Ethiopia vows probe into gruesome video of man on fire
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EthiopiaonSaturday vowed to investigate and take action against uniformed soldiers and others seen in agruesomevideoburning amanalive in the country's northwest.
The widely sharedvideo, which and sparked outrageonsocial media late Friday, shows an unarmedmanbeing setonfireas a group of people, including some wearing Ethiopian army uniforms, taunt him in Amharic.
Ethiopia's government communications service saidonSaturday that the incident appeared to have occurred in the northwestern region of Benishangul Gumuz, which borders Sudan and South Sudan.
"Thevideoof the extremely savage act being circulatedonsocial media outlets shows innocents being burned alive," it said in a statement, vowing to "investigate and take legal measuresonthose...who committed this inhumane, and savage act."
Thevideocould not be independently verified by AFP and it was not immediately clear if the atrocity was connected to the ongoing 16-month war in northernEthiopia.
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The conflict in Africa's second most populous country between government forces and Tigrayan rebels has killed thousands of people, with widespread reports of atrocities including mass killings and sexual violence.
According to the UN, the fighting has also displaced more than two million people, driven hundreds of thousands to the brink of starvation and left more than nine million in need of assistance.
At least 750 civilians were killed or executed in the northern regions of Amhara and Afar after they became caught up in the war last year, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said Friday.
The state-affiliated independent rights body also catalogued a litany of abuses, including torture and gang rape and enforced disappearances, saying some may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The report said that Tigrayan rebels sexually assaulted girls and elderly women. It also accused federal and local security forces in Amhara and Afar of widespread arbitrary detentions.
Watch |Ethiopia: UN report on horrific accounts of rape and torture in Tigray region
A joint investigation by the UN and the EHRC published last November detailed a vast array of rights abuses, mostly blamedonEthiopian forces and Eritrean troops, who provided military support to Addis Ababa.
Last week, the UN Human Rights Council announced that Fatou Bensouda, a former chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), would head a UN investigationintoa wide range of alleged violations committed by all sides in the war.