All sides in the deepening conflict in the northern Ethiopia region are committing “severe human rights violations”, the United Nations said on Friday, calling for them to pull back from their year-old war. This is tantamount to enforced disappearance, and a matter of very grave alarm,” she told a special session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. The forum will consider a draft resolution brought by the European Union (EU) that condemns violations committed by all sides and, if adopted, would set up an international commission of rights experts on Ethiopia to investigate further and report back after a year. He added that the state-appointed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission had already worked with the UN rights council to investigate accusations of abuses, and was ready to do so again. A joint investigation published last month by the UN human rights office and the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission found that all sides in Tigray’s conflict had committed violations that may amount to war crimes.

Source: Ethiopian News December 17, 2021 13:19 UTC