The government of Ethiopia Tuesday rejected UN’s resolution to establish an international commission of human rights with a mission to investigate allegations of Human Rights in Ethiopia.
The resolution, “Human Rights Situation in Ethiopia,” was initiated by some member countries from Europe. Dozens of member countries have rejected it and voted “no.”
In a weekly briefing, Billene Seyoum, press secretary in the office of the Prime Minister said Ethiopia characterized UN Human Rights Council‘s resolution as “politically motivated” with little or no impact.
She said it was politically motivated because it discredited investigations on alleged rights abuses in the Tigray region by the Ethiopian government.
“Claims of genocide in Tigray by TPLF surrogates and some state actors tacitly supporting the designated “terrorist group,” she stated
Two weeks ago, a joint investigation by the United Nations Human Rights Commission and Ethiopian Human Rights Commission ruled that there was no genocide in Tigray.
The press secretary urged the UN Human Rights Council to stop its partisanship and consider investigating rights abuses the “terrorist groups” in the Afar and Amhara regions of Ethiopia where the TPLF carried out multiples of atrocities during the months of occupation in parts of these regions.
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