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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Emma Farge and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber

Exclusive-Ethiopia seeks to end U.N.-ordered probe into Tigray war abuses

FILE PHOTO: An Ethiopian boy who fled the ongoing fighting in Tigray region, gestures in the Hamdayet village, in eastern Kassala state, Sudan December 15, 2020. Picture taken December 15, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah

Ethiopia is courting support for a motion to cut short a U.N.-mandated inquiry into atrocities in the Tigray war, five diplomats said, in a move that could divide African and Western nations.

The Ethiopian government's two-year conflict with forces in the northern Tigray region ended last November with thousands dead and millions uprooted. Both sides blamed each other for widely-documented atrocities, including massacres, rape and detentions without trial.

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