And yet the government alleged the Amnesty report relied on "scanty information," and said the human rights group should have visited the Tigray region. Crucially, the head of the government-established Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, Daniel Bekele, says the Amnesty findings "should be taken very seriously." The commission's own preliminary findings "indicate the killing of an as yet unknown number of civilians by Eritrean soldiers" in Axum, its statement said. Eritrea's information minister, Yemane Gebremeskel, on Friday said his country "is outraged and categorically rejects the preposterous accusations" in the Amnesty report. The Eritrean soldiers said you cannot bury the dead before our dead soldiers are buried," one woman told Amnesty International.

Source: Ethiopian News February 28, 2021 14:03 UTC