{"id":1365720,"date":"2022-03-08T20:21:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T01:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1365720"},"modified":"2022-03-08T20:21:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T01:21:28","slug":"u-n-airstrikes-have-killed-hundreds-in-ethiopia-since-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-n-airstrikes-have-killed-hundreds-in-ethiopia-since-november\/","title":{"rendered":"U.N.: Airstrikes Have Killed &#039;Hundreds&#039; in Ethiopia Since November"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-n-airstrikes-have-killed-hundreds-in-ethiopia-since-november%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1365720&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/more-than-300-killed-air-strikes-northern-ethiopia-since-nov-un-rights-chief-2022-03-07\/\">told<\/a> the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday her staff recorded 304 deaths caused by military airstrikes in northern Ethiopia since November 2021 \u201capparently carried out by the Ethiopian Air Force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bachelet\u2019s allegation implies Ethiopia\u2019s federal government supported lethal air attacks on its own civilians over the past four months. Ethiopia\u2019s envoy to the U.N. Human Rights Council, Mahlet Hailu Guadey, dismissed Bachelet\u2019s statement on March 7, saying it\u00a0\u201cwas at variance with the facts on the ground,\u201d according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEthiopia abides by its national and international human rights obligations,\u201d Mahlet said.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia\u2019s federal government has been engaged in a civil war with separatist forces from northern Ethiopia\u2019s Tigray region since November 4, 2020. The conflict <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-ethiopia-conflict-attack\/inside-a-military-base-in-ethiopias-tigray-soldiers-decry-betrayal-by-former-comrades-idUSKBN28R1IE\">began<\/a> when militants allied with the Tigrayan People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF) \u2014 which formed in 1975 based on Marxist ideology \u2014 attacked federal military bases in Tigray. In response, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/africa\/2020\/11\/17\/ethiopia-nobel-peace-prize-winner-bombs-separatists-after-hacking-attacks\/\">ordered<\/a> an air and ground offensive against the TPLF and allied forces in Tigray. The civil war spread beyond northern Ethiopia and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/11\/02\/ethiopia-war-addis-amhara-oromo\/\">threatened<\/a> to penetrate the national capital of Addis Ababa \u2014\u00a0located in the heart of the country \u2014 by November 2021.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20150946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/wi\/afp\/08\/un-rights-commissioner-michelle-bachelet-reached-an-agreement-china-visit-afp.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>U.N. rights commissioner Michelle Bachelet (AFP)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>While Abiy has openly ordered the Ethiopian Air Force to conduct airstrikes on locations within Tigray directly tied to the TPLF, Ethiopia\u2019s federal government has repeatedly denied targeting civilians during the 16-month-long civil war.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18596738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/wi\/ap\/03\/ethiopia-facebook-prime-ministers-post-ethiopia-prime-minister-abiy-ahmed-speaks-at-final-campaign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18596738 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ethiopia-facebook-prime-ministers-post-ethiopia-prime-minister-abiy-ahmed-speaks-at-final-campaign-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ethiopia\u2019s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speaks at a final campaign rally at a stadium in the town of Jimma in the southwestern Oromia Region of Ethiopia, Wednesday, June 16, 2021. (AP Photo\/Mulugeta Ayene)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAid workers say civilians have been killed in several air strikes, including a bombing on the night when Ethiopian Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas Eve in the town of Dedebit, in northwest Tigray near the border with Eritrea in January [2022],\u201d Reuters noted on March 7.<\/p>\n<p>Abiy has led Addis Ababa in its civil war against Tigray fighters despite his reputation as a broker of peace prior to the conflict. Abiy won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize in part for his efforts to successfully end a war between Ethiopia and neighboring Eritrea. In an extraordinary turn of events, Abiy personally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/africa\/2021\/11\/28\/nobel-peace-prize-winning-prime-minister-enters-front-line-of-ethiopian-civil-war\/\">led<\/a> Ethiopian federal troops on the \u201cfrontline\u201d of a battle against TPLF forces in November 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Ethiopian] Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the army Abiy Ahmed who is now leading the Ethiopian National Defense Forces from the frontline announced that the army has successfully taken control of Asagita in Afar Region,\u201d Ethiopia\u2019s state-run Fana Broadcasting Corporation (FBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fanabc.com\/english\/pm-abiy-ahmed-says-national-army-takes-control-of-kasagita\/\">reported<\/a> on November 26, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won\u2019t give in until we bury the enemy,\u201d Abiy told FBC. \u201cAll Ethiopians at home and abroad have shown their solidarity to us. Similar victories will continue. We are in a better position to claim full victory soon and pass on a free and prosperous Ethiopia to coming generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we want to see is an Ethiopia that stands on our sacrifices \u2014 either to be Ethiopian or to be Ethiopia,\u201d the prime minister affirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet told the U.N. 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