Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are accusing the Ethiopian military and regional armed forces of war crimes in the Tigray region.
Amhara regional forces, Ethiopian federal forces accused of ethnic cleansing in Western TigrayHuman rights groups accuse Ethiopian military of war crimes in TigrayAmnesty International and Human Rights Watch are accusing the Ethiopian military and regional armed forces of war crimes in the Tigray region, based on interviews with 400 refugees in Sudan.
Ethiopian authorities said Wednesday that they are "carefully examining" allegations in the rights groups' report. While the report has "ideas that are not useful for any peace effort, the government will reaffirm its determination to investigate all human rights violations and make public the results," said a statement from the Government Communication Service.
Fighters loyal to the party of Tigray's leaders — the Tigray People's Liberation Front, or TPLF — also have been accused of committing abuses as the war spread into neighbouring regions. Fighters affiliated with the TPLF deliberately killed dozens of people, gang-raped dozens of women and pillaged property for a period of several weeks last year in Amhara region, Amnesty said in a report released in February.
The outbreak of the war "brought these longstanding and unaddressed grievances to the fore: Amhara regional forces, along with Ethiopian federal forces, seized these territories and displaced Tigrayan civilians in a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign," the report says.
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