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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Thomas Kingsley

Tigray forces raped and killed civilians in Ethiopia’s civil war, says Amnesty International

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Tigrayan forces killed civilians and gang-raped dozens of women and underage girls in two towns in Ethiopia’s Amhara region last year during the country’s civil war, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.

Rebel fighters from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) shot dead at least 24 people in Kobo on one day in September, according to the human rights organisation,

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