Rounded up, massacred and posted on social media: can Ethiopia bring justice for atrocities in Tigray?

A memorial for rebel Tigray fighters who died in the war. About 600,000 people are estimated to have died in the conflict between 2020 and 2022. Photograph: Fred Harter

Meaza Teklemariam was seven months pregnant when the soldiers came to her home in January 2021, dragged her husband, Tsegaye, outside and bound his hands together, before taking him away with other men from their neighbourhood in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.

“They said to him, ‘You are a fighter, you are a fighter’,” says Meaza, tears rolling down her cheeks. “He kept saying, ‘No, no. I’m a farmer, I’m a civilian.’”