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AfricaFour Ethiopian soldiers convicted of crimes against civilians in Tigray
Ayenat Mersie
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Three Ethiopian soldiers have been convicted of rape and one of killing a civilian in Ethiopia s Tigray region, the government said on Friday, the first public statement that soldiers had been found guilty of crimes against civilians in the conflict.
Twenty-eight more soldiers are on trial for killing civilians and 25 for acts of sexual violence and rape, the statement from the attorney general s office said.
Awol Sultan, the spokesman for the attorney general s office, could not immediately be reached for comment for further details or whether the records would be made public. Neither could military spokesman General Mohammed Tessema.
addisstandard 2021-02-24 Major General Mohammed Tessema, the director of indoctrination at the ENDF said that the military officers were ‘ethnic Tigrayans who represent the TPLF’
By Siyanne Mekonnen
Addis Abeba, February 24/2021 – The Ethiopia National Defense Forces (ENDF) called 15 Tigrayan members of the ENDF who were deployed with the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan and who refused to board a flight in Juba airport, “traitors backed by the UNHCR and Tigrayans working in the UN.” The ENDF also demanded an apology from the UNHCR.
On February 22, 15 members of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces who were part of United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) have refused to board a plane back home. “This morning, 169 members of the Ethiopian contingent were due to rotate out of Juba and (be) replaced by fresh contingents, a part of a normal rotation,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric, is quoted as saying by AFP .
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