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The U.N. says all sides in Ethiopia's Tigray conflict may have committed war crimes

An investigation released a year after the start of violence over the breakaway region of Ethiopia has compiled evidence of summary executions, torture and rape.
Ethiopian army units patrol the streets of Mekele in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region in March after the city was captured during an operation against the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF).

All sides in the conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region have committed atrocities that may amount to war crimes – including summary executions, torture and rape, according to a new report released by the United Nations.

"[There] are reasonable grounds to believe that gross violations and written jointly by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission.

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