UN experts say Ethiopia’s conflict and Tigray fighting left over 10,000 survivor

U.N.-backed human rights experts say war crimes continue in Ethiopia despite a peace deal signed nearly a year ago to end a devastating conflict that has also engulfed the country’s Tigray region.
The violence has left at least 10,000 people affected by rape and other sexual violence – mostly women and girls.
The experts’ report, comes against the backdrop of an uncertain future for the team of investigators who wrote it: The Human Rights Council is set to decide early next month whether to extend the team’s mandate in the face of efforts by the Ethiopian government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to end it.
The violence erupted in November 2020, centering largely – though not exclusively – on the northern Tigray region, which for months was shut off from the outside world.
The report cites atrocities by all sides in the war, including mass killings, rape, starvation, and destruction of schools and medical facilities.