[3] In September 2019, Mehari Yohannes, who had been a member of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) until 2016, was director of Seb Hidri.

According to Getachew Gebrekiros Temare, writing in Ethiopia Insight, Mehari used Seb Hidri to promote political independence for Tigray, "preach[ing] a secessionist gospel".

Seb Hidri interpreted the attacks as an attempt to frighten the participants from publicly discussing human rights, in violation of the 1995 Constitution of Ethiopia.

It stated that the events of the first 110 days were "mass killings, rampant rapes, disappearances, internal displacement and migration, looting and destruction of health facilities and schools, intentional killing of domestic animals, burning of crops, blockage of humanitarian aid, communication blackout[s], [and] electricity blackout[s] in most parts of Tigray."

Seb Hidri criticised the international community for "appalling silence and inaction" that "[gave] a green-light [for] ongoing genocide on ethnic Tigray[ans]".