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And just before they retreated, he says, they looted the church and killed indiscriminately.ĪBERA DEMAS: (Through interpreter) They don't have any respect, and they are, like, wild. He says rebels from the Tigray People's Liberation Front took over the town, and then a counterattack from the government pushed them out. He says the town, Chena, in the Amhara region of Ethiopia saw intense fighting. So many soldiers died that they were buried in a hurry.Ībera Demas is one of the town's Ethiopian Orthodox priests. Out of one mound, there's a skull dragged out by wild animals so all that is left are teeth and bones. We see them everywhere we walk - under trees, on the side of the road. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Someone is buried here. And no matter where we turn, we smell decomposing bodies. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: This is a burial place. And a warning - this story does contain graphic descriptions of violence.ĮYDER PERALTA, BYLINE: In the middle of all the green vegetation, villagers show me a clearing dotted with mounds of dirt. NPR's Eyder Peralta has traveled near the front lines to report. And a dispute over land has spiraled into a brutal conflict within the region. It's a complicated conflict with origins that are centuries old. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.Ethiopia's civil war is entering a second year. INSKEEP: Eyder, thanks so much for your reporting. But all of this is coming a year into this civil war, and analysts I've spoken to seem to think that it's too little, too late. But - and this week, the AU envoy spoke to both sides of this war. and the African Union are trying to mediate a solution. PERALTA: I mean, there's an effort, right? The U.S. What about the wider conflict and the effort to bring it to some kind of a cease-fire? Is mediation going anywhere? INSKEEP: OK, so we take note of their statement.
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or they did not provide us with any evidence for that.
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staffers were arrested not because of where they work, but because of, quote, "their wrongdoing and their participation in a terror act." But the government has not given the U.N. says that the government hasn't given them an explanation. INSKEEP: How is the Ethiopian government responding to this news that - this allegation that they've taken 16 U.N. and humanitarian groups and mainly civilians are bearing the brunt of this. And now, as this conflict has moved out of Tigray and into neighboring states, we're hearing accusations that the rebels are doing the same sorts of things against the people of Amhara.Īnd both sides are framing this as an existential fight. The Ethiopian government has been accused of using hunger as a weapon of war against the people of Tigray. Ethiopian troops and Eritrean troops have been accused of pillaging and raping their way through the northern part of the country. I mean, look and I think this tells you a lot about this conflict - right? - which began as a typical power struggle between the old government and the new government. They are the people who are under siege and who are also advancing toward the capital at the same time. INSKEEP: I guess we should just remind people when you said ethnic Tigrayans, you're talking about the group that is at the center of this civil conflict with the central government. And all of this has obviously made that even harder. has been focused on getting food aid to a part of the country that they say is on the verge of a catastrophic famine. Last month, Ethiopia threw out seven top-ranking U.N. is caught in the government's crosshairs. would not comment on that.īut this is also not the first time the U.N. staffers who were arrested were Tigrayan.
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Human rights groups say that hundreds of ethnic Tigrayans have been rounded up for seemingly no other reason than their ethnicity. And, you know, this is happening amid a huge crackdown in Addis Ababa. staffers and an unknown number of their dependents were arrested. PERALTA: So we know that originally, 22 U.N. INSKEEP: NPR's East Africa correspondent Eyder Peralta is joining us now. What I can only comment on is that we have colleagues that are currently in detention that should not be in detention. STEPHANE DUJARRIC: I can't comment on why the government is doing this. spokesman Stephane Dujarric says they have not been given an explanation. says the government detained its employees in Addis Ababa. Why are 16 staff members of the United Nations in custody in Ethiopia? The U.N.