War crimes evidence found

UN-backed investigators said yesterday they have turned up evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity by Ethiopian government forces, Tigray forces and Eritrea’s military over the nearly two-year war centred on Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. The Commission of Inquiry on Ethiopia, which is working under a mandate from the UN’s Human Rights Council, attributed a litany of war crimes on all sides, but said the government forces of Ethiopia had also resorted to “starvation of civilians” as a tool of war. It also said both Ethiopian and Eritrean forces were found to be responsible for “sexual slavery” — while Tigray forces were not. On Thursday, Tigrayan authorities said Eritrea had launched a full-scale offensive along its border with northern Ethiopia, in an apparent escalation of fighting.