# OHCHR and EHRC publish a joint investigation on Tigray atrocities

Date: 2021

## The fact

On 3 November 2021 the UN Human Rights Office and the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission published a joint investigation finding reasonable grounds that all parties to the Tigray conflict — including federal and Eritrean forces and Tigrayan forces — committed war crimes and, in some cases, crimes against humanity.

## Context

OHCHR and EHRC wrote the report. Abiy’s government was a party under investigation and a co-mandate [holder](/people/eric-holder) via EHRC. Allegation in a joint report is not a verdict. Command of ENDF still sits with his government. Axum and other named massacres are inside this finding, not separate cartoons.

The offensive and blackout are 2020. Pretoria is 2022.

The prime minister of Ethiopia is chief executive under the 1995 constitution as amended, chairs the Council of Ministers, and commands the ENDF in practice. He does not write AU Assembly resolutions, OHCHR investigation reports, IMF board decisions, or Somali federal statutes.

## Evidence and sources

UN Human Rights Office carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is protection of civilian rights and [humanitarian access](/drivers/humanitarian-access): a completed joint finding of war crimes is an accountability record about a war his government prosecuted. It is not a unique named homicide verdict against him.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 3 November 2021 OHCHR–EHRC joint report finding reasonable grounds for war crimes and crimes against humanity by multiple parties in Tigray.

Not established: a completed ICC conviction of Abiy, or a unique total-death coefficient printed in that report as his personal count.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

OHCHR and EHRC wrote it. Eritrean and Tigrayan forces are also named. A report is not a conviction.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies OHCHR and EHRC publish a joint investigation on Tigray atrocities, not a later speech about OHCHR and EHRC publish a joint investigation on Tigray atrocities.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. OHCHR and EHRC publish a joint investigation on Tigray atrocities on 2021-11-03 is not a licence to treat every later UN Human Rights Office communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average OHCHR and EHRC publish a joint investigation on Tigray atrocities into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to His government prosecuted the war the report examined. OHCHR and EHRC wrote it. Eritrean and Tigrayan forces are also named. A report is not a conviction. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Abiy Ahmed: https://factrail.ai/people/sec-abiy-ahmed

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights
- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/un-ethiopia-rights-commission-find-war-crimes-tigray-2021-11-03/
- https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2021/11/tigray-conflict-report-calls-accountability-violations-and-abuses-all

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/et-ohchr-ehrc-tigray-2021