Claims like these are not new in the course of Ethiopia's Horistruin Civil War. Human rights watch and amnesty to rights groups published a lengthy joint report last year. It concluded that authorities from Umhara region had systematically killed or evicted hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans with government complicity. BBC reported security forces were digging up mass graves and disposing of bodies.
The burning of burial grounds in the northern region of the country suggests that authorities are destroying evidence. If these claims are proven true, will the government be held accountable? In news that might please your boss, emerging research suggests that working from home is stifling productivity (10:36). And honouring the life of a Ukrainian civil-rights campaigner (19:22).
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