A red Cross Ambulance overturned after the driver was shot at while driving a pregnant women to a clinic in the Tigray region. Photo: Screenshot/AddisStandardAddis Abeba – The African Union’s Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), had quietly liquidated the mandate of the Commission of Inquiry on the Situation in the Tigray Region, the first Commission established to monitor reports of grave human rights violations in the peak of Ethiopia’s two years war in the Tigray region. ACHPR has also deleted the page where it first announced the formation of the inquiry commission. “There was no joint initiative with the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission either, at least not known to the general public,” the person who spoke to Addis Standard on conditions of anonymity said. With the termination of ACHPR inquiry commission, the only independent commission with a task to uncover rampant human rights violations in Ethiopia’s war is the UN’s International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia (ICHREE), which is still not allowed to set foot in the areas of rights abuses despite having its final year to operate.

Source: Ethiopian News July 12, 2023 10:57 UTC