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The UN human rights chief said on Monday the situation in northern Ethiopia had deteriorated since November and her office had received reports of wide-spread violations including rapes and lethal air strikes.

8 March 2022, 9:15 AM |A man stands in the lobby section of the Cliff Edge Hotel that was destroyed during the fighting between Ethiopia's National Defense Force and the Tigray People's Liberation Front forces in the Lalibela town of the Amhara Region, Ethiopia, January 25, 2022.

Michelle Bachelet told the Geneva-based Human Rights Council her staff had recorded 304 deaths and injuries to 373 people in air attacks “apparently carried out by the Ethiopian Air Force “in Tigray and Afar regions. Ethiopia’s envoy to the Human Rights Council, Mahlet Hailu Guadey, dismissed Bachelet’s statement on Monday, saying it was at variance with the facts on the ground.

In the same speech, Bachelet said her office had received reports of 306 rapes by Tigrayan forces in the Amhara region in Nov-Dec. 2021. Reuters has interviewed women in the Amhara region who have described gang-rapes by Tigrayan forces.“Whatever the merits of such allegations though, we are open for independent investigation into these and other similar allegations,” he added.

 

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