Eritrea refused to engage with investigators, the report said, but has denied its forces carrying out rapes in the past despite extensive documentation. Ethiopia has said some individual soldiers are on trial for rape and killing. Amhara has denied abuses. Getachew Reda, a spokesman for the Tigray People's Liberation Front TPLF , has previously denied that Tigrayan forces committed abuses but said some "vigilante" Tigrayan groups may have committed violations.
The page report said that Eritrean soldiers had killed around civilians in the city of Axum; that Ethiopian soldiers had dragged about 70 men from their homes and killed them in three villages in southern Tigray; and that Tigrayan forces had killed around Amhara civilians in the town of Mai Kadra, a crime then followed by revenge killings of Tigrayans by Amhara. The report said it was not an exhaustive list of incidents.
The report also accused Eritrean soldiers of forcing Eritrean refugees living in Tigray to return, in violation of international law. The report accused all sides of blocking aid at different times and said it could not verify whether starvation was used as a weapon of war, as had been previously alleged by the United Nations aid chief.
The conflict, which began a year ago, has plunged around , people in Tigray into famine, killed thousands of civilians and forced more than 2. Sign up now for the latest news from Australia and around the world direct to your inbox.
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