United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet at the Human Rights Council on June 21, 2021 in Geneva. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)
At the start of a week that saw Ethiopians at the polls for belated general elections, the United Nations human rights chief said she is “deeply disturbed” over reports of major and sustained human rights abuses and violations of international humanitarian law in Ethiopia’s Tigray region -- violations and abuses that include extrajudicial executions, arbitrary arrests and detentions, sexual violence against children as well as adults, and forced displacement, as fighting continues in the troubled region more than six months after breaking out.
