More than 100 satellite images of known detention sites and suspected burial grounds in Western Tigray suggest that some evidence has already been disturbed or destroyed
year alarming reports spread through refugee camps in eastern Sudan that host refugees from Tigray, a region of Ethiopia where a vicious civil war erupted in 2020 but fizzled out last year. A trader from a contested area officially known as Western Tigray said the remains of Tigrayans murdered during recent rounds of ethnic cleansing were being dug up or set on fire. The aim, he told refugees by text messages, was “to hide the bodies”.
Holding to account those responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity is part of the peace agreement reached in November by the government of Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister, and the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front . In theory it is also a condition for Ethiopia to improve its relations with the West after more than two years in the diplomatic deep freeze.
In the walls of Bet Hinsets prison in Humera, close to Ethiopia’s border with both Sudan and Eritrea , burns appeared on ground identified precisely by many former inmates as a mass grave. Vigil argues that such unusual burns noticed in various sites suggest that “evidence is being destroyed at numerous locations”. In several of them scorch marks appeared simultaneously at the end of March. This coincided with debates in theThere could be innocuous explanations for some of these disturbances.
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