NAIROBI (AXADLE) Ahead of the two-year anniversary of northern Ethiopia’s ongoing armed battle that erupted on November 3, 2020 and has since led to horrific abuses by events on all sides, Flavia Mwangovya, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director of Campaigns for East Africa , Horn of Africa and Great Lakes areas stated:
“Since the beginning of the battle in northern Ethiopia, hundreds of thousands of civilians have been displaced and 1000’s killed. All events have been answerable for grave violations, widespread battle crimes and crimes towards humanity, together with extrajudicial executions and abstract killings of a whole bunch of individuals and sexual violence towards ladies and ladies.
“The international community must show solidarity with the victims and survivors of atrocity crimes in Ethiopia’s two-year conflict. Despite restrictions on access and communication shutdowns, Amnesty has repeatedly documented unspeakable abuses by all parties to the conflict, yet the response of the international community has , including the African Union, has been grim.”
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“On the second anniversary of the start of the conflict, Amnesty International will launch a global campaign to underline the gravity of the human rights crisis in Ethiopia, while detailing how the African Union and the international community have offered a wholly inadequate response to one of the deadliest conflicts in the world.”
Background
All events to the armed battle in Ethiopia, that are aligning forces with the Federal Government of Ethiopia, together with the Eritrean Army, towards these affiliated with the Tigray Regional Government led by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), have dedicated critical human rights violations and abuses, together with extrajudicial executions, abstract killings and sexual violence towards ladies and ladies. The abuses we documented on this battle embrace battle crimes and crimes towards humanity, that are amongst probably the most critical crimes of concern to the worldwide neighborhood. Ethnic violence has claimed 1000’s of lives.
Due to the continuing battle, the area has been largely lower off from the skin world. Millions of individuals have been internally displaced, whereas humanitarian support has additionally been denied to hundreds of thousands of individuals in Tigray.