Clashes on 1 August between Tigrayan forces and the Ethiopian National Defence Force put civilians in Tigray back in the line of fire, Amnesty International said in August. The fighting is a breach of the 2022 cessation of hostilities. Amnesty’s East and Southern Africa director, Tigere Chagutah, said residents still live with the last war’s aftermath and with no credible prosecutions.
Amnesty is also documenting serious abuses in the ongoing wars in Amhara and Oromia. The UN commission on Ethiopia and the African Commission’s Tigray inquiry were shut down. Amnesty says Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party then dropped the transitional-justice process it had used to fend off international cases.
Tigrayan authorities are not a clean alternative. Rights groups say they have been silencing independent media, running forced conscription, and restricting movement. Amnesty asked both Addis Ababa and Mekelle to protect civilians and let monitors and journalists in. Neither side has a record of doing that.
Without monitors, the next round of killings will be argued as rumor. That is already how the last round ended.
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