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Amnesty International joined other rights groups Thursday in hailing the end to the war in Ethiopia with a peace deal signed between the government and Tigray rebels.
The rights group said the agreement must deliver justice to victims and survivors of the two-year conflict between the government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) because millions have been displaced and hundreds of thousands killed.
"The signing of a peace agreement on Wednesday is a step in the right direction, yet further strides must be taken to address the accountability deficit that has permeated the conflict since it began," said the group's head of East and Southern Africa, Muleya Mwananyanda, in a report.
She said all parties had committed unspeakable abuses, including mass, extrajudicial executions and sexual violence against women and girls.
"These appalling crimes cannot simply be washed away," said Mwananyanda.
The report cited that at present, the accord fails to offer a clear roadmap on how to ensure accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity "and overlooks rampant impunity in the country, which could lead to violations being repeated."
Amnesty advised authorities to grant unrestricted access to human rights investigators, including the UN-mandated International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia.
Experts have cautioned that the stand of neighboring Eritrea, which fought alongside the Ethiopian government against the TPLF, should be made public as that country did not participate in the peace talks and the newly signed treaty process but contributed troops during the war. -
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