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War crimes: UN, US demand Eritrean troops leave Ethiopia’s Tigray region

To rescue of the people suffering from hellish ordeal in the hands of Eritrean troops, the @UN and US have told the melancholic armies to leave #Tigray region.

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The @UN on Friday said that it is "now abundantly clear to all" that Eritrean troops are operating throughout Ethiopia's northern #Tigray region and "well-corroborated" reports suggest they are responsible for atrocities. @amnesty too has been calling for #justice #freedom

2/15

"Eritrean Defence Forces must leave Ethiopia, and they must not be enabled or permitted to continue their campaign of destruction before they do so," U.N. aid chief @MarkLowcock @UNReliefChief told the @UN Security Council.

3/15

@UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres @antonioguterres also called on Eritrean troops to leave #Tigray, spokesman Stephane Dujarric @StephDujarric said on Thursday.

4/15

Both the Ethiopian and Eritrean govts have denied Eritrean troops are in #Tigray, despite dozens of eyewitness accounts and admissions that Eritreans are there from Tigray's federally-appointed regional administration.

5/15

"It is now abundantly clear to all, and openly acknowledged by officials of the government administration in Tigray, that Eritrean Defence Forces are operating throughout Tigray," Lowcock @UNReliefChief said.

6/15

"Countless well-corroborated reports suggest their (Eritrean troops) culpability for atrocities," @UN @UNReliefChief Lowcock said.

7/15

Speaking #Tigray massacre after Lowcock's @UNReliefChief closed briefing of the 15-member Security Council, U.S. Ambassador to the @UN @USUN @USAmbUN Linda Thomas-Greenfield @LindaT_G, said Washington was alarmed by the humanitarian and human rights situation in Ethiopia.

8/15

"We urged the Ethiopian govt 🇪🇹
of @PMEthiopia @AbiyAhmedAli to support immediate end to fighting in #Tigray, to that end the prompt withdrawal of Eritrean and Amhara regional forces from Tigray are essential steps," @USUN @USAmbUN Linda Thomas-Greenfield @LindaT_G, said.

9/15

The @UNHumanRights chief Michelle Bachelet @mbachelet asked Ethiopia on Thursday to allow monitors into #Tigray to investigate reports of killings and sexual violence that may amount to war crimes in the northern region since late 2020.

10/15

"Multiple credible and widely corroborated reports from #Tigray speak of widespread atrocities, involving mass killings, rapes and abductions of civilians," @UNReliefChief Lowcock told the @UN council.

11/15

"In one widely reported and heavily corroborated incident, Eritrean soldiers are alleged to have deliberately killed worshippers inside a historic Christian church in #Axum," @UNReliefChief Lowcock told the @UN council.

12/15

It was alleged that Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered air strikes and a ground offensive against Tigray's former ruling party - the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) - after regional forces attacked federal army bases in the region on Nov. 4.

13/15

The TPLF withdrew from the regional capital, Mekelle, and major cities, but low-level fighting has continued.

14/15

With the #Tigray conflict, thousands of people have died, hundreds of thousands have been forced from their homes and there are shortages of food, water and medicine in the region of more than 5 million people.

15/15

#RapeInTigray – Between Dec and Jan, over 136 cases of #rape were reported in hospitals, and many more cases remain unreported, while @UNHumanRights office has corroborate information about some of the incidents that occurred last November in Ethiopia's #Tigray and environs.

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#RapeInTigray – The @UNHumanRights had faulted severe shelling in #Mekelle, #Humera and #Adigrat towns in #Tigray region and grave rights violations/abuses in #AxumMassacre and in #Dengelat – central Tigray by Eritrean forces, including mass killings.

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