AU Investigates into Ethiopia's Human Rights Abuse in Tigray

The African Commission for  Human and People's Rights (ACHPR) announced today that it is going to review a report prepared by the finding facts committee that was created by the African Union (AU) to investigate practices of the Ethiopian government in Tigray province in the north part of the country.

The ACHPR affirmed that it adheres to principles of secrecy, independence, neutrality, and fairness to secure who cooperated with it in the province.

It urges all who are interested in Tigray to enable it to implement its mission linked to events that took place in Tigray throughout the last nine months.

The commission made clear that the report authored by the committee will be discussed today, Tuesday, over the 34th  emergency meeting which is convened virtually in Banjul, the capital city of Gambia in the western part of Africa.

Last May the  ACHPR decided to form the committee to investigate the drastic event that occurred in Tigray as confrontations broke out the federal forces loyal to Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali and fighter of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in November.

It is worth noting that the ACHPR comprises eleven members of the African Union. It convenes four times a year and it may hold emergency meetings.

However, Abiy Ahmed Ali, Prime Minister of Ethiopia warned that his country may fall apart like Somalia, Syria, Libya, and Iraq due to what he described as Western conspiracies.

Abiy Ahmed indicated that several countries across the world got dismantled as a result of plots like those that threaten Ethiopia at present.

According to “Fana”  an Ethiopian broadcasting network that published Abiy’s statement, countries that were exposed to similar machinations resulted in threats of dismantling in other times.

He said if the Ethiopians stand courageously to face and resist the Western plots that aim to mislead the country, it will be able to come over all adversely plans and defeat the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) once and forever.