.@nimaelbagir reports: @amnesty today said the UN must immediately launch an investigation into ongoing allegations of grave violations in the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, citing an investigation by CNN as well as one of its own.
@nimaelbagir @amnesty 2/ The human rights organization called on the UN to look into “potential war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
@nimaelbagir @amnesty 3/ The UN’s human rights commissioner Michelle Bachelet said there was a need for an "independent, objective assessment" of the situation on the ground in Tigray...
@nimaelbagir @amnesty 4/ ...given the "deeply distressing reports of sexual and gender-based violence, extrajudicial killings, widespread destruction and looting of public and private property by all parties."
@nimaelbagir @amnesty 5/ A CNN investigation published on Friday revealed a massacre which took place during a religious festival in the town of Dengelat late last year.
@nimaelbagir @amnesty 6/ Eyewitnesses told CNN that a group of Eritrean soldiers opened fire at church during mass, claiming the lives of priests, women, entire families and a group of more than 20 Sunday school children.
@nimaelbagir @amnesty 7/ Amnesty International charged in a separate report Friday that Eritrean forces killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in the city of Axum in November through indiscriminate shelling and shooting and extrajudicial killings.
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