如同阿富汗政府垮台后，混乱笼罩着喀布尔而塔利班夺取了控制权，可怕的故事和令人心碎的画面也从埃塞俄比亚倾泻而出。美国一些与这个非洲国家有联系的人感到有人呼吁采取行动。
在…里华盛顿特区是美国埃塞俄比亚人最集中的地方作为非洲之外人口最多的埃塞俄比亚，关于战争和谁是罪魁祸首存在激烈的争论。
“提格雷是埃塞俄比亚的一部分。提格雷人是埃塞俄比亚人，除非他们另有决定。因此，埃塞俄比亚的任何战争、任何苦难都应该是每个人的痛苦，”逃离该国20年以在美国开始新生活的阿塞法·菲塞哈告诉美国广播公司新闻。
在菲塞哈的家乡提格雷北部地区，数百万人陷入提格雷国防军和埃塞俄比亚政府之间的内战。
据联合国、美国高级官员和监察组织称，双方都被指控在整个冲突中犯下暴行，蓄意强奸和饥饿被用作战争武器大赦国际和人权观察。据救援组织称，道路、桥梁、医院和农场被摧毁，加剧了人道主义灾难。
但是信息可能很难获得。根据互联网监测公司NetBlocks的数据，埃塞俄比亚政府的互联网中断导致国内和国外的家庭一次断网几天、几周甚至几个月。
埃塞俄比亚人口超过1.1亿，是非洲人口第二多的国家。这场冲突导致提格雷数千人死亡，约200万人流离失所，据联合国难民机构称。
“在地面上，我真正看到的只是那里饥饿的人，人们极度偏执和保护，”前往该地区为难民运送物资和援助的Leoh Hailu-Ghermy告诉美国广播公司新闻。
海卢-格尔米是结束战争运动的声音之一，许多活动人士称之为现代的种族灭绝。
本月早些时候，在长达10个月的残酷内战中，更多明显的受害者被冲上了邻国苏丹的河岸。50具尸体被认为是附近村庄的提格雷人据美联社报道。
有报道称，大屠杀、种族清洗和广泛的性攻击据大赦国际称，埃塞俄比亚政府军。
美国国务卿安东尼·布林肯说，美国看到了“种族清洗行为”，但没有称这些暴行为种族灭绝，这是国际法中的一个特定法律术语。埃塞俄比亚政府强烈否认了这些指控。
“看到人们的生计可以以如此不公平的方式被剥夺，世界不会因为那个地方的地理或那些人的种族而关心，这真的令人心碎，”Hailu-Ghermy说。
就在上周，拜登政府指责埃塞俄比亚政府阻碍包括车队在内的人道主义援助，称援助人员本周将耗尽食物。
今年5月，美国总统拜登发表了一份长篇声明，呼吁停火，谈判以停止冲突，并结束侵犯人权行为，包括广泛的性暴力。
拜登政府还任命了一名该地区特使来推动外交解决方案，并通过实施有限的制裁向美国的重要伙伴埃塞俄比亚政府发出警告。
五月，美国国务院表示，对来自埃塞俄比亚的官员实施签证禁令和邻国厄立特里亚，他们的军队越过边界与提格雷军队作战。由于签证是法律保密的，它没有说谁受到了影响，但美国财政部周一对厄立特里亚国防军参谋长菲利波·沃尔德约汉纳将军实施了金融制裁，指控他的部队屠杀、抢劫、强奸、酷刑和法外杀害平民。
Hailu-Ghermy和其他倡导者说，他们正在寻找更多的行动。
埃塞俄比亚总理阿比·艾哈迈德在2018年上台时一度被视为广受欢迎的改革家，甚至因结束了与邻国厄立特里亚长达数十年的战争而获得诺贝尔和平奖。他的当选使提格雷人民解放阵线(即TPLF)下台，该阵线在他执政前曾主导埃塞俄比亚政治，他的联邦政府和地区领导人之间的紧张关系在去年11月爆发冲突。
“现在冲突已经持续了几个月，它产生了自己的逻辑。所以每一次暴行，每一次报复都会招致另一次报复，不幸的是，又一次暴行，”美国和平研究所非洲项目高级顾问阿里·维尔吉告诉美国广播公司新闻。
当阿比在6月宣布停火时，提格雷人正在庆祝，但是现在他们的军队正在进攻阿比回应道呼吁所有有能力的公民拿起武器，加入战斗，展示爱国主义精神。
“埃塞俄比亚人在国内外，你的祖国呼唤着你。历史表明，当我们不再多说时，没有任何力量可以阻挡我们，”他在一份声明中说。
分析人士担心，冲突将进一步失控，使数十万人处于饥荒边缘，并有可能越过边境蔓延到埃塞俄比亚的邻国。
“我们不要忘记，大多数埃塞俄比亚裔美国人在美国的原因是因为，在某个时候，埃塞俄比亚发生了冲突。让我们不要看到另一代埃塞俄比亚人因为冲突而不得不离开这个国家。
Amid Afghanistan crisis, civil war rages in Ethiopia
Aschaos envelops Kabul after Afghanistan's government collapsedand the Taliban seized control, horrific stories and heartbreaking images also pour out of Ethiopia. Some in the U.S. with a connection to the African country are feeling a call to action.
