Ethiopia: New Wave of Atrocities in Western Tigray

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Refugees who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region arrive on the banks of the Tekeze River on the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, November 21, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty (Nairobi, December 16, 2021) – Amhara security forces are responsible for a surge of mass detentions, killings, and forced expulsions of ethnic Tigrayans in the Western Tigray territory of northern Ethiopia, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. Tigrayan civilians attempting to escape the new wave of violence have been attacked and killed.…

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