UN rights chief ‘deeply disturbed’ by ‘serious violations’ in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Above, women who fled the violence in Ethiopia’s Tigray region receive a food distribution organized by the local NGO Relief Society of Tigray in Mekele on June 19, 2021. (AFP)

• Extrajudicial executions, arbitrary arrests and detentions, sexual violence against children as well as adults, and forced displacement

GENEVA: The UN rights chief voiced alarm Monday at continued reports of “serious violations” in Ethiopia’s violence-wracked Tigray region, by all parties in the conflict, including continued abuses by Eritrean troops.
“I am deeply disturbed by continued reports of serious violations of international humanitarian law and gross human rights violations and abuses against civilians by all parties to the conflict,” Michelle Bachelet told the UN Human Rights Council, pointing to “extrajudicial executions, arbitrary arrests and detentions, sexual violence against children as well as adults, and forced displacement.”