Tigrayan forces summarily executed dozens of civilians in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, HRW says

HRW urged the United Nations Human Rights Council to create an international inquiry into the abuses committed by warring parties in the expanded HRW also said it obtained “three lists of civilians who had allegedly been killed in Chenna between August 31 and September 4. Taken together, the lists contain 74 names, 30 of which witnesses and relatives of those killed also mentioned to Human Rights Watch. In addition to summary executions, civilians may also have been killed during the fighting from crossfire or heavy weapons. Human Rights Watch was not able to determine how many were killed in this way.”A year-long war has raged between Ethiopia’s federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, the former ruling party of the Tigray region. The conflict has given rise to many atrocities committed by all sides.Separate investigations by CNN and Amnesty International in February uncovered evidence of massacres carried out by Eritrean forces in the Tigrayan towns of Dengelat and Axum late last year. Another CNN investigation published in June revealed new details of a massacre committed by Ethiopian soldiers in the Tigrayan town of Mahibere Dego in January.This week, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed tweeted that his troops had captured strategic towns from the northern Tigray forces, including the key towns Dessie and Kombolcha, which were captured by TPLF just over one month ago.