There were "serious breaches" of international law and crimes against humanity were committed during the two-year Tigray War, according to a report released by U.S. think tank New Lines Institute.
Ethiopia's Defense Force and allied forces appeared to have committed "crimes against humanity" and "acts of genocide" against Tigrayans as an ethnic group, the report said. The report, published on June 3, is intended to relate “multiple and widespread” reports of atrocities committed during the conflict to the UN's Genocide Convention.
“These findings, drawn from a critical mass of evidence, underscore our collective legal responsibility as signatory states to the Geneva Conventions and the Genocide Convention to prevent further atrocities in the region,” said former U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues David Scheffer, who wrote the report’s afterward.
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