The World I Taught, the War I Witnessed - a Personal Reckoning With the Erosion of International Law in Tigray

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- For more than two decades as an academic staff member at Mekelle University, I stood before lecture halls filled with young, eager minds teaching political science and thought of the promises of a better future. In those classrooms, I taught my students about the post-Cold War new world order, the sacred duty of international law, and the indispensability of international organizations in preserving human dignity. Beyond academia, as the former board chair and member of the Ethiopian Red Cross Society