War crimes in Tigray may be covered up or forgotten
New satellite images suggest burial grounds are being burned
Earlier this year alarming reports spread through refugee camps in eastern Sudan that host refugees from Tigray, a region of Ethiopia where a vicious civil war erupted in 2020 but fizzled out last year. A trader from a contested area officially known as Western Tigray said the remains of Tigrayans murdered during recent rounds of ethnic cleansing were being dug up or set on fire. The aim, he told refugees by text messages, was “to hide the bodies”.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Will the villains be brought to justice?”
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