"One of them raped me in the courtyard and the other raped my mother inside the house," she said. The investigation follows the publication of an Amnesty report in November which documented sexual assaults by Tigrayan rebels in the Amhara town of Nifas Mewcha. The watchdog said its satellite imagery analysis revealed the existence of the new burial sites referred to by the villagers. The war in northern Ethiopia has been punctuated by accounts of massacres and mass rapes, with thousands of people killed and hundreds of thousands on the brink of starvation. Amnesty has previously documented the rape of hundreds of women and girls by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers in Tigray.

Source: Ethiopian News February 16, 2022 00:11 UTC