War crimes in Tigray may be covered up or forgotten

Earlier this BBC year alarming reports spread through refugee camps in that host refugees from , a region of Ethiopia where a vicious civil war erupted in 2020 but 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”.Claims that evidence of committed during Ethiopia’s horror-strewn civil war is being destroyed are not new. In April last year, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, two rights groups, published a lengthy joint report which concluded that authorities from Ethiopia’s Amhara region had systematically killed or evicted hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans from Western Tigray. A month later, the reported that security forces from Amhara, which have occupied the area since the war began, had been digging up mass graves and disposing of bodies.