InWashington, D.C., home to the largest concentration of Ethiopians in the U.S.and the largest Ethiopian population outside Africa, there's an intense debate over the war and who's at fault.
"Tigray is part of Ethiopia. Tigrayans are Ethiopians until they decide otherwise. So any war, any suffering in Ethiopia, should be a pain to everybody," Assefa Fisseha, a man who fled the country 20 years to begin a new life in America, told ABC News.
In Fisseha's homeland, within the northern region of Tigray, millions are caught in the middle of civil war between Tigrayan defense forces and the Ethiopian government.
Each side has been accused of atrocities throughout the conflict, with systemic rape and starvation used as weapons of war, according to the United Nations, senior U.S. officials and monitoring groups likeAmnesty Internationaland Human Rights Watch. Roads, bridges, hospitals and farms have been destroyed, exacerbating the humanitarian catastrophe, according to aid groups.
But information can be hard to come by. Internet outages by the Ethiopian government have disconnected families inside and outside the country for days, weeks or even months at a time, according to Internet monitor NetBlocks.
With over 110 million people, Ethiopia is the second-most populous country in Africa. The conflict has left thousands dead and displaced roughly two million people in Tigray,according to the United Nations refugee agency.
"On the ground, what I'm really seeing is just hungry people there, people are extremely paranoid and protective," Leoh Hailu-Ghermy, who made a two-day trek to the region to deliver supplies and aid to refugees, told ABC News.
Hailu-Ghermy is one of the voices in the movement to end the war many activists call a modern-day genocide.
Earlier this month, more apparent victims of the atrocities in the brutal, 10-monthlong civil war washed up on a riverbank in neighboring Sudan.Fifty bodies were believed to be Tigrayans from a nearby village, according to The Associated Press.
There have been reports of massacres, ethnic cleansing and widespread sexual assault byEthiopian government troops, according to Amnesty International.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the U.S. has seen "acts of ethnic cleansing," but stopped short of calling the atrocities genocide -- a specific legal term in international law. The Ethiopian government has fiercely denied such accusations.
"It's really heartbreaking to see that people's livelihoods can be stripped away from them in such an unfair way and that the world wouldn't care because of the geography of that place or because of the race of those people," Hailu-Ghermy said.
Just last week, the Biden administration called out the Ethiopian government for obstructing humanitarian aid, including convoys, saying aid workers will run out of food this week.
In May, President Joe Biden issued a lengthy statement, calling for a ceasefire, negotiations to halt the conflict and an end to human rights abuses, including the widespread sexual violence.
The Biden administration also tapped a special envoy for the region to push for a diplomatic solution -- and fired a warning shot at the Ethiopian government, a critical U.S. partner, by imposing limited sanctions.
In May,the State Department said it imposed visa bans on officials from Ethiopiaand neighboring Eritrea -- whose military crossed the border to fight Tigrayan forces. Because visas are confidential by law, it did not say who was impacted but the U.S. Treasury slapped financial sanctions on Monday on General Filipos Woldeyohannes, the chief of staff of the Eritrean Defense Forces, accusing his forces of massacres, looting, rape, torture and extrajudicial killings of civilians.
Hailu-Ghermy and other advocates say they are looking for more action.
Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed was once seen as a popular reformer when he came into power in 2018, even winning the Nobel Peace Prize for ending a decades-long war with neighboring Eritrea. His election unseated the Tigray People's Liberation Front, or TPLF, which dominated Ethiopia politics prior to his administration, and tensions between his federal government and their regional leaders exploded into conflict last November.
"Now that the conflict has been ongoing for several months, it produces its own logic. And so every atrocity, every retaliation begets another retaliation and unfortunately, another atrocity," Aly Verjee, a senior adviser to the Africa program at the U.S. Institute of Peace, told ABC News.
Tigrayans celebrated when Abiy declared a ceasefire in June, but now their forces are on the offensive andAbiy respondedwith a call for all capable citizens to take up arms and join the fight to show patriotism.
"Ethiopians at home and abroad, your motherland calls upon you. History has shown that there is no force that can stand in our way when we say no more," he said in a statement.
Analysts fear the conflict will spiral further out of control, putting hundreds of thousands on the brink of famine and potentially spilling over borders to Ethiopia's neighbors.
"Let's not forget that the reason the majority of Ethiopian Americans are in the United States is because, at one time or another, there was conflict in Ethiopia. Let's not see another generation of Ethiopians feel that they have to leave the country because of conflict," Verjee said.
