Ethiopia- US: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman calls on Biden’s administration to “sanction senior Ethiopian

[Deeq A.]

Ethiopia-US: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman calls on Biden’s administration to “sanction senior Ethiopian officials and fighting forces for past and present atrocities.”

Senator James Risch, U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, has called on the Biden administration to “sanction senior Ethiopian officials and fighting forces for past and present atrocities.”

The Republican Senator said this in reacting to Addis Standard’s recent news about the latest report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (#OHCHR) on Ethiopia’s escalating human rights crisis.

The report exposed that state forces were responsible for 70% of rights violations in Ethiopia in 2023 alone.

“The ongoing human rights abuses and civilian deaths in Ethiopia are horrific. The Biden Administration should sanction senior Ethiopian officials and fighting forces for past and present atrocities – there is no excuse for continued inaction from the U.S.”, Senator Risch said.

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