Sep. 20 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ethiopian ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Zenebe Kebede, assured this Tuesday that the report prepared by United Nations experts, which accuses the Ethiopian Army of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Ethiopian region of Tigray (north) , is politically motivated.
“The report on human rights violations in Ethiopia after the conflict in northern Ethiopia is planned in advance, is politically motivated and does not serve the purpose of holding the perpetrators accountable,” he said on his official Twitter profile.
In this sense, he has described the treatment of Human Rights at a global level, in multilateral forums, as a “political football”. “The report is a demonstration of it”, he has highlighted in another message on the same social network.
In this way, Kebede has assured that the report of the United Nations investigators uses Human Rights as a weapon for political pressure, thus closing “all doors” for cooperation with the Ethiopian Government.
REPORT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERTS ON ETHIOPIA
The UN International Commission of Human Rights Experts has indicated in a report that “there are reasonable grounds to believe that violations such as extrajudicial executions, rape, sexual violence and starvation of the civilian population as a means of war have been committed in Ethiopia from November 3, 2020.”
Thus, it has detailed that among its conclusions are “reasonable grounds” to believe that the Ethiopian Army was behind an artillery attack on November 28, 2020 against the capital of Tigray, Mekelle, which caused victims among the civilian population.
“Ethiopian Army soldiers committed widespread extrajudicial executions, rape and other forms of sexual violence and looting during the seven-month period between November 28, 2020 and June 28, 2021,” it has denounced.
In addition, it has pointed to the Army as responsible for a drone attack in January 2022 against a camp for displaced persons that killed and injured 60 civilians, before holding the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray (TPLF) responsible for murders, rapes and looting. in Kobo and Chenna between August and September 2021.
Researchers have denounced that sexual and gender-based violence, and in particular rape, has been perpetrated “on an overwhelming scale” since the start of the conflict. “While different communities have been affected, Tigrayan women and girls have been victims of particular violence and brutality,” she lamented.
The commission has indicated that there is also “reasonable evidence” to believe that “the federal government and allied regional governments have applied a range of measures designed to systematically deprive the people of Tigray of materials and services essential to their survival, including health, shelter, water, hygiene, education and food”.
* The commission has also called on the Ethiopian government to guarantee unrestricted access to humanitarian organizations, to “commit” to a peace process and to “investigate and bring to justice members of its forces responsible for serious violations of human rights”.
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