envoy

Thousands of people have been displaced from Tigray because of conflict with Ethiopian and Eritrean forces in the region (Nariman El-Mofty/AP)

A European envoy to Ethiopia has said the country’s leaders told him behind closed doors that “they are going to wipe out the Tigrayans for 100 years”.

The envoy, Pekka Haavisto, Finland’s foreign minister, said the warning “looks for us like ethnic cleansing”.