The organization relies on geodata and interviews conducted this year, six months after Ethiopia and the rebels in Tigray signed a peace agreement. Eritrean troops have supported Ethiopian government forces, but Eritrea has not taken part in or signed the peace agreement. Soldiers from Eritrea have continued to commit abuses in Tigray even after the peace agreement, according to Amnesty.
“Atrocities against civilians have continued in Tigray and Eritrean soldiers have subjected women to horrific abuses such as rape, gang rape and sexual slavery. And men have been executed,” said Amnesty’s director for Eastern and Southern Africa, Tigere Chutah, according to the AFP news agency.
Amnesty has previously singled out both Ethiopia and Eritrea as suspects of war crimes in Tigray. Ethiopia has so far resisted any proposals to investigate whether war crimes have taken place and Eritrean dictator Isaias Afewerki has dismissed the reports as “fantasy”.