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· Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has, for the first time, admitted that atrocities were committed during the military offensive in the northern Tigray region, while addressing MPs in the capital, Addis Ababa.
· He also assured that soldiers who did the atrocities would be held responsible and punished
· Abiy Ahmed also admitted for the first time troops from neighboring Eritrea were present in the conflict and alluded that they might have been involved in abuses against civilians
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has, for the first time, admitted that atrocities were committed during the military offensive in the northern Tigray region, while addressing MPs in the capital, Addis Ababa. He also assured that soldiers who did the atrocities would be held responsible and punished.
Abiy Ahmed also admitted for the first time troops from neighboring Eritrea were present in the conflict and alluded that they might have been involved in abuses against civilians. While conceding that the Eritrean people and government did a lasting favor to the Ethiopian soldiers during the conflict, he said that after the Eritrean army crossed the border and was operating in Ethiopia, whatever Eritreans had done to the people were not acceptable and suggested that appropriate punishment should be meted out to them
Abiy has been on a denial mode of any atrocities committed in Tigray region. Recently, the UN said it had agreed to Ethiopia’s request for a joint investigation into allegations of human rights abuses in Tigray. Thousands have been killed and many more have been displaced after Ethiopia’s government led a military campaign against the TPLF in November last year. International humanitarian organizations have been highlighting the atrocities carried out by the Ethiopian army and Eritrean people in Tigray. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken described the violence in Ethiopia’s Tigray region as ethnic cleansing on March 11.
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