STORY: A U.N.-mandated investigation into continuing atrocities in Ethiopia faces closure. The U.N. Human Rights Council created the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia in 2021, after a motion was submitted by the European Union. Last month it said that war crimes and crimes against humanity were still being committed in Ethiopia. Lucy McKernan, of human rights advocacy organization Human Rights Watch, said that no resolution in the face of the experts' recent findings was "scandalous". It has promoted its own national justice policies as the preferred avenue of investigation, an approach the U.N. Human Rights Commission described as "deeply flawed".

Source: Ethiopian News October 05, 2023 06:40 UTC