Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of the reports of the Ethiopian military's involvement in the massacre in Tigray.

We are deeply concerned at human rights violations and abuses in Ethiopia's Tigray region. There are shocking reports of extra judicial killings committed by parties to the conflict, including the ENDF at Mabhere Diego on or around 15 January. The Government of Ethiopia has committed to hold perpetrators of human rights violations to account, but we have yet to see any meaningful action to do so and are troubled that the reports of atrocities continue at pace. The UK will support the UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights to ensure that their joint investigations into atrocities in Tigray with the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission are independent, transparent and impartial and that those responsible for these human rights violations and abuses are held to account.