Ethiopia: Tepid international response to Tigray conflict fuels horrific violations over past six months
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3 May 2021
African and other world leaders must urgently speak out and do more to stem the ferocious tide of human rights and international humanitarian law violations in the armed conflict that has now raged for six months in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, Amnesty International said today.
Since the fighting broke out on 4 November 2020, thousands of civilians have been killed, hundreds of thousands of people have been internally displaced within Tigray, and 63,000 refugees have fled to Sudan. Amnesty International and other organizations have documented a string of serious human rights violations that include war crimes and likely crimes against humanity. There are also numerous credible reports of women and girls being subjected to sexual violence, including gang rape by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers.
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African and other world leaders must urgently speak out and do more to stem the ferocious tide of human rights and international humanitarian law violations in the armed conflict that has now raged for six months in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, Amnesty International said today. Since the fighting broke out on 4 November 2020, thousands of civilians have been killed, hundreds of thousands of people have been internally displaced within Tigray, and 63,000 refugees have fled to Sudan. Amnesty International and other organizations have documented a string of serious human rights violations that include war crimes and likely crimes against humanity. There are also numerous credible reports of women and girls being subjected to sexual violence, including gang rape by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers.
Ethiopia – Tigray Region Humanitarian Update Situation Report #9 - April 28, 2021
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• In Ethiopia, International Medical Corps’ clinic in Shire provided 867 outpatient consultations between April 13 and April 19.
• In Sudan, International Medical Corps has expanded its activities into Tunaydbah refugee camp, where we have distributed 100,000 masks to community health facilities.
• International Medical Corps supported training, facilitated by Ministry of Health staff, for 46 community health volunteers in Tunaydbah refugee camp on infection prevention and control.
At the beginning of November 2020, a conflict broke out between the Ethiopian National Defence Force and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. Thousands of people have been displaced internally in the Tigray region in north Ethiopia, with more than 62,000 people fleeing across the border into Sudan. More recently, as a result of continued violence, large numbers of people have been displace
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