Reacting to the continued failure to take significant steps by African and world human rights our bodies since armed battle erupted in Ethiopia’s Amhara area a yr in the past, Amnesty Worldwide’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Tigere Chagutah mentioned:
“Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians are being denied justice regardless of having their lives shattered by battle. Human rights violations have continued unabated, with no progress in direction of particular person accountability, within the Amhara area for the reason that newest armed battle started a yr in the past. Studies of atrocities within the Tigray area, which first emerged three-and-a-half years in the past, and abuses amid the continued extended armed battle in Oromia have largely gone unaddressed.
“Regardless of claims of dedication to justice, primarily by means of so-called transitional justice mechanisms, Ethiopian authorities have did not halt these violations. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s latest speech to parliament stating that his military doesn’t commit massacres, demonstrates the federal government’s ongoing denial of previous and current crimes.
“African and world human rights our bodies had been established to forestall and reply to gross human rights violations and crimes below worldwide regulation, and to make sure these answerable for such crimes are held accountable – together with by elevating above assaults towards Justice and accountability. What we’ve got witnessed in Ethiopia is an utter failure to satisfy these duties, setting a harmful world precedent that perpetrators can evade justice for worldwide crimes.
“It’s lengthy overdue for the African and world human rights our bodies to convey Ethiopia again to their agenda, together with establishing private and non-private engagements on the state of affairs within the Amhara area. United Nations (UN) member states should act to reinstate Human Rights Council scrutiny of the state of affairs in Ethiopia and related UN and African Fee for Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) particular mechanisms should take pressing steps to research alleged crimes within the Amhara area.”
Background
On 4 August 2023, the Ethiopian authorities declared a nationwide six-month state of emergency following elevated violence within the Amhara area between Ethiopian Nationwide Protection Forces (ENDF) and the Fano militia. The Fano militia and the Amhara Particular Forces fought alongside the ENDF towards Tigrayan forces from November 2020 till a Cessation of Hostilities settlement was signed on 2 November 2022.
Prime Minister Abiy addressed the Federal Home of Representatives on 4 July 2024 the place he denied ongoing and previous mass atrocities dedicated by authorities and allied forces.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Amnesty Worldwide.