U.N. rights chief Michelle Bachelet called Saturday for a de-escalation of violence and for grievances in these separate but equally destructive conflicts to be settled peacefully. Heavy clashes broke out Wednesday in the northern region of Tigray between federal and regional troops, prompting declaration of a six-month state of emergency. The Ethiopian government announced it had deployed federal troops in response to an alleged attack by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front on a military base. “This is really quite an alarming flare-up of these tensions, which have now entered into a phase of violence. Shamdasani said Bachelet was concerned about the lack of proper investigations and accountability into past similarly deadly incidents.

Source: Ethiopian News November 07, 2020 20:03 UTC