 Hello and welcome to the International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you major news developments from around the globe, our headlines, MSF reports killing of at least four civilians by Ethiopian soldiers in Tigray region, activists condemned fourth custodial death of an indigenous person in Australia in March, protests commemorating 10th anniversary of Arab Spring in Jordan met with police repression. And in our video section, we look at the key lessons learned as India marks one year of the COVID-19 lockdown. In our first story, medical aid group Medicines on Frontiers has stated that at least four civilian men were killed by Ethiopian soldiers in Tigray. The killings took place on March 23rd on the road between Makhalaya and Adigrat in the region. The group reported seeing the aftermath of an apparent ambush of an Ethiopian military convoy. Soldiers presided the scene, stopped the clearly marked MSF van and two public transport buses. Passengers were ordered to evacuate the bus and men and women were separated. MSF reported the men were then shot. After leaving the scene, the MSF van was stopped again and the driver was pulled out and beaten up by the soldiers. MSF reported the incident on March 24th. The same day, a new report was released by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission. It stated that over 100 civilians were killed by Eritrean troops in the Tigray region. A rapid investigation mission was deployed to the town of Aksum between February 27th and March 5th. The mission spoke to survivors, 45 family members of victims and eyewitnesses. The commission is a government affiliated but has claimed that it is independent. The report has documented extensive casualties and property damage between November 18th and 29th. According to hospital staff, the Ethiopian National Defense Force and the Eritrean Forces entered Aksum on November 19th. Soldiers looted hospitals including medical equipment, pharmacies, hospital beds and mattresses. According to records, 41 people died in Aksum referral in St. Mary hospitals between November 18th and 20th. 126 people were also brought in with heavy physical injuries. Eyewitnesses also reported heavy gunfire after Eritrean soldiers came to Aksum on November 27th. People were also prevented from burying those who were killed. Bodies were reportedly left lying in the streets for up to three days. Soldiers also went door-to-door asking women where their husbands or children were and to bring their sons out if they had any. Soldiers then saw short civilian men in the streets. The commission has argued that the attacks may amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity. These are also consistent with the findings of Amnesty International last month. When his days report came, just a day after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed finally admitted that Eritrean troops entered Tigray last year. In our next story, activists in Australia have condemned the reports of the fourth custodial death of an Indigenous person this month. The death of 37-year-old Anzac Sullivan was confirmed by the Aboriginal Legal Service on March 25th. He was killed on March 18th during a police pursuit in the town of Broken Hill in New South Wales. He belonged to the Barkin G tribe. Reports of Sullivan's death closely followed news of three other custodial deaths of Indigenous Australians in the past few weeks. All three individuals had died in prison. Two of these deaths were publicised only after the Commission of Collective Services was questioned in Parliament. The Aboriginal Legal Service is repeatedly called for transparency in the reporting of such deaths and for criminal justice reforms. The group has reported that the justice system has not implemented most of the reforms recommended in the 1991 Royal Commission report. The Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in custody had made around three 39 recommendations. Indigenous people continue to be the worst affected by policing in Australia. Between July 2019 and June 2020, the imprisonment rate for Indigenous people was 1,935 for every 100,000 adults. The rate for non-Indigenous people was 166. These findings were part of a 2021 report by the Productivity Commission. As of January, varying estimates placed the number of custodial deaths of Indigenous people in Australia between 440 and 500. No police officer has been convicted for any of these deaths so far. For our next story, we go to Jordan, where protesters were met with heavy police suppression on March 24. The protests were held to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 2011 pro-democracy Arab Spring uprising. Police were seen arresting and detaining protesters as they attempted to gather at the Dakhlia roundabout in the capital of Amman. Heavy police deployment was seen in the area on Wednesday. The roundabout had also been the epicenter of the 2011 mass protests. Seven terrorists were also carried out in other cities. The government has banned protests under the guise of the COVID-19 pandemic and has also banned reporting of the protests. Protesters were also demanding the drifting of the emergency defense law, which was enforced last year. Rights groups have stated that the law violates citizens' rights and liberties. UNRES has also grown in the context of an economic crisis which has continued in the successive governments. The Jordanian economy contracted by 5% last year and the unemployment rate has risen to 24%. The government has also implemented strict austerity measures including the withdrawal of subsidy and social security measures. The health infrastructure has also suffered due to a lack of government funding. Protests were also held last week after nine people died in a government hospital due to lack of oxygen. Protesters who attacked with tear gas and hundreds were arrested. For a final story, we go to India which recently marked one year since the COVID lockdown was imposed. However, the country is now witnessing yet another increase in cases. The Ministry of Health recorded 53,476 new cases within 24 hours on March 25th. This has been the single highest number of cases reported per day this year. Here is Dr Satish Drath to talk about the effectiveness of the lockdown and the lessons learned. Did lockdown of the kind that India had save lives? That's a question that we should address not simply in the pandemic context, but in the larger socioeconomic context. That aside, the only realistic way in which lockdowns help in public policy in a pandemic of this sort is to provide a breathing space for the state apparatus to get organized and geared up to deal with the pandemic, to deal with testing, to deal with masks, to deal with supply chains, to deal with human resource development, capacity development in all sorts of ways to begin the process of containment. So the real question is, did the pandemic, I apologize, did the lockdown lead to well executed strategies and policies of containment or not? And the answer I'm afraid is that we haven't done as well as we ought to have done. That's one kind of consequence for the lockdown. So the fundamental lesson in the specific is that we need a far more effective, far more decentralized, far more empowered, far more community based and far better funded public healthcare system than we have. This is an absolutely core issue that the pandemic has thrown up for us. There's absolutely no question about this. The second is, again, what I keep pointing out, that if we as a deeply unequal society are to respond collectively, unitedly, collaboratively and soberly to crises of this sort, we need leadership and government to provide us with real information and with an acknowledgement of the kind of problems that we would have for which the government and communities would need to work together and for which governments would need to empower communities in collective and collaborative fashion without which we are never going to be able to overcome these kinds of crises without landing into what ought to have been avoidable, misery and difficulties and deaths. That's all your time for today. We'll be back tomorrow with more news from around the world. Until then, keep watching People's Dispatch.