Human Rights Watch and other organizations are reporting another wave of abuses againast Tigrayans in Western Tigray and perpetrated by local Amharan forces backed by the Ethiopian military. Over a million Tigrayans have been displaced from Western Tigray alone during this conflict and recent reports state local Amharan forces are massacring Tigrayan civilians with axes and machetes.
This is unfortunately apparently the latest bout of killings and reprisals that has been going on in the region since the conflict began.
Al Jazeera said:Amhara and Tigray claim the fertile fields of western Tigray, which are now controlled by Amhara forces and the Ethiopian military.
The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs said 1.2 million people have been forced out of western Tigray since the conflict began, including more than 10,000 in the last week of November.
Amnesty and HRW said they interviewed 31 people in western Tigray by phone in November and December, who described a surge of abuses by Amhara security forces and militias.
This is unfortunately apparently the latest bout of killings and reprisals that has been going on in the region since the conflict began.
Al Jazeera said:Rights groups say all sides in the conflict have committed abuses. Days after war broke out in November 2020, mass killings were reported in western Tigray, including the Mai Kadra massacre, when Tigrayans killed hundreds of Amhara civilians and then Tigrayans were killed in retaliation.
Earlier this month, HRW said Tigrayan forces had summarily executed dozens of civilians in two towns they controlled in the Amhara region between August 31 and September 9.
Rights groups report wave of abuses against Tigrayans in Ethiopia
Amnesty and HRW report surge in abuse by Amhara security forces and militias in western Tigray.
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