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The 6 million people who suffered war crimes will see no accountability while the EU and US restore relations with a government that fosters impunity


An indifferent world looks on as Ethiopia obstructs justice for Tigray
Aaron Maasho and Martin Witteveen
The 6 million people who suffered war crimes will see no accountability while the EU and US restore relations with a government that fosters impunity

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Tue 18 Jul 2023 07.00 BST
Ethiopia’s two-year civil war has devastated Tigray and its neighbours. Atrocities that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity include intentional starvation, widespread extrajudicial killings, sexual slavery, rape, torture and mass arbitrary detentions. In western Tigray, Amhara forces committed ethnic cleansing. Rights groups say it continues to this day.

The international community has pushed for investigations. The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) initiated the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia (ICHREE) – after a joint undertaking between the state-formed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights failed in its findings to reflect the horrors of the war.


International partners have not learned from that investigation’s shortcomings. Ahead of any serious probe, let alone tangible steps to ensure accountability, everything points at Ethiopian intransigence and international indifference – a flagrant display of double standards when compared with action taken in Ukraine.

The joint investigation, while rightly establishing the commission of war crimes by all parties, was an inadequate exercise that did not meet international standards. The conflict’s worst atrocities, some uncovered by open-source investigations, went uninvestigated.

Addis Ababa has pulled out all the stops to curtail the work of the ICHREE. It was established halfway into the war, but the government refused to grant investigators access into Tigray. Its subterfuge does not end there. Citing sovereignty, it mounted a diplomatic campaign at the UNHRC to prematurely terminate the commission’s mandate. Those efforts have tragically proved successful.

This leaves accountability – and the prospect of preventing impunity – in the hands of an Ethiopian government that, all signs indicate, intends to evade rather than ensure. That’s no surprise: the vast majority of crimes were committed by members of its own army as well as its allies. Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) fighters also committed war crimes.

Still, the Ethiopian government insists it is pursuing accountability. In 2021, its attorney general announced that 53 members of the Ethiopian army had been charged with civilian killings and rape. They remain anonymous, however, and the assertions are yet to be verified.


Under the Pretoria peace agreement signed with the TPLF, Ethiopia pledged to implement a “comprehensive national transitional justice policy aimed at accountability, ascertaining the truth, redress for victims, reconciliation and healing”. That process, too, lacks transparency.


Revelations of the Ethiopian government’s real intentions may have come by way of its own officials. During a recent Q&A session on social media, the army’s General Bacha Debele presented peace and accountability as mutually exclusive. “Implementation of the Pretoria agreement and for both sides to maintain the peace is the priority,” he said.

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