UN-Backed Panel Urges Ethiopia to Cooperate with Atrocities Probe
- Two-years of civil war has claimed thousands of lives
- Investigators denied access to scenes of alleged crimes
Photographer: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images
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A United Nations-backed panel that’s probing human-rights violations during Ethiopia’s civil war called for the government’s full cooperation after its investigators failed to secure access to the scenes of some alleged crimes.
The two-year war, which broke out in late 2020, pitted Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s forces against rebels from the northern Tigray province. In October, the UN Human Rights Council renewed the mandate of a group of experts tasked with investigating atrocities committed during the conflict.