Ethiopia: Ministry Denounces “Unfair” U.S. Accusations Of War Crimes In Tigray

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The Ethiopian Foreign Ministry says U.S. accusations of war crimes in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are “inflammatory” and “selective because they unfairly allocate responsibility among the parties” to the conflict.

On Monday evening, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who had just returned from Ethiopia, said all the warring parties had committed war crimes during the two-year conflict in Tigray.

He pointed especially to crimes against humanity attributed to the federal Ethiopian army and its allies (the Eritrean army and the forces and militias of the Amhara region.