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At least 56 people were killed in an air strike against a refugee camp in the northwestern Ethiopian state of Tigray. Another 30 people were injured. There were many children among them, informs Reuters citing two humanitarian workers.
The air strike was struck on the night of January 7 in the area of the city of Dedebit, which is located near the border with Eritrea.
Since mid-October, air strikes in Tygra have killed at least 146 people and injured another 213.
On November 25, 2021, the Ethiopian army launched a major offensive against the positions of the Tigray rebels, who were trying to cut the most important transport routes in the states of Amhara and Afar and reach the capital. Government forces have regained control of 40 cities in these regions. On December 20, the rebel command announced that it had ordered all units to leave the territory of the states of Amhara and Afar and retreat to Tigray. At the same time, the leader of the Tigraya Popular Front for Liberation, Debrecion Geberemichael, proposed an immediate end to hostilities and start negotiations for peace.
On January 7, the Ethiopian authorities released several opposition leaders from prison and expressed their readiness to start a dialogue with political opponents.
In the second half of 2021, the Ethiopian federal government imposed a blockade on Tigray, preventing food, medicine and fuel from entering the region in violation of international law. According to reports from human rights activists, 400,000 residents of Tigray suffer from hunger.
In early November, UN experts published a report on human rights violations in Ethiopia. The experts came to the conclusion that all parties to the armed conflict, to one degree or another, have committed violations of international and humanitarian law. Some of these violations may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. In particular, all parties to the conflict committed murder, torture and sexual violence.
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