Pro-government forces in Ethiopia are responsible for a new wave of violence in the country’s northern Tigray region involving “mass detentions, killings and forced expulsions of ethnic Tigrayans,” two human rights groups said Thursday. The rights groups said the forces attacked and killed Tigrayans trying to escape the renewed violence in November and December in the western part of the region. Scores of Tigrayans in detention are subjected to torture, starvation and other “life threatening conditions” while being denied medical care, the groups said. "Without urgent international action to prevent further atrocities, Tigrayans, particularly those in detention, are at grave risk," Amnesty International crisis response director Joanne Mariner said in the statement. The war began with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s deployment of troops to Tigray in response to the Tigray People's Liberation Front’s seizure of military bases.

Source: Ethiopian News December 16, 2021 16:35 UTC