The commission’s experts all but pleaded on Tuesday (Oct. 03) with the council to extend the investigation, warning that atrocities continue in Tigray, Ethiopia’s war-battered northernmost province. European countries had previously supported the probe as a means of ensuring accountability for war crimes committed during the two-year civil war in Tigray. The commission was established in December 2021 after a joint report by the U.N. and Ethiopia’s state human rights commission recommended further independent investigations into abuses. It concluded that all sides committed abuses during the Tigray war, some of them amounting to war crimes. The U.N. probe was the last major independent investigation into the Tigray war, which killed hundreds of thousands and was marked by massacres, mass rape and torture.

Source: Ethiopian News October 05, 2023 11:40 UTC