Probe in Ethiopia’s Tigray did not reach site of Axum attack: UN

UN human rights investigators unable to deploy to site of alleged massacre of several hundred people in holy city.

The United Nations human rights chief has said a highly awaited joint investigation into abuses in Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict was unable to deploy to the site of one of its deadliest attacks, the alleged massacre of several hundred people in the holy city of Axum. Michelle Bachelet told the UN Human Rights Council on Monday that deployments to eastern and central Tigray, where witnesses have accused Ethiopian and allied forces from neighbouring Eritrea of some of the worst abuses of the 10-month war, “could not proceed”. She cited “sudden changes in the security situation and in the conflict dynamics”. She did not give details.