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Ethiopia: Will human rights violations go unpunished?

By France24
29 January 2022   |   12:47 pm
All sides in Ethiopia's civil war have been accused of unspeakable atrocities. Will anyone be held responsible for them? Tim Sebastian speaks to the country's minister for democratization, Zadig Abraha.

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