The Attorney General of Ethiopia, Adanech Abiebie, has dismissed the Amnesty International report titled ‘Beyond Law Enforcement: Human Rights Violations by Ethiopian Security Forces in Amhara and Oromia’ as fundamentally flawed.
Development Dairies learnt that the attorney general formed a committee drawn from the attorney bureaus of Amhara and Oromia regions, the police, universities, and civil society organisations (CSOs) to investigate the credibility of the alleged human rights violations.
The attorney general, in a statement, said that efforts made to hold consultations with the senior leadership of Amnesty International about the report were not successful due to the ‘inadequate response’ of the rights organisation.
The statement noted that the investigation made by the committee revealed that the amnesty report was partial and biased, arguing that the report did not take into account the ‘objective reality’ of Ethiopia.
It also noted that some of the alleged violations were partially credible as most of the cases, according to the statement, had been under investigation by the government before the release of the amnesty report.
‘The report lacks impartiality and reaches on erroneous conclusions in the most complex conflict and security challenges after having few and unreliable or biased evidences’, the statement read in part.
Sources: North Africa Post
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