The human cost of the Tigray conflict: ‘We are in constant fear’
Imagine there was a massacre in Kent tomorrow, carried out by French troops on behalf of the UK government. In Ethiopia, that’s the reality, as its prime minister invites neighbouring Eritrean soldiers to slaughter and rape his own people. As GQ reports from the stricken Tigray region, only now is the world noticing to decry the war crimes and warn the country could face its first famine since the 1980s. But with the nation’s existence hanging in the balance, why are so many Ethiopians still looking the other way?
QAnon’s Second Act
Though the battle to remove Trump from office is over, the war on truth is still being waged on other fronts, with Germany the hub of QAnon fantasists outside the Anglosphere. Now, as the pandemic flushes a patchwork of self-styled ‘lateral thinkers’ from behind their screens and onto the streets and far-right activists weaponise the country’s oddballs and malcontents, what has been unspeakable here since 1945 has found an alarming new voice.
How the World’s First Bitcoin Heist Went South
Just before dawn, on a mild morning last April, Sindri Thor Stefansson grabbed his things, clambered out of a prison window and became Iceland’s most wanted man.
See No Evil
Burundi in East Africa is one of the world’s poorest countries – and perhaps the most ignored. The scene of historic ethnic conflict, its messianic president offers stability to an international community terrified of another genocide in the region. But the police state he has finessed now tortures, rapes and kills with near impunity. Saying the wrong thing can be fatal and the search for justice is laced with danger. GQ met those who have fallen victim to laws with no courts and men with no law
In Search of Myanmar’s Billion-Dollar Meth Lab
Deep in the Southeast Asian jungle, drug cartels run an operation so huge it makes El Chapo look like a street level pill pusher. But journey into this netherworld and you find something else too: a lawless narco Vegas where the worst human excesses are making some people very, very rich…