Tigrayan soldiers accused of raping and killing civilians in Ethiopia’s civil war

A Tigrayan rape survivor sits for a portrait in Sudan. The Amnesty report includes dozens of testimonies from women and girls who say they were sexually abused by fighters. Photograph: Nariman El-Mofty/AP

Tigrayan soldiers killed civilians and gang-raped women and girls in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region, a human rights organisation has claimed, in the latest accusation of atrocities made against fighters engaged in the country’s civil war.

Troops with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) shot dead at least 24 people in the town of Kobo in one day last September, according to Amnesty International.