Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights of his concern about the large number of bombing by Ethiopian air force, mainly at Tiger but also in Afar Neighbor.
Le Monde with AFP
The status and security situation has “significantly deteriorated”. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (HCDH) recorded “304 dead and 373 wounded in air bombings” since the end of November in Northern War of Ethiopia, announced Monday 7 March Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
HCDH “continued to receive information on serious and large-scale human rights violations in the context of the expansion of the conflict in the areas of AFAR and AMHAA, as well as Tiger “, M me Bachelet in his speech on developments in the country between November 22nd and February 28th.
She shared his particular concern about the large number of bombing by Ethiopian air forces, mainly at Tiger but also in neighboring Afar. Attacks against civilians and civilian targets had also been perpetrated by other parties to the conflict, including the Tigerian Tiger Popular Front Rebels (FPLT), highlighted M me Bachelet, in front of The United Nations Human Rights Council. They used heavy artillery against several areas of Afar on January 24, she noted, adding that “credible sources indicate that there were civilian victims”.
Rapes and sexual violence
The Tiger Conflict began in November 2020, when the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, sent the Federal Army to remove the regional authorities from the FPLT, which has held the levers of power in Addis Ababa. Between 1991 and the arrival of Mr. Abiy in 2018 and disputed his authority for several months. The conflict has made thousands of deaths, moved millions of people and led hundreds of thousands on the edge of famine, according to the UN.
M me Bachelet also shot the alarm bearing in view of the many information on rape and sexual violence: between the 1 Er November and December 5th Only, “306 rapes perpetrated by the Tiperian forces in the region of the Amhara” have been reported to the UN Office of the United Nations.
The United Nations representative has also reported “significant damage on schools and health structures in the regions of AMHAA and AFAR, after actions of the procurement forces against tgrénnes”.
“Hostilities continue to block the provision of humanitarian aid to Tiger,” she recalled, urging “all parties to allow unlimited humanitarian access to the affected areas.”