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The Human Rights Commission said Ethiopia Yesterday, Monday, dozens of civilians were killed this month in drone strikes and house searches in the region Amhara (North), where the authorities have spoken of security gains since the outbreak of the conflict last July.
The fighting between the army and local militias, which accuse the federal government of marginalizing the region, has become the largest security crisis in Ethiopia since the end of the two-year civil war in Tigray region a year ago.
She said United nations In late August, at least 183 people were killed in the first month of the conflict, but internet outages across the region made it difficult to get a clear picture of the situation. In a new report, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission documented several incidents in which civilians were killed. the month.
The report stated that in one of these incidents, 12 civilians, including students receiving religious studies, were killed on October 10 during house searches carried out by government forces in the town of Adit.
A week later, a 19-month-old child was among those killed in a drone strike in the town of Berihit Woreda, while another drone strike on October 19 killed 8 civilians in Debre Markos.
Executions
The report indicated that government forces committed extrajudicial executions against civilians whom they arrested in the streets or during house searches after accusing them of providing information or weapons to the militias.
Spokesmen for the Ethiopian government, army and Amhara regional administration did not immediately respond to requests for comment, and the government has not commented publicly on accusations that forces committed abuses in Amhara.
In the first days of the conflict, Ethiopian forces were forced to leave major cities and towns, but they were later able to return, pushing the militiamen to withdraw to the countryside.
Earlier this month, the Amhara regional administration said the security situation had improved and eased the curfew imposed after the outbreak of the conflict.
Amhara militiamen fought alongside the army during the war in Tigray, but relations between the two sides have soured since then, especially after the federal government moved last April to merge the security forces run by each region into the police and army.
