Ethiopia Senior UN Leader  urged Eritrea to leave the region
Ethiopia Senior UN Leader urged Eritrea to leave the region
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On Thursday, A massive change to be seen as  Senior UN leaders called on Eritrea to take out its troops from the Tigray region in Ethiopia and also alleged that atrocities were being committed in the region by the Eritrean defense forces. Both Ethiopia and Eritrea continue to deny the presence of the latter’s army in Ethiopia.

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Here it is to be noted that Michelle Bachelet, the UN rights chief, urged Ethiopia to let in investigators to conduct a probe in Tigray. Bachelet said her office had verified “reports of grave human rights violations and abuses including mass killings in Axum, and in Dengelat in central Tigray by Eritrean armed forces.” She said that these were serious violations of international law, possibly amounting to war crimes. The office of the UN Human Rights Commission called out abuses such as sexual violence and extrajudicial killings. his is the fourth month of the humanitarian crisis in Tigray and Lowcock said atrocities included mass killings, rapes and abductions of civilians.

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However, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, along with the US ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, also called on Eritrean forces to leave Tigray. The US has urged the Ethiopian government “to support an immediate end to the fighting in Tigray.” The statements by senior leaders came ahead of a UN Security Council meeting, where countries were unable to agree on a joint statement on the crisis in the Tigray region.

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